Eric Holscher

Love how the Pac-Man Rule has made it to far into the Python community here at #PythonAsia. If you want to learn more about it:

https://www.ericholscher.com/blog/2017/aug/2/pacman-rule-conferences/#the-pac-man-rule

Just made it to Manila for Python Asia! Excited to catch up with the community here, talk docs, and learn more about the things going on here. Also excited to meet up in the evening if there's randomly people I know here who won't be at the conference as well :D

I absolutely loved this post about the new $599 Apple computer. Really took me back to the days of installing Red Hat Linux on CDs in high school, and being so excited I could make the computer talk.

https://samhenri.gold/blog/20260312-this-is-not-the-computer-for-you/

Does Pycon US have dates for 2027? (cc @ThePSF@fosstodon.org)

Where are people with passkey adoption these days for personal use? Conceptually they seem great, but I'm worried the UX around them seems a bit wonky. I'd likely be storing them in my 1password which syncs between desktop & mobile, which seems like the other major UX issue. Should I be using them more?

Seeing really strong sponsor interest for WTD Portland . I feel like AI slop polluting the digital space is leading to reinvestment around in-person events. I hope it converts into more people seeking more physical community -- something that atrophied after COVID, but is more important than ever.

Things are lining up such that I might make it to #PythonAsia this year in March. Anyone else I know planning to go?

https://2026.pythonasia.org/

Cloudflare has a ton of heuristics that seem useful in automating blocking of traffic spikes using many IPs and "real" user agents. Can anyone point in the direction of how to actually implement it? It feels like something that should be built in, but I can't figure out how to stop this stuff.

Credit to Anthropic for funding the PSF with a meaningful amount of money. This is what supporting open source looks like, and I’d love to see other major companies step up in a similar way. Of note Microsoft & Bloomberg led the way here with similar donations.

https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/12/anthropic-invests-in-python.html

I love to see Google & Vercel start sponsoring Tailwind. But the larger question is why did it take the company laying off 75% of their staff for these major tech companies to realize they needed to sponsor? What processes are they doing to evaluate other things to sponsor before AI kills it?

Headed to Japan for the next month, and would love to catch up with anyone in the #python or #writethedocs community that is around!

I've found AI has made me more effective, mostly by removing the pain of starting a task. Having it do a naive implementation that I can critique is weaponizing "someone is wrong on the internet" against myself 🪄