Jay Miller

@kjaymiller
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Podcaster, Dev Advocate, Tryer of things that don’t scale well
rough demo of using it: https://youtu.be/h2kwzpY5-sA
Introducing ZJ: the sesh-like session switcher for Zellij

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I prompted a new thing into existence for Zellij. It's called zj and it's a smart session picker/switcher.

https://github.com/kjaymiller/zj/tree/main

Happy to announce that we're sponsoring at local gaming workshop with Kids Next Code!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/youth-and-teen-game-design-gamified-learning-program-ages-8-16-tickets-1990242130789

#events #gaming

A great recap and explainer for why PyCon US means so much to us as Black Python Devs!

https://blackpythondevs.com/blog/pycon-us-2026-recap.html

https://kjaymiller.com/microblog/pycon-us-recap.html

PyCon US 2026 Recap πŸ’›πŸ | Black Python Devs

The challenge of sending physical atoms across the world to some countries is utter madness. This is why we support initiatives like Books for Techies!

https://notesbylex.com/shipping-a-laptop-to-a-refugee-camp-in-uganda

https://kjaymiller.com/microblog/notesbylex-shipping-to-uganda.html

Shipping a Laptop to a Refugee Camp in Uganda

For the last few years, while finally earning my belated Bachelor's Degree in the University of London's World Class program, I've met some amazing people from all across the world, completing...

I used AI to help with a problem and it gave me two good answers and a bad one. I wasn't sure which to use so I used AI to help evaluate the options.

https://kjaymiller.com/blog/using-ai-to-consider-the-options.html

Using AI to consider the options

A version bump touched three lines of pyproject.toml. CI failed across the whole Python matrix with an error blaming a circular dependency on render-engine-cli. The real culprit was four layers down: a shallow checkout starving setuptools_scm of tags.

AAAAAAND IT'S GONE!

Looks like we didn't order nearly enough Jackets and have already sold out.

This was an experiment and y'all passed. We'll try to keep the jackets (and maybe some new designs) available for purchase in limited amounts. For now, the 10 folks that have one. Y'all are super awesome and thank you!

#pyconus2026

ALT for image: We have purple heart Black Python Devs Patches for $5, Our black BPD Shirt as well as two new #000 Python Dev Designs for $35 and then a brand new athletic jacket for $100 donations.

Check out the swag we'll have at #PyConUS2026.

Starting today if you donate at the amounts on the graphic we have some amazing new swag that you can pickup in person at our PyCon Booth. (bring your confirmation to the booth starting 14 May)

https://blackpythondevs.com/support.html