🐍 PyBay 2025 Spotlight: Zac Hatfield-Dodds “No, seriously, why don't we use better testing tools?”

📍 Oct. 18th — San Francisco, CA
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If your test suite can run on #Python 3.14, and you use branch coverage measurement, please get Python 3.14.0a6 and coverage․py 7.7.0 and let me know how the speed compares to older versions! It will be faster!

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AM LOVING the awesome blog post by @martinheinz.dev on docker buildx! Wow - how did I miss this last year?! I usually catch his posts...

Thanks for surfacing these - huge improvements - well written
martinheinz.dev/blog/111

By far the best coverage of o3 is this essay by François Chollet, it's crammed with interesting insights beyond just reporting on the benchmark score: https://arcprize.org/blog/oai-o3-pub-breakthrough

Published my own notes on that here: https://simonwillison.net/2024/Dec/20/openai-o3-breakthrough/

The Associated Press has officially joined Bluesky. Follow us at @apnews.com.

If you are looking to up your Pandas game and write code like this, check out Effective Pandas. My best-selling opinionated resource for Pandas.
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The Open Source Program Office at the University of California is hiring a Programs Specialist: https://recruit.ap.ucsb.edu/JPF02893 This role will work directly with me! I'm not on the hiring team, and I only joined the team two weeks ago, so I'll be of limited help in answering questions […]

Great @techcrunch.com article on Bluesky! Very nice intro article to send to friends and share around.

I love that they articulate the differences with other platforms in a nontechnical way, and provide pointers on good ways to get started.

techcrunch.com/2024/11/14/h...