There's a new Humble Bundle benefiting the Python Software Foundation with 15 ebooks (three of them written by me!) Be sure to click Adjust Donation, then click Custom Amount and max out the amount going to the PSF charity. www.humblebundle.com/books/python...

So, I've been trying to vibe code as many small JavaScript browser apps that work offline as possible. Little utility apps that require no install/registration/ads/etc, before the bubble bursts and token costs shoot up. Here's the preface I put in my prompts: pastebin.com/raw/Cg6WGQ9d

This is who @schumer.senate.gov marched with in the Israel Day Parade today.

the Alabama governor unilaterally voiding election results and it barely making news just seems kinda ominous to me idk

@simonwillison.net I think "pelican on a bicycle" might have lost its novelty when it comes to modern models, Simon. :)

Imagine if a woman president crashed the economy and started a war with no end in sight, and her biggest, seemingly ONLY concern was building a ballroom and redecorating the White House.

Little Bobby Ignore All Previous Instructions

JUST IN: a rally is being planned by Indivisible in front of Mikie Sherrill’s office in Trenton NJ tomorrow at 2 pm to demand answers concerning her deplorable actions at Delaney Hall. Get there if you can. www.mobilize.us/cooperriveri...

This. This is it. This has all it's ever been.

dems and libs need to take a good long hard look at the armed goon situation and come up with some plans

NYPD “police kidnap de blasio’s daughter and issue veiled threat demanding mayor authorize specific tactics” was blip in the press PBA "Adams's protective detail kidnapped an Italian crypto investor and brought him to gangsters who sexually tortured him for his password" "forced him to smoke crack"

Hell yes unions

Israeli Finance Minister Bezalel Smotrich has been one of the key leaders in Israel’s land grabs against Palestinians in the West Bank in recent years. Now, he’s wanted by the ICC prosecutor for war crimes and crimes against humanity, including apartheid.

Doing a soft launch of a "no borders" geography quiz where you have to identify countries based on land, water, and rivers rather than borders. Also it's a generic globe as well. You can save the .html file and it works offline forever. inventwithpython.com/no-borders-g...

38,000 people die every year in car accidents in America. It's time we passed mandatory helmet laws for car drivers.

When you're young you worry this is the answer. When you're old, you are so relieved when this is the answer.

Right now I have my single-file web app projects as inventwithpython.com/project.html but would it be "better" if I put them at project.inventwithpython.com instead? I'd register a domain name for them if it weren't for the cost.

What if taxing the rich works?

another way to put this: if somebody says something, you don't directly engage with what they said Instead you turn to everybody else and say "ok let me tell you why they're saying this" instead of replying you're annotating

Every third headline about AI: "CEO Said A Thing"

I generated Botbright, where you code a robot to move around a puzzle, a clone of the old Flash game, Lightbot. But this version has a level editor, silly hats, and is translated to 30 languages. It exists as a single .html file, so you can run it offline. inventwithpython.com/botbright.html

I got Louis C. K. and C. S. Lewis confused, so that's how my day is going.

There are a hundred "Is Mamdani Being Insensitive to Jews By Acknowledging that Palestinians Are Human?" stories in outlets like the NY Times, meanwhile multiple Republican politicians LITERALLY say that all Muslims are terrorists who should be expelled from the U.S. www.nytimes.com/2026/05/22/n...

This is the Karl Popper’s “paradox of tolerance” at work. Intolerant people demanded that their ideas be tolerated, one of which was not tolerating other ideas, and now here we are, exactly where many people clearly warned that we’d wind up.

Updated my whereismyip Python package for the first time in a year. You just call whereismyip() and it uses one of several free geolocation services to return a string or structured dictionary. pypi.org/project/wher...

This feels like the most 2026 development for the California chemical leak www.latimes.com/california/l...

Updated my whatismyip Python package. It does what it says on the tin. It's been two years since my last update. It's all minor bug fixes. Feels good. pypi.org/project/What...

I'd REALLY appreciate it if anyone who sees this would try out my text generators so I can iron out any remaining bugs. Please, and thank you! trek.epicrandomness.com

I have thought up a new side project and I have resisted the temptation to buy a domain name as the first step. Please clap.

Non-software engineers will use AI to create software the way Elon Musk created the Cybertruck.

As a kid, I was pretty sure this was the reason you can't fill up a supersoaker with gasoline and make a flamethrower; the flame would climb back up and ignite the entire tank. Glad to see this confirmed though.

The president of Cornell hit two students with his car, lied about what happened, and got away with it. The story illustrates an under-reported crisis in higher education: administrators and the trustees they answer to are increasingly hostile to the idea of college itself. I wrote about it here:

Trans people have been around your whole life. You’ve been sharing bathrooms with them your whole life. They’ve been in your communities your whole life. They’ve even been playing sport your whole life. And you didn’t care *at all* till a few years ago when every right wing org decided you should

The times I've had an engineers eyes light up when they get budget to fix stuff we report about are among my favourite times as a pentester. This was especially common when I was testing industrial environments and anything other than minimal "keep the machine running" was pushed to the side.

Someone noted that the people praising AI as an "exciting new technology" in graduation speeches and getting booed are just as clueless as the "plastics" guy in The Graduate.

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Last day of sprints at #PyConUS

OH: "still not quite over the fact that i watched 15 year olds get sued for millions of dollars for downloading twelve songs and now we all have to accept AI slop because every tech company in the known universe decided that IP laws don't exist now that they're inconvenient for them"

No Starch Press has all their books sale at 40% off until May 26th. You can get my books and many other great titles at nostarch.com

"Train the AI" is a vague lie, of course. They'll probably do something stupid (like a keyboard WPM phrenology to see what kind of typing patterns their top employees have) or evil (use "low click speed" as an excuse to fire employees they don't like.)

Disney kills the 538 archives without explanation

If you’re looking for the #pyconus sprints tomorrow, this is what the entrance looks like. Except without the big pink arrow.

Sometimes I use AI to write parts of software or review code, sometimes I lean on it to create the app. I don't want to say I "programmed" or "created" the software, but what verb should I use? "Generated by Al Sweigart"?

TFW you meet the author of a book you've used with students and think, "Wow, that's exactly the kind of influence kids should have." Thanks to @alsweigart.bsky.social for letting me corner him at #PyConUS.

Thank you to all the committee chairs who make #PyConUS possible.

Congrats to Sarah and Jay for their PSF Community Service Awards at #PyConUS