I said digital attestations and `pylock.toml` would have helped with the litellm attack. People asked for more details, so I wrote a blog post explaining why it would have helped. snarky.ca/why-pylock-t...

Guido van Rossum has decided to start a new project: interviewing "key Python developers from the first 25 years". Here is the one he did with @snarky.ca, posted early this month (h/t @pycoders.com's latest newsletter). #Python [1/2] gvanrossum.github.io/interviews/B...

It makes me pretty sad tbh. I see my friends burning out from having to triage all this trash. I see repos that I used to work on where all human comments on PR reviews are LLM generated. I get folks are using AI but can we not converge toward being 12 LLMs in a trenchcoat maintaining a project?

If you’re looking for a nice, modern, featureful #Python package and environment manager, may I suggest PDM? And maybe also toss some funding their way. pdm-project.org

Also, I am still looking for resources on this if you know of any (tl:dr company threatening me with debt collection over an account they admit is not mine). infosec.exchange/@ubernostrum...

Because dataclasses have to look at type annotations for e.g. `KW_ONLY`, they will cause lazy imports of type hints to reify. One perk to my record idea is that wouldn't be an issue (snarky.ca/my-proof-of-...). /cc @bitecode.dev

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...

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.

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-...

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...

Do you like Typer? ⌨️ Fill the Typer developer survey and help us define its future ✨ forms.gle/uT8SYQRoxuPz...

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! Feel free to drop me a message if you want to know more.

Message or email me if you'd like to receive a free ebook review copy of my workbook of Python practice questions. [email protected] (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

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

Thank an open source maintainer today. (Or a blogger you like :D)

Hey everyone, We literally just added 100 more trans girl scouts to the trans girl scout cookie list. The list is bigger than it has ever been in EITM history. Go get some cookies and make a trans scout's day!

I have a theory that those of us who were raised on IRC or AIM are absolutely insufferable in Slack to those who were not, because instead of writing a three-paragraph thing, we'll break that up into 15 comments.

LLMs and other tools are great, use them wisely 🧙 fastapi.tiangolo.com/contributing...

Wrote a short post about what getting elected to the Steering Council means to me. Baby Savannah could never believe it! I love Python! Python is forever <3! savannah.dev/posts/im-on-...

so pumped for the ty beta to finally be here, we did so much great work it rules! astral.sh/blog/ty

Just released! 🚀 🐍 Python 3.15a3! discuss.python.org/t/python-3-1... 🔬 A new high-frequency statistical sampling profiler 💬 Python now uses UTF-8 as the default encoding ⚠️ Better error messages 🎨 Colour code snippets in argparse help: bsky.app/profile/sava... #Python #Python315 #CPython #release

I’m incredibly excited to serve on this coming term’s Steering Council! Working on CPython has been one of the most rewarding endeavours of my career. I’m so grateful to everyone who voted & honoured that so many placed their trust in me. peps.python.org/pep-8107/

Wow, Nushell has progressed a ton since the last time I checked it out! www.nushell.sh It's fast, the syntax is nice, the data types are well balanced, that's a nice shell. Apparently, it runs on the locked-down laptop of my current employer at a decent speed, and integrates with vscode and conda

What coding with an LLM feels like sometimes.

🧵 THANK YOU!! WOW! We hit our initial fundraising goal of $314,159.26 🌠 We're bursting with joy and hope- & we're not done yet! Thanks to you, we’re rolling out two new goals: 400k (stretch) 512k (super stretchy!) Can you help us hit our super stretchy goal? Read on ⬇️ #PythonForEveryone

i did not know this was a thing but it is, browsers can now handle sanitizing HTML without a library 🤯 keith.is/post/html-sa...

If you want to know what social programs the government should make available for free to all citizens, all you have to do is look at what rich parents do for their kids.

Remember when the internet wasn't awful? We can go back to that. Some friends and I have released the Resonant Computing Manifesto: a call to bring back such a time, to see if we can bring back a world where technology works for us, rather than against us. resonantcomputing.org

📢 We are thrilled to present one of the panels at #PyLadiesCon.🐍🎉 Don't miss this opportunity to learn from the best and connect with the #Python community.🐍 🗣️ Language: English Register for PyLadiesCon now:👇 2025.conference.pyladies.com/en/ #PyLadies #PSF

A great mini doc from Cult Repo about @fastapi.tiangolo.com and the one and only @tiangolo.com! Always awesome to hear Sebastián talk about how important developer experience is to FastAPI!

While I am not surprised that @savannah.dev and @jakebailey.dev are #1 and #3 for interactions here and I say "Python" the most according to anisota.net/harvest/snar... , I am surprised that "Vancouver" didn't make the word cloud for me based on my #1 and #3 people I interact with 😁

I will fully admit that cloud deployments were a design consideration for pylock.toml, so I'm beyond happy to see @tiangolo.com and team at @fastapi.tiangolo.com use it for one of its intended use cases!

There's a video course that follows the "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" book on Udemy. Here's a free sign up code for lifetime access: inventwithpython.com/automateudemy

Got 4 things in print and the discount wiped out most of the shipping costs to Canada, so worth it if you have been waiting to splurge a bit like I have. 😅