RSS.Social

slinkp blog

follow: @[email protected]

Posts

Cursor and the danger of overpromising

Programming with Kimi-K2 via Aider (August 2025)

Deepseek R1-0528 + Aider (tried 2025-07-25 and 2025-08-10)

Programming with Aider + Qwen 3 Coder (2025-07-25)

Programming with Aider: Impressions, Overview

Copilot in Emacs

What I've Been Up To Lately (or, blog posts to come)

Recording System Audio Output on a Macbook

More pedal rebuild updates, and a successful guitar mod

Spydey - a handy link checker

Rebuilding old DIY effects pedals, update April 2025

Git: retroactively keeping tests green

Rebuilding old DIY effects pedals

Stumbled onto an old Bitly blog post

Recurse summer 2023 - part 2

Modernizing my Python development setup in Emacs

At Recurse center! Part 1 ... And, blogging again!

Fun with recursion and The Little Schemer

Chai (bagged teas) reviews 2019-2023

Writing Tests that Fail Well

Sane project planning pt. II: Against Wishful Thinking

Finding Which Superclass Provides a Method

Thread Locals in Python: Mostly easy

Celebrating Ten Years of Startup Orange

Thoughts on sane planning, part 1: Stagger your projects

Cataracts? Really? Yes

git rebase is like nuclear power ...

Finally, a blog

Prince: "When Doves Cry"

Falsehoods Programmers Believe about REST APIs

urllib2 gotcha

Fun with mocks, or: Mock-mock-unmock-unmock oops

My Emacs setup [OUTDATED]

Using Sqlalchemy Declarative with Django and Nose, Oh My

Graphite, so confusing!

Python One-Liners: Generator expressions

convert hg repository to git

Linux on the Macbook Air (2013)

settings.py considered evil

Python string split weirdness

Context Manager + Decorator

map vs. iter

pdbpp rocks!

Git rebase conflicts

Bash logging to both stdout and stderr

Debugging as Immersive Game

Django is not an application framework

Mock configuration tip

Python packaging: Where Pip and Virtualenv fall short

Cron rant

Python dictionary trick: d3 = d1 + d2

Migrating Trac Wikis to Github

How to run Django under Paste Deploy for locally testing a WSGI pipeline

Reduce Friction for Your Bug Reporters