My experience building a Snake game with Brython — “Wait, what?” is how I expect most people to react to the title of this article. What do you mean by “Just Use Browser Python”? Everybody knows browsers can only run JavaScript. Well, below is a screenshot of my personal website’s source code, see if you notice something different:

Pick Your Weapon of Choice and I’ll Show You How to Fight — ⚠️ Important Note I am not qualified to offer investment, legal, or any other advice, nor am I trying to do so. This is a programming tutorial aimed at teaching you how to build a trading bot for learning purposes. …

On mountains and roads in the Alps — and what really matters — We woke up an hour and a bit before sunrise and quickly got started with breakfast. Old bread, some pretty good jam, and a few pieces of cheese. Setting off, we crossed 3000m of altitude as we headed up the Col du Pigne and from there watched the sun rise…

A writeup of the early learnings from building my first GPT-based application — For what felt like the longest time, I pretty much ignored the developments happening in the generative AI/LLM (large language model) space. I knew there was a lot of cool stuff happening, I just didn’t get around to trying it out very much. Then I had the chance to look…

ChatGPT has made it much harder to convince friends they should pick up programming — I recently got a chance to look over a friend’s ChatGPT Plus account and see some of his prompts. I’d used ChatGPT a bit but struggled to get too much value out of it, but people around me kept telling me this revolutionized how they work, write, and learn. Seeing…

A real debugging story — Some months ago I found myself with the following issue in my sprint priorities: “BigQuery is very flakey on local / self-hosted” Keeping context to a minimum, we run an open source analytics platform that you can self-host, and there are plugins to help you send data out of the…

Making sense of the crowded analytics space from a developer’s perspective — When you launch a product, very quickly you’ll want to understand how it’s being used. In order to improve, you need to at least understand what’s going well and what’s going poorly. What features do your users love? What features do they hate? …

Spoiler alert: mostly for fun — Originally published on my personal blog. The backstory My personal blog was built using a static site generator called Teeny. Until the day before the blog launched, Teeny wasn’t even an idea. It didn’t exist at all, not even in my mind. You see, for a long time I’ve been wanting to…

Even if you don’t use them all at work — Like most programmers, I’ve been exposed to a variety of programming languages through my career, my studies, and my personal projects. However, I’ve mostly stuck to a few, as that’s arguably a pretty good career move — an employer whose backend is written in Go isn’t particularly interested in the…