Here's how grouping updates, slowing the cadence, and keeping security fixes fast cut the noise on a Microsoft open source project.

I have decided to run for the inaugural/2026 Python packaging council (PPC). I will say I have the support of my employer (Microsoft) to do this, but they didn't ask me to and my usual thing that I wo...

A common refrain among developers: YAML is bad and TOML is good. This post argues otherwise, tracing the history of configuration formats, examining what YAML 1.2 actually fixed, and introducing py-ya...

Release Notes Released on 2026-05-05. Highlights auto_update.cooldown_days is now available in both the user-level global config (~/.config/prek/prek.toml on Linux and macOS, or $XDG_CONFIG_HOME/pr...

A vision for the conda CLI in 2026: making conda fast, trusted, and delightful.

WARNING: Most of this blog post is a hack, everyone should probably just wait for relative dependency cooldowns to come to a future version of pip. pip v26.0 added support for th...

The research-plan-implement workflow I use to build software with Claude Code, and why I never let it write code until I've approved a written plan.

Python 3.14 introduced the compression.zstd module. It is a standard library implementation of Facebook’s Zstandard (Zstd) compression algorithm. It was developed a decade ago by Yann Collet, who hold...

After a years-long battle, the European Commission’s “Chat Control” plan, which would mandate mass scanning and other encryption-breaking measures, at last codifies agreement on a position within the

Larsson, J., (2025). Qualpal: Qualitative Color Palettes for Everyone. Journal of Open Source Software, 10(114), 8936, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08936

This post introduces the Multi-Stage build approach for setting up a lightweight dockerized Python development environment.

Hay que decirlo más: la estadística pública está en el punto de mira y nos afecta más de lo que pensamos.

Instead of fuzzy labels like 'indie' and 'AA', we propose a new data-driven system to classify video games based on their actual production scope. This new framework reveals the real economic and crea...

This PEP proposes extending the core metadata specification for Python packaging to include two new, repeatable fields named Import-Name and Import-Namespace to record the import names that a project ...

Introduction Nowadays I use mostly markdown files when taking notes on a subject, and this...

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Curing Your AI 10x Engineer Imposter Syndrome

An AI assistant that remembers and sets goals

Does AI provide anything to look forward to, if “super-intelligence” sounds boring?

Ben Clavié’s introduction to advanced retrieval techniques

This PEP proposes a new file format for specifying dependencies to enable reproducible installation in a Python environment. The format is designed to be human-readable and machine-generated. Installe...