This is an early release. Staticware does something very satisfyingly today: it serves static files with content-hashed URLs for cache busting. That means when you edit your CSS then redeploy and restart your server, visitors get the latest CSS without forcing a refresh. More will come.
BinaryOrNot identifies binary files three ways: by extension, by file signature, and by content analysis. Pass it any file path and it tells you binary or text, accurately, across PNGs, PDFs, executables, archives, fonts, CJK-encoded text, and hundreds of other formats.
If you've ever had BinaryOrNot misidentify a UTF-16 file, choke on a CJK-encoded document, or crash because chardet changed its API, this release is for you.
You know that thing where you release an album, it's on the shelves, people are buying it, and then someone points out the spine says it's your previous album? That's what happened with Cookiecutter 2.7.0. We put out the long-awaited release with 27 improvements and 17 contributors, and cookiecutter -V proudly announced: **2.6.0**.
Cookiecutter 2.7.0 is tested on Python 3.10 through 3.14, ships with a security policy documenting the trust model for template hook scripts, and publishes to PyPI with cryptographic provenance so you can verify every release. Seventeen contributors from the community helped build it.
Air Web Framework exists not just because we created it, but because of the support we got soft-launching it at Python Philippines and running its first sprint at PyCon Davao. Now, Air is a PythonAsia 2026 community partner.
I've put out the biggest release of cookiecutter-pypackage since the modern rewrite. Generated projects now ship with a documentation site, type checking, cross-version coverage enforcement, and security-hardened CI, all configured and working out of the box.
We recently reviewed a pull request from contributor Martin Saizar that refactored our Python tests. The goal was to enable the PyTest (PT) linter rule in Ruff, our code formatter and linter.
On a recent flight from Japan to the Philippines, Pydanny and I started coding a new project. The result is **AirDragon**, a layout and component library for the Air web framework.
I co-led the first ever Air web framework sprint in Davao, Philippines, as part of Day 2 of PyCon Davao on October 26, 2025.
Slides from my keynote at PyCon Davao 2025, the first regional Filipino conference for Python programming enthusiasts.
Air is a pioneering AI-first Python web framework that represents the next evolution in web frameworks to be deeply AI-native.
If you need to run Python applications from PyPI without installing them permanently, uvx provides a convenient way to execute Python tools without having to manage dependencies manually.
How to get JSON into a local SQLite database fast.
Continuing the Sentence Transformers exploration, I use a cross-encoder model to rank my notebooks by similarity to search queries.