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Topics covered in this episode: Better Python tests with inline-snapshot jolt Battery intelligence for your laptop Markdown code formatting with ruff act - run your GitHub actions locally Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the ...
While common people suffer from insecure systems (data theft, identity and financial fraud, blackmail...), governments love to be able to stick their nose wherever they want, whenever they want, something
If I can make it smaller, I should. If I can make it dumber, I should. Smaller, dumber things have more applications, go more places, and require less maintenance.
Another part of the process of switching from marked.js and python-markdown to just using mistletoe.
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 code ...
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/537
If you're not sure about the ins and outs of passkeys, here's a little primer.
Recently, I got nerd-sniped by this exchange between Jeff Dean and someone trying to query 3 billion vectors. I was curious to see if I could implement the optimal map-reduce solution he alludes to in his reply. A vector is ...
Steve Ruiz joins us for a deep-dive on tldraw (a very good free whiteboard) and the business he's built selling SDKs that help others build very good whiteboards (and more) with tldraw's high-performance web canvas. Along the way, we discuss ...
If you use a Mac, you’ve probably noticed that the menu bar fills up with icons pretty quickly. Bartender and Ice (sadly, now an unfortunate name) are apps that let you manage and hide unwanted icons from your macOS menu ...
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Today I learned about displayplacer - “macOS command line utility to configure multi-display resolutions and arrangements.” In December, I upgraded to MacOS Tahoe and picked up the TS4 dock for my work machine. While my upgrade was painless, the biggest ...
A lot of reasonable people may perceive my enthusiasm for Rust as misguided fanaticism, but it isn't. It's cold pragmatism. Sherlock Holmes liked to say "When you have eliminated the
Delve into game deals from your terminal.
You are of course aware that attention spans are shrinking. YouTube -> Shorts, Instagram Reels, Tiktoks, etc have taken over the world.
Peter Steinberger joins OpenAI, ZeroClaw is "claw done right", MimiClaw runs on a $5 chip, Steve Yegge on managing the AI Vampire, and the day the telnet died.
I’m going to keep writing half baked things about AI, because it’s what I’m spending a noticeable number of hours thinking about these days, and because I don’t think it’s possible to be fully baked on the topic. Apologies in ...
How much time (and how many times) did you use your phone this weekend? What about at this restaurant? While waiting for red lights? In bed, before sleeping and just
I'm joining OpenAI to work on bringing agents to everyone. OpenClaw will move to a foundation and stay open and independent.
Claude Code's plan mode is a great starting point for thinking before coding. But for complex work, I needed more than a mode. I needed a system. Here's what I built.
Our ol' friend, Brett Cannon, is back to talk all things Python. But first! Star Wars, Machete Order, Lost, Babylon 5, Game of Thrones, Murderbot, Ted Lasso, Project Hail Mary, David Attenborough, perpetual voice rights, and the AI uncanny valley.
“In reality, for any decently sized JS-heavy project, you should expect that what you build will be slower than advertised, it will keep getting slower over time while it sees ongoing work, and it will take more effort to develop ...
In my monthly email newsletter I share cool things I came across on the internet, which so far has included the following blog posts!
Paul Dix joins us to discuss the InfluxDB co-founder's journey adapting to an agentic world. Paul sent his AI coding agents on various real-world side quests and shares all his findings: what's going to prod, what's not, and why he's ...
While a lot of time is spent on design patterns and low-level tricks such as SIMD accelerations, I'm suprised that very few resources are available to actually deploy Rust software
I am quite content to be alone except on a mild evening at twilight. During the quick hours of the day I am busy. Busy with things I enjoy doing,...
A local area network (LAN) discovery tool with a modern TUI interface.
If you maintain Open Source software, you will likely have encountered AI slop PRs.
See the full show notes for this episode on the website at talkpython.fm/536
Mitchell Hashimoto's trust management system for open source, Nicholas Carlini has a team of Claudes build a C compiler, Stephan Schwab recounts the history of attempted developer replacement, NanClaw is an alternative to OpenClaw, and Sophie Koonin can't wrap her ...
When I joined Etsy the team was two years into a rewrite chasing a more elegant architecture (actually two distinct incompatible elegant architectures), and hadn’t shipped a customer facing feature in that time. I like to say (and it may ...
Topics covered in this episode: Command Book App uvx.sh: Install Python tools without uv or Python Ending 15 years of subprocess polling monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI Extras Joke See the full ...
A couple of weeks back, I’m sitting at my desk when a direct message from my frontend friend Kevin Powell pops up. Kevin’s a genuinely kind guy. He makes CSS videos on YouTube and he’s got this way of explaining ...
Diesel, a database ORM in Rust, provides compile-time type checks for its database operations, seamlessly integrating with blazingly fast, robust API applications built with Axum. As always, when working with a new technology, some of the details are difficult to ...
Amal Hussein returns to tell us all about her new role at Istari, what life is like outside the web browser, how she's helping ambitious orgs in aerospace, what the SDLC looks like in 2026, and a whole lot more. ...
“And he will never never never never never never never get to meet you And I got to meet you Yeah, I got to meet you. —Mikey Mike” I write...
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