Paul Hallett
@paulwrites.software
🐍 Python & HTTP APIs
🐙 Lead software engineer
🦛 Hyper-personalised software (lofiso, homecooked, file over app, smallweb)
📚 Horror, Sci-fi, fantasy obsessive
🥁 Drum player, music melomaniac
💻 https://paulwrites.software
🐙 Lead software engineer
🦛 Hyper-personalised software (lofiso, homecooked, file over app, smallweb)
📚 Horror, Sci-fi, fantasy obsessive
🥁 Drum player, music melomaniac
💻 https://paulwrites.software
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Paul Hallett
@paulwrites.software
· May 1
Hyper Personal Software
Paul Hallett is a software engineer
paulwrites.software
New blog post: Hyper Personal Software 🦛
A manifesto for smaller, personal, free and joy-filled software.
paulwrites.software/articles/hyps/
A manifesto for smaller, personal, free and joy-filled software.
paulwrites.software/articles/hyps/
Murder on the Moors sounds like an Agatha Christie novel doesn’t it?
July 10, 2026 at 4:38 PM
Murder on the Moors sounds like an Agatha Christie novel doesn’t it?
Weird software update
July 10, 2026 at 9:45 AM
Weird software update
Just got an A/C (heatpump variant that can cool and heat) quote that is 1/3 of the expected cost of replacing the heating in my house. And that's for A/C in all rooms in my house.
Why the fuck aren't we all getting this installed?
Why the fuck aren't we all getting this installed?
July 2, 2026 at 10:36 AM
Just got an A/C (heatpump variant that can cool and heat) quote that is 1/3 of the expected cost of replacing the heating in my house. And that's for A/C in all rooms in my house.
Why the fuck aren't we all getting this installed?
Why the fuck aren't we all getting this installed?
I dunno man I think a username is way less private than a random string of numbers?
July 1, 2026 at 1:23 PM
I dunno man I think a username is way less private than a random string of numbers?
Looks like I’m getting a loan to install air to air heat pumps.
June 26, 2026 at 7:03 PM
Looks like I’m getting a loan to install air to air heat pumps.
I think we need to plan better for this lol.
It's clear skies and sunny yet we're using so much power (I assume for fans and A/C etc) that we've turned all the gas turbines back on.
It could also be because we've got zero wind (a factor contributing to the heat).
It's clear skies and sunny yet we're using so much power (I assume for fans and A/C etc) that we've turned all the gas turbines back on.
It could also be because we've got zero wind (a factor contributing to the heat).
June 24, 2026 at 8:33 AM
I think we need to plan better for this lol.
It's clear skies and sunny yet we're using so much power (I assume for fans and A/C etc) that we've turned all the gas turbines back on.
It could also be because we've got zero wind (a factor contributing to the heat).
It's clear skies and sunny yet we're using so much power (I assume for fans and A/C etc) that we've turned all the gas turbines back on.
It could also be because we've got zero wind (a factor contributing to the heat).
We're finally here aren't we? The climate crisis.
June 24, 2026 at 8:25 AM
We're finally here aren't we? The climate crisis.
Ahh World Cup season in England. Time to play “football fan or racist” with all the flag wielders.
June 14, 2026 at 4:25 PM
Ahh World Cup season in England. Time to play “football fan or racist” with all the flag wielders.
He may be a trillionaire but I’ve never seen any evidence of him having a happy loving family, a fulfilling hobby, and a great life. All I see is him be a troll, a loser on the internet, try very hard to be cool, and be a grumpy jaded man.
So I think he hasn’t really won anything.
So I think he hasn’t really won anything.
June 13, 2026 at 6:19 AM
He may be a trillionaire but I’ve never seen any evidence of him having a happy loving family, a fulfilling hobby, and a great life. All I see is him be a troll, a loser on the internet, try very hard to be cool, and be a grumpy jaded man.
So I think he hasn’t really won anything.
So I think he hasn’t really won anything.
Favourite things about Norwich? I get to watch air traffic like this nearly every week day.
June 12, 2026 at 12:57 PM
Favourite things about Norwich? I get to watch air traffic like this nearly every week day.
Sometimes kids say things that really freak you out.
Us, on my bike to preschool today:
My son: Dad, I just saw a big black dog!
Me: where? With an owner?
My son: no, on its own in the bushes!
Pretty sure my son saw the Black Shuk.
Us, on my bike to preschool today:
My son: Dad, I just saw a big black dog!
