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pip introduced dependency cooldowns

In a previous post, I described how uv can now protect you from supply-chain attacks with the exclude-newer feature. …

pythonsecuritypip
Apr 2026
1 min

Protect against supply-chain exploits using uv

LiteLLM was recently victim of a supply-chain exploit, where an attacker was able to run arbitrary code on infected …

pythonsecurityuv
Mar 2026
1 min

MapToPoster

I stumbled upon this beautiful utility to create minimalist posters of the (water)ways of a city. If you have uv, …

pythontechnology reviewmaps
Jan 2026
1 min

Matthew Rocklin on using LLM-powered coding

This post is so great, I want to frame it If you’re an engineer opposed to AI coding—or if you haven’t started yet—read …

LLMprogrammingpython
Jan 2026
1 min

Using ty with the helix editor

The folks at Astral have released ty, which they define as: An extremely fast Python type checker and language server, …

helixpythontytutorial
Jan 2026
2 min

Install tkinter on macOS

If you work with Python on macOS and are trying to let your kids play with things like turtle you will encounter errors …

brewmacospyenvpythontkinterturtle
May 2020
1 min

Use tab to cycle through Visual Studio Code completion

Sometimes, instead of using NeoVim, I do like to use Visual Studio Code (with Vim keybindings). Visual Studio Code is a …

keybindingsneovimproductivityprogrammingpythontutorial
Oct 2016
1 min

Make jupyter notebook work in WSL

In case you are playing around with the Windows Subsystem for Linux and jupyter, you might have notice this error: …

jupyter notebooklinuxprogrammingpythontechnology tutorialwindows subsystem for linux
Aug 2016
1 min

Hugola

Approximately a month ago I fell for the new Dell XPS 15. It had the right price/spec combination (I went for the …

hugojekyllpelicanprogrammingpythontechnology review
Dec 2015
3 min

A functional count in Python

Today I was sifting through the documentation for itertools.count Return a count object whose .next() method returns …

functional programmingitertoolsprogrammingpythontutorial
Jul 2015
1 min

Web Excursions for April 18, 2014

Learn Web Development From Scratch - SlideRule Udacity’s awesome course, CS 253 - Web Development, by Steve Huffman, …

data sciencegithubmachine learningpythonskala colorspiped
Apr 2014
2 min