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Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld

@audrey.feldroy.com

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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

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Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld @audrey.feldroy.com · Aug 9

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

Python Philippines, August 2, 2025. Group photo. Where Python web framework AIR was first shown to the public

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Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld @audrey.feldroy.com · 25d

Aww, congrats! Nice, I remember being disturbed by the spit painting thing but that one turned out lovely

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Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld @audrey.feldroy.com · 26d

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 :)

Eleanor Berger @intellectronica.net · Sep 8

PSA if you're in the market for a Python web framework, you should check out @AirWebFramework.

It brings together a lot of what's good in other products (FastAPI, Pydantic, support for Jinja, HTML in Python, HTMX) and leaves out much of the less fun stuff.

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Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld @audrey.feldroy.com · 26d

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

Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld @audrey.feldroy.com · 26d

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

Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld @audrey.feldroy.com · 26d

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 😭

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Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld @audrey.feldroy.com · 26d

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

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Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld @audrey.feldroy.com · 27d

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

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Air Web Framework @airwebframework.bsky.social · Aug 10

Hi, this is Air, the new web framework that breathes fresh air into Python web development

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Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld @audrey.feldroy.com · Aug 10

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

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Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld @audrey.feldroy.com · Aug 10

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

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

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Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld @audrey.feldroy.com · Aug 9

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

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Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld @audrey.feldroy.com · Aug 4

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

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Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld @audrey.feldroy.com · Aug 4

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...

Make AI Work With Any Codebase

This talk shares practical strategies from a real-world project integrating AI into development workflow. What works, what doesn't, and how to structure code so AI tools can help without degrading ...

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Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld @audrey.feldroy.com · Aug 2

Soft-launching the secret-but-not-secret new open source project with @daniel.feldroy.com at Python Philippines in an hour!

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Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld @audrey.feldroy.com · Jul 28

I built DjangoPackages.org with @daniel.feldroy.com at Django Dash 2010. We maintained it for years and poured thousands of dollars we couldn’t afford into hosting it because we loved it so much

It lives on, @webology.bsky.social and @fwiles.bsky.social / RevSys maintain and pay for it now

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Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld @audrey.feldroy.com · Jul 12

This sounds like a challenge

Frank Wiles @fwiles.bsky.social · Jul 12

There is ONE thing no one seems to be rewriting in Rust… COBOL! 🤣

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Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld @audrey.feldroy.com · Jul 12

Spending my Saturday morning updating github.com/audreyfeldroy/cookiecutter-pypackage/ - it is taking a lot of courage to face those PRs and failing tests but I am getting through it

GitHub - audreyfeldroy/cookiecutter-pypackage: Cookiecutter template for a Python package.

Cookiecutter template for a Python package. Contribute to audreyfeldroy/cookiecutter-pypackage development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld @audrey.feldroy.com · Jul 9

A web framework or other tool is only as good as its ecosystem. Nurturing its third-party package ecosystem leads to its growth and longevity.

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Naomi Ceder @naomiceder.tech · Jul 8

So I decided to use Python to work on my ear training... and I've done a post on how I started.
naomiceder.substack.com/p/diy-ear-tr...

Also on my site at www.naomiceder.tech/posts/ear_tr...

DIY Ear training with Python and Music21, part 1

For the past 3 years I've been studying classical (and now also jazz) guitar, music theory, and doing a little composing.

naomiceder.substack.com

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Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld @audrey.feldroy.com · Jul 8

I think one of the keys to happiness is surrounding yourself with positive, encouraging, open-minded people.

People who uplift you when you try new things, and who give you the courage to keep trying more.

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Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld @audrey.feldroy.com · Jun 29

I've left R&D at Answer.AI to focus on independent AI for good & web research projects. I learned so much pair-programming with the best AI researchers in the world, and putting the Lean Startup method into practice daily.

Deeply grateful to @howard.fm and @ericries.bsky.social for my time there.

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Georgi Ker @georgically.bsky.social · Jun 26

I’m in awe of all the work Tamara has put into the community over the years. And it’s a lot 🫨! You’ve got to listen to this episode of @pypodcats.live when it drops.

PyPodcats @pypodcats.live · Jun 25

Sneak peek into our 9th episode of #HiddenFiguresofPython!

Meet Tamara Atanasoska!

Open source contributer since 2012, in projects like Gnome and e-cidadania (via Google Summer of Code), and Fairlearn.

Hosts: @georgically.bsky.social & @mariatta.ca
@djangoproject.com @pyladiesberlin.bsky.social

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Isaac Flath @isaac-flath.bsky.social · Jun 27

I was kinda surprised that people joined my new discord, and got a bit excited yesterday and created and published a new website around it and started with a new free tutorial :D

Check it out: kentro-learn.com/free-content...

Understanding Keyword Search

Understanding how search really works under the hood—from tokenization to BM25 ranking

kentro-learn.com

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Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld @audrey.feldroy.com · Jun 25

Leave it to @daniel.feldroy.com to put hidden Unicode characters into his git branch names

$GitHub screenshot showing a git branch name containing a \u2060 character$

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Audrey M. Roy Greenfeld @audrey.feldroy.com · Jun 24

Playing with Marimo notebooks, a reinvention of Jupyter notebooks to be reactive like Observable notebooks. After getting past the rough learning curve, I'm starting to see how fun they are.

And a Vega-Altair heatmap of x^2 + y^2, to make the screenshot pretty.

A Marimo notebook showing a Vega-Altair heatmap chart