Implement Knowledge Distillation from Scratch
(must-know to efficiently run ML models in production)
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Glaucous-winged Gull, Brown Pelican, Snowy Egret, Canada Goose
Glaucous-winged Gull, Brown Pelican, Snowy Egret, Canada Goose
Glaucous-winged Gull, Brown Pelican, Snowy Egret, Canada Goose, in Los Angeles River, CA, USI'm heading home from PyCon US today so I went on a last morning walk to try and spot a pelican. I saw one! Didn't get a great photo of that, but I did see some goslings down by the swan boat lake.
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Agent Skills Work but the Research Shows Most Teams Are Building Them Wrong
This post was originally published on The Nuanced Perspective and is being reposted here with the authors’ permission. Agent skills are everywhere right now. Atlassian built them into Rovo so agents can automatically triage Jira tickets, draft Confluence pages, and route service requests without anyone typing a prompt. Canva and Figma use them so Claude […]
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Model-Free Learning in RL
The full RL nanodegree, covered with implementation.
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GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source
GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source
GDS weighs in on the NHS's decision to retreat from Open Source Terence Eden continues his coverage of the NHS' poorly considered decision to close down access to their open source repositories in response to vulnerabilities reported to them as part of Project Glasswing. Now the Government Digital Service have joined the conversation with AI, open code and vulnerability risk in the public sector, published May 14th. Their key recommendation: Keep open by default. Making everything private…
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Warelay -> OpenClaw
Warelay -> OpenClaw
In preparation for a lightning talk I'm giving at PyCon US this afternoon I decided to figure out how many names OpenClaw has actually had since that first commit back in November. Thanks to this first_line_history.py tool (code here) the answer, according to the Git history of the OpenClaw README, is: Warelay → CLAWDIS → CLAWDBOT → Clawdbot → Moltbot →🦞 OpenClaw Or in detail (the output from the tool): 2025-11-24T11:23:15+01:00 16dfc1a # Warelay — WhatsApp Relay CLI (Twilio)…
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Quoting Julia Evans
Quoting Julia Evans
[...] in the last 10 years I’ve learned to really love and respect CSS as a technology. So I decided years ago that I wanted to react to “CSS is hard” by getting better at CSS and taking it seriously as a technology, instead of devaluing it. Doing that changed everything for me: I learned that so many of my frustrations (“centering is impossible”) had been addressed in CSS a long time ago, and that also what “centering” means is not always straightforward and it makes sense that there are many…
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inaturalist-clumper 0.1
inaturalist-clumper 0.1
Release: inaturalist-clumper 0.1 Part of the infrastructure I use for publishing my iNaturalist sightings on my blog. I've been running this in production for a few weeks now, inspiring some iterations on how it works, so I decided to ship a 0.1 release. You can see an example of the output in this JSON file. Tags: projects, inaturalist
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![[Hands-on] Building Custom Tools for AI Agents](https://substackcdn.com/image/fetch/$s_!4ztE!,f_auto,q_auto:good,fl_progressive:steep/https%3A%2F%2Fsubstack-post-media.s3.amazonaws.com%2Fpublic%2Fimages%2F738a9d0d-dc55-4b46-9146-0dabbbecfe9e_793x801.gif)
[Hands-on] Building Custom Tools for AI Agents
...explained with code.
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Western Gull, Rock Pigeon
Western Gull, Rock Pigeon
Western Gull, Rock Pigeon, in Los Angeles Area (custom), CA, USI went for a bird walk in the morning before PyCon, and we spotted a local seagull enjoying a Starbucks.
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Agent Harness Engineering
This article was originally published on Addy Osmani’s blog. It’s being reposted here with the author’s permission. Roughly: Anytime you find an agent makes a mistake, you take the time to engineer a solution such that the agent never makes that mistake again. We’ve spent the last two years arguing about models. Which one is […]
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QR code generator
QR code generator
Tool: QR code generator Claude helped me build this tool for creating QR codes, for both text/URLs and for connecting to WiFi networks. Tags: vibe-coding, tools, generative-ai, ai, llms
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datasette-llm-limits 0.1a0
datasette-llm-limits 0.1a0
Release: datasette-llm-limits 0.1a0 This plugin works in conjunction with datasette-llm and datasette-llm-accountant to let you configure a per-user (or global) spending limit for LLM usage inside of Datasette. Configuration looks something like this: plugins: datasette-llm-limits: limits: per-user-daily: scope: actor window: rolling-24h amount_usd: 1.00 Tags: llm, datasette
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datasette-agent 0.1a2
datasette-agent 0.1a2
Release: datasette-agent 0.1a2 Tool availability can now be attached to a required_permission. The default background agent tools now require the new datasette-agent-background permission. #10 Tags: datasette, datasette-agent
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Not so locked in any more
Not so locked in any more
This Mitchell Hashimoto quote about Bun migrating from Zig to Rust reminded me of a similar conversation I had at a conference last week. I was talking to someone who worked for a medium sized technology company with a pair of legacy/legendary iPhone and Android apps. They told me they had just completed a coding-agent driven rewrite of both apps to React Native. I asked why they chose that, given that coding agents presumably drive down the cost of maintaining separate iPhone and Android apps.…
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