AJ Kerrigan
@ajkerrigan.bsky.social
Here for books, music, and software dev/tech stuff.
As a kid who grew up on choose your own adventure books and then fell in love with point and click adventure games, this book hits such a sweet spot. The only thing it's missing is the game's fabulous music and voice acting.
October 15, 2025 at 12:57 PM
As a kid who grew up on choose your own adventure books and then fell in love with point and click adventure games, this book hits such a sweet spot. The only thing it's missing is the game's fabulous music and voice acting.
My kid's Social Studies class has been playing the 80s Carmen Sandiego games. Another occasion to appreciate @archive.org for keeping classics alive and accessible 🏆
October 8, 2025 at 2:21 AM
My kid's Social Studies class has been playing the 80s Carmen Sandiego games. Another occasion to appreciate @archive.org for keeping classics alive and accessible 🏆
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People should spend less time learning DSA, more time learning testing.
nedbatchelder.com/blog/202509/...
nedbatchelder.com/blog/202509/...
Testing is better than DSA
People should spend less time learning DSA, more time learning testing.
nedbatchelder.com
September 22, 2025 at 4:13 PM
People should spend less time learning DSA, more time learning testing.
nedbatchelder.com/blog/202509/...
nedbatchelder.com/blog/202509/...
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That is niche and extremely interesting
One of the coolest video game preservation stories I have ever covered arstechnica.com/gaming/2025/...
All 54 lost clickwheel iPod games have now been preserved for posterity
Finding working copies of the last few titles was an “especially cursed” journey.
arstechnica.com
September 8, 2025 at 6:45 PM
That is niche and extremely interesting
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🎧🐍 Episode #264 of the Real Python Podcast is live: Large Language Models on the Edge of the Scaling Laws realpython.com/podcasts/rpp...
Episode #264: Large Language Models on the Edge of the Scaling Laws – The Real Python Podcast
What's happening with the latest releases of large language models? Is the industry hitting the edge of the scaling laws, and do the current benchmarks provide reliable performance assessments? This week...
realpython.com
September 5, 2025 at 12:07 PM
🎧🐍 Episode #264 of the Real Python Podcast is live: Large Language Models on the Edge of the Scaling Laws realpython.com/podcasts/rpp...
Very fun episode at usual, Happy Birthday! 🎉
The "stop grepping, start hacking" discussion from the "jumping into a new codebase" chapter (41:17) was lovely. One of those core.py discussions you can chew on regardless of how/where you use Python 🤘
The "stop grepping, start hacking" discussion from the "jumping into a new codebase" chapter (41:17) was lovely. One of those core.py discussions you can chew on regardless of how/where you use Python 🤘
It’s my birthday 🎁 and what best present than another episode of the core.py podcast? 🎙️This time we have @1st1.dev with us talking about velociraptors, unicorns and www.geldata.com! 🦄 Join us in this extra long episode with the best mic quality ever!
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/cor...
creators.spotify.com/pod/show/cor...
Episode 19: Async hacks, unicorns and velociraptors by core.py
In this asynchronous episode we're interviewing a fellow core developer Yury Selivanov to talk about asyncio's past and future, composable design, immutability, and databases you'd actually like using...
creators.spotify.com
March 10, 2025 at 4:11 AM
Very fun episode at usual, Happy Birthday! 🎉
The "stop grepping, start hacking" discussion from the "jumping into a new codebase" chapter (41:17) was lovely. One of those core.py discussions you can chew on regardless of how/where you use Python 🤘
The "stop grepping, start hacking" discussion from the "jumping into a new codebase" chapter (41:17) was lovely. One of those core.py discussions you can chew on regardless of how/where you use Python 🤘
When I heard that Ian Anderson would appear on Opeth's next album I didn't realize we'd get spoken word and flute on multiple tracks.
As a fan of both Jethro Tull and Opeth, hearing Anderson's voice lead into an Akerfeldt growl is wonderful.
youtu.be/DNxghXf2zkw
#opeth #jethrotull
As a fan of both Jethro Tull and Opeth, hearing Anderson's voice lead into an Akerfeldt growl is wonderful.
youtu.be/DNxghXf2zkw
#opeth #jethrotull
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YouTube video by Opeth - Topic
youtu.be
January 12, 2025 at 9:08 PM
When I heard that Ian Anderson would appear on Opeth's next album I didn't realize we'd get spoken word and flute on multiple tracks.
As a fan of both Jethro Tull and Opeth, hearing Anderson's voice lead into an Akerfeldt growl is wonderful.
youtu.be/DNxghXf2zkw
#opeth #jethrotull
As a fan of both Jethro Tull and Opeth, hearing Anderson's voice lead into an Akerfeldt growl is wonderful.
youtu.be/DNxghXf2zkw
#opeth #jethrotull
Dimity Jones is live, neat! The gist is you get a giant text file with some readable story/clue bits up top and a bunch of gibberish below. You use the clues to progress through the story, deciphering a chunk at a time. Solid Advent of Code-adjacent nerd bait.
obnakwa.itch.io/dimityjones/...
obnakwa.itch.io/dimityjones/...
Available January 1!
Dimity Jones in Puzzle Castle: An Electronic Escape Novel in Eighty-Nine Ciphertexts goes live tonight at midnight! This is version 1.0. SHA-256 hash: 9030eb24f46a8069d8c005619f0631a80967b0ec3af8deb1b...
obnakwa.itch.io
January 2, 2025 at 11:31 PM
Dimity Jones is live, neat! The gist is you get a giant text file with some readable story/clue bits up top and a bunch of gibberish below. You use the clues to progress through the story, deciphering a chunk at a time. Solid Advent of Code-adjacent nerd bait.
obnakwa.itch.io/dimityjones/...
obnakwa.itch.io/dimityjones/...
Look at this silly dog choosing the most awkward nap location available
December 6, 2024 at 8:08 PM
Look at this silly dog choosing the most awkward nap location available
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I wrote a blog post explaining what the #PSF Conduct WG does since I have heard some people get it wrong.
snarky.ca/what-the-psf...
snarky.ca/what-the-psf...
What the PSF Conduct WG does
In the past week I had two people separately tell me what they thought the PSF Conduct WG did and both were wrong (and incidentally in the same way). As such, I wanted to clarify what exactly the WG d...
snarky.ca
November 27, 2024 at 12:29 AM
I wrote a blog post explaining what the #PSF Conduct WG does since I have heard some people get it wrong.
snarky.ca/what-the-psf...
snarky.ca/what-the-psf...
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Everyone who just joined and is looking for Python people to connect with, I made a "starter pack" with many of the fun accounts. Add them to your followers list, #python:
go.bsky.app/3Uzma1g
go.bsky.app/3Uzma1g
November 20, 2024 at 12:10 AM
Everyone who just joined and is looking for Python people to connect with, I made a "starter pack" with many of the fun accounts. Add them to your followers list, #python:
go.bsky.app/3Uzma1g
go.bsky.app/3Uzma1g