ACAB includes Paw Patrol. --Prof Kemi FG

I attended the local Django Meetup in Cologne and listened to an interesting talk about Hyperview, which is based on React Native. It's probably more of an early adopter thing at the moment, but the idea is really intriguing.

I published a podcast episode about arrays and sequences , which had probably the longest gap between recording and publishing we've ever had—but I just wasn't able to do it earlier. We revisit the first chapters of Fluent Python because, why not? This book is really good.

On the infrastructure side, I updated all my databases to PostgreSQL 17 and found my old post about upgrading PostgreSQL still helpful. I'm also using uv now in production deployments, and it works really great. This uv thing looks like it will simplify a lot of workflows for me—yay for that!

Then I attended SUBSCRIBE 11, a podcasting-related conference. The conference was great, the weather was superb, and I talked to a lot of people about podcast publishing software. I even accidentally held a workshop about pods-blitz, a great new podcast publishing software written in Rust by Ulrich Dürholz. Here's a cool list of all the podcasts whose hosts attended.

Articles

• 🤖 I released files-to-claude-xml and new development workflows
• Solving the Maker-Taker problem | Well, maybe not completely solved..
• The blockquote element
• Scroll-driven animated card stack with scroll snap events
• AI Mathematical Olympiad - Progress Prize 2 | Kind of wild that there's an AI competition for problems that hard. Seemed impossible a few years ago.
• DSF initiatives I'd like to see | by Carlton Gibson
• Building an automatically updating live blog in Django
• Us | Webcomic definitely not about me.
• Unlocking the Power of JSON Patch | I've been storing a lot of data in JSON fields lately—this might come in handy.

Videos

• Live coding music with PyREPL in Python 3.13 — Łukasz Langa
• Around the wwworld: Web MIDI, Web AUDIO and what the web does best

Fediverse

• "That was a lot faster" | Webcomic
• Thread about SQL and the Django ORM..
• I have to re-figure out how to include an editable dependency with #uv every time I need it for local development.
• Big new draft update to PEP 750, which has now been renamed "Template Strings".
• This is really neat from Terence Eden: you can use text-wrap: balance for icons as well as text..