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Photographer 📷 Developer 👨‍💻 Pythonista 🐍 Data Wrangler 🤠 ML Enthusiast 🤖🧠🎉 Countryside Lover 🍂🍄🌳💚
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Plasma is going all Wayland

After nearly three decades of KDE desktop environments running on X11, the future KDE Plasma 6.8 release (due early 2027) will be Wayland-exclusive.

Read the FAQ below to find out what this means for you and the future of KDE:

blogs.kde.org/2025/11/26/g...
November 26, 2025 at 5:53 PM
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How much is your company spending to support the Python Software Foundation?
For comparison, how much do they spend for tips on expensed meals?
The PSF runs PyPI, where pip installs from. You depend on PyPI.

Fund the PSF. Tip your server!
www.python.org/psf/sponsors...
Sponsor the PSF
The official home of the Python Programming Language
www.python.org
November 18, 2025 at 11:59 PM
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Big JIT news: Ken Jin just landed a new JIT frontend that now does trace recording instead of trace projection, giving us ~1.7% better perf on our benchmarks!

Only up from here on the road to 3.15 and 3.16! 🚀

github.com/python/cpyth...
gh-139109: A new tracing JIT compiler frontend for CPython by Fidget-Spinner · Pull Request #140310 · python/cpython
This PR changes the current JIT model from trace projection to trace recording. Benchmarking: better pyperformance (about 1.7% overall) geomean versus current https://raw.githubusercontent.com/face...
github.com
November 13, 2025 at 6:16 PM
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Google says the new power saving mode for Google Maps can save you up to four hours of battery life
Google Pixel update adds battery-saving maps mode, AI photo remixing, and smarter notifications | TechCrunch
Google says the new power saving mode for Google Maps can save you up to four hours of battery life
techcrunch.com
November 11, 2025 at 7:05 PM
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KDE's GSoC report is out!

Read the full report to discover all the work mentees have carried out to improve, Krita, Kdenlive, Cantor, KDE Linux, Karton, and more.

mentorship.kde.org/blog/2025-11...
November 4, 2025 at 12:11 PM
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This labeler is such a clever way of making spam visible. Bluesky wins yet again: bsky.app/profile/stec...
November 1, 2025 at 7:38 PM
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As someone who learnt so much by watching @shiffman.lol's coding videos in high school, I never imagined that one day my own library would feature on his channel! 🥹

If you're interested in learning more about 🤗 Transformers.js, I highly recommend checking it out!

👉 www.youtube.com/watch?v=KR61...
October 26, 2025 at 7:30 PM
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I created a "music for coding" soundtrack for my latest course. Crazy idea, but came out great! Give it a listen and download it here. Let me know what you think. #python

mkennedy.codes/posts/this-c...
This Course Has Its Own Soundtrack
My latest course comes with a 5-track soundtrack!
mkennedy.codes
October 25, 2025 at 3:03 PM
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The date and time classes now have their own strptime method that works the same way as the datetime class's strptime method Read more �‘‰ https://trey.io/flfwr9 #Python
trey.io
October 17, 2025 at 7:19 PM
Normally I can't stand paper printers but this looks like it might be an exception - provided it really ships 🙂

www.crowdsupply.com/open-tools/o...
Open Printer
Finally, an open hardware printer you can actually understand, repair, and upgrade
www.crowdsupply.com
September 28, 2025 at 4:45 PM
TIL MSFT Teams won't transcribe the word "snowballing" even in a totally innocent context! 🤷‍♂️
September 25, 2025 at 11:48 PM
The Thinking Game: great documentary, but why is it marked as 13+ ?!

