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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…
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…
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…
Written by Jacob Coffee, Director of Engineering at the Python Software Foundation Working on infrastructure at the Python Software Foundation (PSF) as the Director of Engineering is a broad job with many hats. Python…
Python programs often need to be run inside a venv in order to allow the use of packages from pypi.org. But creating and entering a venv before running a script is a barrier, especially if a python program has been…
Your site is down. It's 3am. Is it a bug, a bill, or a breach? You can't tell yet, and everyone is watching you find out. Matt Lea has spent fifteen years being the person companies call when an outage is costing them…
Hi everyone. This is another one of those “frozen/freezable object” thoughts. Most user-defined “immutable” objects are made via subclassing and overriding __setattr__ (or the more convenient…
Learn how to use Claude Code to build and debug Python projects with natural-language commands right from your terminal.
Test your understanding of how to review AI-generated Python code, from automated checks to the bugs that coding agents get wrong most often.
Test your understanding of Claude Code by working through installation, plan mode, diff review, and debugging a Python project.
Django’s Count expression only works on a single column, which makes counting distinct combinations such as unique pet-vet pairs awkward. A custom CountSubquery shows how Django’s expression system can generate the…
