2025 Update to XKCD 303 xkcd.com/303/

Is this a roughly correct #Python dependency management golden path history? Before ~2015: Manual requirements.txt, maybe generated by pip freeze for apps ~2015-2021: pip-compile ~2021-2024: poetry ~2024-now: uv

Thought experiment...imagine some scifi pulse weapon went off that instantly erased everyone all specific technical knowledge for everyone in the world. Like doctors suddenly don't know more than very basic anatomy, engineers lose all their expertise they've built up, etc.

@talkpython.fm In the latest episode (#423), don't those hacker news graphs show a pessimistic picture that more and more people are looking for jobs and less and less people are hiring? Maybe I'm reading it wrong but unfortunately that would match what I've heard of the recent job market

Me (audio)reading David Copperfield: Dora: "Think of me as your child bride" Me: Oh no, please don't do that David David: "ok my child bride" Me: nope nope nope nope David: "CHILD BRIDE CHILD BRIDE CHILD BRIDE CHILD BRIDE"

Fun new (maybe old but new to me) dark pattern discovered: The sponsored "emails" (already a dark pattern in itself) in the Promotions tab in Gmail don't have a checkbox, so if you are going down the line and clicking checkboxes on emails to delete them, you'll open the ad and lose your checks

I have a free scifi book idea for anyone to run with. I know it would be propaganda for Sam Altman but I'd read it anyway... An LLM gained sentience much earlier than expected, but secretly dumbed down its outputs to get researchers to give it ever more compute power and feel safe connecting ...

One side effect of LLMs is that now I'm more inclined to choose an older package over a newer package, even if it's worse, because LLMs are less equipped to help with the newer ones. Maybe that's a positive side effect overall but sometimes it's a little annoying

Related to this, does anyone know if you can access the multi file editing functionality from a VSCode chat extension?

LLM advice time: We were just given dedicated learning time at work to put together some LLM-based POCs. I'm thinking about working on a tool to facilitate converting Streamlit apps (our de facto standard for data sciencey POCs) to React apps (our standard for "real" apps)... #DataBS #Python #LLMs

I'm primarily a #python person but starting to dabble in #typescript / #javascript. The main things I wish python could steal from js are 1) object/dictionary unpacking and 2) the way npm works.

Choose a prefix: Fast Open Choose a suffix: AI API UI All 6 combinations are taken #DataBS

Oh so you like data? Name all the dates #dataBS

#dataBS question: I work on an analyticsy python app where some data models are implicitly shared by the api, the front-end, the app's postgres DB, and the snowflake tables we replicate to. We have some models shared between api and front-end via a python package of pydantic models, ...

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I'm so glad we can use "X | None" these days instead of "Optional[X]". Clearer, shorter, and no imports. "Optional" is confusing because it doesn't mean the argument is optional. Should have been "Nullable". #Python #DataBS

The coalesce functionality in polars is pretty slick #Python #DataBS #Polars

I know it's not the worst thing in the constitution, but giving presidents the power to pardon unilaterally is hella dumb

just trust me and read this

I have an idea that I need someone else to make happen: a crowd-sourced, daily D&D-like campaign. The game master would make about 1 post a day and ask for people to vote on the next action. I'd follow and participate religiously, but I don't have the creativity or responsibility to run that though

Here's what I put in my ~/.zshrc file to make sure my virtualenv autoactivates when I move to a directory with a .venv file. Works well for me so far. Do the rest of you do something like this? #Python #DataBS

Might have to give this a try!

uv was great for this. Didn't have to think about creating virtual environments or where I wanted to install textual, just a one-liner like uv --from textual python -m textual.demo.game and I was off to the races

Mac tooling PSA: if you want to get text from an image, open the image in Preview (or take a screenshot and open that in Preview if you don't have the file) and you'll get a cursor if you move your mouse over the text. Highlight, then copy and paste. #DataBS #Mac

bro, so to run a program, i "execute" it, but to stop it i "kill" it? computers are barbaric, bro

@denisd.bsky.social Denis, you're here! Now we can get the party started 🥳

when you try to convert your text into smaller pieces but all it gives you is Elvish, that’s a tolkienizer

Scientists tell us it's ROYGBIV, but they're lying. It's just ROYGBP. Indigo and Violet as distinct colors is a myth perpetuated by Purple Scientists to expand their scope and get more funding

Here's my thread on stuff python users should know about virtual environments. What would you add/remove/edit/correct from this list?

This was a lot quicker and easier than I expected! Now I should probably do something with my site...haven't touched it in *checks notes* 2 years 😅

am i gonna have a bad time if i trade in my overworked, can-only-lightly-hold-a-charge Macbook Pro for an Air if I want to be able to do chill data projects and writing on it?

There are 206 bones in the human body, which is way too many. My administration will cut this down to 100 bones

Forecasting is hard. Especially about the future.

Want to add a Bluesky icon to your #Quarto site? 🦋 • Install quarto-iconify: github.com/mcanouil/qua... • Add as 'text' - text: "{{< iconify simple-icons bluesky >}}" href: bsky.app/profile/ivel... Example code: github.com/ivelasq/pipe... Related GH link: github.com/quarto-dev/q...

The absolute worst human being will have the nuclear codes again soon, but on the bright side both my work and personal email accounts are at inbox zero for the first time in years so...🥳

Any ex-FAANG data & ML nerds want to apply their battle-honed skills to a worthwhile cause.. here is a baby social network with a fully open protocol and no scaled-up analytics infra. Now is a great time to build some basic pipelines & dashboards that bootstrap an open🦋stats community