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Electronic music, software developer, Pythonista, Retrocomputing enthusiast, microcontrollers, Oberheim, Synology, Astronomy, 80’s music, thinking about learning Rust. I miss Analog Heaven.
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submitted 5 days ago • 129 comments

🐍📺 A Beginner's Guide to Pip [Video] In this beginner-friendly course, you'll learn how to use pip, the standard package manager for Python, so that you can install and manage additional packages that are not part of the Python standard library. #python

submitted 6 days ago • 1 comment

submitted 6 days ago • 164 comments

uv is one year old today. Hard to believe its only been a year. The growth, adoption, and impact surpassed my wildest expectations. Happy birthday, uv! 🥳

submitted 6 days ago • 16 comments

What were Stephen Hawkings last words? - Inspired to explore the Universe? Get your own telescope here: https://amzn.to/40NGV8Q or use Telescope Finder Tool at https://www.telescopeadvisor.com/telescope-finder-tool.php #Astronomy #AmazonAffiliate #STEM

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

Jul 17, 2016: The James Webb Space Telescope's wing is folded in preparation for launch at NASA Goddard, showcasing its intricate mirror segments. flic.kr/p/JzWQrS

submitted 7 days ago • 1 comment

I just got the final PDF of my book on how debuggers work! Looking forward to finding a typo on page 3 and renaming it _FINAL_2.pdf. Pre-orders are still 25% off:

submitted 8 days ago • 7 comments

pytest 8.3.3 released to PyPI. Conda-forge following soon. Bug fix release, all users recommended to upgrade! 👍 docs.pytest.org/en/stable/ch... #pytest

submitted 165 days ago • 0 comments

We’re building a new static type checker for Python, from scratch, in Rust. From a technical perspective, it’s probably our most ambitious project yet. We’re about 800 PRs deep!

submitted 23 days ago • 34 comments

Just made a new pytest-rich release: github.com/nicoddemus/p... The situation is still the same: the project is looking for new maintainers, if this is something you are interested in, please speak up! 😁 #pytest #python

submitted 71 days ago • 0 comments

A federal judge just ordered the Trump administration to restore CDC, FDA and HHS webpages that Trump had ordered to be deleted. This comes after doctors sued the Trump administration for interfering with their treatment of patients.

submitted 10 days ago • 116 comments

submitted 12 days ago • 356 comments

Egg prices are surging, gas prices are up, and planes are crashing on a near-daily basis. And this is what the White House is focused on.

submitted 11 days ago • 2375 comments

@simonwillison.net - I’ve just listened to the Real Python interview with you on LLMs. You mentioned that Half Moon Bay has a large population of penguins. We have been going there a few times a month for over 10 years but never saw any penguins. Where are they located?

submitted 13 days ago • 1 comment