Agentic Data Science Pair Programming With marimo pair How do you add agent skills to your data science workflow? How can a coding agent assist with data wrangling and research? This week on the show, Trevor Manz from marimo joins us to discuss marimo pair. REAL PYTHONpodcast
Using LLMs to Find Python C-Extension Bugs LLM’s can be powerful tools to help find problems with code, but without a human in the loop things can be problematic. This post talks about how one coder is approaching the challenge. JAKE EDGE
Positron: The Data Science IDE from Posit PBC Positron is a free IDE built for Python data science. AI assistance, interactive data frames, Jupyter notebooks, and instant app deployment, all in one place. Stop context-switching. Start shipping. Download free. POSIT PBCsponsor
httpxyz One Month In httpxyz is a fork of httpx created one month ago. This blog post describes how the journey has gone so far and where they’re going in the future. MICHIEL BEIJEN
Building the Async Python Task Queue I Wished Existed If you’ve ever written async Python for your API and then switched to synchronous code for your background tasks, you know something is off. Repid v2 is an attempt to fix that - an async-first, AsyncAPI-native task queue built over two years of production use, countless rewrites, and one hand-written AMQP 1.0 implementation. ALEKSUL.SPACE • Shared by Alex
Inverse Sapir-Whorf and Programming Languages The Sapir-Whorf hypothesis is the idea that the languages you speak influence the thoughts you can have. The inverse is the idea that your language limits what you can’t but say. When applied to programming this has subtle results determining core ideas like execution order. LUKE PLANT
What’s New in Pip 26.1 pip 26.1 adds support for dependency cooldowns, experimental support for reading/installing from standard lockfiles (pylock.toml), fixes several long-standing limitations of the 2020 resolver, and drops support for Python 3.9. RICHARD SI
Python Packaging Council Approved PEP 772 established the Packaging Council, an elected group to set standards for packaging standards and tools. The PEP was recently accepted, and this post talks about the group and what it took to get here. JAKE EDGE
Choosing a Python Logging Library in 2026 This post compares Python’s standard logging module, structlog, and Loguru. It includes real benchmarks, OpenTelemetry integration paths, and framework specific guidance for Django, FastAPI, and Flask AYOOLUWA ISAIAH
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Before GitHub There is a lot of talk on the net lately about the state of GitHub. This opinion piece by Armin talks about what Open Source was like before GitHub: it was reputation-driven and full of friction. ARMIN RONACHER