I’ve written a few posts on Zsh’s glob qualifiers recently, covering:

If your site has companion Apple or Android apps, you probably want links to your site to open in those apps, when installed. Both platforms support this, with Apple calling the feature Universal Link...

Globs sort filenames character by character, so numbered files often come out in a surprising order, with 10 before 2. Zsh has a neat fix for this: the n glob qualifier, which applies a “natural” sort...

I previously announced my Python optimization workshop in Lisbon, on 10th October (which still has a few places). I am now pleased to add a Python/Django meetup on the Thursday before.

Got a directory that you want to tidy up bloat from? Whether you’re trying to find bad build artifacts in your work repository or clear out old cat videos from your home directory, Zsh’s (OL) glob qua...

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If you’re starting a long job on your Apple Macintosh Computer and wandering off for a coffee, the machine may go to sleep before it finishes due to inactivity. To prevent that from happening, also gi...

I’m running a workshop in Lisbon next month, and you’re invited!

When a password manager detects that a user’s password has been leaked or reused, it can prompt them to change it, but the password change URL varies by site. The web’s answer to such discovery proble...

Parametrize tests within unittest TestCases. Contribute to adamchainz/unittest-parametrize development by creating an account on GitHub.

I made another package! Say hello to django-mcpz, for building Model Context Protocol (MCP) servers in your Django project.

Pytest plugin to randomly order tests and control random.seed.

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Zsh modifiers are a family of suffixes that transform words as they’re expanded. Several of them are dedicated to slicing up filenames, replacing fiddly calls to dirname, basename, and friends. Let’s ...

django-upgrade is my tool for automatically upgrading your project code for new Django versions. It rewrites your Python files to fix deprecations and adopt some new features, taking a chunk of the mo...

What bottlenecks were preventing NumPy from scaling on free-threaded Python? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week with another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.

New package just landed!

Back in January, I introduced tprof, a targeting profiler for Python 3.12+ that measures the time spent in specific functions, rather than your whole program. As a reminder, here’s the basic usage, sp...

It’s another day, another new package day here. Say hello to django-msgspec, a package of drop-in replacements for Django and Django REST Framework (DRF) components backed by msgspec.

I got another commit merged in Git 2.55 (2026-06-29), yay! The release note reads:

To list all files in your repository as they were at a given commit, use git ls-tree with its -r and --name-only options:

A neat testing pattern is writing common tests in a base class and then applying them to multiple objects through subclassing. Doing so can help you test smarter and cover more code with less boilerpl...

git log has an --author option to limit the output to commits from matching authors:

Posted by Jacob Walls on Aug. 5, 2026