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(she/her) I like to teach, learn, and create. Currently a Principal Cloud Advocate in Python at Microsoft. 🏳️‍🌈 Happy Pride! 🏳️‍🌈 May everyone love […] [bridged from https://fosstodon.org/@pamelafox on the fediverse by https://fed.brid.gy/ ]

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Pamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 7h

LLMs are slow! But you can make the LLM answer appear faster by *streaming* the response, one token at a time.

Steps:
1) Call LLM API with stream=True
2) Return tokens over HTTP streaming response
3) Re-render in frontend

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Pamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 11h

🔴 Streaming at 10AM PT: Vector embeddings (Part 2 in our Python+AI series)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ABLeB7JMWk0

Pamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 22h

Happy first-full-live-performance-of-Huntrix to those who celebrate:
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8y-ViyUk7Dk

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Pamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d

Who's throwing perfectly juicy strawberries into basketball hoops?? STOP THAT.

Captcha with hoop and text "Click objects that could go in"

Pamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 1d

🔴 Live @ 9AM PT: "Large Language Models", the first stream in the Python+AI series

Watch: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=X967IsYvhTM

Slides: https://aka.ms/pythonai/slides/llms

Code:
https://github.com/Azure-Samples/python-openai-demos

PythonAI-Oct-LLMs-ForSharing.pptx

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Pamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 2d

@aarbrk yeah good point, her research so far was on LLM understandability, which I think is helpful in that space. i suggested alignment and security as important topics.

Pamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 2d

My sister's an undergrad ML researcher and trying to choose a focus/lab. She's hearing conflicting advice about the best topics to pursue.
Any tips from those of you in the ML academia space?

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Pamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 2d

My colleague and I at Microsoft are running a free Python+AI livestream series in both English and Spanish, starting tomorrow.

We'll be covering:
🔍 LLMs, Vector Embeddings & RAG
🖼️ Multimodal Models
🤖 Agents & MCP
🛡️ AI Safety, Quality & Evaluation

Register @
http://aka.ms/PythonAI/series

Or […]

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Pamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 4d

Watching "Fellow Travelers", a fictional series which starts off during the (very real) Lavender Scare of the 1950s. Heartbreaking.

Pamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 5d

Currently reading "Empire of AI" by Karen Hao, a history of OpenAI based off interviews and documents.
https://bookshop.org/p/books/empire-of-ai-dreams-and-nightmares-in-sam-altman-s-openai-karen-hao/de10c251433f34d2?ean=9780593657508&next=t

Really interesting to get more insight into how […]

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Pamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 6d

I'm excited that Microsoft is sponsoring PyBay this year! It's a fantastic community-run conference in San Francisco. Get tickets if you'll be around!
https://pybay.org/sponsors/our-sponsors/

PyBay 2025 - 10th Annual Bay Area Python Dev Conference

10th Annual Python developer conference - longest running on the US West Coast. Join us in San Francisco!

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Pamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Is there an equivalent of playwright/selenium for CLI tool E2E testing?

Pamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 6d

Great tips from @simon on designing agentic coding loops:
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/30/designing-agentic-loops/
1) Use safe environments (like Codespaces) to enable YOLO mode for faster iteration
2) Use credentials with fine-grained access and constrained budgets for API calls
3) Setup […]

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Pamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 7d

@demiguru I reserve my showers for writing the first draft of blog posts ;-)

Pamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Added a smoke test to a demo app today, and it immediately caught a bug that I'd introduced an hour ago in a deployment-only path of the code.

Phew! 😅

Workflow file:
https://github.com/Azure-Samples/openai-chat-vision-quickstart/blob/main/.github/workflows/azure-dev.yaml#L86

Pamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 7d

Banged my head against an issue for an hour, made no progress, thought I was going crazy.

Walked away from computer for bathroom break: immediately figure it out as I'm washing my heads.

Funny how often that happens!

Pamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 8d

🔴 Live streamin in 15 min: Automating GitHub Repo Maintenance with AI Agents
(From GitHub Copilot -> Langchain+MCP -> Langgraph+API)
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DqzG-XNjV3M

Pamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 8d

I might finally have to host a Superbowl party
https://www.npr.org/2025/09/29/nx-s1-5556772/latin-superstar-bad-bunny-will-headline-the-2026-super-bowl-halftime-show
(One where we only turn it on during halftime, though)

Pamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14d

Great collection of pytest+playwright tips for E2E testing (with a mention of my axe-core wrapper for a11y tests!)

https://www.better-simple.com/django/2025/09/17/playwright-pytest-that-brings-me-joy/

Playwright & pytest techniques that bring me joy

Give it a read! Maybe these six techniques will bring you joy too. You can't go wrong with being able to write better tests, faster.

www.better-simple.com

Pamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14d

@lore.house did you try pymupdf?

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Pamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 14d

✈️ Headed to Chicago! My agenda:

Weds: VS Code Dev Day
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/vs-code-dev-days-chicago-tickets-1641243115339

Thurs: AI Tour
https://aitour.microsoft.com/flow/microsoft/chicago26/landingpage/page/cityhome

Fri: OpenHack […]

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Pamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 15d

Yesterday was school pictures day, and we didn't even have time to get my kid's hair untangled, while other kids had slicked back hair and fancy hairdos. I was so ashamed I was sobbing after getting home from drop-off.
I just saw the pic and good news: 1st graders are adorbs even with unbrushed […]

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Pamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16d

If anyone needs empowerment to hang up your halloween decorations: I hereby grant you permission.
(Just don't hang up the polyester spiderwebs that kill wildlife)
https://www.snopes.com/news/2023/10/20/decorative-spider-webs-dangerous-or-no/

Does Decorative Spider Webbing Pose a Danger to Wildlife?

The classic Halloween decor can be a silent threat to furry friends if displayed unsafely.

www.snopes.com

Pamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16d

My front door camera keeps spotting someone at the front door, while there's noone there...
BUT I did just hang up our halloween skeleton decorations for the year! 💀 Oops.

Pamela Fox @pamelafox.fosstodon.org.ap.brid.gy · 16d

Takeaways from latest TalkPythonToMe podcast:
1) Learn Kubernetes
2) Play with DuckDB
3) Wrap head around free-threading vs async
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4BQrovxemXY

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