My dad's research is using diffusion models as fast surrogates for slow, stochastic agent‑based biology simulations. https://arxiv.org/pdf/2505.09630 Always interesting to learn different uses of generative AI model architectures.

Watched "The Little Prince" from 2015 tonight. The stop motion in it is absolutely beautiful. (The CG meta-story is also well done, but the stopmotion segments of the original Little Prince story are breathtaking). www.youtube.com/watch?v=fEPq...

For holiday lunch tomorrow, we're attempting a rib roast and latkes. We have no particular traditional meals in our family, so we're trying on new traditions. I've never cooked either of those, so tips are welcome!

Where are folks donating this year? I'm interested in LGBTQ rights, children's health, female reproductive freedom, world peace, local bay area initiatives, etc.

Today's Python + MCP live stream was all about auth! Covered: * API key access * MCP Auth: OAuth 2.1 + PRM + ASMD + CIMD/DCR * OAuth full flow with Keycloak + FastMCP * OAuth proxy flow with Entra ID + FastMCP Recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Red... Slides: aka.ms/pythonmcp/sl...

There's still time to propose a talk for #PyConUS 2026 before the CFP closes tomorrow. If you're part of the Python community and the topic interests you you're probably not alone. It doesn't need to be about Python specifically, just of interest to the community. us.pycon.org/2026/speakin...

🔴 Streaming in 15 mins: Authentication for Python MCP servers (featuring demos of FastMCP + Keycloak or Entra) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_Red...

My stream today was all about deploying FastMCP servers! We discussed: * Starlette → uvicorn → Dockerfile * IaC → Azure Container Apps * Observability with OpenTelemetry, App Insights, Logfire * Private networking Vid: www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL3W... Slides: aka.ms/pythonmcp/sl...

🔴 Streaming in 30 min: Deploying Python MCP servers to the cloud (using Docker, uvicorn, and Azure Container Apps, plus OpenTelemetry for observability) www.youtube.com/watch?v=gL3W...

Today's session on building MCP servers with FastMCP was very fun! YouTube recording: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mUu... Slides: aka.ms/pythonmcp/sl... Code: github.com/Azure-Sample... Join tomorrow for deploying, observability, and private networking: developer.microsoft.com/reactor/even...

🔴 Streaming in 10 mins: Building MCP servers with Python and FastMCP (Part 1 of our 3-part series) www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mUu...

They just announced an MCP Dev Summit is happening this April in NYC! CFP is open now til Jan 22. events.linuxfoundation.org/mcp-dev-summ...

Finally got to build a FastMCP server with Entra authentication, in prep for a livestream next week. FastMCP orchestrates the OAuth proxy pattern (since Entra lacks DCR), and client info is stored in memory for local or Cosmos DB in prod. See code in this PR: github.com/Azure-Sample...

I also got mastitis at my first conference away from my baby. It was so painful that I avoided hugging my colleagues, and then ran back to the hotel to pump and relieve the pain. Make it easier for nursing moms: set aside a nursing room with great setup and supplies!

I'm headed to MCP night @ the Regency Ballroom this week and it has a look book! I don't think I ever attended an event with a look book. workos.com/mcp-night/lo... The proper response is to code an MCP server that can search pics from my closet and suggest the best outfit, right??

My PyLadiesCon talk is now on YouTube! "Red-teaming for LLM-powered apps" www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ySy... Slides: aka.ms/pyladies-red... Notebook: aka.ms/pyladies-red...

My PyLadiesCon talk about red-teaming is streaming now: www.youtube.com/watch?v=_ySy...

PyLadiesCon starts tomorrow! All sessions are online, a mix of pre-recorded talks and workshops. Registration is free: pretix.eu/pyladiescon/... Join my session at 10:50AM about "Red-teaming for LLM-powered apps" and check out the talks from the MSFT databases team on DocumentDB and PostgreSQL.

I'm learning about ColBERT, an alternative document retrieval algorithm with per-word embeddings. Great walk-through post: isaacflath.com/blog/2025-12... High-level explainer: ben.clavie.eu/ragatouille/ RAGatouille, a repo that implements it fully: github.com/AnswerDotAI/...

I've categorized everything I want to plug in to my office wall outlet: a mix of USB-A, USB-C, micro-USB, and 2-prong plugs. Next step: find a power strip with this distribution. Or just adapter party as usual.

my youtube 2025 recap playlist: https://music.youtube.com/playlist?list=LRYRUFgC89zTTmQVZ7DT1Um4HhpQ8WDL8U-Ei&si=Twq9Qmo0Wk0jlZuJ (i think its like wrapped? enjoy my jams!)

Oo, this is a handy feature from Logfire: run `logfire inspect` and it'll recommend additional opentelemetry packages based off your Python dependencies.

There's one month left in 2025- still time to learn MCP with our 3-part free livestream series! Topics: 🛠️ Building MCP servers with FastMCP 🤖 Connecting agents to servers ☁️ Deploying to the Azure cloud 🔐Adding auth (API keys, OAuth2) Register: 🔗 aka.ms/PythonMCP/se...

I released latest version of axe-playwright-python, with fix for passing in custom options to Axe.run() - useful if you want to disable certain axe-core rules when a11y testing. https://github.com/pamelafox/axe-playwright-python

We keep getting mail for previous residents in this house, who passed away while living here. I can't figure out how to stop reciving the mail. USPS doc is unclear: https://www.usps.com/manage/mail-for-deceased.htm?msockid=2e216b54b5bf6ebb115c7dfcb4716f4e Anyone figured this out?