Me: where? With an owner?
My son: no, on its own in the bushes!
Pretty sure my son saw the Black Shuk.
June 9, 2026 at 4:54 PM
Sometimes kids say things that really freak you out.
Us, on my bike to preschool today:
My son: Dad, I just saw a big black dog!
Me: where? With an owner?
My son: no, on its own in the bushes!
Pretty sure my son saw the Black Shuk.
Us, on my bike to preschool today:
My son: Dad, I just saw a big black dog!
Me: where? With an owner?
My son: no, on its own in the bushes!
Pretty sure my son saw the Black Shuk.
Oh boy here I go being obsessed with aircraft and flying again.
June 6, 2026 at 4:05 PM
Oh boy here I go being obsessed with aircraft and flying again.
Is it weird my preferred shoes for drumming are my running shoes?
June 5, 2026 at 9:48 AM
Is it weird my preferred shoes for drumming are my running shoes?
My API client project is being used to turn ~14k lines of custom boilerplate into 1.5k lines of fully typed clean API interface code ^___^
This is why I built Clientele! ⚜️
github.com/app-sre/qont...
This is why I built Clientele! ⚜️
github.com/app-sre/qont...
Replace openapi-python-client with clientele for qontract-api-client by chassing · Pull Request #5582 · app-sre/qontract-reconcile
ImportantRequires upstream PR: phalt/clientele#247
Summary
Replace openapi-python-client with clientele for generating qontract_api_client. The generated client is dramatically simpler: ~1,500 li...
github.com
June 4, 2026 at 1:15 PM
My API client project is being used to turn ~14k lines of custom boilerplate into 1.5k lines of fully typed clean API interface code ^___^
This is why I built Clientele! ⚜️
github.com/app-sre/qont...
This is why I built Clientele! ⚜️
github.com/app-sre/qont...
What ever happened to the whole Fully Automated Luxury Communism movement? Is this whole advent of LLMs the thing they need to like…fully automate everything?
June 3, 2026 at 5:05 PM
What ever happened to the whole Fully Automated Luxury Communism movement? Is this whole advent of LLMs the thing they need to like…fully automate everything?
Sometimes I feel like my job is to stop us writing code.
June 3, 2026 at 10:02 AM
Sometimes I feel like my job is to stop us writing code.
I think I could watch a typhoon jet every day for the rest of my life and not get bored.
May 31, 2026 at 3:13 PM
I think I could watch a typhoon jet every day for the rest of my life and not get bored.
The British love words like punnet don’t they.
May 28, 2026 at 12:40 PM
The British love words like punnet don’t they.
One of my favourite bands of all time is a band none of my friends have heard of. Maybeshewill. Imagine all your favourites bits of rock / post-hardcore / emo / metalcore combined with instrumental melodic bliss.
music.apple.com/gb/album/tak...
music.apple.com/gb/album/tak...
Take This to Heart (10th Anniversary Remaster) by Maybeshewill on Apple Music
Song · 2024 · Duration 4:09
music.apple.com
May 27, 2026 at 4:14 PM
One of my favourite bands of all time is a band none of my friends have heard of. Maybeshewill. Imagine all your favourites bits of rock / post-hardcore / emo / metalcore combined with instrumental melodic bliss.
music.apple.com/gb/album/tak...
music.apple.com/gb/album/tak...
As a drummer I hate this trend of throwing sticks around in between notes. I get it. It’s a drum corp thing. But it’s so crass and showy. I wanna hear you drum.
May 27, 2026 at 9:41 AM
As a drummer I hate this trend of throwing sticks around in between notes. I get it. It’s a drum corp thing. But it’s so crass and showy. I wanna hear you drum.
A 14c temperature drop feels dangerous to the weather system? Never experienced something like this.
May 27, 2026 at 6:32 AM
A 14c temperature drop feels dangerous to the weather system? Never experienced something like this.
I miss browsing new music on myspace
May 26, 2026 at 1:03 PM
I miss browsing new music on myspace
Oi British people: CLOSE YOUR WINDOWS AND CURTAINS. Fresh air is hot air.
May 26, 2026 at 8:26 AM
Oi British people: CLOSE YOUR WINDOWS AND CURTAINS. Fresh air is hot air.
If we asked AI to give people what they wanted, AI would have given them a faster horse.
May 26, 2026 at 6:06 AM
If we asked AI to give people what they wanted, AI would have given them a faster horse.