Blogs
Read the latest updates, guides, and thoughts from the team building AATMA.
Thank You for Being a Friend: Jeff Atwood on Fathers, Stack Overflow, and the LLM Question
Jeff Atwood lost his father this month and is asking a sharp question: if LLMs hollow out the communities that built their training data, will they regret it? A short, emotional post with one big idea.
Off By One: Jeff Atwood and Leo Laporte on Wealth, Yo-Yos, and Survivable Code
Jeff Atwood's new monthly show with Leo Laporte is part prop comedy, part tech history, part economics lecture. The second episode, free to watch, runs 1 hour 47 minutes of low-level insanity and a few surprisingly quotable lines.
Fragments: Boards Love AI, Engineers Worry, Everyone Is Tired
Notes from a closed-door engineering retreat: the gap between boards chasing AI productivity and engineers watching citizen developers ship shadow IT. Plus the LLM-speak problem, a $50M air filter story, and a Mozart legal study.
Test Your Skills: Python Excel Manipulation with openpyxl
Test your knowledge on managing Excel spreadsheets in Python using the openpyxl library. A quick quiz to validate your data manipulation skills today.
Real Python Podcast: Building Efficient LLM Harnesses and Web Scrapers
In this episode, we explore assembling efficient agentic developer workflows, shifting from prompt engineering to context engineering, and self-hosting.
Why Blocking the Main Thread Is Sometimes the Right Choice
The golden rule of web development says never block the main thread. But for certain data-heavy tasks, keeping work on the main thread is actually faster.
Why Open Source Sustainability Depends on Strategic Partnerships
Open source sustainability relies on strong partnerships. Learn how collaboration keeps vital developer tools thriving in the modern software ecosystem.
Teenage Engineering's OP-XY and EP-40 Are 30% Off — Here's What to Know
Teenage Engineering's unique grooveboxes are 30 percent off at multiple retailers. The flagship OP-XY drops to $1,609, while the compact EP-40 sampler is just $230.
Synth Historian Oli Freke on Drum Machines, Biopics, and the Joy of a Good Bicycle
Oli Freke, author of the upcoming coffee-table book Beat Gems, talks drum machines, the Atari ST, Father's Day advice, and why a good road bicycle is worth every penny.
Agentic AI Needs Guardrails, Not Guesswork — Lessons From a CISO Panel
CISOs face a dilemma: business leaders want AI agents everywhere, but security teams struggle to govern them. A recent panel explored how sandboxes and runtime enforcement can help.
JetBrains Replaces Two Plugin Tools With One Unified Generator
JetBrains unifies plugin creation with a new web-API-based generator in IntelliJ IDEA 2026.1, replacing two older tools to reduce maintenance and simplify onboarding.
Anthropic's Boris Cherny on the End of Traditional Prompt Engineering
Anthropic's Boris Cherny reveals that top engineers no longer write prompts manually, instead managing loops of AI agents that write and review code autonomously.