Instead of paying for a Mastodon host so I can have my username be at a custom domain (I'm a parent to a toddler, so I don't have the time or brain capacity to self-host), I decided to set up a recurring donation at https://joinmastodon.org/sponsors#donate instead as if I'm paying […]

Just came across https://opensourcemaintenancefee.org/ ; don't know what I think about it.

I got an external drive for backing up my home directory on my Linux machine. I want to do rolling updates in case I want to go back for a file I deleted or edited, space permitting. Is rsync still the best option for this sort of thing?

Nice write-up on terms for cross-compiling https://mesonbuild.com/Cross-compilation.html#cross-compilation

https://doesjitgobrrr.com/ now has a goal line for the Python JIT in 3.15 (at well as 3.16 and a custom line as well), and Arm support crossed the goal for the first time!

I see a lot of complaints about untested AI slop in pull requests. Submitting those is a dereliction of duty as a software engineer: Your job is to deliver code you have proven to work https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/18/code-proven-to-work/

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@squidfunk/115739987490118848 since nobody listened to me, now you heard it from The Man: stop using MkDocs 😇 ⁃ Sphinx: still maintained ⁃ API docs and cross links: work out of the box ⁃ MyST (Markdown in Sphinx): still maintained ⁃ Furo, sphinx-book-theme, …: still […]

I had missed the initial announcement, but there's an `ubuntu-slim` runner for GitHub Actions. https://github.blog/changelog/2025-10-28-1-vcpu-linux-runner-now-available-in-github-actions-in-public-preview/ It runs in a container instead of a VM for lightweight stuff […]

It's looking very unlikely I will be at PyCon US in 2026 (or anywhere in the US for that matter): https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/2025/dec/10/tourists-social-media-trump I have a ton of email addresses thanks to Fastmail's masked emails, plus my mod work for discuss.python.org might be […]

FastAPI Cloud support pylock.toml! https://fastapicloud.com/docs/builds-and-deployments/install-dependencies/#pylocktoml

Because @tiangolo isn't too active over here, there's a mini-doc on FastAPI https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mpR8ngthqiE

I tweaked some sponsorships today and I was about to start sponsoring Signal again (I've given up waiting for Android tablet support), and I realized that https://signal.org/blog/introducing-secure-backups/ gives me a nice way to sponsor while getting something out of it since I don't get a tax […]

So, pip just halted plans I have been working towards for nearly a decade with a single line: https://github.com/pypa/pip/blob/36987b0c31b97ffb9fb7949ded628e9a6b10c016/src/pip/__main__.py#L13 . Now I have to see if I can muster the motivation and energy to make this work somehow and then […]

Uruguay did what most nations still call impossible: it built a power grid that runs almost entirely on renewables —at half the cost of fossil fuels. The physicist who led that transformation says the same playbook could work anywhere —if governments have the courage to change the rules. For […]

RE: https://mastodon.social/@brettcannon/115591555691952750 Thanks to all 188 people who filled in the poll! CalVer won out, and since that's basically a monotonically increasing number with a timestamp, I choose to interpret the results as clearly "not SemVer".

In case anyone else missed it, Python 3.11 added _possessive quantifiers_ to the `re` module which I had never heard of before. https://docs.python.org/3/library/re.html#module-re:~:text=%27%3Ca%3E%27.-,*%2B%2C%20%2B%2B%2C%20%3F%2B,-Like%20the%20%27*%27

I wrote a blog post ruminating about whether I should rewrite the Python Launcher for Unix in pure Python. https://snarky.ca/should-i-rewrite-the-python-launcher-for-unix-in-python/

I ran into a typing failure with TypedDict that took some digging and using a new feature coming in Python 3.15 but available today in typing-extensions, so I decided to blog about it: https://snarky.ca/the-varying-strictness-of-typeddict/

With PEP 810 and lazy imports along with the fact you can no longer rely on an OS having Python installed, I **really** want an easy way to make a CLI tool for multiple OSs from my pure Python code and dependencies (i.e. simpler than what Briefcase is aimed at). If it was easy enough to do I […]

What's horrifying about this graph is that we're emitting CO2 from fossil hydrocarbons NOW at four times the rate we were when I was a child, and twice the rate we were in 1972, when we already knew that #ClimateChange was an existential problem. Source […] [Original post on mastodon.scot]

One thing that bugs me about https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/typescript-python-and-the-ai-feedback-loop-changing-software-development/ is that it harps on TS being picked by AI models because it's typed. But Python is typed! The problem is the models don't write typed Python code by […]

Aspire 13 just came out and it has expanded Python support!

