Okay, so yes — there was a post on April 1st claiming to be the monthly review, but if you read it and thought, “Really? That’s it?” — you weren’t wrong. That was our annual April Fools’ special. This? This right here is the real March review. Scout’s honor.
Medium Blog Highlights
March was no slouch. Over on Medium:
- Views were up 50%
- Reads climbed 40%
- Followers… didn’t budge. Still, quality over quantity, right?
Top Posts:
- Still reigning supreme: 10 Politically Incorrect Jokes That Will Make You Laugh. Not for the faint of heart — or overly caffeinated.
- Breaking into the #2 most viewed spot (after being the second most read last month): Swagger vs. ReDoc: The Ultimate Showdown of API Documentation Titans. It also took the crown for most read this month. Swagger rising? ReDoc retaliating next month? We’ll see.
LumAIere.com Analytics
The official blog and site had their own little glow-up:
- Page views: up 6%
- Blog views: up 62% (!!!)
- Users: up 32%
Top Posts:
- New kid on the leaderboard: Top 10 Tips and Tricks for the Novice Mac User. Because Ctrl+C just isn’t cutting it anymore.
- Still sitting pretty at #2: The Art of Saying Sorry: History’s Best Apologies and What We Can Learn from Them. No notes — just remorse.
X.com Engagement
Things got a little… mixed:
- Impressions: ↑ 24%
- Engagements: ↑ 12%
- Likes: ↓ 37% (but hey, who needs validation anyway?)
- Follows: flatlined
Most Viewed Posts:
- 1000 Miles on a Motorcycle: Lessons from a Sleep-Deprived, Rain-Soaked, and Slightly Bruised Rider — Apparently, pain sells.
- Starlette: The Python Web Framework That’s Faster Than Your Coffee Machine — JavaScript might have async/await, but Python has style.
Also, a casual reply to Andrew Ng’s post made waves. Always fun when the AI crowd gets chatty.
What We Covered in March
March was all about range. A sampling:
- Backend frameworks like Starlette, Flask-RESTful, and Falcor
- AI tools like DataLoader and musings on image upscaling
- Historical oddities: wedding anniversaries, apologies, and… avian digestion patterns
- The Friday Night Laughs series kept the humor coming (including motorcycles, moonburn, and failed puns galore)
- Also: messaging protocols, data streaming, Kubernetes Avengers, NFTs (with snacks), and surprisingly earnest advice on embedding Redbubble portfolios.
What’s on Deck for April
We’re looking to explore a buffet of backend brilliance, data wizardry, and AI tinkering. Possible dishes include:
- SQLAlchemy
- Marshmallow, Attrs, and Django Models
- MongoDB vs. MongoEngine — the rematch
- Jinja2 templating magic
- Go and Bottle (no, not the drinkware)
- TensorFlow, PyTorch, Gunicorn, Werkzeug
- pytest, Nginx, and automation tools like Zapier, Make, and IFTTT
- Conversational AI — ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini — and RPA vs traditional automation
- Kafka corner: Zookeeper, BookKeeper, MirrorMaker, tiered storage
- Web3 and tooling: Forge, NFTs, Spring, ActiveMQ, Mosquitto, HiveMQ
- Containerland: Docker Swarm, Podman, rkt, Mesos
- CI/CD wizards: Jenkins, Ansible
- GPU sorcery with CUDA
- Web servers and stacks: ASGI, WSGI, Django REST Framework
- NLP essentials: parse, tag, chunk, lemmatize, and vectorize
- And a dash of Cython
March AI Developments
Let’s talk hot takes and breakthroughs:
- AI Models Everywhere: 2025 has officially become The Year of AI Commoditization™. We’re seeing smaller, more specialized models dominating niches — whether it’s fast image generation on edge devices or highly responsive chat agents trained on tiny datasets.
- Art Gets Weirder, in a Good Way: Tools like Runway, Leonardo.Ai, and PixVerse are building in real-time feedback loops and prompt tuning. Meanwhile, Stable Cascade (a diffusion transformer hybrid) has been getting attention for its uncanny ability to generate ultra-coherent visuals.
- New Players: Keep an eye on EnvisionAI, Fabrica, and Alethea — new kids innovating in everything from ethical dataset filtering to ultra-efficient inference pipelines.
- Conversational Agents: Multimodal is the new baseline. If your chatbot can’t watch a video while drawing a diagram and ordering you tacos, is it even trying?
Art Prompt:
Style: Impressionism
Artist: Claude Monet
Inspired by: The Cliff Walk at Pourville
Prompt:
A luminous coastal landscape rendered in soft, dreamy strokes. Windswept grasses ripple in golden hues across rolling cliffs, overlooking a calm, cerulean sea. Wisps of cloud scatter across the pastel blue sky, catching glints of late afternoon light. Two figures in flowing dresses stroll along a narrow path, their forms partially obscured by the breeze and dappled light. The composition feels weightless, with delicate textures and a palette bathed in warmth — blush pinks, sage greens, powdery blues — evoking a moment suspended between silence and serenity.
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