Earlier this year at PyCon 2025 I avoid several talks about python packaging that include talks about this new uv thing. I felt very validated doing so as after talking to others that went to those talks, as they felt the the speakers were very preachy...
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Goodbye GitHub Copilot, Junie is my new best friend
I have been using GitHub copilot inside of PyCharm for a few years now, and it has been very handy for stuff like creating test skeletons or rubber duck debugging, but it never felt well integrated or very useful. Then Jetbrains introduced me to Junie, and...
Continue reading...You Should Use __all__
In the latest Python Weekly issue 607, there was a well written article by James Turk called You Don’t Need __all__ (waybackmachine backup link) which seemed to miss an important point I wanted to discuss. With no way to comment on his blog, I decided might...
Continue reading...Box 7 is out! But should you use it?
Box is not going away, nor is the author going away, nor is it dangerous to use or anything like that. But after a decade after Box was released, Python 3.11 has better built-ins and other tools may have better specific use cases for you!
Continue reading...Python patterns only beginners use
There are a few things that you won’t ever see senior Python developers committing to code, but may not be explicitly taught. Most of these things you won’t even see senior programmers doing in their small side scripts. However you should never see or write these...
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