# python (blogs) — RSS Amplifier Recent posts from the 1447 feeds in the RSS Amplifier directory that cover python. Page: Feed: --- ## [DjangoCon US 2026](https://www.paulox.net/2026/08/26/djangocon-us-2026/) _2026-08-25 · Paolo Melchiorre · Paolo Melchiorre_ DjangoCon US is a six-day international conference for the community by the community about the Django web framework, held each year in North America. ## [DjangoCon US 2026](https://www.paulox.net/2026/08/24/djangocon-us-2026/) _2026-08-23 · Paolo Melchiorre · Paolo Melchiorre_ DjangoCon US is a six-day international conference for the community by the community about the Django web framework, held each year in North America. ## [Wasat v1.4.0](https://blog.davep.org/2026/08/23/wasat-v1-4-0.html) _2026-08-23 · davep_ Another bump to Wasat , this being v1.4.0 . This release is in support of some work I want to do on Rogallo , where I intend to add proper client certificate management. While Wasat provided good support for the generation, storage, and use of client certificates, there was no real public API that would allow for the management of those certificates. This version addresses that. Now there are… ## [A quote from Linus Torvalds](https://waylonwalker.com/a-quote-from-linus-torvalds/) _2026-08-22 · hello@waylonwalker.com · Archive_ Will models become more stubborn as we use them more and feed us using them as long running agents where we simply ask for what seems to be an impossible... ## [Quoting Linus Torvalds](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/22/linus-torvalds/) _2026-08-22 · Simon Willison's Weblog_ And this was a debug session from hell, enormously helped by an AI doing much of the grunt-work. I'd like to call it my tireless helper, but the AI several times stated flat out that this was impossible and unsolvable and that we should just write a report about it. I suspect those things have been trained by people who may not be quite as stubborn as I am. But while the AI was ready to give up… ## [Quoting Linus Torvalds](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/22/linus-torvalds/) _2026-08-22 · Simon Willison's Weblog_ And this was a debug session from hell, enormously helped by an AI doing much of the grunt-work. I'd like to call it my tireless helper, but the AI several times stated flat out that this was impossible and unsolvable and that we should just write a report about it. I suspect those things have been trained by people who may not be quite as stubborn as I am. But while the AI was ready to give up… ## [llm 0.33](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/22/llm/) _2026-08-22 · Simon Willison's Weblog_ Release: llm 0.33 My highlights from this release: Upgraded to the OpenAI Python library 3.x and switched the HTTP client dependency from httpx to httpx2 . #1608 , #1631 I shipped a quick 0.32.1 fix for this yesterday, but this is the more comprehensive fix. llm embed and llm embed-multi now accept --key . The Python EmbeddingModel.embed() , EmbeddingModel.embed\_multi() , Collection.embed() and… ## [llm 0.33](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/22/llm/) _2026-08-22 · Simon Willison's Weblog_ Release: llm 0.33 My highlights from this release: Upgraded to the OpenAI Python library 3.x and switched the HTTP client dependency from httpx to httpx2 . #1608 , #1631 I shipped a quick 0.32.1 fix for this yesterday, but this is the more comprehensive fix. llm embed and llm embed-multi now accept --key . The Python EmbeddingModel.embed() , EmbeddingModel.embed\_multi() , Collection.embed() and… ## [More than just code review](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/22/more-than-just-code-review/) _2026-08-22 · Simon Willison's Weblog_ The key skill required to make productive use of coding agents is being able to confidently instruct them on how to make changes and then confidently verify that those changes have been applied in the correct way. Sometimes this involves reviewing every line of code they have written, but there are other ways to achieve that goal. Eyeballing every line of code has never been the most effective way… ## [NOAA's National Blend of Models: What It Is and Why We Switched to It](https://predictandprofit.io/blog/2026-08-22-noaas-national-blend-of-models-what-it-is-and-why-we-switched-to-it) _2026-08-22 · support@predictandprofit.io (Steve Farmer) · Predict & Profit Blog_ A practical breakdown of NOAA's National Blend of Models — what it is, how it works, and why we stopped hand-rolling a worse version of it. ## [Find it on Amazon (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/eUfUzDdXzWTa) _2026-08-22 · **Sponsored**_ Open the Amazon product listing to see details and availability ## [Rogallo v1.12.0](https://blog.davep.org/2026/08/22/rogallo-v1-12-0.html) _2026-08-22 · davep_ I've released v1.12.0 of Rogallo . This version contains a number of internal changes, as well as some user-facing improvements. Improved navigation history For a wee while now I've been wanting to tweak the way the navigation history works. Up until this release, this was simply a backward/forward affair with no attempt to restore the actual context of a page you've gone back to. This could best… ## [second brain slop is dumb](https://waylonwalker.com/ping-72/) _2026-08-22 · hello@waylonwalker.com · Archive_ The second brain hype train of people looking at fancy graphs in obsidian of the content their clanker wrote for them is top tier cringe. If you actually... ## [PCARVFL vs CTGAN for synthetic tabular data generation on an insurance pricing dataset](https://thierrymoudiki.github.io/blog/2026/08/22/python/pcarvfl-vs-ctgan-insurance) _2026-08-22 · Thierry Moudiki’s webpage_ This notebook applies PCARVFLSimulator (from the Python package synthe) — a GAN-like tabular data synthesizer built from PCA scores, a Random Vector Functional-Link (RVFL) network, and residual bootstrapping — to the French Motor Third-Party Liability (freMTPL2) data found in PNM0792/auto-insurance-pricing, and compares it against CTGAN, a GAN architecture purpose-built for tabular data. ## [llm 0.32.1](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/21/llm/) _2026-08-21 · Simon Willison's Weblog_ Release: llm 0.32.1 Fresh installs of LLM stopped working the other day because the OpenAI Python library dropped its usage of httpx , and it turned out LLM depended on that library but only installed it via a transitive openai dependency. This dot-release fixes that for the moment by pinning to openai\<3 , and a soon-to-drop 0.33 release will switch from httpx to httpx2 . Tags: httpx , openai ,… ## [Stop Making TUIs](https://waylonwalker.com/stop-making-tuis/) _2026-08-21 · hello@waylonwalker.com · Archive_ Hard to argue this so hard here. For me it's convenience. I work from a terminal most things that are real work get done there so this provide a convenient... ## [llm-openrouter 0.7](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/21/llm-openrouter/) _2026-08-21 · Simon Willison's Weblog_ Release: llm-openrouter 0.7 Now that this plugin is compatible with LLM 0.32 it works much better with reasoning LLMs available through OpenRouter. Updated for compatibility with LLM 0.32 . Models now use OpenRouter's implementation of the Responses API . Three new server-side tools: Shell , WebFetch , and WebSearch . Enable these with options like -T WebSearch . Tags: llm , openrouter ## [Stop Making TUIs](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/21/stop-making-tuis/) _2026-08-21 · Simon Willison's Weblog_ Stop Making TUIs Thomas Ptacek advocates for building real native user interfaces for even the smallest of personal tools, because coding agents have reduced the cost of getting a usable-enough GUI up and running to almost nothing. I wrote about my vibe-coded bandwidth and GPU monitoring macOS task bar apps back in March , and I'm still using both of those on a daily basis. I'm not habitually… ## [Stop Making TUIs](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/21/stop-making-tuis/) _2026-08-21 · Simon Willison's Weblog_ Stop Making TUIs Thomas Ptacek advocates for building real native user interfaces for even the smallest of personal tools, because coding agents have reduced the cost of getting a usable-enough GUI up and running to almost nothing. I wrote about my vibe-coded bandwidth and GPU monitoring macOS task bar apps back in March , and I'm still using both of those on a daily basis. I'm not habitually… ## [Quoting Matt Webb](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/21/matt-webb/) _2026-08-21 · Simon Willison's Weblog_ After I released version 1.0, I figured I would have to do the rotations myself. So I sat down with ChatGPT and I didn’t get it to write the code, but I got it to educate me. With a patient, interactive tutor, I was able to finally do what I hadn’t by reading books and asking mathematician friends – I learnt how to use quaternions just enough to make the app work. So learning doesn’t stop just… ## [Quoting Matt Webb](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/21/matt-webb/) _2026-08-21 · Simon Willison's Weblog_ After I released version 1.0, I figured I would have to do the rotations myself. So I sat down with ChatGPT and I didn’t get it to write the code, but I got it to educate me. With a patient, interactive tutor, I was able to finally do what I hadn’t by reading books and asking mathematician friends – I learnt how to use quaternions just enough to make the app work. So learning doesn’t stop just… ## [Non-Custodial Crypto Gateway (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/hgeBti5JaW8V) _2026-08-21 · **Sponsored**_ Accept multi-chain crypto, automated fee handling, and trustless escrow with real-time settlement. ## [GitHub social preview is broken](https://blog.davep.org/2026/08/21/github-social-preview-is-broken.html) _2026-08-21 · davep_ Earlier today, now that Rogallo has matured a fair bit, I thought I'd update the banner image and, in doing so, refresh the "social preview" for the repository . This is easy enough, and something I've done plenty of times with plenty of projects. You just go into the general settings and upload a new image. So, I faffed in Pixelmator Pro for a short while, got the new banner going, and then… ## [Probability Calibration for Binary Markets: Why 98% Confidence Should Scare You](https://predictandprofit.io/blog/2026-08-21-probability-calibration-for-binary-markets-why-98-confidence-should-scare-you) _2026-08-21 · support@predictandprofit.io (Steve Farmer) · Predict & Profit Blog_ If your model says 95% and wins 60% of the time, it's not right often enough to matter — it's just confidently wrong. Here's how to measure that gap and fix it. ## [ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/20/chatgpt-search-now-uses-the-siteoperator-at-scale/) _2026-08-20 · Simon Willison's Weblog_ ChatGPT search now uses the site:operator at scale Promptwatch is part of the emerging "GEO" space, for Generative Engine Optimization - the chatbot version of SEO, where companies offer tools and consulting to help your site increase its presence in replies to prompts inside tools like ChatGPT. The Promptwatch product uses automation to track responses to prompts across end-user chat products… ## [Emuladores para MS-DOS](https://www.infotronikblog.com/2026/08/emuladores-para-ms-dos.html) _2026-08-20 · Peyutron · infotronikblog_ Muy buenas a todos y todas y Bienvenidos a los 90's!!! Hoy en día tener un emulador instalado en nuestro PC es algo normal, incluso hay recopilatorios de estos tipo RetroPie que reúnen una gran variedad de este tipo de programas. Incluso emuladores del propio MS-DOS como DosBox . Pero cuando hablamos de emuladores en en sistema operativo MS-DOS nos estamos adentrando en el origen de cualquier… ## [A shot-scraper-style JSON API on Bun 1.4's new Bun.WebView](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/20/bun-webview-json-api/) _2026-08-20 · Simon Willison's Weblog_ Research: A shot-scraper-style JSON API on Bun 1.4's new Bun.WebView Today saw the long awaited release of Bun 1.4 , the first stable version since the infamous Rust rewrite a few months ago . Interestingly, the Rust rewrite was downplayed in the release notes, which introduced a bewildering array of new features and claimed 2,900 additional bug fixes: Bun 1.4 adds +1,517 tests from the Node.js… ## [Visualizing Trade Timestamps Against DST Transitions: The Chart That Revealed the Bug](https://predictandprofit.io/blog/2026-08-20-visualizing-trade-timestamps-against-dst-transitions-the-chart-that-revealed-the-bug) _2026-08-20 · support@predictandprofit.io (Steve Farmer) · Predict & Profit Blog_ When logs showed nothing useful, a single matplotlib chart made the pattern obvious: every losing trade fell inside the DST window. ## [BagOfStuff v2.0.0](https://blog.davep.org/2026/08/20/bagofstuff-v2-0-0.html) _2026-08-20 · davep_ I've just made a small update to BagOfStuff , my little support library for my personal Python-based FOSS projects. This release makes some more changes to the history classes, adding an add\_or\_replace method, and also making some improvements to the type hinting by basing the classes on MutableSequence rather than Sequence . While the history classes were originally intended to feel immutable,… ## [Fabric Data Agents: Chat With Your Data in OneLake](https://jannikreinhard.com/fabric-data-agents/) _2026-08-20 · jannikreinhard · Jannik Reinhard_ In this blog post I explain what Fabric data agents are and how you build one. A Fabric data agent lets your colleagues ask plain-English questions about the data in OneLake — and it answers with real, governed queries