Itamar Turner-Trauring
@itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy
Articles on Python performance (with a focus on data science / scientific computing) and Docker packaging at https://pythonspeed.com (click through and sign up […]
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Reposted by Itamar Turner-Trauring
As a counter to all the utterly stupid useless crap the tech industry is doing at the moment, this is really cool: https://tatumrobotics.com/
Tatum Robotics
Tatum Robotics
tatumrobotics.com
February 13, 2026 at 12:22 AM
As a counter to all the utterly stupid useless crap the tech industry is doing at the moment, this is really cool: https://tatumrobotics.com/
Reposted by Itamar Turner-Trauring
@itamarst You know what, I’m in. All any 3rd party logistics consulting company is going to do these days is take all my business data and run it through Claude Code, so I may as well get a playlist and a free karaoke machine.
February 12, 2026 at 11:40 PM
@itamarst You know what, I’m in. All any 3rd party logistics consulting company is going to do these days is take all my business data and run it through Claude Code, so I may as well get a playlist and a free karaoke machine.
This is supposedly what is causing trucking broker stocks to crash today:
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Thursday’s rout was sparked by an update from tiny AI logistics firm Algorhythm Holdings Inc., which said its SemiCab platform in live customer deployments was helping its customers’ internal operations to scale […]
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Thursday’s rout was sparked by an update from tiny AI logistics firm Algorhythm Holdings Inc., which said its SemiCab platform in live customer deployments was helping its customers’ internal operations to scale […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
February 12, 2026 at 8:26 PM
This is supposedly what is causing trucking broker stocks to crash today:
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Thursday’s rout was sparked by an update from tiny AI logistics firm Algorhythm Holdings Inc., which said its SemiCab platform in live customer deployments was helping its customers’ internal operations to scale […]
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Thursday’s rout was sparked by an update from tiny AI logistics firm Algorhythm Holdings Inc., which said its SemiCab platform in live customer deployments was helping its customers’ internal operations to scale […]
Today in software-is-amazing:
https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1r125k0/time_machine_in_brigham_garage/
https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1r125k0/time_machine_in_brigham_garage/
February 10, 2026 at 2:44 PM
Today in software-is-amazing:
https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1r125k0/time_machine_in_brigham_garage/
https://www.reddit.com/r/boston/comments/1r125k0/time_machine_in_brigham_garage/
"Alphabet Plans Tech’s First 100-Year Bond Since Dot-Com Era" is definitely not foreshadowing
February 10, 2026 at 1:23 PM
"Alphabet Plans Tech’s First 100-Year Bond Since Dot-Com Era" is definitely not foreshadowing
Build fails. Logs are completely empty, no explanation of what happened.
The application has "Why did it fail? [AI]" button. I press it.
"I cannot diagnose the failure because the provided log excerpt is incomplete (} only). Please rerun the build and share the full log output so the relevant […]
The application has "Why did it fail? [AI]" button. I press it.
"I cannot diagnose the failure because the provided log excerpt is incomplete (} only). Please rerun the build and share the full log output so the relevant […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
February 9, 2026 at 10:07 PM
Build fails. Logs are completely empty, no explanation of what happened.
The application has "Why did it fail? [AI]" button. I press it.
"I cannot diagnose the failure because the provided log excerpt is incomplete (} only). Please rerun the build and share the full log output so the relevant […]
The application has "Why did it fail? [AI]" button. I press it.
"I cannot diagnose the failure because the provided log excerpt is incomplete (} only). Please rerun the build and share the full log output so the relevant […]
"[our stack] includes over 1500 public npm modules"
What
What
February 9, 2026 at 6:12 PM
"[our stack] includes over 1500 public npm modules"
What
What
Reposted by Itamar Turner-Trauring
February 5, 2026 at 12:57 AM
"We're AI marketer that writes LinkedIn content for every employee at your company." 😱
February 6, 2026 at 2:31 AM
"We're AI marketer that writes LinkedIn content for every employee at your company." 😱
Updated the version of Numba (and therefore LLVM) I use for my book, in preparation for paid Early Access.
And now, performance results are different in some cases in ways that impact my explanations.
Also I'm starting to think if you use Numba (and maybe LLVM?) you should just disable […]
And now, performance results are different in some cases in ways that impact my explanations.
Also I'm starting to think if you use Numba (and maybe LLVM?) you should just disable […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
February 5, 2026 at 8:10 PM
Updated the version of Numba (and therefore LLVM) I use for my book, in preparation for paid Early Access.
And now, performance results are different in some cases in ways that impact my explanations.
Also I'm starting to think if you use Numba (and maybe LLVM?) you should just disable […]
And now, performance results are different in some cases in ways that impact my explanations.
