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Christopher Trudeau @trudeau.dev · 16d

I've been looking for a good Hoobijag tutorial. Anything you can recommend?

How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner - annie's blog

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Bite Code! @bitecode.dev · 17d

"How I, a non-developer, read the tutorial you, a developer, wrote for me, a beginner"

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This is so real.

“Hello! I am a developer. Here is my relevant experience: I code in Hoobijag and sometimes jabbernocks and of course ABCDE++++ (but never ABCDE+/^+ are you kidding? ha!)  and I like working with ...

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Real Python @realpython.com · 19d

🎧🐍 Episode #266 of the Real Python Podcast is live: Dangers of Automatically Converting a REST API to MCP realpython.com/podcasts/rpp...

Episode #266: Dangers of Automatically Converting a REST API to MCP – The Real Python Podcast

When converting an existing REST API to the Model Context Protocol, what should you consider? What anti-patterns should you avoid to keep an AI agent’s context clean? This week on the show, Kyle Stratis...

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Real Python @realpython.com · 22d

📰🐍 Get the best Python links of the week: PyCoder’s Weekly Issue #700: Special Issue #700! (Sept. 16, 2025) pycoders.com/issues/700

PyCoder’s Weekly | Issue #700

Special Issue #700!

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Christopher Trudeau @trudeau.dev · 26d

This week @digiglean.bsky.social and I talk about the #Python documentary, regex hints, hosting, code speedup, and more.

With content from: @djangoproject.com @pycharm.dev @cultrepo.bsky.social @nedbat.com @jeffmorhous.bsky.social @colour-science.bsky.social and others not on the 🦋

Episode #265: Python App Hosting Choices & Documenting Python's History – The Real Python Podcast

What are your options for hosting your Python application or scripts? What are the advantages of a platform as a service, container-based hosts, or setting up a virtual machine? Christopher Trudeau…

Episode #264: Large Language Models on the Edge of the Scaling Laws – The Real Python Podcast

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Real Python @realpython.com · 28d

🐍📩 Pycoders Weekly (Issue 698) — Capturing Stdout, REPL Color, Feature History, and More

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Real Python @realpython.com · Sep 5

🎧🐍 Episode #264 of the Real Python Podcast is live: Large Language Models on the Edge of the Scaling Laws realpython.com/podcasts/rpp...

What's happening with the latest releases of large language models? Is the industry hitting the edge of the scaling laws, and do the current benchmarks provide reliable performance assessments? This week...

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Christopher Trudeau @trudeau.dev · Sep 4

"Bored now!" Great line. Evil Willow rules.

A History of Python Versions and Features – Real Python

Christopher Trudeau @trudeau.dev · Sep 2

We started building this course before we knew about the documentary, so an odd little coincidence. Want to know the history of #Python and its people? Watch the doc. Want to learn about when which features got added? Watch this code conversation with @digiglean.bsky.social

Explore Python’s evolution from the 1990s to today with a brief history and demos of key features added throughout its lifetime.

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Christopher Trudeau @trudeau.dev · Sep 2

Yeah, IIRC, list preallocate in chunks, whereas arrays are precise in size. I suspect in the early days arrays were key to performance

Christopher Trudeau @trudeau.dev · Sep 2

I have a sticky note on my monitor that says "Record!" I do this all the time. Send them into breakout rooms for an exercise, pause to avoid 15 min of dead air, forget to unpause when they come back in. I've learned to tell the students to watch for it and warn me, that way they share the blame :)

Christopher Trudeau @trudeau.dev · Sep 2

Without testing, I'd suspect there is a performance gain over lists as there is one less pointer allocation, but list is so common that it has been optimized a lot, so even that might not be true.

Christopher Trudeau @trudeau.dev · Sep 2

You may be right. My initial reaction was "sure I use them when doing network level stuff", but then realized I used `bytearray` instead. Then I thought they might have been a subclass, but nope. As with most batteries, somebody somewhere probably thinks they're invaluable :)

Christopher Trudeau @trudeau.dev · Sep 1

Their cousin `bytearray` is very useful when doing low level stuff.

Episode #263: Exploring Mixin Classes in Python – The Real Python Podcast

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Talk Python Podcast @talkpython.fm · Aug 29

New episode just dropped: Celebrating #Django's 20th Birthday With Its Creators with Jeff Triplett, @simonwillison.net, @wsvincent.bsky.social, Adrian Holovaty, @thibaudcolas.bsky.social, and @mkennedy.codes #python

talkpython.fm/episodes/sho...

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Christopher Trudeau @trudeau.dev · Aug 29

On this week's episode, @digiglean.bsky.social and I talk about loads of releases, the dev survey, #Python classes, asyncio, the JIT, and more.

With content from: @mathspp.com @pycharm.dev @mkennedy.codes @brianokken.bsky.social
@sailor.li @savannah.dev and others not on the 🦋

What is a good way to add isolated, reusable functionality to Python classes? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and projects.

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Real Python @realpython.com · Aug 28

🐍📩 Pycoders Weekly (Issue 696) — Namespaces, with, functools.Placeholder, and More

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Christopher Trudeau @trudeau.dev · Aug 28

Yep, I tend to favour breaking things up, but there is always that voice in the back of my head

Christopher Trudeau @trudeau.dev · Aug 28

Creating a function has a cost; function calls in Python aren't as cheap as their innards. Variables on the other hand mostly get compiled away so readability should win out.

PyCoder’s Weekly | Issue #696

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Real Python @realpython.com · Aug 26

📰🐍 Get the best Python links of the week: PyCoder’s Weekly Issue #696: Namespaces, with, functools.Placeholder, and More (Aug. 26, 2025) pycoders.com/issues/696

Namespaces, with, functools.Placeholder, and More

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Christopher Trudeau @trudeau.dev · Aug 26

Are you writing #Textual apps? Do you want the ability to make one of your widgets look like it is on fire? Well, do I have a very-alpha library for you. Textual Effects provides transition effects similar to those in some presentation software. Check it out. Bugs/PRs welcome.

GitHub - cltrudeau/textual-effects: A transitions effects library for Textual

A transitions effects library for Textual. Contribute to cltrudeau/textual-effects development by creating an account on GitHub.

Christopher Trudeau @trudeau.dev · Aug 26

Yeah, the typical use is resource management. But with testing I find them really helpful for "undo this thing whether the test passes or fails"