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The Python Software Foundation (PSF) is the charitable organization behind Python, dedicated to advancing, supporting, and protecting the Python programming language and the community that sustains it. That mission is…
At the FOSS4G UK 2026 conference in October, I gave a talk announcing that I’d re-released the Environment Agency DEM data for England in cloud-native formats. This was covering some work I did for my client Rebalance…
I kept wondering how much of what a coding agent reads in a repo is actually useful to it. So I wrote a small CLI that walks a repo, estimates tokens per file the way a model sees them, and flags files that cost tokens…
On 200 ToolRet questions and up to 3,794 tools, BM25 ran about 40x faster than BGE-large on just a CPU, and full tool docs made it the best setup tested. The post Keyword Search Tied an 8B Embedding Model at Picking…
Practical code for classifying fabric against reference photos, scoring product sharpness, cropping shipping labels, and spotting subtle car damage. The post How Jev Makes Decisions About Images, With 4 Python Examples…
PyCharm 2026.3 is here! Alongside major features like JetBrains Air, workspaces, Python 3.15 lazy imports, and the redesigned interpreter widget, this release includes 303 fixes and improvements to everyday Python…
Security updates have been issued by AlmaLinux (.NET 10.0, .NET 8.0, .NET 9.0, firefox, gcc, grafana, grafana-pcp, gstreamer1, gstreamer1-plugins-base, java-1.8.0-openjdk, kernel, kernel-rt, libimobiledevice,…
Get started with Meta Muse in Python. Make your first Muse Spark call, then add streaming, images, and tool calls, and try the open-weights Glimmer.
Real Python's weekly AI news for November 7–13, 2026, explained in plain language: Cheaper Claude, Google's Strongest Gemini, and a Faster Gemini.
A PhD student in ML and ecology on why faster code, experiments, and drafts don't fix data with a backstory, and three predictions for how labs will change. The post What AI Agents Speed Up in PhD Research, and What…
Gemma 4 E2B drafts the replies, Bespoke Labs' Nimble 9B picks accept, revise, or human review, and only flagged questions get a focused retry. The post How to Check Local LLM Output with Ollama, Gemma 4, and Nimble…
Test your understanding of Python's json module, from serializing and deserializing data to encoding and decoding custom types.
What's it take to be a mentor to developers? Where in an engineer's career can a mentor make an impact? This week we speak with Tim Schilling, Django Steering Council member and Djangonaut Space administrator, about…
The question is that the decorator may break the wrapper object’s behavior if it’s behavior depends on whether the “__set_name__” is called. The fake code is like: def find_set_name_and_call(obj, owner, name,…
In releases, not restarts I showed the Muru daemon deploying a new release beside the one serving, and only moving traffic across once the new release was ready. That protects you from a release which can't start. It…
