Jacob Tomlinson

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Jacob Tomlinson's articles on open-source development, Dask, developer tools, distributed computing, and personal projects.

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Writing blog posts while walking the dog #Productivity #Blogging #OpenSource
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Oct 5, 2026
Open Source libraries are evolving into reference implementations #OpenSource #SoftwareDevelopment #Programming
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Aug 11, 2026
Giving Agents Minimal Tools #OpenSource #AI #Programming
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Jun 24, 2026
Documenting your software libraries for agents #SoftwareDevelopment #OpenSource #Documentation
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Jun 17, 2026
Documenting your open source projects for machines #OpenSource #DevTools #Documentation
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Jun 7, 2026
Why taking notes still matters #Productivity #Learning #Knowledge
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May 11, 2026
Swimming Challenges 2026 #PersonalDevelopment #Fitness #Goals
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May 1, 2026
Guiding your contributor's agents to better behaviours #OpenSource #Development #Community
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Feb 19, 2026
Backporting fixes to older releases on Conda Forge #OpenSource #DevTools #Python
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Jan 28, 2026
Python package managers: uv vs pixi? #Python #DevTools #OpenSource
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Nov 18, 2025
Revisiting old contributions for Hacktoberfest #OpenSource #Coding #Community
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Oct 1, 2025
The Majority Of Your Users #OpenSource #Development #Software
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Sep 30, 2025
EffVer - Version your code by the effort required to upgrade #OpenSource #SoftwareDevelopment #DeveloperTools
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Aug 21, 2025
Teaching Python with GPUs: Empowering educators to share knowledge that uses GPUs #Python #Education #GPGPU
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Jul 11, 2025
EffVer - Version your code by the effort required to upgrade #OpenSource #SoftwareDevelopment #DeveloperTools
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Jul 9, 2025
GPU Accelerated Python #Python #GPU #DataScience
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Jun 6, 2025
Intro to Kubernetes: 10 Years On #Kubernetes #CloudNative #DevOps
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May 15, 2025
Generating useful titles for automated PRs in GitHub Actions #OpenSource #DevTools #GitHub
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Apr 29, 2025
Why don't my markdown titles work sometimes? #DevTools #Markdown #Programming
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Mar 14, 2025
100 Days of Coreutils #OpenSource #DevTools #Programming
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Mar 5, 2025
Using multiple config files with kubectl and other Kubernetes tools #Kubernetes #DevOps #CloudNative
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Feb 27, 2025
An introduction to GPU programming in Python #Python #GPU #Programming
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Feb 13, 2025
Who Builds the PyData Ecosystem? #Python #OpenSource #Community
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Jan 27, 2025
Most stale bots are anti-user and anti-contributor, but they don't have to be #OpenSource #Bots #Development
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Dec 5, 2024
The art of wrangling your GPU Python environments #Python #GPU #DevTools
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Dec 4, 2024
GPU Development in Python 101 #Python #GPU #Development
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Dec 4, 2024
Getting science done with accelerated Python computing platforms #Python #Science #OpenSource
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Nov 14, 2024
GPU Acceleration in the PyData community #Python #GPU #DataScience
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Nov 12, 2024
Dask on HPC in 2024 #Dask #HPC #Python
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Nov 12, 2024
EffVer #OpenSource #DeveloperTools #Python
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Nov 8, 2024
GPU Accelerated Python #Python #GPGPU #DataScience
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Nov 6, 2024
Accelerating Python on HPC with Dask #Python #Dask #HPC
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Aug 29, 2024
Zero Code Change GPU Acceleration #OpenSource #GPU #Python
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Aug 28, 2024
EffVer #OpenSource #Python #Development
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Aug 28, 2024
GPU Development in Python 101 #Python #GPU #OpenSource
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Jul 9, 2024
GPU Development in Python 101 #Python #GPU #OpenSource
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Jun 14, 2024
Building a career in Open Source Software #OpenSource #SoftwareDevelopment #Career
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May 7, 2024
Python version epochs are broken #Python #OpenSource #Programming
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May 1, 2024
Creating GitHub Releases automatically on tags #OpenSource #DevTools #Automation
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Apr 19, 2024
Connect With Experts: RAPIDS Cloud Deployment #OpenSource #Cloud #GTC
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Mar 21, 2024