Eric Holscher

I am the co-founder of Read the Docs, Write the Docs, and EthicalAds.

Web: https://www.ericholscher.com/

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2026-05-15 16:56:17 UTC

Always love seeing the Pacman rule at the #PyconUS intro. If you want to read more, see my blog post from 9 (!) years ago.
https://www.ericholscher.com/blog/2017/aug/2/pacman-rule-conferences/
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2025-11-08 11:22:07 UTC

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if it’s useful, we’re doing similar traffic and happy to do a case study as well :)

2025-05-22 08:03:29 UTC

I'm looking for sources that talk about Django's (or other OSS) history of onboarding Docs, Design, and other community contributors to a committer status. Are there any good blog posts or even django-dev threads that might be useful to reference?
#PyconUS #Django

2025-05-20 23:22:06 UTC

Another amazing #PyconUS closes as I heard onward to Amsterdam. The Python community that comes together is a treat, and I feel profoundly lucky that it’s been my professional network for my entire career. 💗
Thanks again to all the PSF staff, volunteers, and speakers who make it happen each year!

2025-05-16 13:37:54 UTC

Always love seeing the Pac-Man Rule spreading around the Python community. It was in the opening intro at #PyconUS!
https://www.ericholscher.com/blog/2017/aug/2/pacman-rule-conferences/
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2024-12-13 16:38:09 UTC

Realized that the Django Fellow program is over 10 years old! It was a huge inspiration for the successful Python Developer in Residence program, and helped push the Django and Python ecosystems forward in an important and under-appreciated way.
https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2014/sep/18/dsf-calls-applicants-django-fellow/
#appreciation #python

2024-11-19 18:42:03 UTC

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I've been pondering this some lately with Write the Docs as well. It's quite difficult to hand off leadership, and there's also various aspects of it (in the WTD case, being "conference chair" for the primary conference, being "board president" for the community board (already handed off), etc.).
I think it's more difficult to build new leaders virtually. I've found a lot more success with finding folks who want to "rise up" since we've gone back in person.

2024-11-02 16:02:00 UTC

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Appreciate the info! I am already pretty impressed with that 3B llama model that runs pretty fast on my old M1, so definitely feels like the quality of what we can run on a 64GB machine over the next few years is gonna be pretty impressive.

2024-11-01 23:24:34 UTC

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Makes sense. Basically RAM limits how big of a model you can run, and GPU & memory bandwidth is limits the token/s, from what I've read?

2024-11-01 22:16:52 UTC

@npub1gv2…tlwl any recommendations for what M4 MacBooks I should be looking at if I want a future proof running local LLMs for the next couple years?

2024-08-07 02:46:08 UTC

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ooh. Made the blog. 🤩 makes me wanna get better at blogging again, like always.

2024-08-06 21:25:29 UTC

Calling it now:
* Google stops paying Apple & Mozilla for search
* Apple ships search (probably buys DDG or similar)
* Apple pays Mozilla to be default search engine

2024-07-30 19:39:50 UTC

Excited to head to #fossy2024 this weekend in Portland. It’s been a while since I’ve been to an OSS conference, and hopefully it’s a throwback to the old days of Open Source Bridge!