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How rock climbing made me a better engineer

Agents think , let's make them act : Integrating open-weight LLM into a system for autonomous deterministic operation

Building the Mars yard - in the open.

"the loop of joy: learning environments, open source... and AI

Python at Spotify: Twenty Years of Evolution

Best Practice for Collaborating with Jupyter Notebooks

Super Effective: How Pokémon Explain Python's Class Hierarchy

Applied AI for Urban Governance: Practical Use Cases from Open Cities Lab

Open Source, Open Partnership: Building NITheCS on Plone and Volto

Zero Dependencies, Including the AI: Coding Python on a Local Model

Python, AI Agents, and the Future of Infrastructure Automation

Improving Agent Behavior Using Reinforcement Learning from Traces in Python

Asyncio patterns

Python on Supercomputers: Lessons from Scaling Bioinformatics Workflows

Python people and projects

LLMs as Mutation Operators: Building an Evolutionary Search Harness in Python

I wrote it once, I can write it again. Some observations & lessons from rewriting an interactive graphical tool in Python 30 years on.

Too Complicated to Model? Missing Female Athletes Data

uv, ruff, and ty: Tools You Should be Using

The Calculator Is Not the Problem: Why Beginner Projects Matter More Than Ever in the AI Era

Supporting a charitable organisation as a 1-person developer/sysadmin team - pragmatic lessons from a variety of projects

FITS Batch Cutout Generator: Automating Data Workflows for the Era of Next-Generation Telescopes

Empowering the Next Generation of Computer Programmers Through Python Education

Identity and access with python in AWS.

Suprise! It's Server Rendering!

Using Python To Solve My Wedding

From Localhost to Production: Deploying Python Web Apps on Ubuntu

Python Polars for Practitioners: When to Drop Pandas

The Gap Between Tutorials and Production: What Nobody Tells Developers

Building the Mars yard - in the open.

"the loop of joy: learning environments, open source... and AI

Was, Is, Will Be: Python History, Software Engineering, And AI Our Way

CPython 3.15: Updates Rivals Will Use: Profiler, JIT, noGIL, Lazy Imports, UTF-8