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CEO / Founder of https://textualize.io Hyperborean Python expert, author, humanist, husband, sometimes wildlife photographer. Carbonara aficionado. He/him.
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This is an amazing opportunity to work on an amazing open source web framework with a lovely community!

submitted 3 days ago • 0 comments

Went to the doctor. He said my body ran out of magnesium. I was like 0Mg!

submitted 3 days ago • 3 comments

I bought a copy, and I *hate* terminals.

submitted 4 days ago • 0 comments

Get your favorite soda and go update your @fastapi.tiangolo.com 😎 Thanks @patrick.wtf! 🥤

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

I committed first-degree blog posting today, diving into Spectre.Console’s upcoming project model and taking a page from Mitchell Hashimoto’s playbook. patriksvensson.se/posts/2025/0...

submitted 4 days ago • 1 comment

Today's keeping busy task... *drum roll please* Save time with Textual containers. textual.textualize.io/how-to/work-...

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

Will's post also shows a great use case for Python's structural pattern matching. If the user can specify padding in many different formats, using `match` can validate the format during runtime and easily homogenise the structure. What do you think of this alternative? (Python 3.10+ only)

submitted 5 days ago • 0 comments

delighted to announce that my new zine "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is out today!! You can get it for $12 USD here: wizardzines.com/zines/terminal

submitted 6 days ago • 3 comments

I don't see many people customizing Rich tables. And it saddens me!

submitted 6 days ago • 0 comments

I wrote this post to teach something, and ended up learning something! willmcgugan.github.io/fixing-pytho...

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

it's happening! "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is coming out tomorrow! here's the table of contents:

submitted 6 days ago • 5 comments

I wrote a blog about "Fixing #Python Properties". Title is little clickbaity. Properties aren't really broken per se! willmcgugan.github.io/fixing-pytho...

submitted 8 days ago • 4 comments

Alrighty, as promised (threatened) I'm going to post my fiction. Be kind, I know I write better code that stories. willmcgugan.github.io/posting-fict... willmcgugan.github.io/living-mount... willmcgugan.github.io/the-glitch/

submitted 8 days ago • 0 comments

I'm thinking of setting up Sponsorship for Rich and Textual. I'm maintaining both, and they are taking up a modest amount of my time. Additionally the Github org is expensive. I'm thinking of moving my projects to my personal account as it is cheaper! I'll be happy if it covers my coffee habit.

submitted 9 days ago • 2 comments

I saw a red kite (the bird) in Holyrood park, Edinburgh. The first time I’ve ever seen one!

submitted 14 days ago • 1 comment

It took me years to finally start a company. I was avoiding it. 😅 But now I started FastAPI Labs to build FastAPI Cloud with an awesome team. 😎 Also, to keep developing the open source projects, @fastapi.tiangolo.com and friends. 🚀 Here's my thought process. 🤓 fastapicloud.com/blog/why-fas...

submitted 17 days ago • 1 comment

This stuff. Not the hottest. But lots of flavour.

submitted 18 days ago • 0 comments

🤝 You write the code. We do the rest. At @Prefect.io, that's been our philosophy since the beginning. It's why our software aspires to be helpful, not intrusive. 1/7 www.prefect.io/blog/introd...

submitted 18 days ago • 1 comment

Having Money != Being Smart They are not smarter than you

submitted 21 days ago • 10 comments

Textual Speedups is ready to play with! Still experimental, and still work to be done, but this should give your apps a modest speed modest. See the README for details... github.com/willmcgugan/...

submitted 23 days ago • 1 comment

Saw Ballerina today. If you are a John Wick fan, you aren't going to be disappointed. Anna de Armas confidently sells the action sequences, but she isn't quite as interesting a character as JW. She doesn't seem to have much of a backstory.

submitted 24 days ago • 0 comments

Typo of the day: crassmethod. A method that lacks sensitivity.

submitted 25 days ago • 0 comments

I post on "The ethics of README ads" willmcgugan.github.io/the-ethics-o...

submitted 25 days ago • 3 comments

Pro tip: Never run out of USB cables again. Put two in a drawer, and soon you will have a litter of baby cables.

submitted 26 days ago • 1 comment

Going to phsyio today, which is punishment for complaining about my sore back to my GP.

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

Trump chickened out taxing UK metal. I am relieved!

submitted 26 days ago • 0 comments

I'm happy to announce structlog 25.4.0 that adds support for exception groups but more importantly fixes an incompatibility with the upcoming Python 3.13.4 https://github.com/hynek/structlog/releases/tag/25.4.0

submitted 27 days ago • 1 comment

Trying to get back in shape. Started by walking to Arthur’s seat. Maybe next week I’ll walk up it.

submitted 28 days ago • 11 comments

Passing this note along for others. I wrote down some thoughts on how to write better workarounds through comments and tesring a couple of years ago, fronkan.hashnode.dev/tips-tricks-....

submitted 30 days ago • 0 comments