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Python 3.13 Preview: Free Threading and a JIT Compiler
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Things I’ve Learned Serving on the Board of the PSF
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Goodhart’s Law in Software Engineering
Goodhart’s law states: “When a measure becomes a target, it ceases to be a good measure.” Whether that’s test coverage, cyclomatic complexity, or code performance, all metrics are proxies and proxies can be gamed.
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AI-Extracted Asian Building Footprints
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Why We Wrote a New Form Library for Django
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Unified Python Packaging With uv
Talk Python interviews Charlie Marsh, the maintainer of ruff, and they talk about uv and other projects at Astral.
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