What Octavia Butler's Notebook Knew About Self-Efficacy
Self-efficacy is one of the best-supported predictors of performance in psychology. Octavia Butler engineered her own. Communities can engineer it at scale, and most don't.
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The Bajoran Engineer
Python, software, web development, Django, JavaScript, Open Source, Ethics.
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Building an Agentic Python App for Mobile
The answer to whether I can get an agentic Python App running on mobile spans the full environment stack and proposes a really exciting problem. The goal is to keep …
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PyCon US 2026 Recap
There are a few themes I saw at PyCon US: (1) Practical adoption of AI (2) Pin your dependencies, audit your packages / make security accessible to everyone (3) Traveling …
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Giving Your AI a Map: Ontology as a Boundary Object That Actually Enforces Meaning
The Python and data science communities I spend time with are asking the right questions about AI reliability. Not just "does it work?" but "does it work correctly, and can …
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Unrivaled Basketball Is Redefining How We Build Community — And I’m Taking Notes
Women’s sports are having a long‑overdue cultural breakthrough, and Unrivaled is stepping directly into that momentum with clarity and confidence. They’re not trying to replicate the traditional sports model; they’re …
