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Posts by Neil Stoker โจ
@lukasz.langa.pl @pablogsal.com looks like Core Py stopped being updated on YouTube Music's podcast listings... Thought it was a long time since last episode and spotted that the 2025 in Review episode is missing ๐ฎ
Yes, plasma ๐
Let's say they could use on average just 2mm thickness of steel over the whole 4kmยฒ, that ends up as roughly 250 million kg! You'd need ~1,666 Starship launches ๐คฏ
Anyone else started running into ChatGPT speech getting all jittery & cutting out as it talks back to you?
Was perfect for agesโฆ now it's really frustrating, like it's calling you over a terrible phone line!
Latest app release, Android 16, Pixel 10 Pro. Nothing obviously changed on device
I'm like you: ~16 years of glass fronted supercomputers, only one screen damaged (a genuine accident), saved a fortune skipping insurance ๐
Is it worth buying the kids second hand ones or hand-me-downs?
This is getting to the point it's properly useful and reliable enough not to be annoying more often than it's helpful!
youtu.be/2otsAqJR6FE?...
Graphic with the blue, orange, and yellow blocks of color with the text "Python is for everyone" on a black background. Underneath is a simple white snake. At the bottom is the PSF logo.
Thinking about donating to the PSF before the end of the year? Some employers run matching programs for employee donations to non-profits. Check in with your employer to see if they'll match to double the impact of your contribution to support #PythonForEveryone ๐ donate.python.org/
A few words to play with this Christmas!
A little list of some of my favourite words for the season. Some beautiful, others potentially necessary. I hope you enjoy them as much as I do.
Watching now (having missed it live ๐)
It's excellent - thank you!
๐ด Streaming in 10 mins: Building MCP servers with Python and FastMCP (Part 1 of our 3-part series)
www.youtube.com/watch?v=_mUu...
The Wayland (a yellow circle with a W in the center) rises over green pastures where Konqi frolics happily.
Plasma is going all Wayland
After nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release (due early 2027) will be Wayland-exclusive.
Read the FAQ below to find out what this means for you and the future of KDE:
blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/g...
How much is your company spending to support the Python Software Foundation?
For comparison, how much do they spend for tips on expensed meals?
The PSF runs PyPI, where pip installs from. You depend on PyPI.
Fund the PSF. Tip your server!
www.python.org/psf/sponsors...
Big JIT news: Ken Jin just landed a new JIT frontend that now does trace recording instead of trace projection, giving us ~1.7% better perf on our benchmarks!
Only up from here on the road to 3.15 and 3.16! ๐
github.com/python/cpyth...
KDE's ISO Image Writer let's you download images directly from the Internet and burn them in one fell swoop
The GCompris educational suite of activities gets an editor so teachers can customise activities
The mathematical frontend Cantor improves its support for Python
The Karton virtual machine manager adds new features
KDE's GSoC report is out!
Read the full report to discover all the work mentees have carried out to improve, Krita, Kdenlive, Cantor, KDE Linux, Karton, and more.
mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-11...
4 labels from a spam labeler. Labels are "changed profile 10+ times, changed profile 50+ times, profile changes often, etc."
This labeler is such a clever way of making spam visible. Bluesky wins yet again: bsky.app/profile/stec...
It's sad what happened with Conda, huge potential
A modern Icarus: they had so much yet lost it with heavy handed legal letters to enterprise & confusion around those license changes
A screenshot of a YouTube video titled โIntro to Transformers.jsโ from The Coding Train channel.
As someone who learnt so much by watching @shiffman.lol's coding videos in high school, I never imagined that one day my own library would feature on his channel! ๐ฅน
If you're interested in learning more about ๐ค Transformers.js, I highly recommend checking it out!
๐ www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR61...
I created a "music for coding" soundtrack for my latest course. Crazy idea, but came out great! Give it a listen and download it here. Let me know what you think. #python
mkennedy.codes/posts/this-c...
I had a generic tool, GatherUp, that helped with this sort of thing a few years back (has been a while since I used it!)
youtu.be/owQdT4jiwIo?...
The date and time classes now have their own strptime method that works the same way as the datetime class's strptime method
Read more ๐ https://trey.io/flfwr9
#Python
Normally I can't stand paper printers but this looks like it might be an exception - provided it really ships ๐
www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/o...
TIL MSFT Teams won't transcribe the word "snowballing" even in a totally innocent context! ๐คทโโ๏ธ
And don't forget Messenger, which is so desperate that they pretend to other users that you're an active user, who message you and you get a notification of it to try to convince you to install the app!
Screenshot of The Thinking Game programme details with the 13+ age recommendation highlighted
The Thinking Game: great documentary, but why is it marked as 13+ ?!
What in it is even slightly unsuited to anyone?
#AGI #DeepMind
Join us at the 99th PyData London Meetup โ with a talk from a genuine PyData celebrity! ๐คฉ
Tue 2 September 19:00
Skrub: machine-learning with dataframes โ @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social
Model Context Protocol: is refactoring tool calls worth your time? โ Victor Zommers
meetu.ps/e/Pt20x/5p7c...
Check out Mafs, a cool maths library in JS ๐
I thought it looked familiar... it's used in Khan Academy ๐
github.com/stevenpetryk...
#maths #JavaScript