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Deep Agents: LangChain's SDK for Agents That Plan and Delegate When you type a question into ChatGPT, the model only has what you typed to work with. But tools like Claude Code can plan, iterate, test, and recover from mistakes. They work more like we do. The dif...

Latest episode is out: #543: Deep Agents: LangChain's SDK for Agents That Plan and Delegate with Sydney Runkle and @mkennedy.codes Give it a listen:

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Zensical - a modern static site generator If you've built documentation in the Python ecosystem, chances are you've used Martin Donath's work. His Material for MKDocs powers docs for FastAPI, uv, AWS, OpenAI, and tens of thousands of other pr...

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Episode #542 is live – Martin Donath (@squidfunk.com) joined @mkennedy.codes to talk about the origin story of Zensical, how it differs from MkDocs, and what drove us to build it.

If you're curious about the "why", this is a good listen:
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Cutting Python Web App Memory Over 31% I reduced Python web app memory by 3.2 GB using async workers, import isolation, the Raw+DC database pattern, and disk caching. Detailed before and after numbers for each technique.

New essay: Cutting Python Web App Memory Over 31%

I reduced Python web app memory by 3.2 GB using async workers, import isolation, the Raw+DC database pattern, and disk caching. Detailed before and after numbers for each technique.

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Python in Digital Humanities Digital humanities sounds niche, until you realize it can mean a searchable archive of U.S. amendment proposals, Irish folklore, or pigment science in ancient art. Today I’m talking with David Flood f...

I enjoyed being a guest on @talkpython.fm discussing my journey into digital humanities and some of the projects I work on.

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Zensical - a modern static site generator If you've built documentation in the Python ecosystem, chances are you've used Martin Donath's work. His Material for MKDocs powers docs for FastAPI, uv, AWS, OpenAI, and tens of thousands of other pr...

Latest episode with @squidfunk.com and @mkennedy.codes

#542: Zensical - a modern static site generator
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Monty - Python in Rust for AI When LLMs write code to accomplish a task, that code has to actually run somewhere. And right now, the options aren't great. Spin up a sandboxed container and you're paying a full second of cold start...

Latest episode with Samuel Colvin and @mkennedy.codes

Monty - Python in Rust for AI

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Fire and forget (or never) with Python’s asyncio Python's asyncio.create_task() can silently garbage collect fire-and-forget tasks in 3.12+. Learn the background_tasks set pattern to fix it.

New essay: Fire and forget (or never) with Python’s asyncio

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We are live on YouTube in 60 minutes! Join @mkennedy.codes and Charlie Marsh, Jonathan Dekhtiar, and Ralph Gommers for an exciting discussion about Wheel Next + PEPs in Python Packaging. #python #podcast #coding

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We are live on YouTube in 2 minutes! Join @mkennedy.codes and Sydney Runkle for an exciting discussion about Deep Agents: LangChain's SDK for Agents That Plan and Delegate. #python #podcast #coding

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We are live on YouTube in 15 minutes! Join @mkennedy.codes and Martin Donath for an exciting discussion about Zensical - a modern static site generator. #python #podcast #coding

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Fly inside FastAPI Cloud You've built your FastAPI app, it's running great locally, and now you want to share it with the world. But then reality hits -- containers, load balancers, HTTPS certificates, cloud consoles with 200...

Latest episode is out, this time with the @fastapicloud.com team. cc @mkennedy.codes

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PyView: Real-time Python Web Apps Building on the web is like working with the perfect clay. It’s malleable and can become almost anything. But too often, frameworks try to hide the web’s best parts away from us. Today, we’re looking ...

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PyView: Real-time Python Web Apps with Larry Ogrodnek and host @mkennedy.codes

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We are live on YouTube in 33 minutes! Join @mkennedy.codes and Ben Croker, Delaney Gillilan, and Chris May for an exciting discussion about Datastar: Modern web dev, simplified. #python #podcast #coding

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We are live on YouTube in 23 minutes! Join @mkennedy.codes and Sebastián Ramírez, Savannah Ostrowski, Patrick Arminio, and Jonathan M. for an exciting discussion about Fly inside FastAPI Cloud. #python #podcast #coding

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We are live on YouTube in 15 minutes! Join @mkennedy.codes and Vincent D. Warmerdam for an exciting discussion about diskcache: Your secret Python perf weapon. #python #podcast #coding

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#530: anywidget: Jupyter Widgets made easy

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Building Data Science with Foundation LLM Models Today, we’re talking about building real AI products with foundation models. Not toy demos, not vibes. We’ll get into the boring dashboards that save launches, evals that change your mind, and the shi...

New episode! Data Science + AI with Hugo Bowne-Anderson and host @mkennedy.codes

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NiceGUI Goes 3.0 Building a UI in Python usually means choosing between 'quick and limited' or 'powerful and painful.' What if you could write modern, component-based web apps in pure Python and still keep full contro...

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NiceGUI Goes 3.0 with Rodja Trappe, Falko Schindler, and host @mkennedy.codes #python #nicegui

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We are live on YouTube in 3 minutes! Join @mkennedy.codes and David Kopec for an exciting discussion about Computer Science from Scratch. #python #podcast #coding

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We are live on YouTube in 10 minutes! Join @mkennedy.codes and Vincent D. Warmerdam for an exciting discussion about Python apps with LLM building blocks. #python #podcast #coding

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Agentic AI Programming for Python Course Python course: Collaborate with AI like a skilled junior developer. Build production features in hours with Cu ...

New course: Agentic AI Programming for Python Devs and Data Scientists

This is an awesome, no hype, practical course to get you started and successful with agentic AI coding with tools such as Cursor and Claude. I hope you love it!

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Thanks a bunch, I'll have a look.

38 things Python developers should learn in 2025 Python in 2025 is different. Threads really are about to run in parallel, installs finish before your coffee cools, and containers are the default. In this episode, we count down 38 things to learn th...

New episode with @wang.social , @calvinhp.com, and host @mkennedy.codes

#524: 38 things Python developers should learn in 2025

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Pyrefly: Fast, IDE-friendly typing for Python Python typing got fast enough to feel invisible. Pyrefly is a new, open source type checker and IDE language server from Meta, written in Rust, with a focus on instant feedback and real-world DX. Toda...

Want better, faster #Python typing (cli and IDE)? Use the same tools that the Instagram team uses on their millions of lines of code.

#523: Pyrefly: Fast, IDE-friendly typing for Python

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