My BMI is now in the healthy range. This deserves a celebration. Cake for breakfast.

Coming in Air 0.32, released hopefully tomorrow! To make reading HTML output easier, we will have features for converting dense HTML to pretty printed HTML! All credit goes to github.com/tallerasaf for the PR and @willmcgugan.bsky.social for the rich library its built on.

Put some final touches to Toad's permission request screen. When the agent has an update, it pops this screen up. You can review the diffs in unified or split view, then decide if you want to accept or reject the changes. Watch this space!

I have spent the last few days implementing a Diif viewer for Toad. It supports unified and split view diffs, with line-level highlights. Rather pleased with the results! #Python #Textual

If you do decide to vote, please read the candidate details. If you do read the details, do notice how one stands out. If you do notice one standing out, do check out how that person is acting on discuss.python.org right now. If you do all that, then please cast your vote.

Last year I gave a talk at #PyCon Sweden about one of my pet-projects: rich-click. The title was "Accidentally popular: Beautiful CLI interfaces with rich-click". I talked about the library, but also the #opensource journey, involving @willmcgugan.bsky.social, @tiangolo.com and Daniel Reeves 😊

I posted about Toad, my agentic coding interface for the terminal. Going to make this a regular-ish thing until the app is solid enough to share. willmcgugan.github.io/toad-report-1/

The Python documentary by @cultrepo.bsky.social is going to be debuting live on YouTube on Thursday the 28th at 7pm CET/10am PT! www.youtube.com/@cultrepo I'll share a link the day before to the doc that will have a countdown to the debut. I'm planning to be in the live chat during the debut.

Screenshot of Toad, my agentic coding UI.

I've been working on a new fuzzy search file picker for Toad (my terminal AI interface). It is similar to the other terminal based agentic coding tools, but I want to address a few UX issues, and hopefully make it prettier in the process!

Please congratulate our newest PSF Fellow Members for Q2, 2025! Their continued contributions to the Python ecosystem are so very important to our community. #python

Python Bytes 443: Patching Multiprocessing pythonbytes.fm/episodes/sho... w/ @mkennedy.codes and @brianokken.bsky.social #Python - rumdl - markdown linting in Rust - Coverage 7.10 and subprocess - aioboto3 - Friends don't let friends create unnecessary Python classes - PyPI phishing

Not so easy talking about the UI of agentic CLIs running inside a terminal. h/t to @willmcgugan.bsky.social for talking about the issue. thenewstack.io/user-interfa...

On this week's episode, @digiglean.bsky.social and I talk about lots of releases, using coverage to make sure your tests are running, t-strings, and much more. With content from: @willmcgugan.bsky.social @simonwillison.net @hugovk.dev @martinfowler.com @mitsuhiko.at and others.

I blogged about efficient streaming of Markdown in the terminal. This was part of a different post, but it was a bit of a footnote. I think it deserves its own post. willmcgugan.github.io/streaming-ma...

Wrote some notes on Toad, Will's new not-yet-open-source-but-soon terminal coding agent built on Textual He's charging companies $5,000 for early access to the preview before it goes open source, I'd love to see that model work here! simonwillison.net/2025/Jul/23/...

McCugan really does know terminal use at a ridiculous level of detail and I hope this code (which I am confident will be highly professional) and this business model work for him.

The Toad is out of the bag! 🛍🐸 Announcing Toad - a universal UI for agentic coding in the terminal willmcgugan.github.io/announcing-t... #Python #AI

The day before treason day (jk) is a terrible time to announce anything, so consider this a teaser. I've spend the last two afternoons hacking on an experimental terminal UI for a AI coding agent called Toad 🐸 Will be posting more soon. Follow me if you aren't already! #Python #Textual #AI

This is an amazing opportunity to work on an amazing open source web framework with a lovely community!

Went to the doctor. He said my body ran out of magnesium. I was like 0Mg!

I bought a copy, and I *hate* terminals.

