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

The thing I really wanted to build with this extension is GPT-5-mini invocation inside GitHub Actions to automate some tasks. I've been experimenting with that today and just wrote-up my findings tonybaloney.github.io/posts/using-...

GitHub Codespaces provides a free web-based development environment backed by a Linux container... and it turns out it also includes a GITHUB_TOKEN environment variable that provides free API access to the GitHub Models collection of LLMs ... here it's running my LLM CLI utility

Lord, grant me the confidence of the person who was hurtling down the highway at 110km/h with one of these on their car

GPT-5 (full), mini, nano and chat models are now available in GitHub Models. Try them out free with an API key from @github.com The llm extension for GitHub Models has just been updated with all 4 models available for chat, tool calling and schemas pypi.org/project/llm-...

Python's build XML module is safer than you thought, those big scary warning boxes have been removed because the vulnerabilities in the underlying library (expat) for XML processing has been fixed for a while github.com/python/cpyth...

If you're in Melbourne and free tomorrow night, join me and all the other awesome Melb.NET peeps at the Microsoft offices for our monthly meetup! With two fantastic talks on the lineup, plus food and drinks! www.meetup.com/melb-net-mee...

Rainy weekend and no sport so I built a bookcase in this nook (nookcase?) the floor is glass, so it had to bear all the load on the walls either side. It looks like a single unit but it’s stacked tiers, each bolted to the frame with a little fascia. Careful not to drop anything on the glass!

Sudoku is limited by 1-9 (3^2) cells 😢 You know what is more fun? 4^2 cells! Introducing Sudoxu— Hexadecimal Sudoku. Try easy mode to see if you can get the full combos before attempting harder modes. tonybaloney.github.io/Sudoxu/ Made with @github.com Copilot

If you're in DevRel on the cloud native side, and you're looking to pivot into the AI space, especially on the infrastructure side, hit me up as I got a great opportunity for you.

I think I’ve finally cracked the Australia to UK flight after 14 years — Layover in Bangkok. Thai Airways is great, hotels are cheap, plenty to do. This hotel is across the street from the airport

Twice as many people are killed by cows in the UK per year than are killed by sharks in Australia.

The Zen of Python says "Errors should never pass silently.". Here is a solution for that problem.

On the EuroStar 🚆 from Paris -> London. Wondering why my legs ache and realised we covered >15km on foot every day.

Found it!! Managed to get up without falling down (See Alt for the answer on what this is)

this was a mistake

Aboard the TGV to Paris trying to make Hexadecimal Sudoku

Wrapping up South West France and headed to Paris tomorrow. Have not thought about work in a while. Tres relaxed. A Frenchman said my French was very good (once I said I was from Australia)

For coding interviews you should just have to sit replying to Q&A posts on GitHub.

Driving on the right is hard. Compounded with the signs being in French, sometimes upside down, and the car being stick (manual) is exhausting driving but I’m getting the hang of it.

TIL the UK also celebrates US Independence Day

Met @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social and got ice cream in this UK heatwave!

UK trains have power & wifi so getting through @pnp.horse’s very thorough contributions to VS Code Pets. New release should have less CPU load and pretty icons ✨