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Uwe Korn @xhochy.bsky.social · 23m

Another week in my effort to give some insight into my @conda-forge.org work, my post frequency definitely lacks behind my merge frequency, but here is my report on week 2025-38: uwekorn.com/2025/10/12/w...

2025-38: A week in conda-forge

To continue to give you a glance into my conda-forge work, we’re continuing with the second week of reporting. This week was a bit leaner on my activities here as I spend my time on preparing my PyDat...

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Uwe Korn @xhochy.bsky.social · 2d

Thanks; fixed that oversight with github.com/conda-forge/...

blog: Add link to Python 3.14 release announcement by xhochy · Pull Request #2621 · conda-forge/conda-forge.github.io

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Uwe Korn @xhochy.bsky.social · 2d

Python 3.14 has been released two days ago. At the same time, we also uploaded a build of it to @conda-forge.org and about 40% of Python version dependent (mostly those with compiled code) were immediately available. See conda-forge.org/blog/2025/10...

Python 3.14 is already usable on conda-forge (not just available) | conda-forge | community-driven packaging for conda

With yesterday's release of Python 3.14 (insert release link), we not only have Python 3.14 itself available on conda-forge,

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Uwe Korn @xhochy.bsky.social · 10d

At PyData Paris yesterday, I gave a non-technical talk on how you, as an engineer, can deal more practically and proactively with compliance topics. Slides at speakerdeck.com/xhochy/navig...

Navigating the security compliance maze of an ML service

While everyone is talking about the m(e/a)ss of bureaucracy, we want to show you hands-on what you could need to be doing to operate an ML service. We w…

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Uwe Korn @xhochy.bsky.social · 23d

Ever wondered where all my GitHub contributions come from? I have document a week's worth of @conda-forge.org contributions: uwekorn.com/2025/09/18/w...

I plan to do this for 2-3 more weeks to get an overview where I spent my time. I hope there is also content in there that helps others.

2025-37: A week in conda-forge

While I spent the majority of my time on QuantCo-internal (often strategic, non-code) work, my GitHub profile still hovers around 8,000 yearly contributions. Part of this is through my internal work, ...

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Uwe Korn @xhochy.bsky.social · Aug 31

Today is my last day of five weeks of parental leave which means that it's going to be a hard day for my chargers. All the laptops and tablet will need to be fully charged and updated to be ready for tomorrow's work. 🔥

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Uwe Korn @xhochy.bsky.social · Jul 30

Nice to be back at Paris again. My PyData journey started there 9y ago with my first ever talk about Arrow. This time, I'll tell you how to stay sane when you have to deal with compliance topics as a developer.

PyData Paris @pydataparis.bsky.social · Jul 30

📢 Talk Announcement

"Navigating the security compliance maze of an ML service", by @xhochy.bsky.social from @quantco.com.

📜 Talk info: pretalx.com/pydata-paris-2025/talk/QVPDEX
📅 Schedule: pydata.org/paris2025/schedule
🎟 Tickets: pydata.org/paris2025/tickets

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Sovereign Tech Agency @sovereign.tech · Jul 23

The study on an EU-STF underscores what the Sovereign Tech Agency has championed since 2022: that lean, independent, and targeted funding can meaningfully strengthen the open source ecosystem and thereby boost innovation, competition and resilience.

OpenForum Europe @openforumeurope.org · Jul 23

Our new report urges the creation of an EU Sovereign Tech Fund (EU-STF) to fix chronic underfunding of open source technologies – the backbone of Europe’s digital sovereignty, cybersecurity, and competitiveness.

🔗 Check it out eu-stf.openforumeurope.org

#OpenSource #DigitalSovereignty #EU

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Uwe Korn @xhochy.bsky.social · Jul 22

🎉 Eagerly trying to get 3.14 ready on conda-forge at the same time: github.com/conda-forge/...

Python 3.14.0b3 by xhochy · Pull Request #805 · conda-forge/python-feedstock

Depends on conda-forge/python_abi-feedstock#30

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quantco.com @quantco.com · Jul 10

@conda-forge.org and @conda.org are essential components of our stack. Thus, it is natural for us to work with the community there to make it ready for upcoming cyber(security) regulations. Read about our efforts at tech.quantco.com/blog/conda-r...

Reach out, if you would like to collaborate!

Making the conda(-forge) ecosystem ready for cybersecurity regulations

We outline the efforts we bring into the conda(-forge) ecosystem to ensure it provides the basic requirements to meet the foudations of many (cyber) regulations

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Uwe Korn @xhochy.bsky.social · Jul 1

Setting up mail records is not simple but www.learndmarc.com was nice to understand how things work and whether we have done it correctly.

Learn and test SPF, DKIM and DMARC

Visualize, analyze and improve your email authentication setup

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Uwe Korn @xhochy.bsky.social · Jun 1

A nice feature of GitHub Copilot Coding Agent: I can start simple changes from my smartphone via chat, e.g. write an internal enhancement proposal. While it would be higher quality if made manually, it enables some more things "on the go".

Uwe Korn @xhochy.bsky.social · May 20

Finally, I caught up with what other CTOs seem to be doing the whole day 🤣

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Uwe Korn @xhochy.bsky.social · Apr 24

Really proud seeing my working student Paul Müller presenting his work on automated license scanning with conda-deny at #PyConDE

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Uwe Korn @xhochy.bsky.social · Mar 25

Recently switched to ghostty.org as my Terminal. It removes latency that you did not know you had.

But: I also switched a lot of my coding to LLMs as I nowadays do more one-off scripts or small apps. Got that latency back again 😂

Ghostty

Ghostty is a fast, feature-rich, and cross-platform terminal emulator that uses platform-native UI and GPU acceleration.

ghostty.org

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Uwe Korn @xhochy.bsky.social · Nov 7

Is there a way to buy it outside of Amazon? Expensing things Amazon is a hassle as they don't have good reciepts (at least in Germany).

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