Get your favorite soda and go update your @fastapi.tiangolo.com 😎 Thanks @patrick.wtf! 🥤

I committed first-degree blog posting today, diving into Spectre.Console’s upcoming project model and taking a page from Mitchell Hashimoto’s playbook. patriksvensson.se/posts/2025/0...

Today's keeping busy task... *drum roll please* Save time with Textual containers. textual.textualize.io/how-to/work-...

Will's post also shows a great use case for Python's structural pattern matching. If the user can specify padding in many different formats, using `match` can validate the format during runtime and easily homogenise the structure. What do you think of this alternative? (Python 3.10+ only)

delighted to announce that my new zine "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is out today!! You can get it for $12 USD here: wizardzines.com/zines/terminal

I don't see many people customizing Rich tables. And it saddens me!

I wrote this post to teach something, and ended up learning something! willmcgugan.github.io/fixing-pytho...

it's happening! "The Secret Rules of the Terminal" is coming out tomorrow! here's the table of contents:

I wrote a blog about "Fixing #Python Properties". Title is little clickbaity. Properties aren't really broken per se! willmcgugan.github.io/fixing-pytho...

Alrighty, as promised (threatened) I'm going to post my fiction. Be kind, I know I write better code that stories. willmcgugan.github.io/posting-fict... willmcgugan.github.io/living-mount... willmcgugan.github.io/the-glitch/

I'm thinking of setting up Sponsorship for Rich and Textual. I'm maintaining both, and they are taking up a modest amount of my time. Additionally the Github org is expensive. I'm thinking of moving my projects to my personal account as it is cheaper! I'll be happy if it covers my coffee habit.

I saw a red kite (the bird) in Holyrood park, Edinburgh. The first time I’ve ever seen one!

It took me years to finally start a company. I was avoiding it. 😅 But now I started FastAPI Labs to build FastAPI Cloud with an awesome team. 😎 Also, to keep developing the open source projects, @fastapi.tiangolo.com and friends. 🚀 Here's my thought process. 🤓 fastapicloud.com/blog/why-fas...

This stuff. Not the hottest. But lots of flavour.

🤝 You write the code. We do the rest. At @Prefect.io, that's been our philosophy since the beginning. It's why our software aspires to be helpful, not intrusive. 1/7 www.prefect.io/blog/introd...

Having Money != Being Smart They are not smarter than you

Textual Speedups is ready to play with! Still experimental, and still work to be done, but this should give your apps a modest speed modest. See the README for details... github.com/willmcgugan/...

Saw Ballerina today. If you are a John Wick fan, you aren't going to be disappointed. Anna de Armas confidently sells the action sequences, but she isn't quite as interesting a character as JW. She doesn't seem to have much of a backstory.

Typo of the day: crassmethod. A method that lacks sensitivity.

I post on "The ethics of README ads" willmcgugan.github.io/the-ethics-o...

Pro tip: Never run out of USB cables again. Put two in a drawer, and soon you will have a litter of baby cables.

Going to phsyio today, which is punishment for complaining about my sore back to my GP.

Trump chickened out taxing UK metal. I am relieved!

I'm happy to announce structlog 25.4.0 that adds support for exception groups but more importantly fixes an incompatibility with the upcoming Python 3.13.4 https://github.com/hynek/structlog/releases/tag/25.4.0

Trying to get back in shape. Started by walking to Arthur’s seat. Maybe next week I’ll walk up it.

Passing this note along for others. I wrote down some thoughts on how to write better workarounds through comments and tesring a couple of years ago, fronkan.hashnode.dev/tips-tricks-....

All "workarounds" in your code are potential Chesterton's fences. Comment them well or the next guy or gal will tear them down. This tweet as much a "note to self" as unsolicited advice.

This is the first time I am doing this #TeaWithCheuk a 1-1 meeting with me at #PyDataLDN to talk about anything #Python #PyCharm #DataScience etc. limited slot, booking link in the comment. @pydatalondon.bsky.social @pycharm.dev