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Stanford's Chris Piech runs Code in Place, an intro programming class with 17,000 students and over 1,000 teachers. They've run it both before and after Cursor and Claude Code arrived, and enrollment basically doubled. It turns out that more people, not less, want to learn to code now that AI can write it. Why learn th
This is a lightning talk I did at PyCon US 2026: Silence is Golden. The overall message is to leave some quiet time so that reluctant speakers have a chance to participate. I start with a jokey disclaimer because I followed Simon Willison who gave an energetic, entertaining, and loud(!) speed-run through a year of prog
At PyCon AU 2026 I gave a talk in the DevRel track titled "Hands-on learning in the age of AI", with the subtitle "Are developer workshops still relevant?". The video is now up on YouTube if you want to watch it. What follows is the main points I was trying to make, along with something the talk didn't cover. That some
I really enjoy reading e-mail newsletters. They’re clever, informative, and funny, and provide me with lots of food for thought — as well as professional information that is crucial to my work. The thing is, I don’t have time to read them during the week. And on Saturday, when I do have time, I don’t use my computer. S
When I released the 24 wrapture workshops last week, they ran in JupyterLab on mybinder with the instructions in a side panel, and I said at the end of that post that the panel deserved a post of its own. The panel is jupyterlab-workshop , a JupyterLab extension I wrote the week before. The workshops were the reason it
Lint the entire CPython code base from scratch. It takes 0.3 seconds. Three blinks of an eye. <br/> <br/> That is ruff, and it is written in Rust. So are Pydantic, Polars, uv, and Granian. Rust shows up in Python three ways: tools that happen to be Rust, libraries Python imports, and servers that run Python inside Rust
fastlogging-rs: High-Performance Logging for many different Programming Languages Logging is often the hidden bottleneck in your application. Every log.info(...) call can block your hot path, serialize your threads, and slow down your I/O-bound workloads. ThatРІР‚в„ўs why I created fastlogging-rs : a Rust-powered loggi
#752 – SEPTEMBER 15, 2026 View in Browser » Sets and Dictionaries Can Have Quadratic-Time Performance A rough first approximation is that a dict has O(1) performance, but that only holds true for smaller containers. This article explores the performance limits of sets and dictionaries. DANIEL LEMIRE Stop Writing Edg
<strong>Topics covered in this episode:</strong><br> <ul> <li><strong><a href="https://eddie.codes/posts/pandas-should-go-extinct/?featured_on=pythonbytes">Pandas Should Go Extinct</a></strong></li> <li><strong><a href="https://github.com/tylerh111/pydantic-pint?featured_on=pythonbytes">Pydantic-pint puts real-world un
We’re delighted to announce that DjangoCon Europe 2027 will take place in Innsbruck, Austria, from February 17–21, 2027! Photo by Nicole Baster on Unsplash Each year, DjangoCon Europe brings together people from across the Django community to learn, share ideas, contribute, and spend time together. In 2027, that co
Since introducing wrapture at the end of August I have been putting out a post every day or so, first working through how it is used in unit tests and then how the same bindings trace a running application. With the last of the tracing posts now done, this is the point where I wanted to stop, take stock, and pull every
Everything in the last four posts rendered a trace for a person to read or wrote it to a file for later. The other destination is a tracing backend, fed while the application runs, and OpenTelemetry is the one that the ecosystem has converged on. wrapture treats it as a first-class destination rather than something you
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