My obituary for programming
My obituary for programming Jeremy Scheff poignantly captures the key loss caused by coding agents for career programmers who enjoyed the puzzle of developing code: Programming turned into one of the greatest jobs you…
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Announcing Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q3 2026! 🎉
The PSF is pleased to announce its third batch of PSF Fellows for 2026. Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q3! The following people continue to do amazing things for the Python community: Aldo Caneo LinkedIn, GitHub…
Rodrigo Girão Serrão: Startup configuration files
Learn how to use startup configuration files to run package entry points when the Python interpreter starts up. A startup configuration file is a file with the extension .start. Starting from Python 3.15, the Python…
Django Weblog: Quarterly contributor outreach
Hi Django community, thank you all for continuing to contribute to Django. The Steering Council is reaching out to bring people's attention to a few areas. We have major features we'd like to test and review for 6.2,…
Welcome to Google Gemini 4 Argon
A million-token output window changes what you can hand a model in one go, and the benchmarks and the bill show who it actually suits. The post Welcome to Google Gemini 4 Argon appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Can Conformal Prediction Take You from Accurate to Reliable Machine Learning?
ML model adoption doesn't stop with acceptance of accuracy; it starts there. The post Can Conformal Prediction Take You from Accurate to Reliable Machine Learning? appeared first on Towards Data Science.
How to Automate Your Workflow With Claude Code Hooks
Learn how to use Claude Code hooks that auto-format your Python code after every edit, enforce your chosen tools, and ping you when a task finishes.
Security updates for Monday
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (idm:DL1, kernel, libsoup, perl-URI, python3.14-urllib3, and webkit2gtk3), Debian (apache2, cifs-utils, haproxy, jq, kernel, and xen), Fedora (aom, chezmoi, chromium,…
How Many EEG Channels Do You Actually Need?
Testing sensor reduction, feature ranking, and generalization to unseen participants The post How Many EEG Channels Do You Actually Need? appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Quiz: How to Automate Your Workflow With Claude Code Hooks
Test your understanding of Claude Code hooks, including the Stop, PreToolUse, and PostToolUse events and the exit codes that block an action.
AI Harms and Their Technical Causes
How technical choices can lead to safety failures, and what to do differently The post AI Harms and Their Technical Causes appeared first on Towards Data Science.
Hugo van Kemenade: Releasing Python 3.15.0
Prologue # Like last year, I livetooted the release of Python 3.15.0. Here it is in blogpost form! Two weeks # Two weeks until Python 3.15.0 final! #Python #Python315 Fri, Sep 18, 2026, 00:30 EEST One week # One week…
Add to `open` the missing modes that PHP `fopen` has
In Python open (Python docs: open), we have the following modes available: r - reading only, file must exist. w - writing only, file will be created if it does not exist, file will be truncated if it does exist. x -…
LernerPython blog, from Reuven Lerner: Pandas date range selection: Slicing a datetime index with .loc
Want to select a chunk of time from a Python Pandas data frame? Make the datetime column the index, then use .loc and a slice to choose dates: ( df .set_index('tpep_pickup_datetime') .sort_index()…
Peter Hoffmann: Home Server Ops with a Read-Only Agent and pyinfra
My home server is a small mini PC running Debian. It holds the file shares, Time Machine backups, Gitea, a music server and a few small apps of my own. Like most home servers it grew by hand over the years: a command…