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COBOL 🤔
The sun rising over the London skyline this morning, only it’s a very cloudy sky and the sun is visible only as an orange streak of fire that coincidentally seems to be emanating from the spire on the top of St Paul’s dome
Rare footage of St Paul’s Cathedral testing its giant flamethrower
... he believes it was that which really allowed it to gain momentum.
youtu.be/GXJwX3tpMe0?...
Fifteen years later Flask still has great documentation and, fortunately, others in the open source world have taken it as an inspiration. 2/2
It was intended as an April Fools Joke but it rapidly became the second most used web framework in the #Python world.
What made this "joke" a crazy success story ? The author of #Flask, Armin Ronacher, was struck by how early adopters loved the documentation and other support material .... 1/n
The Department that was never a Department is no longer ... whatever it was.
Presumably all the money has been saved?
www.abc.net.au/news/2025-11...
Ha, that's a really funny one 😆 ... but it's not 1st April 🤔 ?
Yes, but AI ! 🤗
“You said something very true the other day: that for us, nudity begins with the face.”
― Simone de Beauvoir, The Mandarins
#BookSky
#Painting René Magritte (1937), La reproduction interdite (Not to be reproduced), Oil on canvas, and nowhere else.
I know that once you see one yellow car that you seem to keep seeing them, but there does seem to be a (worrying) trend here.
The bird takes its revenge on the kings in The Thieving Magpie (1964), dir. Emanuele Luzzati and Giulio Gianini
Federico Fellini loved this film: "it makes me furious that I don't know how to draw so I could resolve my films in the same way"
Fancy a@laugh ?
Try the e-mail.wtf quiz about what is, and is not, valid in an email address.
Did you know that you can have comments in an email address? No, nor did I 😆.
I'm inclined towards thinking that if Putin had anything useful on Trump I don't think we'd have got this far.
I'm inclined towards it being Trump's tendency to agree with whoever he last spoke to, particularly if that person is a daddy figure. Of course, his age may be a contributory factory.
#Photography Pierre Jamet (1933), France.
Lightbulb image is courtesy of Flickr user "uberof202 ff" under CC BY-SA 2.0
... the keyboard shortcuts even for the odd times I do make use of the REPL. I discovered both of these new features in blog posts by Trey Hunner, thanks Trey. treyhunner.com/2024/10/addi... - treyhunner.com/2025/09/cust... .
A comic book light bulb against a blue background.
Did you know that as of #Python 3.13 you can add custom keyboard shortcuts to the REPL, or that if you don't like the new, in 3.14, syntax highlighting in the REPL you can cook up your own ? No? me neither.
I don't spend a lot of time in the REPL but I can easily see how I would use the .... 1/n
The image used here is courtesy of : W.carter, CC BY-SA 4.0 <https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-sa/4.0>, via Wikimedia Commo
A number of wooden reels holding thread of different colours.
If you're interested in trying the free-threading capabilities of the newly released #Python 3.14 you will have to compile it with the necessary --disable-gil flag.
If that sounds daunting (it's not at all really) you may find my latest blog post useful mainlydata.kubadev.com/python/tryin... .
Sprinter image : Attribution: Bundesarchiv, Bild 183-1987-0824-312 / CC-BY-SA 3.0
....the continuing performance improvements regardless of the free-threading, is what's going to impact most people in the short term. Miguel Grinberg has crunched the numbers blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/python-... .
Three sprinters are seen in a photo-finish image.
Recent #Python releases have seen significant performance increases, this week's 3.14 release continues the trend.
Although most commentary on the 3.14 release has been around the (opt-in) introduction of free-threading (allowing multiple threads to run simultaneously on multiple cores), ... 1/2
I realise it's probably not a clear cut thing but is this more like two concentric circles or two disks sitting one above the other?
Either way I wonder what sort of thing goes on in the boundary between the two areas
Some good news today: Researchers using remotely operated submarines keep discovering new fish species, hundreds so far. This one is the bumpy snailfish
"Python: The Documentary" - released today, a documentary telling the story of #Python. A story arc that spans Guido van Rossum in 1991, setting out to solve a very specific problem he had, to today's language that is used everywhere and for almost everything. www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4...
For some reason that link is coming up 404 but this appears to the equivalent simonwillison.net/2025/May/25/... .
Hey Fabio, thanks for the very comprehensive reply ! I've been pressed for time today, but I will have a proper look tomorrow.
