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Giovanni Barillari
@baro.dev
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Physicist, software developer, SRE, OSS maintainer. Photography passionated. In love with radical honesty.

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Jeez @mitsuhiko.at, I stay away from bluesky for 48h and you do this? 😂
#wellplayed
November 26, 2025 at 10:56 PM
baro.dev
pivotnine.com/blog/open-so...
Open Source Has Too Many Parasocial Relationships
The people who wrote the software you found on the side of the Internet for free don’t owe you anything.
pivotnine.com
November 26, 2025 at 10:47 PM
Reposted by Giovanni Barillari
mitsuhiko.at
On the weekend I talked with @baro.dev on why Agentic Coding works for me, an not quite for him. www.youtube.com/watch?v=EZhj...
Talking Agentic Engineering with Giovanni
YouTube video by Armin Ronacher
www.youtube.com
November 4, 2025 at 7:46 PM
Reposted by Giovanni Barillari
gamersnexus.bsky.social
Talking about whatever the fuck this is: www.youtube.com/watch?v=h3Jf...
WTF Is Going On?
YouTube video by GNCA - GamersNexus Consumer Advocacy
www.youtube.com
October 26, 2025 at 3:58 AM
baro.dev
blog.baro.dev/p/on-the-aws...
On the AWS downtime, the internet and influencers' dumb takes | Fluxus by gi0baro
and why the modern internet sucks.
blog.baro.dev
October 23, 2025 at 11:16 AM
baro.dev
blog.baro.dev/p/the-future...
The future of Python web services looks GIL-free | Fluxus by gi0baro
Web frameworks benchmarks on CPython 3.14t looks promising
blog.baro.dev
October 18, 2025 at 4:36 PM
baro.dev
I don't usually do "reaction content".. but this quite triggered me.
blog.baro.dev/p/theo-has-w...
Theo has weird vibes | Fluxus by gi0baro
..or why you should take influencers' words with a grain of salt
blog.baro.dev
August 14, 2025 at 9:25 PM
baro.dev
www.wheresyoured.at/ai-is-a-mone...
AI Is A Money Trap
In the last week, we’ve had no less than three different pieces asking whether the massive proliferation of data centers is a massive bubble, and though they, at times, seem to take the default positi...
www.wheresyoured.at
August 13, 2025 at 1:51 PM
Reposted by Giovanni Barillari
raistolo.bsky.social
This piece by @garymarcus.bsky.social is - as usual - spot on:

garymarcus.substack.com/p/gpt-5-over...
GPT-5: Overdue, overhyped and underwhelming. And that’s not the worst of it.
A new release botched … and a breaking research new paper that spells trouble
garymarcus.substack.com
August 13, 2025 at 9:10 AM
baro.dev
I guess I'm back to blogging.
blog.baro.dev/p/why-mark-s...
Why "Mark" superintelligence post is just a pile of BS | Fluxus by gi0baro
blog.baro.dev
August 5, 2025 at 9:27 PM
baro.dev
Yo! Granian 2.5 is out, now with memory limits for workers and UDS support 🚀 Check it out @ github.com/emmett-frame...
Release Granian 2.5.0 · emmett-framework/granian
What's Changed New features Human-readable CLI duration arguments (#622 by @3ok) This allows CLI arguments like --workers-lifetime 6h Workers memory usage limiter (--workers-max-rss option) Uni...
github.com
July 30, 2025 at 8:36 PM
baro.dev
"I am, even more reluctantly, exposed to genAI Discourse every damn minute of every damn day. It is relentless, inescapable, and exhausting."
blog.glyph.im/2025/06/i-th...
I Think I’m Done Thinking About genAI For Now
The conversation isn’t over, but I don’t think I have much to add to it.
blog.glyph.im
June 5, 2025 at 10:19 PM
baro.dev
This is *very very* long.
But also *very very* good.
In fact, one of the best pieces I've ever read recently.
www.wheresyoured.at/the-era-of-t...
The Era Of The Business Idiot
Fair warning: this is the longest thing I've written on this newsletter. I do apologize. Soundtrack: EL-P - $4 Vic Listen to my podcast Better Offline. We have merch. Last week, Bloomberg profiled ...
www.wheresyoured.at
June 5, 2025 at 10:15 PM
baro.dev
Python web development in a picture
#pyconit
@marcelotryle.bsky.social
@tiangolo.com
@pyconit.bsky.social
May 29, 2025 at 9:01 AM
baro.dev
I should really start publishing charts in the Granian benchmarks suite.
Much easier to read compared to tables.
github.com/emmett-frame...
May 21, 2025 at 2:12 PM
baro.dev
Granian 2.3 is out! 🚀
Now with mTLS and direct static files serving support :)
github.com/emmett-frame...
Release Granian 2.3.0 · emmett-framework/granian
What's Changed New features Support for direct static files serving from a folder mTLS Changes Switch to Rust 2024 edition Bump PyO3 to 0.25 Bump dependencies Enhancements Review shared socket...
github.com
May 19, 2025 at 11:13 AM
Reposted by Giovanni Barillari
chadwhitacre.com
Yesterday, @opensourcepledge.com was on Nasdaq Tower in Times Square. I got to be there for it! Thank you to Nasdaq and congratulations to all of the featured companies who #paythemaintainers! 👏 What a great way to keep celebrating #maintainermonth! 💃
May 7, 2025 at 1:10 PM
Reposted by Giovanni Barillari
tylerfromtheinternet.com
Two children at school in uniforms and it looks like Japan, both of them look like girls or femmes. One is holding a giant tuba so that it's stuffed over the face of the other one that's pinned up against the wall. The one holding the tuba is labeled every company. The tuba is labeled unwanted AI And the one against the wall is labeled me
April 13, 2025 at 6:40 PM
baro.dev
Yo! Spent the weekend over MCP and built something.
You can now build MCP servers in your Emmett application 👀
github.com/gi0baro/emme...
GitHub - gi0baro/emmett-mcp: MCP extension for Emmett framework
MCP extension for Emmett framework. Contribute to gi0baro/emmett-mcp development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
April 13, 2025 at 3:33 PM
baro.dev
If you run Granian on Python versions > 3.10, you probably want to upgrade to the latest 2.2.4 release, as it fixes a noticeable performance regression bug (up to 2x in certain scenarios 👀)
github.com/emmett-frame...
Release Granian 2.2.4 · emmett-framework/granian
Patch release Changes since 2.2.3: Improve performance on iter-based responses on all protocols Bump files read buffer from 4k to 128k on RSGI response_file and ASGI pathsend Fix a performance reg...
github.com
April 11, 2025 at 5:29 PM
baro.dev
I'd say this is probably one of the worst times in the software industry I have ever seen in the last 13 years.
The whole narrative about "AI" to trade learning for productivity is just a cancer for young people. Promoting ignorance and incompetence is bad and stupid. Just stop it, please.
April 9, 2025 at 11:55 AM
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If you run Granian with multiple workers on Linux, you probably want to upgrade to the latest 2.2.2 release, as it severely improves the load balancing across workers ;)
github.com/emmett-frame...
Release Granian 2.2.2 · emmett-framework/granian
Patch release Changes since 2.2.1: Proper connections load balancing across workers on Linux (#546, special thanks to @aldem) Bump dependencies
github.com
April 7, 2025 at 11:29 AM
baro.dev
"MAGA"
April 3, 2025 at 3:41 PM
baro.dev
Nice to see this trend for Granian ^^
github.com/emmett-frame...
April 3, 2025 at 9:02 AM
baro.dev
Good job.
April 2, 2025 at 11:24 PM