The daily ledger

Quoting voxium

It has been half a month since I started a new role at a big company. Nobody knows anything here. The specs, code, tests, PRDs, tickets, resolution of those tickets, reports, etc., everything is made by Claude Code.…

MCP was always a bad idea?

My comment on MCP was always a bad idea? — Hacker News. This article entirely misses the value that MCP brings today. Sure, there's almost no reason to use MCPs if you are running a full-blown terminal agent (Claude…

llm-keys-ui 0.1

Release: llm-keys-ui 0.1 This plugin solves a very specific problem. I've started using Codex Remote to run coding agents on various machines while controlling them from my phone. Sometimes I use those machines to hack…

datasette-explain 0.2.2

Release: datasette-explain 0.2.2 Explain plans now work on read-only stored-query pages. I upgraded datasette.simonwillison.net to Datasette 1.0a40, which inspired me to ship a new version of this explain plugin. Tags:…

GraphRAG: A Practitioner's Guide to 6 Advanced Architectural Patterns

Beyond basic graph retrieval: six production-oriented architectures for combining semantic search, knowledge graphs, and LLM reasoning. The post GraphRAG: A Practitioner's Guide to 6 Advanced Architectural Patterns…

CBAM Paper Walkthrough: The Double-Attention Mechanism

Understanding and implementing CBAM (Convolutional Block Attention Module) from scratch with PyTorch The post CBAM Paper Walkthrough: The Double-Attention Mechanism appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Quiz: Null in Python: Understanding Python's NoneType Object

Learn how None works as the null in Python, when to use it as a default parameter, how to test for it, and what NoneType means in your traceback.

package-doctor: finds Python dependencies at a trust boundary with no one left to fix them

Flags packages that handle untrusted input and look unmaintained. Ranks advisories by real exploitation. Runs beside pip-audit.

NetAlertX

Centralized network visibility and continuous asset discovery. Monitor devices, detect change, and stay aware across distributed networks.

Inside the megakernel serving engine for North Mini Code

A technical deep dive into how Cohere’s approach to megakernels delivers 1.58x faster LLM serving on H100 devices.

numba-metal

An out-of-tree GPU backend that lets you write a constrained subset of Numba-style Python kernels and run them on the GPU of Apple-silicon Macs through Metal.

MongoDB migrations in Python

Plugin Architecture Across Service Boundaries: An API Contract with Pydantic & FastAPI - Pt. 1

This articles shows how to build a service-level plugin architecture with Pydantic and FastAPI. I will be using an API contract package that plugin providers implement and our platform validates the contract during…

Citry

Fully typed frontend framework for Python with server events and Alpine.js, inspired by Vue and Livewire.

guardlist: a list that raises an error when modified during iteration

Python protects dicts and sets from mutation during iteration, but not lists. GuardedList fills that gap with a clear error.

microsoft / data-formulator

🪄 Data Formulator is an interactive AI-powered data analysis system makes it easy to connect, explore and visualize data.

Libraries Run Rust Inside Python (With PyO3)

Pigeon

Delegated authority for AI agents. A Pigeon Pass says what an agent may do.

hip-agent

A minimal coding agent harness that fits in the prompt.

Turn SQLite Into A Vector Database For RAG

This video demonstrates how to turn SQLite into a vector database for AI applications using the sqlite-vec and sqlite-ai-vector extensions. It covers setting up both packages in Python with OpenAI embeddings,…