Alberto Torres Barrán @albertotb.com · 27/09/2026Wow, I always used match and I think I didn't know this! 010
Reposted by Alberto Torres BarránPython Hub @pythonhub.dev · 27/09/2026Soft-deprecating re.match() The article explains when to use re.prefixmatch(), re.search(), and re.fullmatch(), what soft deprecation means for existing code, and how to flag re.match() usage with Ruff. hugovk.dev/blog/2026/soft-deprecati… 121
Alberto Torres Barrán @albertotb.com · 02/09/2026This looks really cool, I need to find an excuse to try it 020
Reposted by Alberto Torres BarránSung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 31/08/2026Google's TimesFM-3, a state-of-the-art time series foundation model that enables accurate multivariate time series forecasting in a single forward pass, significantly outperforming other forecasting models across major benchmarks. Blog: goo.gle/4x5WGpD 0486
Alberto Torres Barrán @albertotb.com · 24/08/2026100% this. I start adding a small thing and end up with 5 new issues and 5 new PRs 020
Reposted by Alberto Torres BarránGitHub @github.com · 11/08/2026A dozen Dependabot pull requests on a Monday morning is how important updates get ignored. On Microsoft's GCToolkit, roughly one in six commits were single-dependency version bumps. Three small changes to dependabot.yml fixed it 👇github.blogTame Dependabot: Group your updates, slow the cadence, keep security fastHere's how grouping updates, slowing the cadence, and keeping security fixes fast cut the noise on a Microsoft open source project. 1142
Reposted by Alberto Torres BarránBrett Cannon @snarky.ca · 10/08/2026I self-nominated myself for the Python packaging council today. I have posted my nomination statement as a blog post. snarky.ca/my-nominatio...snarky.caMy nomination statement for the 2026 Python packaging councilI 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... 3196
Reposted by Alberto Torres BarránMaike Osborne @maosbot.bsky.social · 30/07/2026When the AIs take over, I hope they remember all the times I said please and thank you to Claude 2203
Reposted by Alberto Torres BarránJulia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 17/07/2026learning a few things about running SQLite jvns.ca/blog/2026/07... 2766
Reposted by Alberto Torres BarránSebastián Ramírez @tiangolo.com · 20/06/2026library-skills now supports uv workspaces and npm/Bun workspaces. ✨ Auto-repair and sync of skills. Improved support for .claude (additional to .agents), it will ask you interactively what to use. Plus several other bug fixes and improvements. library-skills.io 093
Reposted by Alberto Torres BarránFastAPI @fastapi.tiangolo.com · 20/06/2026FastAPI can now serve your frontend app ✨ With support for client-side routing 😎 Great for React with TanStack Router, Astro static builds, Vite-based apps, etc. 🎉 FastAPI version 0.138.0 🔖 fastapi.tiangolo.com/tutorial/fro... 2172
Reposted by Alberto Torres BarránJulia Evans @b0rk.jvns.ca · 16/06/2026the next version of Python is going to have a built in sampling profiler!!!! this is so exciting to see docs.python.org/3.15/library... 28311
Reposted by Alberto Torres BarránJakub Nowosad @jakubnowosad.com · 14/06/2026🌍 New paper on key challenges in spatial machine learning! We discuss six major topics shaping the field: model validation, performance metrics, uncertainty quantification, algorithmic diversity, software implementation, and modeling protocols. www.erdkunde.uni-bonn.de/article/view... #SpatialML 0156
Reposted by Alberto Torres BarránTed Underwood @tedunderwood.com · 12/06/2026So, naive question about these campuses that pay OpenAI $13mil/yr. Why don’t they pour that money into a cluster running the strongest available open-weight model, with API and interactive options. And if the answer is “overhead,” why aren’t we collaborating? 5549872
Alberto Torres Barrán @albertotb.com · 01/06/2026But they don't have the same number of keys no? I guess you can get used to it, really hard for me now though 100
Alberto Torres Barrán @albertotb.com · 01/06/2026Was it English layout? There are some many options for US layout but almost none for other layouts. For Spanish specifically I always end up with keycron. Does low free offer ISO variants? 100
Reposted by Alberto Torres BarránBite Code! @bitecode.dev · 29/05/2026The conker bad fur day vibes with actual good graphics and amazing animation paired with earthworm jim wonkiness and cup head challenge + aesthetic is such a killer combo. 031
Reposted by Alberto Torres BarránRichard Iannone @richmeister.bsky.social · 21/05/2026YAML deserves a defense! opensource.posit.co/blog/2026-05... The complaints are real but historical as they describe YAML 1.1, not the 1.2 spec that fixed them in 2009. The post traces the full history and introduces py-yaml12, a fast Rust-backed Python library for the modern spec. Hope you enjoy!opensource.posit.coIn Defense of YAMLA 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... 2235
