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Will McGugan
@willmcgugan
Digital Nomad. Hyperborean Python expert, PSF fellow, author, humanist, husband, sometimes wildlife photographer. He/him @[email protected]
Edinburgh, Scotland
willmcgugan.github.io
Joined April 2008
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    Will McGugan
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    Dec 18, 2025
    Alrighty. The Toad is out of the bag. 👜🐸 Install toad to work with a variety of #AI coding agents with one beautiful terminal interface. Check out the blog post for more information... willmcgugan.github.io/toad-released/ I've been told I'm very authentic on camera. You just can't fake
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    Will McGugan
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    Jul 22, 2025
    I'm writing up a blog post about Markdown streaming, because I think it is an interesting topic. I reckon there will be almost a dozen people who agree with me!
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    Will McGugan
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    Aug 3, 2022
    Hiring is difficult and so critical for a startup. If you had applied for job at Textualize would you consider this reasonable?
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    Will McGugan
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    Nov 8, 2025
    I consider myself a "just in time" developer. Like I have no idea how to work with sqlite databases in Python. At least not without an ORM. By the end of the day I will. Let me tell you the secret of how I do that... I read docs and play with code until it works. 🤫
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    Will McGugan
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    Jun 26, 2025
    Hey @googleaidevs @AnthropicAI I have spent the last 5+ years making things look awesome in the terminal. You could have access to all the expertise for the price of a sponsorship, and help fund open source. #worthashot github.com/sponsors/willm…
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    Will McGugan
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    Aug 6, 2021
    Replying to @simonw
    Absolutely. The thing about semver major version numbers are that they don't mean new stuff, they're a permanent reminder of how many times you got the API wrong. Semver doesn't mean MAJOR.MINOR.PATCH, it means FAILS.FEATURES.BUGS
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    Will McGugan
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    Mar 6, 2022
    My name is Will McGugan. 👋 I am the creator of Rich and Textual, and the founder and CEO of Textualize. At the end of last year I took a year off to work on my Open-source projects and develop an idea that I believe will allow the terminal to eat some of the browser’s lunch.
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    Will McGugan
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    Sep 25, 2025
    This may be the coolest thing I have ever built, or ever will build.
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    Will McGugan
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    Apr 9, 2022
    Do you know any micro-optimisations for #Python? Small changes to your code that make it run faster, even if just a little? Hit me. Even if it would earn you a 🤨🤯 in a code review. I’m interested.
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    Will McGugan
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    Apr 21, 2024
    Developers over 40. What advice would you give to developers just starting their career?
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    Will McGugan
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    Jul 23, 2025
    The Toad is out of the bag! 🛍🐸 Announcing Toad - a universal UI for agentic coding in the terminal willmcgugan.github.io/announcing-toa…
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    Will McGugan
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    May 31, 2025
    Since I'm no longer CEO of Textualize, I can get this off my chest. I fucking hate terminals.
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    Will McGugan
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    Dec 29, 2020
    A feature of #Rich that I use more than any other is "inspect". If (like me) you just haven't got time to read docs you might find this as useful as I do. rich.inspect(anything) uses #Python introspection to display a report on the object, with adjustable levels of detail.
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    Will McGugan
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    Nov 20, 2023
    Senior dev coming in at the end…
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    Michael Hoffmann
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    Nov 19, 2023
    Developer team fixing a production bug on Friday after the deployment 😉
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