He’s also well respected in the Python community for maintaining the cryptography package, partially written in Rust. This is just a random blog post, not an ad.

Maybe. But the fact they work for Anthropic is very relevant and changes my impression of the post quite a lot.

FWIW Having worked a lot with Alex on cryptography he seems almost entirely incapable of doing something that I would normally consider an advert.

Sometimes people have good experiences with tools and like to share them.

Exactly. Many AI users can’t triage effectively, as a result open source projects get a lot of spam now: https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2025/05/open-source-project-...

While it stays at the Python level, https://github.com/AndreLouisCaron/a-tale-of-event-loops really helped me to understand how asyncio and Trio are implemented. I had no idea how sleeps worked before reading that post.

The article says as much!

> Simon Willison is the master of this and even has a subdomain devoted to his

Actually they plan to put an LLM in your back pocket using flash memory, not silicon: https://arxiv.org/abs/2312.11514

The flash doesn't do the computations though, that's just a method of getting it to the processor

It would be better to have eeprom or some such directly attached as memory. No loading.

This is called the banner blindness effect: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Banner_blindness

jbk explained why this initially was a mistake on r/linux, see https://www.reddit.com/r/linux/comments/d8mhqe/the_one_who_k...:

> It was the fact that it came from the Linux world. So, when porting to Windows/macOS, the codec packages were part of the binary. It was supposed to temporary.

> This interview has cut that part.

The article does mention your trick:

> My solution was to approach a project by turning it into as many tiny steps as possible. That way I could get a few really easy wins under my belt. For example, each step would be a task such as "Search for ______ on Google" or "Have a conversation with ______." Crossing things off your to-do list gives your brain a happy little dopamine hit, even if the tasks are tiny—it keeps your motivation up and your excuses down.

You're right. I think one of my other tricks failed me: reading paragraph headings, following by the minimum number of sentences per heading required to get its gist.

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