Jamesoclaire

I've always been a big fan of installing Python from source. It keeps you close to your environments and understanding exactly where the code comes from and goes to. I feel like in the past it was more difficult, but year after year it seems like it's get

This has been one of my biggest annoyances working with Python and pip when dealing with projects where that are not meant to be installed as a package, how do you handle dependencies?Think projects like application backends, python scripts, REST APIs etc

We all know that moving to LLMs and agents has caused the feeling of losing touch with parts, or maybe even all, of a code base. This isn't just something that is problematic for managing and handling the translation from business logic to implementation

When Yeeun Jo, a student at University of Illinois at Urbana-Champaign (UIUC) contacted me in 2025 to ask about data tracking in app advertisements related to women's health and pregnancy I was a bit skeptical. I think I first told her along the lines tha

Today I was setting up Hermes to see how it does with web research. I chose DeepSeek V4 because I know it is cheap, but seeing it's pricing next to Anthropic and OpenAI 'frontier' models is crazy. Nearly a 50x price increase based on tokens alone, let alo

AppGoblin lets any user, from anywhere, request to scan any mobile app for the SDKs, trackers and API calls the app makes. How it works? Search the app you're interested in on AppGoblin Go to the main App page and press the "Scan SDKs & APIs" button AppGo

Google, Meta and the unlikely addition of Mozilla are teaming up to work on a browser W3 specification that would add browser user agent features to track impression, click data and 'conversion' data. This data is then sent to respective partiesAd Impress

The 2026 Q1 App Ecosystem Report is here with a special section for those attending MAU in Vegas this week. Ad Networks were led by Verve once again after its strong Q4 2025, with other notable breakouts from Snap Inc., TaurusX, adjoe, and Moloco.Business