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Tall, Snarky Canadian

Python core developer. Dev manager for the Python extension for VS Code. Tall, snarky Canadian.

  • By Brett Cannon
  • Based in Canada
  • Roughly 11 posts per year
  • First post on

Posts per year

Data for this chart is available in the table below
Posts per year
Year starting Posts
2021 6
2022 10
2023 17
2024 4

Any gaps could be due to errors when fetching the blog’s feed.

Most recent posts

My impressions of ReScript
I maintain a GitHub Action called check-for-changed-files. For the purpose of this blog post what the action does isn't important, but the fact that I authored it originally in TypeScript is. See, one day I …
On , by Brett Cannon, 839 words
Saying thanks to open source maintainers
After signing up for GitHub Sponsors, I had a nagging feeling that somehow asking for money from other people to support my open source work was inappropriate. But after much reflection, I realized that phrasing …
On , by Brett Cannon, 767 words
State of WASI support for CPython: March 2024
The biggest update since June 2023 is WASI is now a tier 2 platform for CPython! This means that the main branch of CPython should never be broken more than 24 hours for WASI and …
On , by Brett Cannon, 305 words