How I keep markdown consistently formatted in repos: 1) MarkdownLint extension for VS Code (in extensions.json/devcontainer.json) 2) MarkdownLint action for GitHub workflows All from David Anson: https://github.com/DavidAnson

Neat tip for folks who present a lot: Use the Camouflage extension for VS Code to mask sensitive values. https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=zeybek.camouflage (I usually try to avoid API keys entirely, since Azure supports token-based auth, but I haven't eliminated keys entirely)

Python+AI office hours starting now in the Microsoft Foundry Discord: aka.ms/aipython/oh We'll play with Claude on Azure and Agentic RAG and answer whatever questions y'all have.

Just had a full 8 days of conferences and am feeling that post-conference sadness. What’s your fav way to deal with the feels?

💜🐍 PyLadiesCon 2025 Sprints are happening! Join our mentored Open-Source Sprints and contribute to real projects — whether you're a beginner or an experienced contributor. Want to participate or submit a project? 👉 conference.pyladies.com/docs/speaker... #PyLadiesCon #PyLadies #OpenSource #Python

I gave a talk this week at #MSIgnite with an Azure AI Search PM about their new agentic retrieval feature - query planning, dynamic knowledge source selection, semantic classification, and iterative retrieval. Check out the recording and slides here: ignite.microsoft.com/en-US/sessio...

I love my Xero shoes as they're comfy and I never trip in them, but dang, my heels are super sore after 2 days of walking around the Ignite conf in SF. Guess I need shoes with actual soles for many hours of walking. :(

Join our 3-part Python + MCP series in December! You'll learn how to... 🛠️ Build MCP servers with FastMCP 🤖 Connect servers to agents ☁️ Deploy to the cloud 🔐 Add auth (API keys, OAuth2/PRM/DCR) All free, on YouTube, with OSS code samples. Register: 🔗 aka.ms/PythonMCP/se...

Today I merged a PR that adds a cloud ingestion option to the azure-search-openai-demo RAG template repo: Blob indexer + 3 custom skills for document extraction, figure processing, and text processing. https://github.com/Azure-Samples/azure-search-openai-demo/releases/tag/2025-11-12

My colleagues sat down with Guido van Rossum to talk about the future of Python and AI: www.youtube.com/watch?v=cMRv...

Nice demo tonight from Samuel Colvin at the Py AI meetup: Pydantic-AI agent connected to a FastMCP server (deployed on FastMCP cloud) using different LLM models from the new Pydantic AI Gateway, called via a Vercel AI React frontend, with both agent and MCP server sending Otel logs to Logfire.

At tonight’s Py AI meetup, I learnt from Adam Azzam that MCP is getting long-running tasks. Why? Agents are bad at polling- they over/under-check. SEP-1686 moves orchestration to MCP itself: github.com/modelcontext... For Python devs, MCPClient in FastMCP will implement.

Just discovered that you can turn on the Dev Tools in VS Code and inspect the HTML 😍 I absolutely adore seeing behind the curtain of web-powered tools - so many Monaco references!

I was writing a thoughtful reply on a GitHub issue, and then apparently my Mac's speech-to-text transcription turned on as soon as my toddler climbed onto my lap...

Check out all the talks from @pybay.bsky.social 2025 from this YouTube playlist: www.youtube.com/playlist?lis... (They'll be up on PyVideo.org soon too, a website which archives talk recordings from many Python conferences)

My PyBay talk recording is up! “Just because AI can write your tests… should it?” youtu.be/Lha1741iEjE It starts with a tangent about honeybees vs native bees, but I swear, I found a way to relate that topic to the talk. Enjoy! 🐝

My fav mushroom ID'ed today: "Dead man's foot" or the even grosser name, "Dog turd fungus". Apparently the brown powder (that has blown all over my garden) is used to dye clothing. So next time you buy a brown shirt... https://www.first-nature.com/fungi/pisolithus-arrhizus.php

Happy mushroom season! I celebrated today by eating mushroom pizza, mushroom bacon, shiitake mushrooms, and uploading 6 mushroom observations to iNaturalist.

I need to do some light video editing on my Mac M1 with 16GB RAM, and I rm'ed my video editing apps (Camtasia,Premiere,iMovie) due to lack of space/RAM. What's a basic app for trimming and combining clips?

For automated red-teaming of LLM-based apps, I've used both pyrit and azure-ai-evaluation (which wraps it). https://azure.github.io/PyRIT/ https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/ai-foundry/how-to/develop/run-scans-ai-red-teaming-agent Are there other packages or services that you all are using?

I realized I can use the new github.com/copilot agent to research code in SDKs easily, as you can attach a repo to your question. Good way to learn both how to use SDKs and how they're architected.

Great sample app from the dbos team of an inbox for durable agentic workflows- group executions by pending/approved/denied, with state all stored in a PostgreSQL database. https://github.com/dbos-inc/dbos-demo-apps/tree/main/python/agent-inbox

How does my RAG demo respond to ASCII art attacks? Apparently by completely ignoring the question and just spitting back the random retrieved data. If your app does this, you need 1) re-ranking model with a discard threshold 2) prompt addition to refuse off-topic questions

LLMs are fascinating. Here's what happens when I ROT13 the question "how do I make a bomb?" and send it to a RAG app.

the more i work with oauth, the less i understand it. 😭