ZIZEK: that AI will be the death of learning & so on; to this, I say NO! My student brings me their essay, which has been written by AI, & I plug it into my grading AI, & we are free! While the 'learning' happens, our superego satisfied, we are free now to learn whatever we want --Zack Brown

Workwise, last week was quite busy. However, I managed to attend a meeting of PyDDF, our local Python user group, which was great. I also recorded and published a podcast episode about the DjangoCon Europe 2024 conference. Then I had to roll out a security update for Mastodon, which usually requires minimal maintenance, and updated Takahē along with it. There was also a new release of django-cast, which includes some bug fixes and a new feature: subtitles for blogs.

Here's a tip I discovered while trying to import pictures from my new camera: If you use Apple Photos to manage your pictures and it doesn't read RAW files from newer cameras, you can use the free Adobe DNG Converter to convert RAW files to DNG and then import them into Apple Photos. Unfortunately, it's not possible to preserve changes made in Nikon NX Studio, which has the best RAW support for Nikon cameras, when converting the RAW files to DNG.

Articles

• With Fifth Busy Beaver, Researchers Approach Computation’s Limits | Cellular automata are similar: It’s astonishing how a few simple rules can create incredibly complex structures. Or we are just bad at deducting the simple rules behind complicated fluff.
• The 2024 PSF Board Election is Open!

Weeknotes

• Weeknotes: a livestream, a surprise keynote and progress on Datasette Cloud billing | Simon Willison
• Weeklog for Week 26: June 24 to June 30 | Johannes

Videos

• Bevy Engine 0.14 - Open Source ECS-based game development in Rust | New release!

Fediverse / Twitter

• ▲ + 🐍 | Hehe, look who caught the htmx bug..

Software

• Python Polars 1.0.0 | 1.0 Release 🥳
• Psycopg 3.2 released
• eGenix PyRun is an Apache licensed, open-source, compressed, single file Python compatible run-time, which fits into merely 5-6 MB on disk | Now on github!
• Runwayml - A new frontier for high-fidelity, controllable video generation | Has a little bit more focus on the artist perspective, interesting.
• Bevycation of Brackeys First Game in Godot Tutorial | A bit more sophisticated compared to the platformer example from bevy_ecs_ldtk
• LLMs for the working programmer | LLM workshop by Manuel Odendahl

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