I just shared the draft of my 34th PEP (it's about WASI support; it's just formalizing some stuff so it isn't really that interesting). Once I decide to get a PEP number I will be tied with @vstinner as the 4th most prolific PEP(co-)author. Yes, I have a problem. But you could also argue Victor […]

Meta, Meta, Meta. So Meta. This Reuters report is 🔥 "Meta is earning a fortune on a deluge of fraudulent ads, documents show" "Meta projected 10% of its 2024 revenue would come from ads for scams and banned goods, documents seen by Reuters show. And the social media giant internally estimates […]

The #curl release on GitHub is now marked as "immutable" and there's even something they call "release attestation" there now. Just remember that the curl canonical releases are the signed tarballs uploaded by me. Reproducible, so you can verify them at will to not contain bad things. Signed to […]

Achievement unlocked: caused Hacker News to have a 150+ comment argument about a TikTok joke (while I was asleep) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=45820872

RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115493527623089000 This is amazing! But I want to remind others who weren't able to donate now but can in the future or whose US employers use Python, PyPI, etc. but are not PSF sponsors, that this drive covered a little over 2% of the funding that the PSF […]

I want to note, though, that even with all of this enthusiasm, the PSF is still not as funded as it would have been if they’d compromised their mission and taken the bestringed money offered by the NSF. This is good energy, to get grassroots funding to happen, but we *need* corporate […]

With only a few hours left to go, WE HAVE CROSSED THE FINISH LINE, and fully matched all $17,000! Here is a screenshot of my own match (as I said at the beginning, I was going to give $5000 regardless and $5000 to match, so this is the full $10k).

For anyone who is a Feedbin user like @hynek , I created a small project at https://github.com/brettcannon/feedbin-deduplication to help remove duplicate feed entries across your feeds. The impetus for this is I subscribe to some feeds from Wired and the Verge who will cross-post between […]

Still laughing hours after I read this. So true so true

@jezdez What's the best way to get a hold of you? I emailed a week ago and haven't heard back. All good if you're just busy or email just isn't the right place to reach out.

The final release of Python 3.9 is out! https://discuss.python.org/t/the-final-python-3-9-security-fix-release-is-out/104666 May you all enjoy using the features added in Python 3.10 if that's now your oldest version. 😁 https://docs.python.org/3/whatsnew/3.10.html

Have you been considering donating, but worried that we might be running out of space? Worry not! A new challenger appears! @Yhg1s has committed ANOTHER $5000 match, raising our total matching funds to $17,000, which (modulo a few additional receipts I need to process) means we are down to 43%.

What is the best way to run/install an NPM package as a tool that I run from the command-line globally? E.g. `netlify-cli` or `@anthropic-ai/claude-code` where I don't have a `node_modules` directory where I want to run the tool (there are other tools, so don't consider this exhaustive).. I […]

This week, the #python Software Foundation rejected a $1.5MM NSF grant, due to a requirement that the PSF abandon diversity work. So I joined forces with Python folks (@offby1, @petrillic, @amethyst) and we're matching up to $12,000 of donations to the PSF. 🧵

Just a quick thanks for all the "thank you" comments on my PSF CoC WG retirement. That plus all the positive reactions to the PSF turning down the NSF grant was a very nice reminder how awesome the Python community is!

RE: https://mastodon.social/@webology/115430365937924138 I could have written the same thing about Jeff.

I have nothing but respect and sympathy for @ThePSF in their decision to withdraw from the NSF grant program in order not to compromise on their mission to keep #python a diverse and welcoming open source community. It's hard as hell to turn down that kind of money. So, here's my .02c for it […]

They say "don't read the comments" but I think the ratio of good vs bad comments in this thread makes it very, very worthwhile. Also, the *reach* has been amazing. I've seen reposts from people I follow for very non-Python reasons (not mutuals!), who as far as I know have never posted or […]

After 7.5 years, I have left the PSF CoC WG. When my vacation ended it was the thing I was looking forward to the least while I also felt the least useful (I was the only member on the Pacific time zone which led to meeting times that often didn't work for me). I'm still on the […]

So that tells me you need to be somewhere between 3.8K and 38K followers to get Bluesky engagement, because while I have a similar experience with Mastodon folks jumping in randomly, I don't get Bluesky engagement.

I just turned on release immutability and backfilled old releases for all projects I have on GitHub where the releases are used to distribute binaries or are a GitHub Action (which use the repo tags directly): - https://github.com/brettcannon/check-for-changed-files - […]

I think @simon turned me on to "The Mitchells vs the Machines"... https://www.slashfilm.com/2004690/netflix-best-animated-movie-the-mitchells-vs-the-machine-2-sequel-announced/

@BajoranEngineer congrats on the fellowship!

@digiglean congrats on the fellowship!

I guess I'm paying attention to the World Series this year. 😁

In case you prefer text over video, the blog post version of my EuroPython keynote about why it took 4 years to get a lock files specification is now up at https://snarky.ca/why-it-took-4-years-to-get-a-lock-files-specification/ .

RE: https://mastodon.social/@mhoye/115333538504183488 Remember that OpenAI is valued at $500 billion, and yet they have promised $300 billion to Oracle and whatever "6 gigawatts" of AMD chips account for. Oh, and then there's Stargate. And there's no way they are close to profitable if this is […]