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Understanding ChatGPT Work

OpenAI announced ChatGPT Work on July 9th, and have been furiously iterating on it ever since. It is an extraordinarily confusing and very powerful product. Here's what I've figured out about it so far. ChatGPT Work is…

Forgejo hack #2: Integration with Read The Docs

In this second Forgejo Hack installment I'll tell you how to connect a git repository that lives in your self-hosted Forgejo instance to Read the Docs, so that commits to the repository automatically trigger…

Paolo Melchiorre: My DjangoCon US 2026

My DjangoCon US 2026 experience in Chicago, captured through Mastodon posts about talks, my UUID talk, Django community activities, people, and moments along the way.

8 Tips for Writing Effective Agent Instructions

Quick and simple tips to help you write better agent instructions The post 8 Tips for Writing Effective Agent Instructions appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Context Engineering Is Changing. Here’s What It Means for Data Scientists

How to apply the latest context engineering guidelines to your day-to-day data science work The post Context Engineering Is Changing. Here’s What It Means for Data Scientists appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Why not add Inline Caches (IC) for CPython

Hey. I’ve been reading the draft of PEP 836 (JIT Go Brrr) recently, and I’m quite interested in the future performance direction of CPython. However, when I got to the sections about “evolving the tracing frontend to a…

Noisy Text in RAG: Typos, OCR, and the Gap Classical Spell-Check Leaves

Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #B1] - Three sources of one problem. User typos, fast-typing transcription noise, OCR character errors. Classical spell-check handles one of them. Embeddings carry the rest The…

What's missing to have reproducible builds on PyPI

The article explores what Python packaging is missing to support reproducible builds on PyPI, allowing third parties to verify that distributions match their source code and haven't been tampered with. It proposes…

15 Python Libraries That Deserve More Attention

This is a roundup of 15 Python libraries that can make code cleaner, faster, and easier to maintain across areas like configuration, serialization, testing, scheduling, and UI development. It also highlights practical…

Tencent / AI-Infra-Guard

A full-stack AI Red Teaming platform securing AI ecosystems via Agent Scan, Skills Scan, MCP scan, AI Infra scan and LLM jailbreak evaluation.

OpenFlight

OpenFlight is an open-source golf launch monitor built around the OPS243-A Doppler radar, with an optional TI IWR6843 angle radar.

The Mullet Stack - JavaScript in the front, Python in the back.

This is a practical guide to building a modern full-stack application with FastAPI and Pydantic on the Python backend and React and TypeScript on the frontend. It explores how their different type systems work together…

Basic Memory

Plain Markdown files, semantic connections, and a knowledge graph that grows with every conversation. Open source, local-first, works with any AI.

Thinking in Python by Bruce Eckel

SimplifyJobs / Summer2027-Internships

Summer 2027 software engineering, data science, AI, quant, product management, and hardware internship postings. Updated daily by Simplify and Pitt CSC.

Tencent opensource AI Red Teaming platform

A full-stack AI Red Teaming platform securing AI ecosystems via Agent Scan, Skills Scan, MCP scan, AI Infra scan and LLM jailbreak evaluation.

Soup

Fine-tune and post-train LLMs in one command. No SSH, no config hell.

Lians

Evidence-backed proof of done for Claude Code, Codex, Cursor, and other AI coding agents. Run real checks, bind results to current Git state, and know what is ready for human review.

Creating PySide6 UI without .ui / Qt Designer

Build your entire GUI in pure Python code, no .ui files required.

django-waffle - the best Feature Flipper for Django!

This is an introduction to django-waffle, a production-ready Django package for controlling feature rollouts through flags, switches, and sampling. It enables gradual releases, A/B testing, and quick kill switches for…