# takeout (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover takeout. Page: Feed: --- ## [Reading the 2025 Hugo Finalists](https://www.chris-wells.net/articles/2025/04/18/reading-2025-hugo-finalists) _2025-04-18 · Christopher Charbonneau Wells · Christopher C. Wells_ Having finished reading through the past 71 years of Hugo award winners and with the 2025 Hugo Award finalists announced, I'm planning to spend the next few months reading some of the 2025 finalists I won't be writing "reviews" of the novels by any means. I will simply be capturing my opinions about each one so I can think about them as a whole during voting. I hope to keep this up year-to-year as… ## [Reading 71 Years of Hugo Award Winners](https://www.chris-wells.net/articles/2025/04/17/71-years-hugo) _2025-04-18 · Christopher Charbonneau Wells · Christopher C. Wells_ Sometime back in May 2019 I started reading award winners of the Hugo award for best novel in chronological order starting with the first novel awarded (from 1953). I regret not taking more time to document the process. I don't even recall how I decided to follow the list. I just needed something to help me to decide what to read at all. May 2019 is my best estimate based on exchange I had with my… ## [Pipenv to UV](https://www.chris-wells.net/articles/2025/04/12/pipenv-to-uv) _2025-04-12 · Christopher Charbonneau Wells · Christopher C. Wells_ I have been (mostly) happily using Pipenv for many years now on all of my Python projects. Recently, I heard about UV so I'm giving it a try with the very small set of Python dependencies used for this blog.