against lakehouses, warehouses, KQL databases and semantic models. ## [On The Edge](https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/p/y/) _2026-08-20 · ronjeffries.com_ --\> Hello, loves! We’d like the dungeon picture to fill the window out to the edge. I’m not as quick as some ideal person who wasn’t here, but I think I’ve got a handle on it. We’re still in the task of simplifying our graphical display code. After a quick review of recent changes, we need to address this need: Thinking about the Need Generally, we scroll the dungeon picture to keep Dot in the… ## [Boomer Chat Achiement Unlocked](https://waylonwalker.com/shots/boomer-chat-achiement-unlocked/) _2026-08-20 · hello@waylonwalker.com · Archive_ boomer chat achiement unlocked ## [Ship software peacefully (Sponsored)](https://crawlproof.com/a/dtNqLlO1IdGh) _2026-08-20 · **Sponsored**_ Connect your repo and deploy instantly — Railway handles config, scaling, and monitoring. ## [smolmachines / smolvm as a sandbox for untrusted Python & JavaScript](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/19/smolmachines-untrusted-sandbox/) _2026-08-19 · Simon Willison's Weblog_ Research: smolmachines / smolvm as a sandbox for untrusted Python & JavaScript I tasked Claude Fable 5 running in Claude Code for web with the following research task: Put https://smolmachines.com through its paces as a fast secure sandbox. Explore what it would take to use this to run untrusted Python and JavaScript code in a way that is limited in what RAM and CPU time it can take up (protection… ## [Quoting Jeremy Morrell](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/19/jeremy-morrell/) _2026-08-19 · Simon Willison's Weblog_ My hypothesis is that there is a new opportunity for Extensible Software on the web . LLMs radically lower the cost of authoring extensions, and modern sandbox primitives lower the deployment cost and provide good security boundaries. We can build our app as a solid, accountable core, and allow users to safely extend it in many directions by having LLMs fill in the missing pieces. We can give our… ## [Quoting Jeremy Morrell](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/19/jeremy-morrell/) _2026-08-19 · Simon Willison's Weblog_ My hypothesis is that there is a new opportunity for Extensible Software on the web . LLMs radically lower the cost of authoring extensions, and modern sandbox primitives lower the deployment cost and provide good security boundaries. We can build our app as a solid, accountable core, and allow users to safely extend it in many directions by having LLMs fill in the missing pieces. We can give our… ## [Conceptual integrity and counting lines of code](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/19/conceptual-integrity-and-counting-lines-of-code/) _2026-08-19 · Simon Willison's Weblog_ Last week I recorded an episode of the Talking Postgres podcast with Claire Giordano on the subject of "How AI is changing software development". We had a really great conversation. Here are a couple of my highlights from a lightly edited transcript (prompt to Claude: "very minor edits to remove disfluencies"). This is the latest version of an argument I've been trying to build about why sometimes… ## [Rogallo v1.11.0](https://blog.davep.org/2026/08/19/rogallo-v1-11-0.html) _2026-08-19 · davep_ A quick little update to Rogallo , bumping to v1.11.0 . This release is mainly in support of people who like to use the mouse as much as, if not more than, the keyboard; and also in support of people who might wish to reclaim a couple of lines of display for actual content. The main change in this release is that I've swapped out the header line that Rogallo used to have (which used the stock… ## [How to Query Kalshi's Metadata API for Correct Settlement Specifications](https://predictandprofit.io/blog/2026-08-19-how-to-query-kalshis-metadata-api-for-correct-settlement-specifications) _2026-08-19 · support@predictandprofit.io (Steve Farmer) · Predict & Profit Blog_ A complete working tutorial for querying Kalshi's /events and /markets endpoints to pull correct weather station settlement specs, with copy-paste Python code. ## [In My Defense ...](https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/p/z/) _2026-08-19 · ronjeffries.com_ --\> Hello, loves! In my defense … I don’t think I’ve ever actually claimed to be good at this. Let’s try, I don’t know … simplicity? Our current task has to do with putting a column of images over on the right side of the screen, which is supposed to contain images of the items