llm-gemini 0.34
Release: llm-gemini 0.34 New model gemini-3.8-flash for Gemini 3.8 Flash, with low, medium and high thinking levels. #146 Fixed async responses failing to record the resolved model version. Thanks, Charlie Tonneslan.…
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Claude's new system prompt really doesn't want to reproduce song lyrics
Anthropic publish the system prompts for their Claude consumer applications (Claude.ai and the Claude mobile apps - sadly not for Claude Cowork or Claude Code). I love that they do this, and that they share not just the…
Quoting Rick Brewster
Direct2D has always been the biggest hurdle for Paint.NET on WINE, and it's clear that it will never be completed enough for Paint.NET's use. And I can't just "disable" the use of Direct2D. So, instead, Paint.NET now…
Django Weblog: Django bugfix release issued: 6.1.1
Today we've issued the 6.1.1 bugfix release. The release package and checksums are available from our downloads page, as well as from the Python Package Index. The PGP key ID used for this release is Jacob Walls:…
Avoiding Entity Key Drift in a Data Lake: Step 2, When Fuzzy Matching Stops Working
I built a matcher meant to finish the cleanup that normalization left behind. Testing it against real data showed that no version of it could be made safe. What follows is the architecture that was left once the matcher…
A RAG That Says “Not in This Document” Has to Show Four Kinds of Evidence
Enterprise Document Intelligence [Vol.1 #B3] - A confident wrong answer is a bug. A bare “no answer” with no justification is almost as bad. Each of the four bricks has one piece of evidence to show The post A RAG That…
Python 3.15 Preview: UTF-8 by Default
Preview the Python 3.15 UTF-8 default: see what changes, try it on a pre-release, and keep your file I/O portable across every platform.
Graph Neural Networks: GCN, MPNN, and GAT, Explained Simply
A visual guide to how graph neural networks work under the hood The post Graph Neural Networks: GCN, MPNN, and GAT, Explained Simply appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Quiz: Python 3.15 Preview: UTF-8 by Default
Test your understanding of Python 3.15's UTF-8 default, from the origins of the old locale-based encoding to passing explicit encodings in your code.
Quiz: Python Project Structure: How to Choose the Right Layout
Test your understanding of Python project structure, from flat and src layouts to organizing packages for CLI, web, and GUI applications.
A Practical Introduction to PySpark Window Functions
Why the standard groupBy function isn’t enough The post A Practical Introduction to PySpark Window Functions appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Do not release the GIL during object destruction
Currently, the GIL can be released during object deallocation, either because a C function explicitly does so, or the object has a Python __del__ method. This adds a sharp edge to reasoning about thread-safety with the…
Proposal: Add new method to `HTMLParser`: `flush(self) -> str: ...`
I’d like to propose adding a method named flushto HTMLParserwhich flushes any buffered unparsed data so that all complete elements are processed and then returns the remaining unprocessed data, a str, to the caller.…
Tryton News: Tryton News September 2026
September brings a balance of trytond internals and business-module refinements. The server now retries queued tasks that were dropped because a worker died, enforces request timeouts for the whole request, and exposes…
Python GUIs: Understanding QPainter Coordinates in PyQt6 — How the coordinate system works for drawing on canvases in PyQt6
I really having trouble understanding the coordinate system used in QPainter. Can you explain how this works? If you've started drawing with QPainter in PyQt6, you might have been surprised the first time you drew a…
Python GUIs: Are there any built-in QIcons? — Using built-in icons for your apps.
In the tutorials on this site and in my books I recommend using the fugue icons set. This is a free set of icons from Yusuke Kamiyamane, a freelance designer from Tokyo. The set contains 3,570 icons and is a great way…
Class-level private property isolation
This proposal is the abridgment of private_attribute_cpp: Abstract Python now use name-magging on the name with pre-double underline to create the namespace for this class. However, when two classes have same name (or…
Mark Dufour: Shed Skin restricted-Python-to-C++ compiler v0.9.13 released
I have just released version 0.9.13 of Shed Skin, a restricted-python to C++ transpiler. Shed Skin allows one to effectively convert (or transpile) pure Python code to highly optimized machine code. This comes at the…
Nifty Django Feature: Use Index for Custom Migration Operations
Part of the Nifty Django features series: You can hack Django's Index class to define custom migration operations on your model.
Graham Dumpleton: Unit testing with wrapture
In introducing wrapture I said the one idea everything sits on is to wrap rather than replace. That is easy to say and harder to see the point of, so this post takes a small piece of code and writes tests for it twice,…