Pete Cartwright
@petecartwright.com
Former sandwich artisan, current software engineer. Let’s talk about Mission: Impossible or the X-Men.
Pluribus is so great. Rhea Seehorn should EGOT.
November 13, 2025 at 10:19 PM
Pluribus is so great. Rhea Seehorn should EGOT.
Hundreds of billions of dollars on AI to give us “a potion seller is a person who sells potions”.
November 6, 2025 at 2:56 PM
Hundreds of billions of dollars on AI to give us “a potion seller is a person who sells potions”.
“Come home / the kettle’s whistling” continues to hit like a freight train.
youtu.be
October 31, 2025 at 12:40 PM
“Come home / the kettle’s whistling” continues to hit like a freight train.
This rules and I would love to see more of it.
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new revenue. Please read and share. pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-...
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The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
October 28, 2025 at 12:35 PM
This rules and I would love to see more of it.
The Chair Company feels like a live-action Like A Velvet Glove Cast in Iron. (Mostly complimentary)
October 22, 2025 at 2:38 AM
The Chair Company feels like a live-action Like A Velvet Glove Cast in Iron. (Mostly complimentary)
Truly disheartening to finally beat a Silksong boss, then see it in a guide as “incredibly simple early-game boss for babies only”.
September 11, 2025 at 3:01 AM
Truly disheartening to finally beat a Silksong boss, then see it in a guide as “incredibly simple early-game boss for babies only”.
This is fun lil journey by @samwho.dev through some of the... "interesting choices" in JS's Date class. Temporal can't arrive soon enough.
jsdate.wtf
jsdate.wtf
new Date("wtf")
How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?
jsdate.wtf
July 18, 2025 at 8:53 PM
This is fun lil journey by @samwho.dev through some of the... "interesting choices" in JS's Date class. Temporal can't arrive soon enough.
jsdate.wtf
jsdate.wtf
Loved loved this essay from @charity.wtf. The more I do this job, the more I realize that 90% of the real hard problems to solve are at the process/team/org level.
charity.wtf/2025/06/19/i...
charity.wtf/2025/06/19/i...
In Praise of “Normal” Engineers
This article was originally commissioned by Luca Rossi (paywalled) for refactoring.fm, on February 11th, 2025. Luca edited a version of it that emphasized the importance of building “10x engi…
charity.wtf
July 15, 2025 at 7:09 PM
Loved loved this essay from @charity.wtf. The more I do this job, the more I realize that 90% of the real hard problems to solve are at the process/team/org level.
charity.wtf/2025/06/19/i...
charity.wtf/2025/06/19/i...
Reposted by Pete Cartwright
A brief history of computer science
July 9, 2025 at 12:45 AM
A brief history of computer science
It's so charming that the Death Stranding games are about human connection, brutality, family, how the systems we live in shape all of those, and ALSO how fun it is to put your best buds into a videogame 😊.
June 29, 2025 at 9:51 PM
It's so charming that the Death Stranding games are about human connection, brutality, family, how the systems we live in shape all of those, and ALSO how fun it is to put your best buds into a videogame 😊.
Caroline Polachek doing a song for Death Stranding 2 is an almost cartoonish intersection of my interests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pilm...
Caroline Polachek - On The Beach (from DEATH STRANDING 2: ON THE BEACH)
YouTube video by Caroline Polachek
www.youtube.com
June 23, 2025 at 11:00 PM
Caroline Polachek doing a song for Death Stranding 2 is an almost cartoonish intersection of my interests. www.youtube.com/watch?v=pilm...
YouTube reccomendarkons blessed me today with two of the most @bransonreese.bsky.social names I’ve ever seen in my life.
June 17, 2025 at 1:01 AM
YouTube reccomendarkons blessed me today with two of the most @bransonreese.bsky.social names I’ve ever seen in my life.
This game is going to cause me deep deep emotional pain and I can’t wait to play it.
Hey it's #PitchYaGame!
Perfect Tides: Station to Station is a coming of age adventure game where you explore big city life, manage knowledge, and navigate relationships over the course of the year 2003.
If you remember college, it's coming for you.
Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/2088810/...
Perfect Tides: Station to Station is a coming of age adventure game where you explore big city life, manage knowledge, and navigate relationships over the course of the year 2003.
If you remember college, it's coming for you.