Reposted by Alberto Torres Barrán⟨ Jargonaut NPC Alex ⟩ @lastnpcalex.agency · 15/05/2026if you were to tell me better outcomes occurred with more compute time that's not particularly strange 261
Alberto Torres Barrán @albertotb.com · 15/05/2026Ok, since when LLMs and Claude Code/Codex is the same thing? Scaling laws started with the size of the model but now sudenly is tokens spent. An LLM + harness is much more than the single model. 010
Reposted by Alberto Torres BarránMapas Milhaud @mapasmilhaud.com · 10/05/2026Segunda lengua extranjera más estudiada en la Unión Europea (2016): mapasmilhaud.com/mapas-de-datos/seg… #Mapas #Maps 082
Reposted by Alberto Torres BarránHugo van Kemenade @hugovk.dev · 05/05/2026prek now supports cooldown in either user or project config: github.com/j178/prek/re... pre-commit closed and locked the feature request as one of many many duplicates, but I can't find any: github.com/pre-commit/p... #PreCommit #prek #cooldowngithub.comRelease 0.3.12 · j178/prekRelease 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... 0114
Reposted by Alberto Torres Barránconda @conda.org · 21/04/2026This is the year conda CLI gets a glow-up! 💅 Faster operations, clear progress, errors that actually help you fix things, better integration with PyPI, and new environment workflows. Conda maintainer Dan Yeaw laid it all out in our latest blog post 👉️buff.lyBuilding a Better conda CLI: A Vision | conda.orgA vision for the conda CLI in 2026: making conda fast, trusted, and delightful. 031
Reposted by Alberto Torres Barránbjkeefe @bjkeefe.bsky.social · 26/03/2026A related blog post for those using pip, from @sethmlarson.dev: sethmlarson.dev/pip-relative...sethmlarson.devRelative “Dependency Cooldowns” in pip v26.0 with crontabWARNING: 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... 033
Alberto Torres Barrán @albertotb.com · 26/02/2026I'll try, thanks! I was hoping I could set movement to something move direct, ie., no prefix, like Ctrl + arrows or something. I got working Ctrl + S to split vertically and Alt + S to split horizontally. 000
Alberto Torres Barrán @albertotb.com · 26/02/2026I can't even set custom bindings. They work to create new horizontal and vertical splits, but Im incapable of setting a keybinding to move between the splits 100
Reposted by Alberto Torres BarránSung Kim @sungkim.bsky.social · 12/02/2026It prevents wasted effort, keeps me in control of architecture decisions, and produces significantly better results with minimal token usage than jumping straight to code." boristane.com/blog/how-i-u...boristane.comBoris TaneThe 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. 0113
Reposted by Alberto Torres BarránEmma @emmatyping.dev · 06/02/2026maxhalford.github.io/blog/text-cl... This is a cool blog post about using compression.zstd in Python as a surprisingly effective (and fast!) simple text classifier.maxhalford.github.ioText classification with Python 3.14's zstd modulePython 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... 153
Reposted by Alberto Torres Barránatticus goldfinch @atticusgf.bsky.social · 21/01/2026the more uncomfortable corollary to this is that I think the days of humans _reading_ the code is also mostly gone. you're producing so much code now that a human reviewer is a massive bottleneck. IMO, you need to shift validation strategies massively towards tests and flagging high risk code. 169611
Reposted by Alberto Torres BarránRodrigo Girão Serrão 🐍🚀 @mathspp.com · 17/01/2026This uv cheatsheet lists 40+ of the most and useful uv commands. It groups the commands into 9 sections that correspond to major features/capabilities that uv has. The cheatsheet is free to download and comes in light mode, dark mode, and high-contrast mode. mathspp.gumroad.com/l/cheatsheet... 043
Reposted by Alberto Torres BarránElectronic Frontier Foundation @eff.org · 11/12/2025#E2EE must be explicitly protected, and client-side scanning must be excluded entirely. www.eff.org/deeplinks/2...eff.orgAfter Years of Controversy, the EU’s Chat Control Nears Its FinalAfter 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 011340
Reposted by Alberto Torres Barránrmoff 🏃♂️🫖🥓 @rmoff.net · 14/11/2025A step-by-step guide to building a key-value database from scratch: www.nan.fyi/database - love the explainer/interactive animation in this 0105
Reposted by Alberto Torres Barránderek guy @dieworkwear.bsky.social · 14/11/2025crazy IG em_clarkson 157110472499
