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datasette-agent 0.5a0

Release: datasette-agent 0.5a0 This is a significant release of Datasette Agent. The most notable new feature is called the panel - it lets the agent chat open and then sit next to pages from Datasette, for example a…

Wednesday, November 11, 2026 Security Releases

llm 0.37.1

Release: llm 0.37.1 A bugfix release for LLM, with contributions from Steven Huang, Tao An, Arjan Mossel, and XQ. Tags: llm

Financial Crime Mitigation with MongoDB / Part IV: Agentic AI for Case Management

Welcome back to the last part of our series on Building a Financial Crime Mitigation Platform. We have shown how MongoDB ideally supports the technical capabilities of modern digital financial operations as a unified…

Financial Crime Mitigation with MongoDB / Series Overview

Where money moves, crime evolves. As banking becomes fully digital—with instant payments, open finance APIs, and mobile-first onboarding—it has opened new roads for cyberattacks, forcing financial institutions to…

AI is destroying my CS degree

My comment on AI is destroying my CS degree — Hacker News. I don't envy educators right now. AI clearly means you need to change how you teach and evaluate students. We are only a few years in though, and it's still…

Qwen 3.8 27B on my laptop can interpret model weights, too

Yesterday's hot paper was Sparks of Weight-Space Programming: LLMs can natively read & write neural network weights by Rikiya Takehi, Jayden Teoh, Alex Zhang, and Omar Khattab. The paper (OK, the authors classify is as…

Why From<OwnedFd> is safe?

Hi! I was using libc FFI crate, I'm transforming i32 -> OwnedFd -> TcpListener and instead of writing from_raw_fd(&fd) I've accidentally used from(fd): (something like this) let socket: OwnedFd = socket(/* ... */); let…

Announcing new Security Developer at the PSF

We’re excited to announce that Brett Smith is joining the Python Software Foundation as a Security Developer. Brett will be working closely with Seth Larson, Security Developer in Residence, and Mike Fiedler, PyPI…

Where Did the Saved Bytes Go? Compact Object Headers in IntelliJ IDEA

AI agents may make code faster to produce, but they don’t make it cheaper to run. In applications managing millions of objects, memory allocation and garbage collection still matter. The JVM has been addressing these…

I discovered a sound that leaks your exact location (and it's everywhere) - YouTube

I discovered a sound that leaks your exact location (and it's everywhere) - YouTube Genius piece of OSINT by Colsto, who demonstrates how you can take almost imperceptible background noise of planes from a video…

October sponsors-only newsletter

I sent out the October edition of my sponsors-only monthly newsletter. If you are a sponsor (or start a sponsorship now) you can access it here. This month: The October inflection point for vibe game development The…

This Week in Spring - November 3rd, 2026

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another installment of This Week in Spring! It's Tuesday, and you know what that means? I'm thinking about production. Now, to be fair, I'm always thinking about production. But recently,…

How to Add AI Voice to Your Django App

Why Add AI Voice to a Django App? If you’ve ever wanted to turn your Django‑powered web app into something that can talk back to users, you’re not alone. Voice interfaces are moving from novelty to necessity—think…

Keyboard-aware forms in React Native and Expo, with a Save button that rides the keyboard

Every React Native app with a form hits the same wall. You tap a field low on the screen, the keyboard opens, and the field is gone behind it. The Save button too. The usual fixes get you most of the way.…

Write Your Chrome MV3 Background Worker Like It Never Dies

How a build-time AST transform finally makes Manifest V3 state persistence painless Manifest V3 didn’t just change the extension model — it actively punishes normal JavaScript patterns. Your background service worker is…

QR Capacity Is a Mode Problem Before It Is a Size Problem

Most QR sizing arguments start with pixels. They should start with the encoder's mode choice, because the mode decides how many bits each character costs, and that decides which version the symbol needs. The generator's…

Lessons from shipping a Telegram Mini App game solo

I recently shipped a small game as a Telegram Mini App, working alone, and a few lessons stood out. Here is what I would tell myself before starting. Start the flow inside a bot. Players already live in Telegram, so the…

TestDriven.io: Taking Website Screenshots with Django, Celery, and Playwright

This tutorial looks at how to build a Django app that takes website screenshots using Playwright and Celery.

The maths behind an options yield matrix (and why raw premium misleads you)

I build Options Matrix Pro, a web app for researching options trades. The feature people ask about most is the yield matrix: a heatmap with expiries down the side, strikes across the top, and one number in every cell.…