@Brett Cannon
#Python core developer; principal software engineer for #Microsoft working on Python stuff (although opinions my own, etc., etc.); snarky #Canadian
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Heads up that I will be migrating this account to https://mastodon.social/@brettcannon shortly (assuming everything goes well). I believe the most visible thing that will happen is if I follow you I will show up as following you again from the new account.
The impetus for this was https://urbanists.social/@fancysandwiches/114628765770487011
The impetus for this was https://urbanists.social/@fancysandwiches/114628765770487011
How did MCP get standardized before a location for prompt files? I'm rather dumbfounded that I can't write a single prompt file for a repo and just have the models all pick it up automatically without some editor-specific setting.
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@nprofile1q... Astral had talked about conditionally using pylock.toml exclusively when the conditions were met, but that didn't/hasn't happened. My guess is having the file flip on users in case they did suddenly use an unsupported feature would be too icky.
So here's to hoping they write PEPs eventually to fill in the gaps! 🤞
So here's to hoping they write PEPs eventually to fill in the gaps! 🤞
Gah! The nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpqun99ha3w2ws4yqwg4nre3t672tpvn6rp8wjk34gdh2esrkn4rhcs22sh70 website is now requiring a login to even read... 🤮
@nprofile1q... @nprofile1q... I wonder if this is an attempt to fight AI crawling?
🤔 TIL UV supports pylock.toml aka PEP 751, which is the new "locked" requirements.txt file format.
https://docs.astral.sh/uv/concepts/projects/layout/#pylocktoml
This note caught my eye:
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@nprofile1q... FYI the "functionality" that's missing is workspaces, and that's because it isn't backed by a standard and they haven't put it forward to become one (at least yet).
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Two updates:
(1) I'm leaving the tech industry. Hopefully "for good"; at the very least, "for now"
(2) If you subscribe to my blog, the content's gonna change; I'm dropping the editorial focus I've ...
@nprofile1q... Congrats on pursuing what makes you happy! The blog has now been reclassified in my reader from "Development" to "Free Time". 🙂
My least favorite social media follow is the one where I talk to an author in person and find them nifty, so I follow them on Fedi, or Bluesky, or what have you, and it turns out they only post to pro...
@nprofile1q... Maybe their book writing is all they do and what they find cool?
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq72v3nlrtzd8wssn8f3ckm47jtsxdhq0jakqua3crgrvn7mmv32vswatypy one more: In Google Cloud, cron “Scheduler” is a factored out service you can use ...
@nprofile1q... I had a link for Google Cloud and somehow forgot it! Thanks for fixing the oversight. 😅
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq72v3nlrtzd8wssn8f3ckm47jtsxdhq0jakqua3crgrvn7mmv32vswatypy Would it be sufficient to (mis-)use a CI/CD pipeline? I have GitHub repos which period...
@nprofile1q... This is going to run every 15 minutes and I wouldn't want to risk my OSS GitHub Actions credits for this.
nostr:nprofile1qy2hwumn8ghj7un9d3shjtnddaehgu3wwp6kyqpq72v3nlrtzd8wssn8f3ckm47jtsxdhq0jakqua3crgrvn7mmv32vswatypy it looks like you found 4. What makes you look for more?
@nprofile1q... Just because I found 4 doesn't mean I found the best one for me. And since FaaS is a form of vendor lock-in, it isn't something I want to rush into.
AI failed: paragraph-formatted spec using something introduced in Python 3.12 (Claude Sonnet 3.7 came the closest to succeeding; Claude 4 wasn't out yet)
AI nailed: updating a Dockerfile so that it downloaded the right file for the CPU architecture (I told it the final outcome and to update CI, it did the rest) https://github.com/python/cpython-devcontainers/pull/43
I'm basically learning to be explicit and keep the scope small, preferably something that has been written about a lot so it's "understood" by the model.
AI nailed: updating a Dockerfile so that it downloaded the right file for the CPU architecture (I told it the final outcome and to update CI, it did the rest) https://github.com/python/cpython-devcontainers/pull/43
I'm basically learning to be explicit and keep the scope small, preferably something that has been written about a lot so it's "understood" by the model.
I'm looking for a functions-as-a-service with a cron/schedule trigger. I have found some, but I'm wondering if I'm missing any (I'll take any that can run Python, Rust, JS via ReScript or Gleam, or BEAM via Gleam)?
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-bindings-timer?tabs=python-v2%2Cisolated-process%2Cnodejs-v4&pivots=programming-language-python
https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/configuration/cron-triggers/
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/with-eventbridge-scheduler.html
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/functions/how-to/schedule-functions/
https://learn.microsoft.com/en-us/azure/azure-functions/functions-bindings-timer?tabs=python-v2%2Cisolated-process%2Cnodejs-v4&pivots=programming-language-python
https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/configuration/cron-triggers/
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/with-eventbridge-scheduler.html
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/functions/how-to/schedule-functions/
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