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State of the art in Python 2026
Episode 566
Which of your Python tools would you still pick if you started fresh today? For a long time, the answer was easy. The stack felt settled. AI has reop…
2 hours ago
Tachyon, Python 3.15's Built-in Sampling Profiler
Episode 565
Do you know what's actually slow in your Python app? Or are you guessing? Until now, profiling Python meant a tracing profiler that made your code 2 …
2 weeks, 1 day ago
EVE Online Departs for Python 3
Episode 564
Every ship in EVE Online eventually undocks and leaves the station. This time, it's the whole game. EVE has run on Python 2 since it launched in 2003…
3 weeks, 3 days ago
Getting Started with Rust as Python Devs
Episode 563
Lint the entire CPython code base from scratch. It takes 0.3 seconds. Three blinks of an eye.
That is ruff, and it is written in Rust. So are Pyda…
1 month ago
DuckLake: The Lakehouse That's Just SQL and Parquet
Episode 562
How many files does your query read before it reads any data? On some data lakes, you go through JSON and metadata files first, just to learn which P…
1 month ago
TonIO, a Multi-threaded Async Runtime for Python
Episode 561
How many cores does your machine have, 10, 18? Your async Python code uses just one of them. That isn't a bug in asyncio. That's the design, and opti…
1 month, 1 week ago
Building a Research OS: From Django to 30,000 Samples
Episode 560
In 2020, a gastroenterologist in Glasgow did the math on his new research study and came up with 30,000 samples, arriving over two years from three c…
1 month, 2 weeks ago
12 Things You Should (and Shouldn't) Do in AWS
Episode 559
Your site is down. It's 3am. Is it a bug, a bill, or a breach? You can't tell yet, and everyone is watching you find out. Matt Lea has spent fifteen …
1 month, 3 weeks ago
Hyper-Personal Software with Python
Episode 558
Every company has one. The little internal tool that Jane built back in 2021, and then Jane left. Nobody understands it, nobody will touch it. There …
2 months, 1 week ago
Security of everything at PyCon 2026
Episode 557
Security has always been the vegetables of software. Everyone agrees it matters, and somehow it never quite makes it onto the plate. At PyCon US this…
2 months, 2 weeks ago