This week, Twitter upped their single-tweet character limit from 140 to 280, purportedly based on this interesting analysis of tweet lengths published on Twitter's engineering blog. The gist of the analysis is this: English language tweets display a rough... (more…)

 I had a look at the TopologicalSorter class and it seems to mix the graph algorithm in with a use case in a less than ideal way. If given a... (more…)

Robocall on the fly with Python and Twilio - make a call with a robo-voice - rootVIII/robocall101... (more…)

Happy New Year everyone! In late December 2023 (Christmas Day to be precise), CPython core developer Brandt Bucher submitted a little pull-request to the Python 3.13 branch adding a JIT compiler. (more…)

This is a huge update, containing a massive collection of fixes and improvements. Every widget has been audited so that they each have complete API documentation and type annotations; APIs have bee... (more…)