What in it is even slightly unsuited to anyone?
#AGI #DeepMind
August 23, 2025 at 11:55 PM
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Join us at the 99th PyData London Meetup — with a talk from a genuine PyData celebrity! 🤩

Tue 2 September 19:00

Skrub: machine-learning with dataframes — @gaelvaroquaux.bsky.social

Model Context Protocol: is refactoring tool calls worth your time? — Victor Zommers

meetu.ps/e/Pt20x/5p7c...
PyData London - 99th Meetup, Tue, Sep 2, 2025, 7:00 PM | Meetup
**Venue**: Riverbank House, 2 Swan Ln, London EC4R 3AD **Please note**: 1. 🚨🚨🚨A valid photo ID is required by building security. 🚨🚨🚨 2. This event follows the **[Nu
meetu.ps
August 20, 2025 at 10:01 PM
Check out Mafs, a cool maths library in JS 👇

I thought it looked familiar... it's used in Khan Academy 😃
github.com/stevenpetryk...
#maths #JavaScript
GitHub - stevenpetryk/mafs: React components for interactive math
React components for interactive math. Contribute to stevenpetryk/mafs development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
August 17, 2025 at 10:08 AM
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The next generation of AI-powered websites is going to be WILD! 🤯

In-browser tool calling & MCP is finally here, allowing LLMs to interact with websites programmatically.

To show what's possible, I built a demo using Liquid AI's new LFM2 model, powered by 🤗 Transformers.js.
August 6, 2025 at 5:56 PM
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Henley & Partners’ wealth migration reports have been reported all over the world, both to prove both that there's a massive exodus of wealth from the UK and that there isn't.

Our forensic review finds the data riddled with anomalies - and in key places looks fabricated:
July 27, 2025 at 8:00 AM
Not something to do *all* holiday but Codex works remarkably well on a SteamDeck for some casual vibe coding! 🥳

Not surprising as it's a full computer but I didn't find the screen size too much of a hindrance and I could git pull the code locally to check it really worked 🙂
#holidayvibes #steamdeck
July 28, 2025 at 2:33 PM
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Etymology of the day: spiders were once known as ‘attercops’, or ‘poison-heads’, because it was believed most spiders were venomous. The ‘cop’ element became the ‘cob’ in ‘cobweb’.
July 20, 2025 at 8:11 AM
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Swans at a very still #sunset at Charnwood Water #Loughborough #SummerScrolling 🦢🌿
July 16, 2025 at 9:17 PM
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Wrote about some of my favorite tools and shell hacks I use daily to streamline my workflow. Life is too short folks, take a few minutes each week to sand down some of the rough edges of your work. frankwiles.com/posts/my-cl...
June 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM
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"This Week in Plasma" news: QtQuick-based KDE software gets inertial scrolling using touchpads, RDP service supports syncing clipboard text between client and server, session restore (remembering position and size of windows) coming to Wayland, among many other things:

blogs.kde.org/2025/06/28/t...
June 28, 2025 at 11:32 AM
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Just released: Python 3.14.0 beta 3! 🚀🐍

🥧 Exceptionally new in b3:

🥧 Free-threaded Python is officially supported! (PEP 779)

🥧 Subinterpreters in the stdlib! (PEP 734)

Do you maintain a Python package? Please test 3.14.

discuss.python.org/t/python-3-1...

#Python #CPython #Python314 #release
Python 3.14.0 beta 3 is here!
It’s 3.14 beta 3! https://www.python.org/downloads/release/python-3140b3/ This is a beta preview of Python 3.14 Python 3.14 is still in development. This release, 3.14.0b3, is the third of four pla...
discuss.python.org
June 17, 2025 at 7:29 PM
✨ Some interesting ideas here 💡
www.economist.com/britain/2025...
How to prevent drunken punch-ups
Violence inflicted on the weekend has fallen by half over the past decade
www.economist.com
May 18, 2025 at 10:34 PM
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Raspberry Pi OS Gets New Printers App, Linux 6.12 LTS, and Wayland Improvements The Raspberry Pi ...

https://9to5linux.com/raspberry-pi-os-gets-new-printers-app-linux-6-12-lts-and-wayland-improvements

#Distros #News #Linux #distribution #Raspberry #Pi #Raspberry #Pi #OS

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May 8, 2025 at 2:05 PM