#566: State of the art in Python 2026
Which of your Python tools would you still pick if you started fresh today? For a long time, the answer was easy. The stack felt settled. AI has reopened almost every one of those choices. Some tools ...
17 Okt 1h 5min
#565: Tachyon, Python 3.15's Built-in Sampling Profiler
Do you know what's actually slow in your Python app? Or are you guessing? Until now, profiling Python meant a tracing profiler that made your code 2 to 3 times slower. Or a third-party tool that broke...
2 Okt 1h 27min
#564: EVE Online Departs for Python 3
Every ship in EVE Online eventually undocks and leaves the station. This time, it's the whole game. EVE has run on Python 2 since it launched in 2003, all 2.4 million lines of it, on a custom Stackles...
22 Sep 1h 7min
#563: Getting Started with Rust as Python Devs
Lint the entire CPython code base from scratch. It takes 0.3 seconds. Three blinks of an eye. That is ruff, and it is written in Rust. So are Pydantic, Polars, uv, and Granian. Rust shows up in Python...
16 Sep 1h 10min
#562: DuckLake: The Lakehouse That's Just SQL and Parquet
How many files does your query read before it reads any data? On some data lakes, you go through JSON and metadata files first, just to learn which Parquet files matter. DuckLake asks one SQL question...
10 Sep 1h 11min
#561: TonIO, a Multi-threaded Async Runtime for Python
How many cores does your machine have, 10, 18? Your async Python code uses just one of them. That isn't a bug in asyncio. That's the design, and optimizing event loops to be faster by 20% doesn't chan...
4 Sep 1h 15min
#560: Building a Research OS: From Django to 30,000 Samples
In 2020, a gastroenterologist in Glasgow did the math on his new research study and came up with 30,000 samples, arriving over two years from three cities and a dozen hospitals. He asked around about ...
26 Aug 1h 2min
