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I've been developing software for over 35 years, so I think that qualifies me as a dinosaur rather than a ninja or rockstar developer!

In this newsletter, you can expect to receive one to two emails per month. One of them will be a long-form article about a programming topic, which is similar to some of the samples that are linked below. There may also be occasional ones from the archive! The other will be a selection of tech and AI news that I've found interesting. Expect dad jokes, bad puns, and occasional rants about the industry or anything else that annoys me as I sit down to write.

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Recent Articles

Here are some of my recent articles. Click on the links to read more, and if you can tolerate what you see then come back and subscribe!

Accelerated Python development with uv

Exploring the uv package manager for Python and the curious effect of tofu vindaloo on one's keyboard...

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Agentic AI with Claude, Python and MCP

What is MCP and how can you write your own MCP server? Why would you even want to??

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DeepSeek r1 vs OpenAI o1

On emerging from under a rock and finding the AI scene has changed...

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