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2026 in LLMs (so far)

On Friday I gave the closing keynote at the WeAreDevelopers World Congress North America in San Jose. I tied together the key trends from the past year into a chronological exploration of everything that happened in…

S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past

My comment on S3 Is the Future, S3 Is the Past — Hacker News. One thing I find notable about S3 today is that, while it used to drop in price reasonably often, there hasn't been a price drop in a full decade: 2006-03-14…

Bluesky reply bot checker

Tool: Bluesky reply bot checker Automated reply bots on Twitter are a scourge - as someone with a decent number of followers I attract a swarm of these, such that anything I post there attracts dozens of mindless…

How to Add AI Voice to Your Django App

Why Add AI Voice to a Django App? Imagine a learning platform that reads lessons aloud, a customer‑support portal that speaks answers in a friendly tone, or a productivity tool that reads back your to��do list. Voice…

GraphRAG with TypeSafe Jev: A System One Approach to Scalable Knowledge Graphs

How calibrated decision models can handle high-frequency graph decisions while LLMs remain focused on reasoning, synthesis, and open-ended generation. The post GraphRAG with TypeSafe Jev: A System One Approach to…

How to Copy Objects in Python: Shallow vs Deep Copy Explained

Understand the difference between shallow and deep copies in Python. Learn how to duplicate objects safely using the copy module and other techniques.

Pipenv: A Guide to the Python Packaging Tool

Pipenv replaces pip, virtualenv, and requirements.txt with a single tool. See what it solves and how to manage dependencies with it.

Good Architecture Deletes the Signals Your Agent Depends On

Every boundary you draw removes a signal your tooling was relying on. That is a structure problem, not a search problem. The post Good Architecture Deletes the Signals Your Agent Depends On appeared first on Towards…

Quiz: Enhance Your Flask Web Project With a Database

Test your understanding of Flask databases, environment variables, blueprints, SQLite schemas, and storing posts from a form.

Yokan: a compiler from a statically typed subset of Python to native desktop apps

Develop on real CPython with hot reload, ship one native binary, and check that both runs behave the same.

Jitter is the cheapest reliability fix you are not using

Distributed systems synchronise themselves without being told to: every client that retries on a fixed interval, restarts after a deploy, or reconnects after a network blip ends up firing at the same moment as every…

Soft-deprecating re.match()

The article explains when to use re.prefixmatch(), re.search(), and re.fullmatch(), what soft deprecation means for existing code, and how to flag re.match() usage with Ruff.

tenderness

Library for synthetic text-dense document generation with pixel perfect bboxes for your VLM and OCR models.

Django raw SQL migrations next to the ORM

Keep Django ORM migrations; version views, indexes, and rollback SQL with a manage.py check.

LintLang

LintLang is a Python-based static analyzer that catches ambiguous, conflicting, and error-prone instructions in AI agent prompts, tool descriptions, and configuration files.

fugleramme

E-ink bird frame for Raspberry Pi - real-time bird detection by audio, fully local AI, rendered as real, hand-cut 1800s bird illustrations.

There are only twelve 4x4 sudokus - and a cool trick for finding minimal subsets

The article explores 4×4 Sudoku, showing that there are 288 valid solutions, which reduce to just 12 structurally distinct grids when digit permutations are ignored. Using Python brute force and a clever bitmask…

TencentCloud / Octop

A smarter, self-hosted AI assistant — multi-user, multi-agent.

engrim

Engrim is a local-first Python memory layer for coding agents that preserves project context and decisions across tools like Claude Code, Cursor, Codex, Windsurf, and OpenCode.

Python Workers are now generally available