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04 Aug 2026 edition

19 articles · 13 sources ·

Top topics: Python · Django · AI

Python AI Django

llm-anthropic 0.26

Release: llm-anthropic 0.26 Includes new features enabled by LLM 0.32: New models: claude-fable-5, claude-sonnet-5, and claude-opus-5. #75, #76 Added server-side tools for WebSearch, WebFetch, CodeExecution, and…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx

PipeNetwork/minimax-h3-mlx MiniMax released MiniMax-H3 two days ago - they describe it as a "a general-purpose, omni-modal generative system", which in practice means it accepts text, images, audio and video and can use…

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Python AI Django

llm 0.32

Release: llm 0.32 See my detailed blog post about this release. Tags: llm

Source: Simon Willison's Weblog
Rust

[feat] `#[doctest(off)]` for forward comment scenario

feat #[doctest(off)] for forward comment scenario problem https://crates.io/crates/typify Crate typify have 26,523,578 total downloads. Test failures occur because comments are forwarded without being sanitized, due to…

Source: Rust Internals Forum loynoir
Django Python

Django security releases issued: 6.0.8 and 5.2.17

In accordance with our security release policy, the Django team is issuing releases for Django 6.0.8 and Django 5.2.17. These releases address the security issues detailed below. We encourage all users of Django to…

Source: Django Weblog Natalia Bidart
Java

This Week in Spring - August 4th, 2026

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's the 4th of August! We're already in month eight of this year! Great Scott! This is an interesting project to help ensure idempotency keys for…

Source: Spring Blog joshlong
Java

Idempotent REST Endpoints Without the Boilerplate

Stop Charging Your Users Twice: Idempotent REST Endpoints with One Annotation The problem nobody talks about until production A user taps "Pay." The request times out. Their app retries. Your server charges them twice.…

Source: Foojay Today Youssef Ben Henda
Python

Sending Emails Using Python

Learn how to send emails with Python using SMTP and smtplib, attach files, format HTML messages, and personalize bulk emails.

Source: Real Python
Python

Quiz: Sending Emails Using Python

Test what you know about sending email from Python with smtplib, building messages with EmailMessage, and connecting to real servers over SSL.

Source: Real Python
JavaScript React

Reimplementing htmx from scratch

#​797 — August 4, 2026 Read on the Web JavaScript Weekly Next.js 16.3 Released — The newly expanded Next.js team (now including Dan Abramov and 𝕏 Pete Hunt!) has dropped the latest version of the popular React…

Source: JavaScript Weekly