Do I know anyone who is really good at tuning Cloudflare WAF and security rules for a public facing site? We've getting an ever increasing amount of abusive bots (AI and not), and really struggling to allow small automated access from users without totally destroying our servers.

There is something wrong that GitHub charges a ~5% fee to sponsor open source people through GH sponsors. It's actually the most expensive way that we have to pay out people with EthicalAds, when it seems like it should be the cheapest.

Thanks to everyone who came to our Portland conference a couple weeks ago. It was another lovely event at Revolution Hall, bringing people who care about documentation together across many different job titles and organizations.

Love hearing people in the #PyConUS keynote say "contributing to documentation is contributing to Python" and getting a round of applause. This documentation culture is a huge part of Python's continued success, and I'm proud to have a played a small part of it. 💗

We are excited to announce the speakers for the 2025 Portland Conference! 🗣️
Each year, we strive to bring a diverse array of voices and topics that cover practical, philosophical, and technical ideas!

writethedocs.org/conf/portland/2024/news/announcing-speakers/

🗓️ May 4-6, 2025

#writethedocs

Only 3 months until Write the Docs Portland! 🎉 Get your tickets, plan your trip, and check out our Visiting Portland page for hotel tips. Stay tuned—speaker announcements are coming soon! 👀✨

writethedocs.org/conf/portland/2025/visiting/

Also wrote up a short pattern I've been using to update and save a docker instance easily without depending on Docker cache:

www.ericholscher.com/blog/2025/fe...

Wrote up a short reflection on trying to blog everyday in January. Turns out it was pretty hard, but keeping things manageable and more "link blog" style helped make it happen.

www.ericholscher.com/blog/2025/ja...

Wrote up a post about how I used AI to build a Substack RSS importer that converts into my custom markdown blog format using GitHub Copilot Edits in ~5 mins:

ericholscher.substack.com/p/ai-makes-c...

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Wrote up some of the podcasts I've been listening to lately that I recommend.

www.ericholscher.com/blog/2025/ja...

In the never-ending quest to publish more and consume less, and inspired by Simon's post on link blogging, I'm hoping to do a bit more link blogging this year. The first attempt:

www.ericholscher.com/blog/2025/ja...

Tickets are on sale for Write the Docs Portland on May 4-6, 2025!

Join us for a community-centered conference where documentarians of all backgrounds gather to meet other like-minded folks in the industry.

https://www.writethedocs.org/conf/portland/2025/news/announcing-tickets/

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Realized that the Django Fellow program is over 10 years old! It was a huge inspiration for the successful Python Developer in Residence program, and helped push the Django and Python ecosystems forward in an important and under-appreciated way.

www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2014/...

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I would use social media more if there was a negativity filter I could turn all the way down. I really don't care about what you don't like with no improvements for how to make it better. 😪

Loved this article musing on the meaning of longer context windows in language models. I had a lot of fun putting some BLM planning documents for my local recreation area in NotebookLLM and asking questions.

thelongcontext.com

I really loved this Vergecast with @gewang.bsky.social. I've been pondering more and more the things I care about with technology, and it had some great insights.

www.theverge.com/2024/11/17/2...