BC is getting rid of changing the time after spring forward March 6! Pacific Time FTW!
BC got tired of waiting for the west coast of the US to get their act together to change simultaneously.
www.cbc.ca/news/canada/...
Wrote a blog post to give a status update on WASI support for CPython as PEP 816 got accepted!
snarky.ca/state-of-was...
Navy background, pink headline "New ways to support Gleam!"; below the headline there's a graphic that shows screen of the "Sponsor" page from gleam.run and its text: "Sponsorship and donations. Support Gleam's development by sponsoring us! he Gleam project" and the description as well as 3 pink buttons: Github Sponsors, Bank Transfer, Liberapay.
Thanks to one of the discussions at the #GleamGathering, we decided to add more options to support Gleam development financially: now you can do it via direct bank transfer ⭐
All the details: gleam.run/sponsor
I've been working on something very cool for the past few months and today, it's finally yours!
The *official* @fastapi.tiangolo.com extension for VS Code has launched! 🎉
Install: marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemNa...
GitHub: github.com/fastapi/fast...
The raise of AI coding tools isn't a surprise because they have the potential to eliminate one of the largest software development productivity killers: searching for usage examples.
1. The New York Times, unsurprisingly, has released yet another hit piece on transgender people.
This time, it comes from Jesse Singal.
I fact check it in my latest piece.
End your NYT subscription, and put it towards people doing good work on the issue.
Subscribe to support our journalism.
Maybe you all can use Gleam or something to improve the morale 😉
I've started to play with lazy imports thanks to my WASI build script being in CPython's repo, and so I wrote a post about how to adapt your code for running subcommands with argparse to play nicely with lazy imports.
snarky.ca/subcommands-...
Dennis nedry jurrasic park "see nobody cares" meme reads Hey everybody, this guy still posts on X! See? Everyone is horrified and disappointed. They feel it speaks directly to your values.
Please welcome the newest member to the CPython core team, Itamar Oren!
discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-pr...
hugovk.github.io/python-core-...
#Python #CPython #CoreTeam
Stoked to share that the Steering Council has accepted PEP 814. frozendict is coming to Python 3.15!
discuss.python.org/t/pep-814-ad...
So this is dystopian as hell and I can't believe this is real...
AI agents are now writing takedown blog posts to shame maintainers for not accepting agent-generated PRs.
github.com/matplotlib/m...
Nope. Other stuff keeps bubbling up above it and the feedback have traditionally gotten has not been majority positive, so it hasn't motivated me to up its priority.
Do you like Typer? ⌨️
Fill the Typer developer survey and help us define its future ✨
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I'm just glad it paid off!
Presenter at front of lecture hall demonstrating an open source docs interface projected on a large screen while audience members take notes and photos.
Why the French govt digital services chose #Python and #Django: “the boring stack can be upgraded easily and will still work in 20 years” -- Manuel Raynaud showcases LaSuite #FOSDEM. Open source digital collaboration apps, built as an alternative to Microsoft Teams / Office
Python Tip #33 (of 365):
Don't sleep on Python's keyword arguments / named arguments. 🧵
When you have the choice between a positional argument or a keyword argument, choose a keyword argument if it clarifies the argument's purpose.
#Python #DailyPythonTip
We need your help to advance the Python ecosystem on Windows on Arm!
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Message or email me if you'd like to receive a free ebook review copy of my workbook of Python practice questions. al@inventwithpython.com (No time pressure on this, but I just need to get more reviews for it on Amazon now that it's out. If you're a fan of my books, these reviews really help me out)
One way to support Signal monthly is to pay for the backup service.
apply.careers.microsoft.com/careers/job/... if you want to join me and the Python team from Vancouver, Canada
Ah
Screenshot: serialephemera Thematically speaking, the most important thing Terry Pratchett taught me was the concept of militant decency. The idea that you can look at the world and its flaws and its injustices and its cruelties and get deeply, intensely angry, and that you can turn that into energy for doing the right thing and making the world a better place. He taught me that the anger itself is not the part! should be fighting. Nobody in my life ever said that before.
This is a good lesson, no matter how you come to learn it
Ah finally, critique of agentic coding (Gas Town, etc) from the pro-LLM side.
I respect these sort of opinions more than I do the "it's new and I don't like it" critiques
lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/1/18/ag...
Hey if you’re looking to try/retry/find a home on the ActivityPub/mastodon shaped part of the fediverse, I will personally help you get set up, move followers, block assholes, etc
I have no interest in debating the merit of bsky-v-mastodon, purely offering help.
Reskeets welcome ✨
The section on performance measurements and finding bottlenecks has been significantly expanded to include cProfile/profiling.tracing, tprof, and profiling.sampling/Tachyon: www.python4data.science/en/latest/pe...
#Python #Performance
The EU Commission is currently gathering feedback from open source communities in order to tailor its open source funding accordingly. Wouldn’t that also be something for @python.org?
ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...
ec.europa.eu/info/law/bet...
#EU #OpenSource #Python #DigitalSovereignty
I'm going to do a Canadian thing and ask in what country did this take place?
Didn't @savannah.dev warn you about Bell?
