Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld

Python Philippines, August 2, 2025. Group photo. Where Python web framework AIR was first shown to the public

Documenting last week's historic moment with @daniel.feldroy.com at Python Philippines, because AIR will grow up to be a big web framework one day

The secret project we soft-launched Saturday is github.com/feldroy/air - but note it’s not fully launched, not ready for users yet. More of a preview “hey, check out what I just started working on but don’t look too closely” type of thing

Make AI Work With Any Codebase This talk shares practical strategies from a real-world project integrating AI into development workflow. What works,   what doesn't, and how to structure code so AI tools can help without degrading ...

In ~12 hours @daniel.feldroy.com and
@isaac-flath.bsky.social will speak about the AI-augmented coding side of how they implement pieces of Air, our new Python web framework. Go sign up (free!) at maven.com/p/0ede3d/mak...

Soft-launching the secret-but-not-secret new open source project with @daniel.feldroy.com at Python Philippines in an hour!

I built DjangoPackages.org with @daniel.feldroy.com at Django Dash 2010. We maintained it for years and poured thousands of dollars we couldn’t afford into hosting it because we loved it so much

It lives on, @webology.bsky.social and @fwiles.bsky.social / RevSys maintain and pay for it now

This sounds like a challenge

GitHub - audreyfeldroy/cookiecutter-pypackage: Cookiecutter template for a Python package. Cookiecutter template for a Python package. Contribute to audreyfeldroy/cookiecutter-pypackage development by creating an account on GitHub.

Spending my Saturday morning updating github.com/audreyfeldroy/cookiecutter-pypackage/ - it is taking a lot of courage to face those PRs and failing tests but I am getting through it

A web framework or other tool is only as good as its ecosystem. Nurturing its third-party package ecosystem leads to its growth and longevity.

DIY Ear training with Python and Music21, part 1 For the past 3 years I've been studying classical (and now also jazz) guitar, music theory, and doing a little composing.

So I decided to use Python to work on my ear training... and I've done a post on how I started.
naomiceder.substack.com/p/diy-ear-tr...

Also on my site at www.naomiceder.tech/posts/ear_tr...

I think one of the keys to happiness is surrounding yourself with positive, encouraging, open-minded people.

People who uplift you when you try new things, and who give you the courage to keep trying more.

I've left R&D at Answer.AI to focus on independent AI for good & web research projects. I learned so much pair-programming with the best AI researchers in the world, and putting the Lean Startup method into practice daily.

Deeply grateful to @howard.fm and @ericries.bsky.social for my time there.

I’m in awe of all the work Tamara has put into the community over the years. And it’s a lot 🫨! You’ve got to listen to this episode of @pypodcats.live when it drops.

Understanding Keyword Search Understanding how search really works under the hood—from tokenization to BM25 ranking

I was kinda surprised that people joined my new discord, and got a bit excited yesterday and created and published a new website around it and started with a new free tutorial :D

Check it out: kentro-learn.com/free-content...

GitHub screenshot showing a git branch name containing a \u2060 character

Leave it to @daniel.feldroy.com to put hidden Unicode characters into his git branch names

A Marimo notebook showing a Vega-Altair heatmap chart

Playing with Marimo notebooks, a reinvention of Jupyter notebooks to be reactive like Observable notebooks. After getting past the rough learning curve, I'm starting to see how fun they are.

And a Vega-Altair heatmap of x^2 + y^2, to make the screenshot pretty.

I hope that publishing even the most broken and imperfect code + To-do lists for myself about next steps is okay. Anything that keeps my daily momentum going can't hurt, I think. I suppose that is part of #BuildInPublic

Today, I found some of my lost work and started to piece it together in audrey.feldroy.com/nbs/2025-02-...

(Warning: That post has broken code because it's more about the experience of losing and recovering code than about the code itself. )

Yesterday I recovered from breaking my New Year's resolution to post a new notebook every day. This notebook helped me realize the root cause: frustration over losing work that I cared about. audrey.feldroy.com/nbs/2025-02-...

Coincidentally @daniel.feldroy.com told me the same thing yesterday morning 😂 thanks both for the encouragement to fix this!

I got through implementing it partway for all the notebooks except the MonsterUI ones. Shared my process for creating that nav component: audrey.feldroy.com/nbs/2025-02-...

I never thought I would appreciate Jupyter notebooks enough to do this sort of thing, but I totally get it now.

Here's how I create Python scripts from useful notebooks: audrey.feldroy.com/nbs/2025-02-...

A CLI tool can be as simple as a Python function.

I made a walkthrough showing how to create a lightweight command line tool using fastcore.script: audrey.feldroy.com/nbs/2025-02-...

TIL I can copy a word in Vim to my system clipboard with "+yiw

"+ - use system clipboard register
y - yank (copy)
iw - the entire inner word (not just part)

This is super inspiring @lukasz.langa.pl and your art is beautiful

I got to see a real baby photo of myself in super resolution, even clearer than TopazLabs' Gigapixel!

At @pydatalondon.bsky.social. Meet me if you're here!

Tonight I turned sentences into embedding vectors and visualized their similarity. audrey.feldroy.com/nbs/2025-02-...

I have way too many "Untitled.ipynb" files. Got them organized by bulk-renaming them using the Gemini API tonight
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Security matters. This is a wake-up call for those of us releasing AI products. Let's study and consider this exposure walkthrough carefully, and learn from it.

L and its chainable map and filter are like a dream to work with. In the repl, L lists always show the count, which I can't live without now that I've seen how much it helps. The chainability helps me keep my mental flow stringing operations together left to right. Try them 😀

I've been finding it helpful to use datetime with fastcore's L and map, and functools' partial.

I shared some useful functions here to print my colleagues' current times, and generate Discord timestamps which localize Unix timestamps to the user's timezone.

audrey.feldroy.com/nbs/2025-01-...