Anthony Shaw
@anthonypjshaw.bsky.social
Python obsessive at Microsoft. PSF Fellow. Creator of VS Code Pets
"relaxing in the lounge" trying to get a directed graph out of Zork 1. This is so much easier than doing it on dot-matrix paper.
November 22, 2025 at 2:36 AM
"relaxing in the lounge" trying to get a directed graph out of Zork 1. This is so much easier than doing it on dot-matrix paper.
Spent Ignite either backstage or running around between expert areas and labs. Spent time with amazing colleagues. Covered about 60km 🚶🏻 got asked hundreds of questions for which I had answers for a few and saw this weird frog thing in SF Bay
November 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Spent Ignite either backstage or running around between expert areas and labs. Spent time with amazing colleagues. Covered about 60km 🚶🏻 got asked hundreds of questions for which I had answers for a few and saw this weird frog thing in SF Bay
Worked on several demos and bug bashing for Ignite. Helped with some of the tech showcased at the keynote in front of 20,000 people. Spent the week on campus in rehearsals and running around solving problems. Found a room with unlimited chocolate.
November 22, 2025 at 1:50 AM
Worked on several demos and bug bashing for Ignite. Helped with some of the tech showcased at the keynote in front of 20,000 people. Spent the week on campus in rehearsals and running around solving problems. Found a room with unlimited chocolate.
Trolley Problem: Waymo edition. “Look I found a shortcut!” Then sees cable car coming, panics and just blocks the track
November 17, 2025 at 2:04 AM
Trolley Problem: Waymo edition. “Look I found a shortcut!” Then sees cable car coming, panics and just blocks the track
I used to listen to this episodes whilst mowing the lawn. The episodes keep getting longer and longer. Now we’re at 4 hours I have to find bigger yard jobs to cover a whole episode
November 8, 2025 at 4:03 AM
I used to listen to this episodes whilst mowing the lawn. The episodes keep getting longer and longer. Now we’re at 4 hours I have to find bigger yard jobs to cover a whole episode
Going to report a bug literally any Python project on GitHub to find @hugovk.dev already got there before you, reported it and fixed it. Every time.
October 24, 2025 at 4:58 AM
Going to report a bug literally any Python project on GitHub to find @hugovk.dev already got there before you, reported it and fixed it. Every time.
Ant vs Ant 🐜 . I think I lost this round 🥊
October 12, 2025 at 8:53 PM
Ant vs Ant 🐜 . I think I lost this round 🥊
This is the grownup version of
October 7, 2025 at 9:02 AM
This is the grownup version of
🎃It's October! New release of vscode-pets 1.34
- New Autumn (Fall) theme with falling leaves
- New squirrel and skeleton pets (thank you Chris)
I've added several up-for-grabs issues for #hacktoberfest to the backlog.
- New Autumn (Fall) theme with falling leaves
- New squirrel and skeleton pets (thank you Chris)
I've added several up-for-grabs issues for #hacktoberfest to the backlog.
October 1, 2025 at 6:05 AM
🎃It's October! New release of vscode-pets 1.34
- New Autumn (Fall) theme with falling leaves
- New squirrel and skeleton pets (thank you Chris)
I've added several up-for-grabs issues for #hacktoberfest to the backlog.
- New Autumn (Fall) theme with falling leaves
- New squirrel and skeleton pets (thank you Chris)
I've added several up-for-grabs issues for #hacktoberfest to the backlog.
On a #PyConJP adventure with @tiangolo.com to Osaka and Himeji
September 25, 2025 at 6:08 AM
On a #PyConJP adventure with @tiangolo.com to Osaka and Himeji
TFW you catch your little toe on coffee table but can’t say the f word because there are kids around
September 24, 2025 at 11:58 PM
TFW you catch your little toe on coffee table but can’t say the f word because there are kids around
Choo-Choo. Obvs at 300km/h you don’t need seatbelts 🤷🏻♂️
September 24, 2025 at 1:35 AM
Choo-Choo. Obvs at 300km/h you don’t need seatbelts 🤷🏻♂️
Finally got some VSCode pets stickers on my laptop
September 17, 2025 at 2:49 AM
Finally got some VSCode pets stickers on my laptop
Wow, #hacktoberfest spam is starting early this year.
