Really proud of the work we did at Djangocon to help improve the Django sponsorship workflow. They have exciting plans for putting additional funding to use on more Security and Community projects. It's a great time to sponsor if you want to reach Django devs! www.djangoproject.com/sponsor/

Sponsor Django

The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines.

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Kinda loving Copenhagen. Turns out bike-forward urbanism is my love language. 🏙️🚲😍

Beauty in the small miracles around us everyday. ordinaryabundance.com

Ordinary Abundance

A walk through a modern apartment, through the eyes of the people for whom everything in it was new.

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My travel plans for the next month or so: * August 10-14: San Diego. * August 14-23: Mexico City. * August 23-28: Chicago for Djangocon. * August 29-Sep 3: Copenhagen. * Sep 3-10: Berlin for WTD. Would love to meet up with folks along the way!

Just finished the John Muir Trail as a northbound hike from Cottonwood Pass to Yosemite. Such a lovely trail and amazing that it’s something we protect as wilderness as Americans. Parks and Wilderness continues to be one of our greatest ideas. 😍

Do I know anyone who has managed widespread DDOS with Cloudflare? Read the Docs has gotten ~20B HTTP requests to our servers over the past week. We've worked to lock things down, but would love to talk with folks who have experience here.

Always love seeing the Pacman rule at the #PyconUS intro. If you want to read more, see my blog post from 9 (!) years ago. www.ericholscher.com/blog/2017/au...

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: www.ericholscher.com/blog/2017/au...

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. samhenri.gold/blog/2026031...

“This Is Not The Computer For You” · Sam Henri Gold

Sam Henri Gold is a product design engineer building playful, useful software.

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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?

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? 2026.pythonasia.org

PythonAsia 2026

The flagship gathering for Python enthusiasts across Asia — uniting diverse communities across the region.

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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. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/12/anth...

Anthropic invests $1.5 million in the Python Software Foundation and open source security

We are thrilled to announce that Anthropic has entered into a two-year partnership with the Python Software Foundation (PSF) to contribute a...

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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 🪄

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...

A pattern for updating dependencies in a Docker image

We use docker pretty heavily at work, and a pattern I’ve often run into is that I want to play around in a docker image to get something working, and then be able to “save” it back into the origina...

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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...

31 days of posts

I decided to try and write a blog post each day in January, and have now been successful! I have been inspired by folks like Simon Willison, John Gruber, and Andy Baio. They are able to keep up a r...

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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... #python

AI makes computers do what I want them to do

Importing substack posts into my blog

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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/ #writethedocs