in Dot’s inventory. I struggled in yesterday’s article, trying to get the column in the right place, of the right size,… ## [Caps Bed Adhesion](https://waylonwalker.com/shots/caps-bed-adhesion/) _2026-08-19 · hello@waylonwalker.com · Archive_ Bed adhesion options in caps. ## [Mojo🔥 is now open source](https://simonwillison.net/2026/Aug/18/mojo-is-now-open-source/) _2026-08-18 · Simon Willison's Weblog_ Mojo🔥 is now open source Mojo🔥 is now open source The Mojo programming language has been promising an open source release since May 2023 . Last week they shipped their 1.0 and today they have followed through on that original promise, releasing the compiler and toolchain under an Apache 2 license. When Mojo first launched the stated goal was to produce a superset of Python, so existing Python… ## [Cracked Caps](https://waylonwalker.com/shots/cracked-caps/) _2026-08-18 · hello@waylonwalker.com · Archive_ I learned that my caps were set to interface fit and most crack on install. Making the + pattern bigger makes them easier to get on and actually hold tighter. ## [agentic engineering takes discipline](https://waylonwalker.com/ping-71/) _2026-08-18 · hello@waylonwalker.com · Archive_ Agents allow so much scope creep it is harder to say no than it is to say yes, and let the model just pop in a new feature for you alongside you current pr... ## [I’m done with terminals](https://waylonwalker.com/im-done-with-terminals/) _2026-08-18 · hello@waylonwalker.com · Archive_ Hard agree with Theo, terminals suck to use on a phone. Unless you have an attached keyboard they are unusable IMHO. ## [49 New Automated Tests: How We Prevent the Same Bugs from Coming Back](https://predictandprofit.io/blog/2026-08-18-49-new-automated-tests-how-we-prevent-the-same-bugs-from-coming-back) _2026-08-18 · support@predictandprofit.io (Steve Farmer) · Predict & Profit Blog_ After a post-mortem found 7 defects in 112 trades, we wrote 49 automated tests to make sure none of them can quietly return. ## [The Rise of AI and Its Implications for Entrepreneurs](https://incolumitas.com/2026/08/18/the-rise-of-ai-and-its-implications-for-entrepreneurs/) _2026-08-18 · Nikolai Tschacher · incolumitas.com_ Will AI get more powerful and what are the implications for people that create new businesses? ## [Rogallo v1.10.0](https://blog.davep.org/2026/08/18/rogallo-v1-10-0.html) _2026-08-18 · davep_ Rogallo v1.10.0 has been released. This is a pretty small release, with a bug fix to navigation, and an improvement to how navigable Markdown documents are if viewed in the application. In Rogallo v1.8.0 I made some changes to how Markdown documents are shown, if they're encountered and detected in Geminispace (or any of the other protocol spaces that might let you know the content type of a… ## [Agent Skills vs MCP: When to Use Which for AI Agents](https://jannikreinhard.com/agent-skills-vs-mcp/) _2026-08-18 · jannikreinhard · Jannik Reinhard_ My post about CLI tools vs MCP became my most successful post so far, and one follow-up question came up again and again: where do Agent Skills fit in? In this blog post I compare Skills vs MCP and give you a simple decision guide for when to use which. ## [Inventory?](https://ronjeffries.com/articles/-v026/q/a/) _2026-08-18 · ronjeffries.com_ --\> Hello, loves! Let’s take a look at displaying Dot’s inventory in some reasonable way. Some spiking yields a bit of insight. Tout le monde déteste l’IA. If this program were a game, there would be a display of the current values of Dot’s attributes, Equanimity, Savoir Faire, Opulence, Ostentation , or whatever attributes she has, and of the items in her inventory, potions, magical items,… ## [Any Guesses What I’M Printing](https://waylonwalker.com/shots/any-guesses-what-im-printing/) _2026-08-18 · hello@waylonwalker.com · Archive_ Any Guesses What I'm Printing ## [Nobody Ran It](https://williamzujkowski.github.io/posts/2026-08-18-checks-that-pass-for-the-wrong-reason/) _2026-08-18 · William Zujkowski_ Ninety agent-assisted posts, audited against source. The defects weren't bad reasoning — they were artifacts nobody had ever executed. Why models produce that, why review can't see it, and what actually catches it. ## [The Policy Is the Part That Moves](https://williamzujkowski.github.io/posts/2026-08-18-the-policy-is-the-part-that-moves/) _2026-08-18 · William Zujkowski_ A proved gate is only as good as the policy it enforces, and the policy is the part that changes while the agent is running. What OSCAL and the agent-authorization drafts both assume, and what breaks.