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What’s up Python? __json__, __export__ and Astral stuff www.bitecode.dev/p/whats-up-p... It's summer; fewer people than usual are going to read this, so I included a personal selection of tv shows because who is going to call me out?

wtf is mozilla doing? i don't like this feature in firefox so i'm now switching to hitler browser dot palantir.

Following the eMudhra debacle, many package managers (anything relying on certify) issued an update. You should update your pip, uv, certify, etc., ASAP. Right now, ideally. https://discuss.python.org/t/information-for-python-users-regarding-emudhra-emsign-ca-certificate-security-incident/109576

I once inherited a python system that handled about $100m in ARR. It was a single Django class that was 25k lines long and had zero tests or docs that always called out to MySQL and postgres via fork+exec rather than actually using those client libraries

Wow, that's a very good starter pack go.bsky.app/HmV5x47

Incredible

Timestral: Mistral's time-series foundation model https://mistral.ai/news/timestral/ A generic model for time series prediction. Don't know how well it works, but given the variability between patterns (or the absence thereof) the real world produces, it's interesting

A programming language that LLMs can't use https://blog.picheta.me/post/killswitch-lang/

zipping some files

What the fuck.

Johannes on X: "I can confirm that the Ledger supply chain is compromised in Europe as well" https://x.com/0xJohannes_/status/2109634513957527974 My mind is blown every week with the current state of events. We are truly living in interesting times.

Yet another way to invoke functions without parentheses https://blog.ikaes.de/yet-another-way-to-invoke-functions-without-parentheses/

No more leap seconds, ever! There isn’t one in December and they will be abolished in May. The last one will forever be the 2016(?!) one. Didn’t realize having experienced leap seconds in prod dates me. I’m not going to miss time going backwards, I’ll be honest. www.bipm.org/en/cgpm-2026...

Yesterday, the CSSWG accepted my proposal for mesh gradients and diffusion curve gradients! Want to make gradients like this natively in CSS? Well, we've started the work on it. It's coming! Here's the Explainer: github.com/w3c/csswg-dr...

Another grave and dangerous incident in AI's activity: I made it code a YouTube client, and it uses "never give you up" as test data. Claude Rick-rolled me :D

Remember the FOSS AI clone of the Adobe suite? They added a clone of World, Excel, Powerpoint, Audocad and Avid: https://getartcraft.com/apps And yes, they also run on Windows, Mac and Linux offline. And yes, they are faster and free. Crazy times.

Python 3.15 is OUT 🐍🚀 Lazy imports, Tachyon in the stdlib, frame pointers on by default, frozendict, better error messages... this one is LOADED 🔥🔥🔥 Go upgrade 🤘 discuss.python.org/t/python-3-1...

Whistle: Speech to Text in 16.9 MB https://cactuscompute.com/blog/whistle It's not great yet, but for the size it's pretty impressive.

Just found out that a lot of people don‘t know that you can use a ”C7 figure‑8 power cord“ with any Apple power adapter in case you forgot your travel adapter. Way cheaper to get one of those usually than a full travel adapter. #travelhacks

Deno's team is being bought by Cloudflare: https://deno.com/blog/cloudflare In one year, they will stop supporting it for the general public. If you used Deno, I hope you'll find a good fork.

Language Models for Text Classification: From Bag-of-Words to Jev A concise history of text classification, from bag-of-words and neural networks to transformers and modern LLM-based approaches. It also introduces Jev and examines… https://magazine.sebastianraschka.com/p/classifier-history-and-jev

If you are using MiniJinja, I finally released 3.0 which gets rid of Serde as a default dep, supports free threading, fixes tons of legacy cruft, runs quite a bit faster and is just overall nicer. If you want to play with it, there is a WASM demo here: mitsuhiko.github.io/minijinja/

This flag meme shall be counted as a #badgeographyjoke

So apparently #bash can do network calls without any extra utilities. No idea why would you put this into your shell.

Holy shit. Someone has decompiled the Adobe suite, rebuilt it in Rust and released it as open source. Either all software is dead or the US copyright laws are about to receive an update. getartcraft.com/apps

Neither, use the imperial kilobyte = 1609.34 bytes

Ah, among all the spam I receive for the blog, I just got my new favorite: it invites me to be part of the scam! #thuglife, am I right?

I was wrong. It’s happening

One of my oldest python pet peeves, fixes.

Django: serve the change password well-known URL Adam Johnson explains how to implement the standard /.well-known/change-password URL redirect in Django using RedirectView, helping password managers direct users to their password change… https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/09/16/django-change-password-url/