Patrick Altman

I say a week, but that was a week that included my focus being on about 6 other things for 75% of the time.

I don't get all the doomerism out there when it comes to AI. This is incredible to be able to build and solve real problems so fast.

More please.

This will support two different modes for our tagged trailers:

> Presence detection on our each of our scales
> Plant Ingress/Egress so we can capture precise timing of trips

That's hardware settings and configuration, to capturing and ingesting the data into Stark, our customer Django-based ERP for quoting, order fulfillment, purchasing and more.

This past week I've been playing with RFID technology.

I've gone from ground zero (only basic conceptual understanding) to a fully working end to end system.

Software development in 2026

> State your goals and success criteria
> Ask model to brainstorm a development plan with you
> Review and tweak plan
> Approve plan have the coding agents get to work.

Plan approved. Let's roll.

Promoting AI agents At the end of last year, AI agents really came alive for me. Partly because the models got better, but more so because we gave them the tools to take their capacity beyond pure reasoning. Now coding a...

This is exactly my experience and sentiment.

Claude Code has been a game changer in my throughout without sacrificing quality.

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A Software Library with No Code Do we still need libraries of 3rd party code when AI agents are this good?

This is a pretty cool idea.

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Eliminating Blind Spots: Using Technology to Bring Visibility to Operations Presented originally at the 2025 ARA Conference and Expo in Salt Lake City — expanded here in blog form. On Tuesday, I joined two fellow panelists to share how technology can improve operational effi...

Had the opportunity to speak and then sit on a on panel at the 2025 ARA Conference in Salt Lake City earlier this week. This blog post is a summary of my talk.

There is really cool tech behind these three projects that I'm hoping to do deep dive articles soon.

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Using Vite with Vue and Django Learn how we integrate Vue and Django for a bullet proof deployment.

New blog post out:
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#django #vue #vite

I had Claude Code write a complete feature while I was off eating dinner. Just a couple tweaks after I returned and it’s merged!

Episode #273: Advice for Writing Maintainable Python Code – The Real Python Podcast What are techniques for writing maintainable Python code? How do you make your Python more readable and easier to refactor? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch…

On this week's episode, @digiglean.bsky.social and I talk about REPL mods, Polars vs pandas, doing data science on quasars, and more.

With content from: @pytorch.org @djangoproject.com @trey.io @paltman.com and others not on the 🦋

The actions we opened sourced (github.com/wedgworth/ac...) make use of @namespacelabs.com and they have been nothing short of fantastic. Highly recommend!

How We Continually Deliver Software We've open-sourced a reusable set of Github Actions that enable us to move fast and continually deliver high quality software.

How We Continually Delivery Software
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In this post, we share our first bit of open source, a set of @github.com actions we are reusing across projects that others might find useful.

🐞 Bug Reporting Pro Tips 🐞

Clearly state:

what you expected to happen
what happened instead

Screenshots are gold if related to any UI

Anti-pattern (don't do this): "Site doesn't work"

Help your dev team, help you. ✨

I've been a long time Apple Magic Trackpad user but recently switched to the Logitech MX Master 3S (the 4 was on backorder).

The difference in ergonomics is incredible.

Why did I wait so long?!

Crafting Software: Writing Maintainable Code Maintainable code is can easily be the difference between long-lived, profitable software, and short-lived money pits.

Crafting Software: Writing Maintainable Code

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Reusing GraphQL Queries within Django How we query our GraphQL API directly through Python avoiding duplication of query logic and overhead of web requests.

Reusing GraphQL Queries with Django and Strawberry
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#django #graphql

Feeling lucky over here in us-east-2.

Polars vs Pandas – Quantile Method You can save some memory by moving to Polars from Pandas but watch out for a subtle difference in the quantile's different default interpolation methods.

You can save some memory by moving to @pola.rs
from #pandas but watch out for a subtle difference in the quantile's different default interpolation methods.

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#pydata #python #data

Keep Your Vue Apps Fresh Keeping your Vue SPA up to date when new code is released.

Keep your @vuejs.org Apps Fresh
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#vuejs #django #strawberry #graphql

Rooted in Tradition, Growing with Technology From our roots in 1932 to today, Wedgworth’s continues innovating for growers. This is wedgworth.dev — where we share the software, hardware, and ideas driving agriculture forward.

Started an engineering blog to share what we are building with @vuejs.org @djangoproject.com @python.org @rust-lang.org from custom ERPs to our own IoT devices to using LiDAR cameras to create volumetric data feeds for tracking material pile inventory and more.

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