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anthonypjshaw.bsky.social
Python obsessive at Microsoft. PSF Fellow. Creator of VS Code Pets
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Finally in the UK 🇬🇧 you know what that means? Start the day with BEANS

Headed to the UK and decided to do a 18 hour layover in Bangkok to break up the journey.

@ashley.dev if only I knew someone who could draw raccoons 🙏 github.com/tonybaloney/...

The Python Steering Council is pleased to announce that the Free-Threading project is no longer considered experimental! discuss.python.org/t/pep-779-cr...

Dobroyd Head, Sydney Harbour

New video! 🫖 Hands-on with Python t-strings 🫖. Showcased a template pipeline for sending out batch emails, making it multi-lingual, and doing last-minute swearword replacements. www.youtube.com/watch?v=yx1Q...

Finally, my iPhone's GPU will have something to do... processing all this translucency

Will have an opening on my team shortly for a Product manager 2 role. We are a dev first, fast moving, technical (coding) team building great things like terminal, WSL, powertoys, sudo, edit cli, windows advanced settings and much much more. Please reach out if you think you’ll be a good fit.

Highly recommend watching this #MSBuild 2025 recording talking about the impressive CSnakes project "embed Python code and libraries into your C# .NET" from @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social ! Bonus, the presentation is with amazing @scott.hanselman.com 🧑🏼‍💻 tonybaloney.github.io/CSnakes/

Sick of having to click to launch VSCode pets? Now I have dedicated keys. Green throws the ball in a random direction. Squirrel launches the window.

Looking at variants of C#.NET 10's new "dotnet run" command that @damianedwards.com showcased at Build. Can it whip-up some quick C#/Python franken-scripts? yes!

I received a scratch card from Kuala Lumpur which has a $240,000 prize. Seems legit. My first job was a paperboy. Once I scratched >100 spam scratchcards I was supposed to deliver to all the old people to see how many were winners. All of them were.

My talk from Build is already up in The YouTube 📺 Latest updates and demos from CSnakes, including porting HuggingFace Transformers package to .NET and demoing it live. Check it out! youtu.be/fDbCqalegNU?...

Update to the GitHub Models plugin for @simonwillison.net 's LLM CLI. It now supports schemas, async, and embedding models! Also added ~10 new models including GPT-4.1 series, DeepSeek-V3 and more github.com/tonybaloney/...

🌮 TACO Trade (Trump Always Chickens Out) strikes again!! on.ft.com/43EU19U Donald Trump delays imposing 50% tariffs on EU until July 9

TFW you’re so exhausted you sleep through most of the 15 hour flight to Sydney. We’re already there? Sweet!!

So... it worked. machine-code compiled programming language, entirely "vibe coded" from scratch in 90 minutes. It was a bit of fun. This is NOT how I would recommend writing a compiler 🫢 www.youtube.com/live/67LKcIN... #MSBuild

I was asked to do a 2-hour live stream on @developer.microsoft.com YouTube at #MSBuild to vibe-code an application with GitHub Copilot. I was also told to KEEP IT SIMPLE. So... join me in 2 hours (4PM PST) to vibe-code a new programming language from scratch 😅 #YOLO www.youtube.com/live/67LKcIN...

Come to my talk!!! Also streaming live 👇

New desk setup. #MSBuild The Microsoft C reference guide is an original.

Breakfast, coffee and hangout with some of my favourite Python people is a great way to spend the last day at #PyConUS @webology.bsky.social @pythonbynight.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy and @georgically.bsky.social

Tomorrow 7:30 #PyConUS

About to get on a plane to head into PyCon US. My talk is tomorrow: Make Python Talk, Make Python Listen where I cover speech recognition, text-to-speech, and... other stuff. I kind of went extra for this talk. I have a large puppet and specially made costume. I am not joking.

Our social run group this morning at #PyConUS Ed, Hynek, David Hewitt and David Lord. Running again 7:30 Saturday anyone welcome!

Day 2 #PyConUS breakfast spots— Pamela’s Diner Friendly, American diner style place run by locals down the Strip District. Doesn’t open til 8 but worth a walk for a big breakfast

Took some time out yesterday to hike with @trey.io to a community art project. If anyone at #PyConUS is looking for unusual things to do and is headed to the Mattress Factory, it’s called Randyland 👀

Run Club for #PyConUS is back. Leisurely 5km along the river. All abilities welcome. Stretch your legs and meet new people! Great way to start the day ☀️ - Thursday 7:30am - Saturday 7:30am Both times we’ll start at the East Lobby entrance to the conference center on 10th St

Breakfast spots for #PyConUS Day 1 — Aruba Island Bowls. Short walk from the conference venue. Good coffee too!