Velda Kiara

Happy Reading Thursday! TSBT #60, "Exploration" is live!

This issue features:

✅ The Law of Collective Amnesia
✅ CPython Internals:
✅ Reliable Intelligence
✅ Microservices & Databases

Read the issue here:

https://veldakiara.substack.com/p/tsbt60-exploration

RE: @webology@mastodon.social

I celebrate 😂 😂

It was so fun to do this with @wsvincent@fosstodon.org and @carlton@chaos.social

Give it a watch and enjoy!

TSBT #59, "A Thousand Times Over," is live!

This week’s issue is an AI special!

The issue features:

✅ Resources and experiments on how people are currently using AI,

✅ Insights from a surgeon’s book that inspired an engineer on how to fix AI disasters as they happen.

✅ Changing with the times, getting ahead of the curve.

Art makes life worthwhile, and we would be doing ourselves a disservice not to enjoy it.

Read the full issue here: https://veldakiara.substack.com/p/tsbt59-a-thousand-times-over

Happy Reading Thursday! 📚 New TSBT issue dropped. 📨
To live.
To build.
To miss the bus and learn something anyway. 🚌

Inside this week's issue:
✅ The Optimisation Trap: Why we are obsessed with shaving milliseconds off code but losing hours to aimless hurry.
✅ Architectural Silence
✅ Why the best solutions often arrive when you finally stop chasing them.
✅ Shifting from a "sprint" mindset to a "sustainable" architecture.

And many more interesting nuggets.

Read: https://veldakiara.substack.com/p/tsbt58-catch-the-bus

To live, to love, to thrive, and to build better software.

The latest issue of The Storyteller's Byte is out, and it's short, sweet, and packed with architectural goodness:

✅ Marshalling & Serializers in Django
✅ Replacing Redis with PostgreSQL
✅ GitHub Copilot SDK agents
✅ The power of Dev Logging

Read it here: https://veldakiara.substack.com/p/tsbt57-marshalling

Happy Reading Thursday! 📬
New TSBT issue:

Architecture isn't what you think it is. Adding more won't save you.
AI fixed something I didn't know was broken. Not about code speed.
MCP authorization when it matters.

Also inside:

The complexity trap
Why AI bubble talk is different now
API-first done right
What we're losing by going digital

8 minutes that might change how you build.

https://veldakiara.substack.com/p/tsbt56-morning-pages

Happy New Year Folks 🎉🎊🎉

To kick it up to a great start have a read of my latest issue of the Storyteller's Byte Tales issue 55! The first 2026 issue 😃.

Its short, its sweet and its full of possibilities!
https://veldakiara.substack.com/p/tsbt55-happy-new-year2026

Surviving the end-of-year fatigue, with a side of Django 6.0. 🦄

The latest issue of The Storyteller's Byte is short, sweet, and packed with updates:
✅ Django 6.0 release & template partials.
✅ Git 3.0 default branch changes.
✅ The importance of governance in Open Source.
✅ DjangoCon Europe 2026 CFP is OPEN!

Before you "circle back next year," take a moment to read and recharge.

Full issue here: https://veldakiara.substack.com/p/tsbt54-happy-restful-holidays

I have been reflecting on how creative work evolves. This week’s Storyteller’s Byte Tales was inspired by American Fiction and its Red vs Blue Label metaphor.

Creativity has seasons. Growth isn’t linear.

Plus: Advent of Code, Git UI, layoffs & more.

🔗https://veldakiara.substack.com/p/tsbt53-second-last-one

Happy Reading Thursday! ☕️

Ever been staring at a bug at 4 PM on a Thursday and just wished you had Sherlock Holmes' brain for 10 minutes? Yeah, me too.

That feeling is precisely why the new issue, “TSBT 52 – 221B Baker Street,” is out!

We are applying the subtle art of deduction to our daily tech challenges.

Read the full story and resources here: https://veldakiara.substack.com/p/tsbt52-221b-baker-street

Happy Reading Thursday! 📚

New issue up: Oxford wandering, Blackwell's bookshop, PSF standing firm on principles, PyPI growth, security insights, and dev resources that actually help.

Read here: https://veldakiara.substack.com/p/tsbt51-oxford-and-blackwells

I am leading a hands-on workshop on the Model Context Protocol (MCP)—the open standard turning LLMs into powerful, agentic tools in Python. (Bring your laptop!)

🗓️ Tuesday, November 19th
⏰ 6:30 PM
📍Ramen Club/Space

https://luma.com/id7fzpzr