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llm-gemini 0.36

Release: llm-gemini 0.36 Gemini 4 Carbon was announced two weeks ago for "a subset of cyber defenders", but today it's available to everyone else. This is Google's best ever Gemini, priced at $2/million input and…

PEP 852: Asynchronous functions in the C API

Nearly four years after the original discussion, I am pleased to present PEP 852, which adds a proper interface for using async/await in the C API. Here’s an example: static int return_result(PyObject *asyncobj,…

airails.dev: Fullstack Skill Bundle for Web Components and MicroProfile Backend

The airails.dev skills now ship as installation bundles. A bundle is a zip with a skills/ folder, and a single command selects, downloads, and extracts it. The installer needs curl and Java 25. No git, no clone. curl…

Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember

Introducing Our Smallest, Most Efficient Model: Muse Ember Meta AI just launched their entry in the Claude Haiku/GPT Luna category: Muse Ember, which they describe as: [...] our smallest and most efficient model…

Quoting Prompting Claude Fable 5.2

Claude Fable 5.2 pays close attention to who owns the code it works on. In Anthropic’s testing on small coding tasks, the model tended to add to the existing structure when the prompt said nothing about ownership or…

Yonkers Rises

Tool: Yonkers Rises I realized I didn't know where Yonkers was, so I looked it up on Google Maps and then, to help embed its location and shape in my head (and to try out Claude Fable 5.2's 3D modeling and animation…

Some way of inspecting the internal state of a future returned by an async fn

I was looking for a way of an application scheduler prioritizing async functions based on some application state inside pending futures. (This is currently a toy project, not really a production system.) I was curious…

Announcing a New Home for Spring for Apache Pulsar

We are excited to announce an important transition for the Spring for Apache Pulsar project! To foster even deeper integration and collaboration with the broader Pulsar community, the project is moving to a new official…

This Week in Spring - November 10th, 2026

Hi, Spring fans! Welcome to another rip-roarin' installment of This Week in Spring! I'm writing this from St. Louis, where the weather is suuprisingly pleasant! Isn't this supposed to be November? We're doing a…

Python 3.16.0 alpha 2 is now available

The second developer preview of Python 3.16 is ready for testing.

Tutorial: The G1 Garbage Collector

In this tutorial, we will cover a brief history of G1, its key design concepts, and how to use it.

Create a Voice-Powered News Reader App

Why a Voice‑Powered News Reader? Reading the headlines while you’re on a commute, cooking, or just resting your eyes can be a game‑changer. With a few APIs and a little JavaScript or Python, you can turn any RSS feed or…

Python Docs Editorial Board: Meeting Minutes: Nov 10, 2026

Meeting Minutes from Python Docs Editorial Board: Nov 10, 2026

PyCon Chile 2026

How a Python Type Checker Decides a Variable Is Unused

Python Exceptions: An Introduction

Python Leiden User Group

Python Program Lexical Structure

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