Developers love Python, Microsoft's GitHub says, also revealing the site's biggest open-source projects. (more…)

I was reading a tweet about it yesterday and that didn't stop me from pushing a code change in production with the same rookie mistake today. Consider this function: # src.py from __future__ import annotations import logging import time from datetime impo... (more…)

What is a burner phone number? It's one you can drop for things you don't want to give out your real phone number to and can get rid of easily. This tutorial shows you how to build a Python burner phone with Twilio and AssemblyAI that will transcribe your... (more…)

We’re excited to announce our first update to the Microsoft Python extension for Visual Studio Code. In this release, we’ve added additional support for conda environments and fixed numerous bugs in the editor and debugger. Support for Conda Environments ... (more…)

Coming off the excellent raku weekly news, my curiosity was piqued by a tweet about big-endian smells that referenced a blog about “extreme math”. After getting my fill of COBOL mainfra… (more…)