Last updated: 16 June 2026 at 6:43 am GMT+0
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Diving into Canada, Community, and Networking for AI and K8s
Marino Wijay, Solutions Engineer at Isovalent, joins Nick Taylor to discuss community, the Canadian tech scene, eBPF and Kubernetes/AI networking.
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Be a G*dd*mn Cheetah
Unfortunately, if you spend enough time with me I will brainwash you into thinking you can achieve everything you have ever dreamed of. 🪩Rise & Rage, Dreamers!🪩I've seen this trend on social media l...
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Is AI Killing Open Source?
Rizel Scarlett, Principal Developer Advocate at Entire, joins Nick Taylor to discuss why open source needs new infrastructure and why agent session history matters.
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"It's Not About the Pasta."
On hard pivots, hating JavaScript, and needing your voice back.If you've been quietly performing as a version of yourself that stopped being true a long time ago, exhausted from pretending the fit is ...
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Building Securely with AI
Brian Clark, Staff Developer Advocate at Snyk, joins Nick Taylor to discuss how to build securly with AI.
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Introducing Excaliclaw: A Skill for OpenClaw to Generate Excalidraw Diagrams
This is a submission for the OpenClaw Writing Challenge I already use the Excalidraw Model Context...
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Agents need a runbook for hill-climbing
Jon Lebensold, Founder at Jetty, joins Nick Taylor for a hands-on conversation about agent evaluations and how to systematically improve agent performance. Jon will dig into what a practical runbook f...
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Imposter-maxxing
Nobody tell them how many times I googled "The Channel"...PSA: This topic has been beat to death. But honestly, there are few things I enjoy more in life than beating a dead horse. Let's turn that ho...
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Stop Shipping Broken Env Config
I first hung out with the Varlock team back in late August 2025, so this is not brand new to me. But...
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Clawspace: A Browser-Based File Explorer for OpenClaw
I've been working with OpenClaw for a while now. If you're not familiar, it's a self-hosted personal...
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Let Dependabot Merge Its Own PRs
Update May 2026: Given there's an explosion of supply chain attacks recently, I decided to remove...
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Stop using cat
If you use cat in your daily workflow, this is a tiny upgrade with lots of upsides and honestly, no...
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Torc Bot 3: Torclation Services
Why build it? So within the Torc community, we have a global user base with a very large contingent in LATAM. For a lot of our events there is a specific Espanol version of the stream and...
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Torc Bot 2: The Refactor
Refactoring is important, but also difficult You ever create something with the best intentions of it being to standard and end up just winging it after you get started? Yeah, I did that wi...
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All Things MCP
Rachel Lee Nabors joins Nick Taylor to discuss all things MCP, from MCP servers and MCP apps to the new WebMCP, which aims to provide a standard way for exposing structured tools so AI agents can perf...
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Building a Multifunctional Discord Bot: A Comprehensive Technical Deep Dive
Discord has become the go-to platform for running communities, whether you’re organizing a gaming guild, a dev collective, or a professional network. It has plenty of built-in tools, but sometimes you...
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[Boost]
How Not to Self-Reject Before You Even Try Yodit Weldegeorgise ...
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2025 Retrospective
2025 Retrospective 2025 has come and gone and this is the first year I have actually sat down and done somewhat of a review of the year. I feel like the year went so quickly and at the sa...
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Windows paths with spaces in Python's `os`
Dealing with spaces in file paths is an issue that I keep running into. So here's a very short blog to save us time and headaches. You can either use r string or double backslashes (\\). ...
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writing about reading about writing about development in order to write about development
somehow joining a book club led to me wanting to write more and these are my ramblings. hey I didn't say it was going to be good writing ok
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Magic Mundanity
🎄 RISE & RAGE, Agents of Chaos! 🎄& Happy Holdaze! Buckle up!The header photo for this blog is a picture of me (duh) at a tea party of my own creation in my festive jammies on a hot, humid, Florida C...
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Fake SMTP Server
Step 1: Install aiosmtpd library pip install aiosmtpd Step 2: The Modern Fake SMTP Server Script (aioserver.py) import asyncio from aiosmtpd.controller import Control...
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`requirements.txt` in python
Stop Saying "It Works on My Machine!" Ever tried to share your Python project and had someone tell you, "It doesn't work on my machine?" That usually happens because they're missing a libra...
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Getting Marimo Up and Running on Windows with uv
Getting Started with Marimo on Windows (using uv) Let's install the Marimo Python notebook on Windows with uv. 1. Get the uv Installer First, we need to install uv. Open Po...
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Installing pandas with uv on windows
Here's a quick overview to installing pandas on windows: We will follow these steps: Install uv (if you haven't already). Create a virtual environment using uv. Activate the virtual environment. Ins...