Alberto Torres Barrán @albertotb.com · 29/10/2025I'm actually not sure. I installed it in PowerShell and /doctor command showsthe info in the picture. But I don't know if underneath it uses git bash, because I've just realized that I happened to habe that installed as well. 100
Alberto Torres Barrán @albertotb.com · 28/10/2025Agree, I hate this. Most of the time I cannot find the content I saw earlier because the feed changed completely. 030
Reposted by Alberto Torres BarránPeter W🤓 @wang.social · 28/10/2025Why is it that all modern apps with “feeds” like social media apps or even reading apps like Medium, Substack, etc. exhibit the anti pattern of refreshing and losing your spot if you switch away for even a minute? It’s absolutely infuriating. 5704
Alberto Torres Barrán @albertotb.com · 27/10/2025Actually, if you go to alternative installation methods, it can also be installed in PowerShell. At least that is how I did it 100
Reposted by Alberto Torres BarránAchim Zeileis @zeileis.org · 17/10/2025💡 Came across this nice tool today: 🎨 qualpal for algorithmically choosing maximally distinct colors under certain restrictions #dataviz JOSS paper, online tool, R package #rstats joss.theoj.org/papers/10.21...joss.theoj.orgQualpal: Qualitative Color Palettes for EveryoneLarsson, J., (2025). Qualpal: Qualitative Color Palettes for Everyone. Journal of Open Source Software, 10(114), 8936, https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.08936 15213
Reposted by Alberto Torres BarránAnil Dash @anildash.com · 17/10/2025"I have a decent fluency in LLMs, and they have utility, but the absurd degree of over-hype, the way they're being forced on everyone, and the insistence on ignoring the many valid critiques about them make it very difficult to focus on legitimate uses where they might add value." 291435218
Alberto Torres Barrán @albertotb.com · 16/10/2025Interesting, since everyone is mentioning this as a big deal I though I did not understand it correctly (great post btw). Maybe I'm thinking too much about Claude Code and this is more useful in Claude web and the such... 100
Alberto Torres Barrán @albertotb.com · 16/10/2025What am I missing, isn't this just basically the same as having those tools/scripts in a folder and list them in CLAUDE.md, describing what they can do, with maybe an extra markdown file with instructions? I don't really see the big gains here... Are we really reinventing folders, mds and scripts?claude.mdClaude Code overview - Claude DocsLearn about Claude Code, Anthropic's agentic coding tool that lives in your terminal and helps you turn ideas into code faster than ever before. 120
Reposted by Alberto Torres BarránRami Krispin @ramikrispin.bsky.social · 16/10/2025(1/3) Introduction to Multi-Stage Build 🐳👇🏼 The size of the image is a function of its dependencies and the efficiency of the image build. This tutorial focuses on resizing a #Python image using minimal images as our baseline and the multi-stage method. medium.com/data-science... #docker #mlopsmedium.comIntroduction to Multi-Stage Image Build for PythonThis post introduces the Multi-Stage build approach for setting up a lightweight dockerized Python development environment. 132
Reposted by Alberto Torres BarránRodrigo Girão Serrão 🐍🚀 @mathspp.com · 10/10/2025I've turned this blog post cheatsheet into a downloadable cheatsheet. You can get the cheatsheet from here: mathspp.com/blog/uv-chea... 072
Reposted by Alberto Torres Barránsustrato @sustrato.bsky.social · 02/10/2025Regresa @picanumeros.bsky.social para poner los superíndices sobre los sumatorios: contra la brocha gorda estadística y la varianza de barra de bar: «No se están “cocinando” los datos de forma maquiavélica para mostrar una realidad que no es» www.sustrato.io/textos/homer...sustrato.ioHomer y la estadística pública | Ramón Ferri (Picanúmeros)Hay que decirlo más: la estadística pública está en el punto de mira y nos afecta más de lo que pensamos. 046
Reposted by Alberto Torres BarránWillem Hilhorst @whilhorst.bsky.social · 19/09/2025For those on LinkedIn who aren't aware. By default all profiles have now 'Data for Generative AI Improvement' turned on. You can turn it off via: Settings > Data Privacy > Data for Generative AI Improvement > Select the OFF option. Do not feed the planet-destroying machine!✊ 45029
Alberto Torres Barrán @albertotb.com · 14/09/2025By the way, what’s a AA? open.substack.com/pub/hushcras...open.substack.comBy the way, what’s a AA?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... 000
Reposted by Alberto Torres BarránArvy @arvy.bsky.social · 14/09/2025I love this analytical take on video game categorization from Antoine Mayerowitz and Julie Belzanne: hushcrasher.substack.com/p/taxonomy-o... Instead of trying to vibe-intuit the definition of an "indie" game, the authors analyzed the data from the perspective of game size and credits length 311464550
