quick new post on what i've gotten out of HN vickiboykis.com/2025/03/17/2...

Anyone know of a recipe that works for getting a "pytest --pdb" debugger REPL up that lets you interactively execute "await ..." statements, similar to "python -m asyncio" ?

The StackOverflow threads about this are all pretty stale, wondering if there's a new option that I've not been able to […]

Here's the table of contents for my lengthy new piece on how I use LLMs to help me write code https://simonwillison.net/2025/Mar/11/using-llms-for-code/

Great recs. Adding to my list.

I started using Python 20 years ago, but left and come back to it repeatedly. Every time I picked it back up, the dev experience had swung wildly. Getting caught up, even as an experienced user, was a huge PITA.

I think that's finally going to change with what @tdhopper.com just launched.

If you use the curl method, uv can update itself later which is nice

If you use python, but you don't use uv yet: why?

I decided not to try to pursue this as a print book because the ecosystem is always changing and the scope of the book will grow as I have time to put into it. If there are topics or questions you’d like to see addressed, please let me know.

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In the last 10 years, I’ve had a growing interest in making Python development more effective. I’ve learned that a lot of teams don’t make the best use of the tooling available to use.

This has culminated with writing an ebook on developer tooling I’m excited to share with you.

pydevtools.com

if your back doesn’t hurt yet, protect it at all costs bsky.app/profile/imlu...

I wrote a post about my love for my Sony mirrorless camera for photographing my 4 kids

tdhopper.com/blog/sonya7i...

7-year old wanted to know how far the north pole is, so I asked Siri three times.

1st time “call mom” displayed on my screen and it started calling my *dad*

2nd it said “which Joel would you like to call”

3rd time it started to show directions to North Pole, AK

👂🏻I spoke with Dr. Robert Ghrist of the University of Pennsylvania about his recent groundbreaking endeavor to "direct" the creation of a beautiful new linear algebra textbook for AI students in just 55 days using a customized Anthropic Claude project.

tdhopper.com/blog/writing...

Great discussion of my recent post here 👇🏻

With uv, you can launch a Jupyter Lab instance with Pytorch installed instantly with a single command 🤯

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Bambu P1S with AMS

Highly recommend getting a 3D printer because it's the best way to make new parts for your 3D printer

In this article, @tdhopper.com shared key principles of Python tooling, common anti-patterns he has observed, best practices & his list of favourite tools from December 2024.

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Here's my end-of-year review of things we learned out about LLMs in 2024 - we learned a LOT of things simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/31/...

Table of contents:

Updated my annual accomplishments notes

* Survived herniated disc pain and surgery
* Back to weight lifting after 5 month break
* Landed amazing job @ Spotify
* Spoke at 1st conference in 5 years
* Saw 1st total eclipse
* Back to blogging a bit

tdhopper.com/annual-accomplishments/

I've tried using 𝒜𝐼 could of times to get started, but that's always led to roadblocks I haven't been able to get past.

Does anyone have a good tutorial for bootstrapping something like this?

I don't know much about modern web applications, but I have a few small projects to do that just require basic account creation and CRUD operations. I've been looking at Cloudflare Pages + Supabase so that I could run them for free and serverless.

today I learned that you can create a special text file to use for logging curl timing details blog.josephscott.org/2011/10/14/t...