i am proud to announce that i have finally mastered the art of “meditation”. every morning, i sit cross-legged, stare blankly at my phone screen, and silently plot against anyone who’s ever crossed me. it’s bringing me just absolute shitloads of inner peace --JA Westenberg

Had a packed week of work, but finally managed to get outside for a bit at the end of the week. Felt great to get some fresh air!

Homebrew Website Club

Went to the local Homebrew Website Club meetup this week. Spent some time working on django-indieweb. I'll probably be pushing more updates to this package soon – need something to show off at future HWC meetings! 😄

PyDDF

Gave a talk about MCP at our local Python user group. Here are the slides if anyone's interested.

Claude Code

The more I use Claude Code, the more edge cases I'm discovering. Ran into an interesting bug this week with a JavaScript heap memory error, which I reported here.

I've also noticed Claude Code sometimes ignores the guideline to stay within its starting directory. In one case, it cleverly escaped by writing something to /tmp and using that as a jumping-off point. Another time, I accidentally deleted its working directory while it was running (oops!), and instead of finding its way back to the original folder, it ended up wandering off somewhere it shouldn't have been.

Despite these quirks, I'm actually really impressed overall. I expected way more rough edges for something this new. And honestly? It's been a lot of fun to use!

Articles

• The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication
• Claude Code SDK | nice!
• Open Source Carbon Footprints shownotes | lots of useful links!
• Cut Django Database Latency by 50-70ms With Native Connection Pooling | Since I'm not deploying to the cloud, I don't have the huge database connection latency issues this solves. Still, it's a handy trick to know about for when you need it.

Software

• A CLI tool for analyzing Claude Code usage from local JSONL files.
• IndiePass - open source micropub client

Videos

• How to solve a Python mystery | Really good talk

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