Wishlist: store.steampowered.com/app/2088810/...
June 6, 2025 at 2:10 PM
This game is going to cause me deep deep emotional pain and I can’t wait to play it.
Hot take incoming: Thunderbolts was pretty good!
May 6, 2025 at 1:26 AM
Hot take incoming: Thunderbolts was pretty good!
Reposted by Pete Cartwright
sw inspired trek ships so far!
April 12, 2025 at 3:45 AM
sw inspired trek ships so far!
Thank goodness Andor is still good. I don’t know if I could have handled that right now.
April 28, 2025 at 3:52 PM
Thank goodness Andor is still good. I don’t know if I could have handled that right now.
Reposted by Pete Cartwright
Tradition states that last night Jesus emptied out all the jails. Spent Saturday night telling people “I don’t care what you did, people weren’t made for prisons.” The next day to prove His point He broke out of solitary. It is finished. Easter is incompatible with the carceral state. Happy Easter.
April 20, 2025 at 11:25 AM
Tradition states that last night Jesus emptied out all the jails. Spent Saturday night telling people “I don’t care what you did, people weren’t made for prisons.” The next day to prove His point He broke out of solitary. It is finished. Easter is incompatible with the carceral state. Happy Easter.
I’ve been doing a lot of C# at work for the last year or so and I’m slowly coming around to it, but man does it really make me appreciate how pleasant it is to use TypeScript.
April 16, 2025 at 1:20 AM
I’ve been doing a lot of C# at work for the last year or so and I’m slowly coming around to it, but man does it really make me appreciate how pleasant it is to use TypeScript.
There is almost nothing I want less in this life than to stay tuned after the show for a look inside the episode.
April 7, 2025 at 2:08 AM
There is almost nothing I want less in this life than to stay tuned after the show for a look inside the episode.
Making a to-do list for today and said “ooh that’s going to be my treat” after writing down “break down boxes in the attic”. Being in my 40s is weird.
April 4, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Making a to-do list for today and said “ooh that’s going to be my treat” after writing down “break down boxes in the attic”. Being in my 40s is weird.
I really enjoyed this article from @mtlynch.io on writing better software tutorials. Lots of specifics and a great general vibe of “remove all the obstacles and annoying stuff in advance” that applies to a LOT of software writing.
refactoringenglish.com/chapters/rul...
refactoringenglish.com/chapters/rul...
Rules for Writing Software Tutorials
It's easier than you think to write an exceptional software tutorial. You can stand out in a sea of mediocre guides by following a few simple rules.
refactoringenglish.com
January 3, 2025 at 6:44 PM
I really enjoyed this article from @mtlynch.io on writing better software tutorials. Lots of specifics and a great general vibe of “remove all the obstacles and annoying stuff in advance” that applies to a LOT of software writing.
refactoringenglish.com/chapters/rul...
refactoringenglish.com/chapters/rul...
Very few surprises in my year-end podcast summary. That’s the entire run of the Sunny podcast and almost full 6 episodes of @cerebrocast.bsky.social.
December 19, 2024 at 5:41 PM
Very few surprises in my year-end podcast summary. That’s the entire run of the Sunny podcast and almost full 6 episodes of @cerebrocast.bsky.social.
Late followup - it was this! Lil chrome extension that adds your current Spotify song to the PR description you're writing on GitHub with album art and a preview link.
(My main lessons were that the Spotify Web API is surprisingly nice and Chrome Extensions are unsurprisingly painful to develop.)
(My main lessons were that the Spotify Web API is surprisingly nice and Chrome Extensions are unsurprisingly painful to develop.)
December 17, 2024 at 4:04 AM
Late followup - it was this! Lil chrome extension that adds your current Spotify song to the PR description you're writing on GitHub with album art and a preview link.
(My main lessons were that the Spotify Web API is surprisingly nice and Chrome Extensions are unsurprisingly painful to develop.)
(My main lessons were that the Spotify Web API is surprisingly nice and Chrome Extensions are unsurprisingly painful to develop.)
Out here grinding hard on a Sunday night - took on a side project that Basically Works, added a new feature, now it Doesn’t Work At All 😎
November 25, 2024 at 4:35 AM
Out here grinding hard on a Sunday night - took on a side project that Basically Works, added a new feature, now it Doesn’t Work At All 😎