@audrey.feldroy.com
Coder, artist, writer. MIT EECS 05. Writing a new FastAPI-powered web framework. Co-author of Two Scoops of Django and a forthcoming new book. Core committer to @daniel.feldroy.com 💘 and mom of Uma. Wrote Cookiecutter. she/her
I read the whole 35k word Claude constitution last night during my long biphasic sleep break last night. Love that Anthropic made it CC0. I'm eager to experiment with revising it
It was fascinating. I do wish it gave the models knowledge of their own flaws, e.g. unintentional bias, content theft
Merry Christmas, AirDragon 0.4.0 is out! Our work on
@airwebframework.bsky.social's new component library is accelerating
New tags: Form, H3, Input, Link
Plus better test coverage, the start of an AGENTS file to get AI to generate nice website layouts, and a fix to work with Air 0.43.0
Merry Christmas and happy holidays, everyone!
You can also pip install it, but using uvx saves you a step
Happy birthday, Érico! All the best
Then comes the fun. I'm overflowing with ideas for creative new features after the break to contemplate all of this
You have no idea what a treat you're in for if you're a Cookiecutter user :D
Revisited the Cookiecutter modernization effort that @daniel.feldroy.com and I had started this summer. Yeah! We still want to do it!
First comes getting it into good shape. Baby steps, we just dropped Python 3.9 since it reached EOL at the end of October
Most conference organizers have never breastfed or raised a child, so they have no idea
The struggle continues well after. I always see the husbands attending the conf + even programmer wives watching the kids in the hallway
Oh wow, my post is #3 on Hacker News right now!
The surreal moth on www.python-httpx.org that was so beautifully photographed by @lovelydinosaur.bsky.social is something that has brought me joy every time I've gone to the httpx docs
It's long been fluttering around in my subconscious, even accidentally inspired art that I'm shy to post publicly
It’s here!!
@fleeky.bsky.social it was so good to meet you too!
Love that @hamel.bsky.social is putting on a hackathon where the goal is for your agent to score the highest on evaluations, not just do something flashy.
click.convertkit-mail2.com/gkumlz753lc5...
Watching the mysterious masked speaker Dr. Sony Valdez live-code a @djangoproject.com chat app with asgi, channels, websockets, Redis at the first PyCon Davao
Screenshot of my title slide "Python Tricks You Can't Live Without: 2025 Edition" and the first few slide thumbnails of my PyCon Davao keynote, in Google Slides
Quick call for your absolute favorite Python tricks? Not just language features but tools, techniques, specific uses of particular libraries?
Putting the finishing touches on my PyCon Davao keynote and would love to reference+credit anyone who sends me a cool trick to include
NumPy's type completeness was 33%. @marcogorelli.bsky.social fixed a typo to get it to 80%! Now it's at almost 90%.
Cool post telling the story and showing how to check Python type completeness percentage: pyrefly.org/blog/numpy-t...
Release 0.37.0:
- Adds the first draft of the Air Book by @audrey.feldroy.com
- Vastly improved llms.txt files
- Bugfix for Jinja rendering of non-AirTag data
- Two new first time contributors!
github.com/feldroy/air/...
Aww, congrats! Nice, I remember being disturbed by the spit painting thing but that one turned out lovely
It's still early in @airwebframework.bsky.social's development, so it's cool to see @intellectronica.net (of Ruler fame, github.com/intellectron...) post this thread about already having a positive experience using @airwebframework.bsky.social
When you do open source, this stuff keeps you going :)
The old me would have said, "Okay, I'm done, I can't do this anymore"
The new courageous me first took a long nap today, because she was exhausted
Refreshed, she is now setting up a mail server, and feeling excited and a bit crazy to roll her own custom email newsletter software
The new tool kept sending emails out even though we discovered it after only the first 100 went out
We had no way to stop the bulk email send through the tool's UI or API. It was like watching a train wreck in slow motion
I'll share yesterday's horrifying backstory
Over the past 2 weeks we migrated off of Intuit MailChimp and SendOwl to a new "email for developers" tool that we expected to add Unsubscribe links
Guess what, we didn't do it right. No unsubscribe links at all in the sent emails. To 10k subscribers 😭
Sending out email newsletters is something I've absolutely feared for years
Yesterday @daniel.feldroy.com and I finally rebooted ours, sending out an update for the first time in 5 years
We got a few more requests to join after we sent that out. We'll send it to the ~10 of you hopefully by tonight
Getting ready to send out the first newsletter from me and @daniel.feldroy.com in years. Sharing our updates + dev advice/opinions that we don't share publicly
If you want in for free, DM me your email address - all welcome! It'll be a paid newsletter soon but you can get grandfathered in free now
Hi, this is Air, the new web framework that breathes fresh air into Python web development
My use case was that I was working on an AIR app that needed to be able to display arbitrary single-file React apps
Though not just any apps, but trusted ones made by my 6-year-old who's partial to vibe-coding with Claude Sonnet 4 at the moment
How I load a Jinja template that serves as a shell for any dynamic single-file React app: I check if the app needs React, then return a rendered Jinja template containing what the app needs
I've figured that @airwebframework.bsky.social works with React in production, for anyone needing to use it that way 🚀
In my AIR app, I created a Jinja template that works with any arbitrary 1-file React app
Python Philippines, August 2, 2025. Group photo. Where Python web framework AIR was first shown to the public
Documenting last week's historic moment with @daniel.feldroy.com at Python Philippines, because AIR will grow up to be a big web framework one day
The secret project we soft-launched Saturday is github.com/feldroy/air - but note it’s not fully launched, not ready for users yet. More of a preview “hey, check out what I just started working on but don’t look too closely” type of thing
In ~12 hours @daniel.feldroy.com and
@isaac-flath.bsky.social will speak about the AI-augmented coding side of how they implement pieces of Air, our new Python web framework. Go sign up (free!) at maven.com/p/0ede3d/mak...