September 16, 2025 at 11:03 PM
Wow, #hacktoberfest spam is starting early this year.
My UMXFP1 paper keeps getting rejected-- any suggestions?
September 2, 2025 at 12:55 AM
My UMXFP1 paper keeps getting rejected-- any suggestions?
My GitHub Inbox always has one unhinged item 🐿️ 🐿️
September 2, 2025 at 12:03 AM
My GitHub Inbox always has one unhinged item 🐿️ 🐿️
Writing one of those blog posts where you start with a bunch of opinions and as you research them you discover you were actually wrong.
I've learnt a lot today and this one is gonna take a bit longer.
I've learnt a lot today and this one is gonna take a bit longer.
August 29, 2025 at 7:38 AM
Writing one of those blog posts where you start with a bunch of opinions and as you research them you discover you were actually wrong.
I've learnt a lot today and this one is gonna take a bit longer.
I've learnt a lot today and this one is gonna take a bit longer.
Finally stopped raining so we joined the Great North Walk to hike this funny looking “mountain”
August 23, 2025 at 9:50 PM
Finally stopped raining so we joined the Great North Walk to hike this funny looking “mountain”
Released a small update to generate boxplots for the 4 main metrics (time, time to first chunk, length, chunks/sec).
Nice simple way to quickly compare a handful of models when latency matters
Nice simple way to quickly compare a handful of models when latency matters
August 21, 2025 at 7:03 AM
Released a small update to generate boxplots for the 4 main metrics (time, time to first chunk, length, chunks/sec).
Nice simple way to quickly compare a handful of models when latency matters
Nice simple way to quickly compare a handful of models when latency matters
Today I worked on a little profile plugin for @simonwillison.net's LLM that runs the same prompt against as many models as you please. Including from different providers. You get timing statistics for streams. Useful for throughput and expected length benchmarks
github.com/tonybaloney/...
github.com/tonybaloney/...
August 20, 2025 at 6:18 AM
Today I worked on a little profile plugin for @simonwillison.net's LLM that runs the same prompt against as many models as you please. Including from different providers. You get timing statistics for streams. Useful for throughput and expected length benchmarks
github.com/tonybaloney/...
github.com/tonybaloney/...
Spent the morning building and testing a rope swing in the garden. It was the perfect spot for one.
August 16, 2025 at 9:40 AM
Spent the morning building and testing a rope swing in the garden. It was the perfect spot for one.
TIL you can pipe raw markdown to `python -m rich.markdown -` and it'll render it beautifully on the command line
August 15, 2025 at 3:11 AM
TIL you can pipe raw markdown to `python -m rich.markdown -` and it'll render it beautifully on the command line
Lord, grant me the confidence of the person who was hurtling down the highway at 110km/h with one of these on their car
August 11, 2025 at 10:08 AM
Lord, grant me the confidence of the person who was hurtling down the highway at 110km/h with one of these on their car
GPT-5 (full), mini, nano and chat models are now available in GitHub Models. Try them out free with an API key from @github.com
The llm extension for GitHub Models has just been updated with all 4 models available for chat, tool calling and schemas pypi.org/project/llm-...
The llm extension for GitHub Models has just been updated with all 4 models available for chat, tool calling and schemas pypi.org/project/llm-...
August 8, 2025 at 12:59 AM
GPT-5 (full), mini, nano and chat models are now available in GitHub Models. Try them out free with an API key from @github.com
The llm extension for GitHub Models has just been updated with all 4 models available for chat, tool calling and schemas pypi.org/project/llm-...
The llm extension for GitHub Models has just been updated with all 4 models available for chat, tool calling and schemas pypi.org/project/llm-...