I no longer begrudge my US colleagues for getting paid 50% more than me. I just went grocery shopping and everything costs… 50% more 💁🏻‍♂️ (Except beer and chocolate which is cheaper)

Where else www.bbc.co.uk/news/article...

Day 1 jet lag challenge. Getting up at 6am and staying awake all day to hopefully reset the body clock for day 2 🥱 would normally go for a run but I forgot to pack shoes

All this talk of travel chaos, SFO is empty 🤷🏻‍♂️ walked through CBP in 5 minutes

Last minute travel plans to Seattle. I’ll be there all week and SF next week

I used to listen to this episodes whilst mowing the lawn. The episodes keep getting longer and longer. Now we’re at 4 hours I have to find bigger yard jobs to cover a whole episode

@mkennedy.codes @brianokken.bsky.social @scott.hanselman.com does this guy roam the streets of Portland?

How did I miss putting print statements in tests 🤦🏻‍♂️

Claude AI's Pytest anti-patterns: 1. Using test classes in pytest tests for no reason 2. Putting module fixtures in conftest instead of in the modules 3. Creating long doc strings for test functions 4. Unnecessarily fragile assertions

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TFW you’ve been running a benchmark for an hour, all your CPU cores are at 90+% but the overall benchmark progress is 0% Kill it or wait?

Ok, penalise Lewis Hamilton but nothing for the Dutch Lawnmower? #mexico

Going to report a bug literally any Python project on GitHub to find @hugovk.dev already got there before you, reported it and fixed it. Every time.

Explaining to someone outside of this industry how we meet deadlines by refining the “definition of done” sounds pretty ridiculous when you say it out loud

One thing I love about Open Source is that you can’t hide behind your BS. Don’t tell me it has that feature. I can read the code. It doesn’t. Don’t tell me “we support that” when I can see it clearly doesn’t.

I’ll be live in an hour with Stephen McCullough from NVidia to talking about Open models on serverless GPUs. We’ll be diving into the tech, demos and how to setup autoscaling. www.youtube.com/live/GvZJHHC...

Partner: can you clean the shower & drain whilst I’m out TIL it is possible to clean the shower with a pressure washer but it makes more mess than it cleans.

Ant vs Ant 🐜 . I think I lost this round 🥊

If you demo an AI agent, it must be a weather demo. If you demo a multiagent, it must be a travel booking demo. This is written in law. Do not question it.

Hacktoberfest 2025 : Getting Claude to implement features like normal but it's someone else's credits and they get a free t-shirt.

🎃It's October! New release of vscode-pets 1.34 - New Autumn (Fall) theme with falling leaves - New squirrel and skeleton pets (thank you Chris) I've added several up-for-grabs issues for #hacktoberfest to the backlog.

On a #PyConJP adventure with @tiangolo.com to Osaka and Himeji

TFW you catch your little toe on coffee table but can’t say the f word because there are kids around

Choo-Choo. Obvs at 300km/h you don’t need seatbelts 🤷🏻‍♂️

Solar export $ is practically $0 here so I’m looking at doubling the system generation size then adding a 24kWh battery. Have 9 months of data in Home Assistant to do some modelling. Shame there isn’t a nice API to fetch it into Pandas. 🐼

Finally got some VSCode pets stickers on my laptop

Wow, #hacktoberfest spam is starting early this year.

"The majority of staff who voluntarily go into the office say they are happy to travel to the office; therefore, we extrapolate that the people who work from home would be happier in the office" 🫠

Hallucinations are accidentally created by evals They come from post-training. Reasoning models hallucinate more because we do more rigorous post-training on them The problem is we reward them for being confident cdn.openai.com/pdf/d04913be...

I do not want him on the Board. I do not think he struck a chord. I would not trust him with a groat. I did not trust him with my vote. I don't want Python in his hands. I did not vote for Angry Franz.

hard is concurrency of second rule Python is The

The first rule of Python is there are no rules

✍️New Post ✍️ Python's async support is 10 years old this year. Python 3.14 has "proper" parallelism now -- free-threading and subinterpreter pool workers, so does that make async redundant? I look into the use cases and challenges of asyncio. tonybaloney.github.io/posts/why-is...

✍️New Post ✍️ Python's async support is 10 years old this year. Python 3.14 has "proper" parallelism now -- free-threading and subinterpreter pool workers, so does that make async redundant? I look into the use cases and challenges of asyncio. tonybaloney.github.io/posts/why-is...

My UMXFP1 paper keeps getting rejected-- any suggestions?

My GitHub Inbox always has one unhinged item 🐿️ 🐿️

Please don’t put him in the second RedBull seat. Let us enjoy seeing him succeed a little while longer

Writing one of those blog posts where you start with a bunch of opinions and as you research them you discover you were actually wrong. I've learnt a lot today and this one is gonna take a bit longer.

We have an opening for a principal software engineer on the Python tools team. If you're interested in debuggers, language server protocol, and AI then you might find the position interesting! https://jobs.careers.microsoft.com/global/en/job/1854048/Principal-Software-Engineer

I've been experimenting with timing latency and throughput on different LLM and Embedding models. It ended up as a plugin for @simonwillison.net's LLM CLI so that you can compare any of the supported models with any combination of options. Here's a writeup-- tonybaloney.github.io/posts/perfor...

DocumentDB, the open-source NoSQL database built on top of Postgres is now part of the Linux Foundation. www.linuxfoundation.org/press/linux-...

@marlene.bsky.social and I started a new show: Python on Azure! We had to go BIG for our first episode: our guest is the one and only @mitsuhiko.at - Could he vibe-code Flask? - Is the terminal the ideal UX for AI coding tools? ...and more! youtu.be/bpWPEhO7RqE?...

Finally stopped raining so we joined the Great North Walk to hike this funny looking “mountain”

Released a small update to generate boxplots for the 4 main metrics (time, time to first chunk, length, chunks/sec). Nice simple way to quickly compare a handful of models when latency matters

今年もPyCon JPに参加するよ。広島で開催されるイベントのチケット、さっき予約したばかり✨ 楽しみにしてます！→ pyconjp.connpass.com/event/359523/ それと、@tiangolo.com さんのキーノートもめっちゃ気になる

Just released: UltraJSON 5.11.0! 🚀 ⌨️ Inline type stubs 🐍 Support for Python 3.14 & PyPy3.11 🛞 Windows ARM64 wheels (thanks @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social!) 💧Drop EOL Python 3.8 & PyPy3.8-PyPy3.10 ➕ And more! github.com/ultrajson/ul... #Python #release #ujson #UltraJSON

Today I worked on a little profile plugin for @simonwillison.net's LLM that runs the same prompt against as many models as you please. Including from different providers. You get timing statistics for streams. Useful for throughput and expected length benchmarks github.com/tonybaloney/...

Spent the morning building and testing a rope swing in the garden. It was the perfect spot for one.

TIL you can pipe raw markdown to `python -m rich.markdown -` and it'll render it beautifully on the command line