mastodon 4.7.3#Python core developer; principal software engineer for #Microsoft working on Python stuff (although opinions my own, etc., etc.); snarky #Canadian
There were layoffs at MS yesterday and 3 #Python core devs from the Faster CPython team were caught in them. If you know of any jobs, please send them their way (they kind of know Python, CPython, and its internals well 😉):
Eric Snow: https://www.linkedin.com/in/ericsnowcurrently/
Irit Katriel: https://www.linkedin.com/in/irit-katriel/
Mark Shannon: https://www.linkedin.com/in/mark-shannon-bb459551/
The trailer for the Python documentary is out!
Heads up that I will be migrating this account to @brettcannon@mastodon.social shortly (assuming everything goes well). I believe the most visible thing that will happen is if I follow you I will show up as following you again from the new account.
The impetus for this was @fancysandwiches@urbanists.social
How did MCP get standardized before a location for prompt files? I'm rather dumbfounded that I can't write a single prompt file for a repo and just have the models all pick it up automatically without some editor-specific setting.
In case contributing to CPython seemed too arduous due to getting set up, I got GitHub Codespaces prebuilds turned on thanks to the PSF! Now you can get a working build of CPython and docs, all with vscode.dev in the browser, in less than a minute!
https://discuss.python.org/t/github-codespaces-prebuilds-now-available/25442
I'm going to be really curious to hear if this helps out at the PyCon US sprints this year (I unfortunately can't stick around for the sprints).
AI failed: paragraph-formatted spec using something introduced in Python 3.12 (Claude Sonnet 3.7 came the closest to succeeding; Claude 4 wasn't out yet)
AI nailed: updating a Dockerfile so that it downloaded the right file for the CPU architecture (I told it the final outcome and to update CI, it did the rest) https://github.com/python/cpython-devcontainers/pull/43
I'm basically learning to be explicit and keep the scope small, preferably something that has been written about a lot so it's "understood" by the model.
I'm looking for a functions-as-a-service with a cron/schedule trigger. I have found some, but I'm wondering if I'm missing any (I'll take any that can run Python, Rust, JS via ReScript or Gleam, or BEAM via Gleam)?
https://developers.cloudflare.com/workers/configuration/cron-triggers/
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/lambda/latest/dg/with-eventbridge-scheduler.html
https://docs.digitalocean.com/products/functions/how-to/schedule-functions/
