Ephes Blog

I guess you've heard some bad jokes about Fibonacci sequences?

Well, this one is as bad as the last two you heard put together.

--Kit Yates

Still got a ton of work ahead of me, and it probably won't let up until the holidays. I did manage to update the django-cast documentation a bit though. It's not as detailed as I'd like, but at least the structure is better now. Over the weekend I played around with VibeTunnel and Wispr Flow, which were really interesting. It still feels weird dictating to my phone or laptop, but I probably just need more practice to get used to it. We also recorded a new podcast episode about data science that should be out soon.

Articles

• Happy 20th birthday Django! | From me as well 🥳!
• How to Migrate your Python & Django Projects to uv
• NuxtLabs joins Vercel | wtf?
• Reflections on OpenAI | interesting bits about the codex project in there
• OpenAI's gold medal performance on the International Math Olympiad | gdm probably did it first, but yeah
• Welcoming The Next Generation of Programmers | Yep. I can also name the person who brought me into Python.
• SVGs that feel like GIFs

Software

• Backlog.md - Markdown‑native Task Manager & Kanban visualizer for any Git repository | Interesting approach
• opencode - similar to claude code, but open source
• VoiceInk - write at the speed of thought | similar to Wispr Flow but open source

Videos

• Agentic Coding with Claude Code | Cool stream 😎! Thinking hard about doing this by myself again..

I don’t use em dashes because I’m an AI. I use em dashes because I’m pretentious --Jason Lefkowitz

This has been a hectic summer, and there's not much I can do about it. I pushed out a new release of django-cast that fixes gallery navigation issues with duplicate images and speeds up tox execution, along with several other development infrastructure improvements. After spending over two months with Claude Code, I figured it was worth exploring some alternatives. Since I'd already tried codex and found it didn't quite measure up to Claude Code, I gave gemini-cli a shot. It's marginally better than codex, but still not in the same league. It'll probably be a while before the competition catches up.

Since I often run Claude Code in yolo --dangerously-skip-permissions mode, I've been thinking about how to manage the multiple instances I typically have running concurrently. I ended up writing a short blog post about the quirks of juggling them all.

I may have also inadvertently agreed to write a blog post about running Django in an Electron shell. This could make for a good holiday project, I suppose.

Articles

• Modern Node.js Patterns for 2025
• Hyprland - modern compositor with the looks / omarchy| the year of the linux desktop will come!
• Remote MCP support in Claude Code
• Reflections on 2 years of CPython’s JIT Compiler: The good, the bad, the ugly

Software

• strudel - live coding music / demo | should do more live coding, but have not time
• I’m trying to help a client pick a good UI framework they can start their product with, but ultimately grow into their own design system and component library | 🧵
• Browser MCP | I usually use playwright mcp but this one is said to be not as context hungry?
• gitingest - Turn any Git repository into a prompt-friendly text ingest for LLMs | Usually I have a custom entrypoint for this in my projects..
• wisprflow - use dictation as a keyboard | on device asr on iOS and macOS, works pretty good
• shadcn - build your component library

May you find someone who loves you with the same enthusiasm that mainstream tech publications have for the press releases about the latest AI model --Tom

Work's been keeping me busy, but I did manage to get the new podcast episode out – this one's about data class builders. Meanwhile, I've been doing some serious housekeeping on django-cast:

• Switched over to a proper src layout
• Now using the uv build backend
• Ditched black, isort, and flake8 in favor of ruff

Articles

• I wish the term "vibe coding" was taken more seriously by engineers... | 🧵
• Tools: Code Is All You Need | Yes, resonates with my experience very well.
• So you want to serialize some DER?
• Using Playwright MCP with Claude Code | Very token hungry, but sometimes necessary
• In modern mathematics we take it for granted that there is a consensus standard of truth that virtually all mathematicians subscribe to... | 🧵

Software

• Hooks - Customize and extend Claude Code’s behavior by registering shell commands | Nice!

Video

• Agentic Coding: The Future of Software Development with Agents | yep
• I can't sleep gud anymore - A Practical Guide to Agentic Computering | ok, interesting
• Mastering Claude Code in 30 minutes | If you only have 30 minutes 😀
• uv: Making Python Local Workflows FAST and BORING in 2025 | Super Video!