Also I'm starting to think if you use Numba (and maybe LLVM?) you should just disable […]
February 4, 2026 at 6:03 PM
From a job posting: "Engineers can't keep up with their production environments: dozens of services, dashboards everywhere, alerts firing constantly. The information to diagnose most issues already exists, but finding it takes longer than fixing the problem. And the more AI-generated code ships […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
February 2, 2026 at 9:59 PM
From a job posting: "Engineers can't keep up with their production environments: dozens of services, dashboards everywhere, alerts firing constantly. The information to diagnose most issues already exists, but finding it takes longer than fixing the problem. And the more AI-generated code ships […]
Parallelism is one source of speed, but not the only one! In this article I demonstrate using it with NumPy, and how additional speedups are possible in other ways.
https://pythonspeed.com/articles/numpy-parallelism/
#python
https://pythonspeed.com/articles/numpy-parallelism/
#python
Speeding up NumPy with parallelism
Parallelism can speed up your NumPy code… and can still benefit from other optimizations.
pythonspeed.com
January 29, 2026 at 7:40 PM
Parallelism is one source of speed, but not the only one! In this article I demonstrate using it with NumPy, and how additional speedups are possible in other ways.
https://pythonspeed.com/articles/numpy-parallelism/
#python
https://pythonspeed.com/articles/numpy-parallelism/
#python
Reposted by Itamar Turner-Trauring
If you're a Python developer, definitely make your voice heard here: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/01/your-python-your-voice-join-python.html
I filled it out. I feel like it was briefer than previous years? And obviously there are a bunch of questions about genAI junk, which I suspect will […]
I filled it out. I feel like it was briefer than previous years? And obviously there are a bunch of questions about genAI junk, which I suspect will […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
January 28, 2026 at 5:00 AM
If you're a Python developer, definitely make your voice heard here: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/01/your-python-your-voice-join-python.html
I filled it out. I feel like it was briefer than previous years? And obviously there are a bunch of questions about genAI junk, which I suspect will […]
I filled it out. I feel like it was briefer than previous years? And obviously there are a bunch of questions about genAI junk, which I suspect will […]
RE: https://mastodon.social/@raiderrobert/115961762043308816
Notice that vibecoding is an amped up version of mid.
Notice that vibecoding is an amped up version of mid.
mastodon.social
January 26, 2026 at 3:43 PM
RE: https://mastodon.social/@raiderrobert/115961762043308816
Notice that vibecoding is an amped up version of mid.
Notice that vibecoding is an amped up version of mid.
Did you know that before the rise of AI, programmers didn't care about the environment, and programmers didn't care about labor rights?
https://lobste.rs/s/cw6f2s/ai_tribalism#c_m0gk3m
https://lobste.rs/s/cw6f2s/ai_tribalism#c_m0gk3m
January 25, 2026 at 1:11 PM
Did you know that before the rise of AI, programmers didn't care about the environment, and programmers didn't care about labor rights?
https://lobste.rs/s/cw6f2s/ai_tribalism#c_m0gk3m
https://lobste.rs/s/cw6f2s/ai_tribalism#c_m0gk3m
Me writing minimal assertion for my book's code that run as part of rendering: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me rendering the book and having asserts fail intermittently: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Me rendering the book and having asserts fail intermittently: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
January 23, 2026 at 7:49 PM
Me writing minimal assertion for my book's code that run as part of rendering: Haha fuck yeah!!! Yes!!
Me rendering the book and having asserts fail intermittently: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Me rendering the book and having asserts fail intermittently: Well this fucking sucks. What the fuck.
Get in loser, we're going to bring back polio
January 23, 2026 at 6:59 PM
Get in loser, we're going to bring back polio
The hardest problem in computer science is making tensor libraries that are less than 17GB to download.
January 22, 2026 at 2:53 PM
The hardest problem in computer science is making tensor libraries that are less than 17GB to download.
FT Alphaville describing Bloomberg News as "the IT company’s content marketing arm" is 🔥
January 22, 2026 at 12:47 PM
FT Alphaville describing Bloomberg News as "the IT company’s content marketing arm" is 🔥
Reposted by Itamar Turner-Trauring
I’ve got my Rivendell road standard up for sale at Scenic Routes in San Francisco.
Here are the parts on it: https://popagandhi.com/bikes/incredible-story-rivendell/
If you’ve ever wanted a classic Riv in a woman’s size, there’s your chance.
I’m sad to see it go, but I’m between things right […]
Here are the parts on it: https://popagandhi.com/bikes/incredible-story-rivendell/
If you’ve ever wanted a classic Riv in a woman’s size, there’s your chance.
I’m sad to see it go, but I’m between things right […]
Original post on hachyderm.io
hachyderm.io
January 17, 2026 at 1:14 AM
I’ve got my Rivendell road standard up for sale at Scenic Routes in San Francisco.
Here are the parts on it: https://popagandhi.com/bikes/incredible-story-rivendell/
If you’ve ever wanted a classic Riv in a woman’s size, there’s your chance.
I’m sad to see it go, but I’m between things right […]
Here are the parts on it: https://popagandhi.com/bikes/incredible-story-rivendell/
If you’ve ever wanted a classic Riv in a woman’s size, there’s your chance.
I’m sad to see it go, but I’m between things right […]
Cachegrind CPU instruction counts are so... consistent. Same 9(!!!) digits over and over again from running some Python code, so long as I set PYTHONHASHSEED.
January 15, 2026 at 10:39 PM
Cachegrind CPU instruction counts are so... consistent. Same 9(!!!) digits over and over again from running some Python code, so long as I set PYTHONHASHSEED.
Has anyone successfully used Linux perf (e.g. `perf stat`) in GitHub Actions? It seems like it won't report the number of CPU instructions or anything else useful.
January 15, 2026 at 7:04 PM
Has anyone successfully used Linux perf (e.g. `perf stat`) in GitHub Actions? It seems like it won't report the number of CPU instructions or anything else useful.