Sander

I’ve found myself feeling unmoored by the current crop of FOSS contributions. I genuinely don’t know how to proceed.

@minister-president.bsky.social stay strong

Subcommands with lazy imports In case you didn't hear, PEP 810 got accepted which means Python 3.15 is going to support lazy imports! One of the selling points of lazy imports is with code that has a CLI so that you only import co...

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-...

got hit by a wave of slop prs last week so i guess it’s time to buckle down and spend my morning…

writing an ai policy

this looks-legitimate-but-trash slop reminds me of corporate phishing tests

NS besteedt ict deels uit aan Amerikaanse leverancier Strategische autonomie: Ondanks alle discussies over strategische autonomie kiest NS een Amerikaanse beheerder voor cruciale IT-diensten. „Als iedereen zo handelt als NS, bouwen we nooit eigen digital...

Is Trump straks onze treinconducteur?

Trumps techbros beheren onze banken, onze overheid, onze sociale media, en straks ook onze treinen. Ongelofelijk naïef.

We moeten naar een Europa dat draait op Europese tech. Volt roept de minister ter verantwoording.

www.nrc.nl/nieuws/2026/...

KEINE Männer im Frauensport!!!
(Das war doch seine Forderung, oder?)

A protest sign at a "No Kings" demonstration featuring an illustration of the Statue of Liberty from behind. She is being held by Donald Trump, whose arm is wrapped around her. On the back of the Statue of Liberty, the word "HELP" is written in bold, black capital letters. The sign is being held up by a person in a crowded street.

Favorit from No Kings
What a start of 2026...

Web engine CI on a Shoestring Budget YouTube video by Igalia

We have built a self-hosted runner system that does virtual machine orchestration under the hood, cutting our CI times by 50-90%, all for barely 400 EUR/month!

Delan Azabani explains it all in her talk: www.youtube.com/watch?v=-W1m...

Transcript and slides: www.azabani.com/2025/12/18/s...

How to Securely Store Secrets in Environment Variables You may have seen the recent reports of a malware that stole API keys, tokens and other secrets from a large number of developers. Where were these secrets stolen from? You guessed it, they were…

New blog post: How to Securely Store Secrets in Environment Variables blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/how-to-...

What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.

Stop de Amerikaanse overname DigiD! Onze privé-gegevens zijn bij overname door een Amerikaans bedrijf niet veilig! Dit lijkt ons niet de veilige manier nu president Trump in Amerika aan het roer staat. Dit kan misgaan! Als de Nederland...

Teken ook om te voorkomen dat DigId door een Amerikaans bedrijf gehost gaat worden.

actie.degoedezaak.org/petitions/st...

John Lennon would have been 85 today. Imagine all that could have been if his life wasn't cut so tragically short. Here’s a short piano tribute. Imagine is an uncomplicated song but as close to perfection as humanly possible (in my opinion). #music #musicians #JohnLennon

In de politiek kunnen we giga van mening verschillen, maar feiten moeten leidend zijn. Wanneer er voor de ander geen feiten bestaan, verliest de waarheid. Wanneer de waarheid verliest, verliest de democratie. Daarom trekken wij een een grens.

Over Volt en hun terechte weigering met complotdenkers en extreemrechtse influencers in debat te willen. Het normaliseren van extreemrechts is een groter kwaad dan het uitsluiten van leugenaars.

We're so relieved to see Germany reaffirm its opposition to the dangerous Chat Control proposal--the one that would mandate mass scanning of communications. Germany's long been a solid champion of privacy, and the news that it was considering backing mass surveillance was alarming. 1/

Textual - Testing Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.

We have a custom framework for testing. Very selenium like, but Textual specific I’m afraid.

textual.textualize.io/guide/testing/

WhatsApp-Konkurrent Signal droht mit Rückzug aus Europa Signal gilt als einer der sichersten Messenger. Die App könnte aber in Europa vom Markt verschwinden, falls sich die Chatkontrolle in der EU durchsetzt.

Messenger-App Signal: Meredith Whittaker kritisiert Pläne der EU zur #Chatkontrolle und droht, mit dem Messenger dann den europäischen Markt zu verlassen www.heise.de/news/Chefin-...

This is a masterpiece. Simply excellent
www.instagram.com/reel/DMVGMIC...

Screenshot of Toad, my agentic coding UI.

God I love the modernist design of this stuff so mouth. I don’t know if I could have it in my house but I could stare it for hours. So so thoughtful

It’s good we have data protection laws in Europe.

I am old enough to remember Americans were claiming that these laws would ‘hold us back’.

The truth here is so ever relevant, is so simple and profound. I think I might pop it into my next book. Sharing yet again:

LookupError | Python’s Built-in Exceptions – Real Python Serves as the base class for exceptions raised when a key or index used on a mapping or sequence is invalid.

🐍 Python Term of the Day: LookupError (Python’s Built-in Exceptions)

Serves as the base class for exceptions raised when a key or index used on a mapping or sequence is invalid.

realpython.com/ref/builtin-...

Python: The Documentary [OFFICIAL TRAILER] YouTube video by CultRepo (formerly Honeypot)

We’re excited to officially announce the premiere of the FULL Python documentary! 🐍

🗓️ August 28th
🕖 7PM CET | 12PM CST

Subscribe on YouTube, set your reminder, & tell anyone who will listen! 📢 🙏

youtu.be/pqBqdNIPrbo?...

🕸️ Hundreds of lives saved. Millions in damage prevented. Don’t let us hit the brakes.

In recent months, we’ve been sending dozens of truckloads each month filled with discarded flower bulb and fishing nets to the front lines in Ukraine. (1/6)

Will's post also shows a great use case for Python's structural pattern matching.

If the user can specify padding in many different formats, using `match` can validate the format during runtime and easily homogenise the structure.

What do you think of this alternative?

(Python 3.10+ only)

My laptop will not grok any llm. It's just too old. But I got a subscription to mistral. So will try devstral combined with aider. Thanks!