commit-rewriter 0.1: a Python web app for rewriting Git commit messages, useful for cleaning up commits before publication.
Build an offline Python grader for AI agents that separates control, behavior, and outcomes—not just explanations.
Python 3.15 soft-deprecates re.match() in favor of re.prefixmatch(), clarifying its behavior for developers.
Overview of wrapture, Graham Dumpleton's new Python monkey patching library for testing, tracing, and observability.
Datasette releases security patches 1.0a39 and 0.65.4, fixing subtle bugs found via AI-assisted audits for public instances.
Release notes for llm-anthropic 0.28, adding Claude Fable 5.1 support, default reasoning traces, and a new ClaudeRefusal exception.
Introducing wrapture, a Python library for tracing and testing via monkeypatching, with OpenTelemetry support and config-based tracing.
Explains reasoning models vs LLMs, philosophizes about building from scratch, and shows Python/PyTorch setup with uv.
A reflection on AI use cases, arguing that many popular AI applications solve problems created by technology itself, and that productivity is personal.
Analysis of AI-generated code quality, discussing strengths, weaknesses, and implications for software development.
Analyzing how Mars' orbital inclination affects Earth-Mars distance calculations, showing the effect is small but erratic.
Testing smolvm 1.8.3 as a sandbox for untrusted Python & JavaScript, using hardware-isolated VMs with resource limits and no network.
Mojo programming language is now open source under Apache 2, with compiler and toolchain released, aiming for painless GPU programming with Python-inspired syntax.
Explores probability of correcting errors in error-correcting codes, focusing on Hadamard code and binomial distribution.
sqlite-utils 4.2.1 fixes a crashing bug caused by missing typing-extensions dependency and adds a smoke test for CLI without dev dependencies.
sqlite-utils 4.2 release: Python CLI/library for SQLite, enhancing table.transform() with better schema preservation and new introspection features.
Release of alchemy-utils 0.1a0, a cross-database sqlite-utils built on SQLAlchemy, supporting PostgreSQL, SQLite, and DuckDB.
Build a safe repository maintenance agent in Python using GitHub Copilot and Microsoft Agent Framework, with explicit approval for writes and shell commands.
Explains why power series are inefficient for computing trig functions like cosine, using cos(200) as an example, and discusses range reduction.
Explores why Python's math library can compute logarithms of huge numbers like 200! but not cosines, due to digit sensitivity and range reduction.
