Grateful to the organizers, speakers & sponsors behind Colorado Startup Week! Loved seeing friends from Initial Capacity at CTO Lunches, and the Food Recovery panel from Recycle Colorado + HungreeApp 💚 seanhelvey.com/colorado-sta... #COStartupWeek #Colorado #Startups #Circularity

After 5 amazing years at Koinonia Family Services, I'm ready for a new remote dev role. Experienced with Python & Django on GCP and happy to learn different stacks. Please repost!

I’m excited to share that I’ve been accepted into Cohort 10 of the Climatebase Fellowship! seanhelvey.com/climatebase-... #TechForGood #CircularEconomy #Sustainability

Exploring how RAG works relative to other AI / ML concepts with modern libraries seanhelvey.com/rag-in-conte... #Python

Is AI reducing employment for software coders? fredblog.stlouisfed.org/2026/08/is-a... Found this supposedly official take fairly weak claiming a "likely causal effect".. Call it what it is - a recession! #AI #TechJobs #Economy

Rachel's Ramblings: Citizens Build, Agents Execute, Experts Govern - Why building an app over the weekend isn't the same as building enterprise software martinfowler.com/rachels-ramb...

Citizens Build, Agents Execute, Experts Govern

Why building an app over the weekend isn't the same as building enterprise software

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The Mullet Stack: Syncing Types Between FastAPI/Pydantic and TypeScript seanhelvey.com/mullet-stack...

Trying to cut down on plastic in the recycling bin. Thrift shops won't take containers like yogurt tubs or peanut butter jars. Built a small app to find a better way. Early beta, feedback welcome. secondhandplastic.com

Twitter died a long time ago and X isn't worth it. Before I made the jump, my ego was holding me back. I was too concerned with vanity metrics. I finally realized if you're posting stuff people want to follow, then they'll follow you, even when you leave. www.siliconrepublic.com/enterprise/k...

Open-source champion Kelsey Hightower on the promise of Bluesky

Ann O’Dea spoke to US software engineer and open-source champion Kelsey Hightower about the promise of the AT protocol.

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Yoga nidra, iRest, NSDR: three names for one practice. After too much driving and sitting, lying down meditation has become my favorite way to recharge: seanhelvey.com/yoga-nidra-irest-nsdr/

Making your website discoverable by AI is a must, but how do you actually know what LLMs care about? In this post, we share what LLMs read based on our internal experiments with roughly 268k agent-tracked requests to our site. Plus, a skill to apply these learnings:

Which AI actually reads your site? Two months of LLM traffic, measured—Martian Chronicles, Evil Martians’ team blog

We told you to measure. So of course we did it ourselves too: two months of server-side LLM traffic to evilmartians.com. Find out which agents read HTML, which read Markdown, what llms.txt actually does, and the one technique that got zero hits.

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Conventions born in the euphoria will survive this great unwind: open weights, models running on your own machine, plain language as an interface, and towns that know they can say no. seanhelvey.com/tools-and-th...

Let’s co-create a deeper connection between our work and climate action in 2027! seanhelvey.com/pnw-climate-...

I've been writing more lately, reflections on software, meditation, permaculture, and anything else worth sharing. Just put up a new post: seanhelvey.com/the-next-step/ If you want future posts sent straight to your inbox, there's a subscribe option on the site.

Finally made it to a food forests course at Occidental Arts & Ecology Center seanhelvey.com/food-forests...

I’ve written more about yoga than meditation, but both have been vital for my well-being over the years. seanhelvey.com/meditation/

First time attending the North Coast Men's Gathering, at Mattole Camp and Retreat Center in the beautiful lost coast town of Petrolia. seanhelvey.com/north-coast-...

Working on a #GSoC project or contributing to #Django? Turn that into a conference talk! @djangocon.us 2026 CFP is open — first-time speakers welcome. Deadline: March 16, 2026 📝 pretalx.com/djangocon-us... #Python #OpenSource

📣 DjangoCon US 2026 is coming to Chicago and we want YOUR talk! Whether you're a first-time speaker or a seasoned pro, we'd love to hear your ideas about Django, Python, and the web. CFP closes March 16 at 11am CDT pretalx.com/djangocon-us... #DjangoConUS #Django #Python

@marlene.bsky.social Enjoyed your @djangocon.us talk and new blog / post! marlene.ai/post/welcome... Are you intentionally not linking to your blog from bsky and vice versa?

“Eventually after applying for Session 5 of @djangonaut.space, I was selected for Team Mars 🚀 ! I was so inspired that I continued working on the @djangoproject.com issue I had dropped and finally that was merged just yesterday after over a year of work on and off 🎉” seanhelvey.com/django-commu...

@wsvincent.bsky.social nice meeting you at DjangoConUS! What was your book rec from the @djangochat.bsky.social w/ Jacob? I couldn't make out what you said but love that genre 📚

10 years ago I organized my, & the, 1st #DjangoGirls event in Seoul, South Korea: 70/425 applicants accepted, it was a huge success. And was the start of a wonderful decade that launched my #Django community involvement and career. 💻 I feel grateful, proud, and inspired to keep paying it forward.🧡

Breath & Presence seanhelvey.com/breath-and-p...

Upcoming Central Coast Python events third Thursdays 6p @ Kiva Cowork State Street: 4/17 Digital Signage w/ Victor Frost 5/15 Clean Code w/ Wirt Salthouse 6/19 Data Visualization w/ Jai Ranganathan www.meetup.com/central-coas...

Central Coast Python | Meetup

This group is about the Python programming language and its applications. At events we will provide time and space for people in the community to connect. We will have talks on web development framewo...

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Learning in public seanhelvey.com/learning-in-... thanks to @simonwillison.net @b0rk.jvns.ca @roycehaynes.bsky.social @coryzue.com for inspiration!