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Python package managers: uv vs pixi?

Nov 18, 2025 24 minute read #python, #packaging, #open-source

When I talk to people about Python package management in 2025 I see the following tools in active use; uv, pixi, pip, conda, mamba, micromamba and poetry. There may be others, but I don’t hear much about them.
Revisiting old contributions for Hacktoberfest

Oct 1, 2025 2 minute read #open-source, #hacktoberfest

It’s hacktoberfest time again!

For the last few years hacktoberferst has been opt-in for project maintainers to avoid the bombardment of spam PRs across GitHub. To find participating projects you can view the hacktoberfest tag on github.
The Majority Of Your Users

Sep 30, 2025 2 minute read #open-source, #maintenance

The majority of your users don’t read your changelog.

The majority of your users only upgrade to new versions when forced to.
Most stale bots are anti-user and anti-contributor, but they don't have to be

Dec 5, 2024 7 minute read #github, #open-source, #projects

If you’ve been around open source projects on GitHub you may have encountered a project with a stale bot.
Sometimes I regret using CalVer

Jan 16, 2023 12 minute read #software-development, #open-source, #python, #semver, #calver

Over the last few years, many open-source Python projects that I work on have switched to CalVer. I’ve felt some pain around this, particularly in Dask and its subprojects. I want to unpack some of my thoughts and feelings around this trend.
Narrative driven development

Sep 12, 2022 14 minute read #work, #open-source, #project-planning, #ndd

In July I published a blog post on using Dask on KubeFlow with the Dask Kubernetes Operator. I originally outlined that post in January before the Dask Operator even existed as part of my planning for that work.
Don't prematurely squash/rebase and force push your PRs

Jul 26, 2022 3 minute read #open-source, #github, #best-practices, #code-review

A big frustration for me when reviewing Pull Requests on GitHub is coming back to a PR you’ve already reviewed to check on recent changes and be greeted with “We went looking everywhere, but couldn’t find those commits”.
Commenting on Pull Requests with GitHub Actions

Jul 12, 2022 3 minute read #open-source, #github-actions, #bots, #automation

When someone opens a Pull Request (PR) on your GitHub project it can be helpful for a bot to comment on the PR. You might want to thank the user for the contribution, provide some useful information such as giving a binder link where folks can try out the PR, or providing more verbose output from some tests or other checks.
The secret to making code contributions that stand the test of time

Jul 5, 2022 9 minute read #open-source, #softwareengineering, #community

When you contribute code to collaborative projects, whether they are open source community projects or large internal projects inside organisations, the feeling of having your code running inside a large application can be very rewarding.
Running Kubeflow inside Kind with GPU support

Jan 27, 2022 8 minute read #community, #open-source, #kubernetes, #kind, #kubeflow, #gpus

This week I’ve been playing around with Kubeflow as part of a larger effort to make it simpler to use Dask and RAPIDS in MLOps workflows.
Quick hack: Adding GPU support to kind

Jan 25, 2022 4 minute read #community, #open-source, #kubernetes, #kind, #golang

This post has been superseded with this tutorial that no longer requires any code changes. Please read that instead.
Don't be that open-source user, don't be me

Jan 17, 2022 10 minute read #community, #open-source, #maintaining

Before I was a maintainer of open source software I was a user of open source software, and I sometimes behaved badly.
How to check out the default git branch

Sep 9, 2020 2 minute read #git, #open-source, #code

Many open source projects are taking steps to update terminology to be more inclusive. The largest of these changes has been renaming the “trunk” branch of git repositories from master to main.
Leveraging the Hacktoberfest community

Aug 27, 2020 13 minute read #hacktoberfest, #open-source, #community

Hacktoberfest is approaching once again. In previous years I have both participated and contributed to open source, and also tried to leverage the community in the open source projects I maintain by curating and labeling issues.
Running Dask tutorials

Aug 21, 2020 20 minute read #python, #dask, #distributed-computing, #open-source, #community, #tutorials Archive

Originally published on the Dask blog on August 21st, 2020.

For the last couple of months we’ve been running community tutorials every three weeks or so. The response from the community has been great and we’ve had 50-100 people at each 90 minute session.

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