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Topics covered in this episode: Django Modern Rest Already playing with Python 3.15 Cutting Python Web App Memory Over 31% tryke - A Rust-based Ptyhon test runner with a Jest-style API Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @[email protected] / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) Brian: @[email protected] / @brianokken.bsky.social Show: @[email protected] / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky) Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it. Michael #1: Django Modern Rest Modern REST framework for Django with types and async support Supports Pydantic, Attrs, and msgspec Has ai coding support with llms.txt See an example at the “showcase” section Brian #2: Already playing with Python 3.15 3.15.0a8, 2.14.4 and 3.13.13 are out Hugo von Kemenade beta comes in May, CRs in Sept, and Final planned for October But still, there’s awesome stuff here already, here’s what I’m looking forward to: PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports PEP 814: frozendict built-in type PEP 798: Unpacking in comprehensions with * and ** PEP 686: Python now uses UTF-8 as the default encoding Michael #3: Cutting Python Web App Memory Over 31% I cut 3.2 GB of memory usage from our Python web apps using five techniques: async workers import isolation the Raw+DC database pattern local imports for heavy libraries disk-based caching See the full article for details. Brian #4: tryke - A Rust-based Ptyhon test runner with a Jest-style API Justin Chapman Watch mode, Native async support, Fast test discovery, In-source testing, Support for doctests, Client/server mode for fast editor integrations, Pretty, per-assertion diagnostics, Filtering and marks, Changed mode (like pytest-picked), Concurrent tests, Soft assertions, JSON, JUnit, Dot, and LLM reporters Honestly haven’t tried it yet, but you know, I’m kinda a fan of thinking outside the box with testing strategies so I welcome new ideas. Extras Brian: Why are’t we uv yet? Interesting take on the “agents prefer pip” Problem with analysis. Many projects are libraries and don’t publish uv.lock file Even with uv, it still often seen as a developer preference for non-libarries. You can sitll use uv with requirements.txt PyCon US 2026 talks schedule is up Interesting that there’s an AI track now. I won’t be attending, but I might have a bot watch the videos and summarize for me. :) What has technology done to us? Justin Jackson Lean TDD new cover Also, 0.6.1 is so ready for me to start f-ing reading the audio book and get on with this shipping the actual f-ing book and yes I realize I seem like I’m old because I use “f-ing” while typing. Michael: Python 3.14.4 is out Beanie 2.1 release Joke: HumanDB - Blazingly slow. Emotionally consistent.

Topics covered in this episode: Migrating from mypy to ty: Lessons from FastAPI Oxyde ORM Typeshedded CPython docs Raw+DC Database Pattern: A Retrospective Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @[email protected] / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) Brian: @[email protected] / @brianokken.bsky.social Show: @[email protected] / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky) Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it. Brian #1: Migrating from mypy to ty: Lessons from FastAPI Tim Hopper I saw this post by Sebastián Ramírez about all of his projects switching to ty FastAPI, Typer, SQLModel, Asyncer, FastAPI CLI SqlModel is already ty only - mypy removed This signals that ty is ready to use Tim lists some steps to apply ty to your own projects Add ty alongside mypy Set error-on-warning = true Accept the double-ignore comments Pick a smaller project to cut over first Drop mypy when the noise exceeds the signalAdd ty alongside mypy Related anecdote: I had tried out ty with pytest-check in the past with difficulty Tried it again this morning, only a few areas where mypy was happy but ty reported issues At least one ty warning was a potential problem for people running pre-releases of pytest, Not really related: packaging.version.parse is awesome Michael #2: Oxyde ORM Oxyde ORM is a type-safe, Pydantic-centric asynchronous ORM with a high-performance Rust core. Note: Oxyde is a young project under active development. The API may evolve between minor versions. No sync wrappers or thread pools. Oxyde is async from the ground up Includes oxyde-admin Features Django-style API - Familiar Model.objects.filter() syntax Pydantic v2 models - Full validation, type hints, serialization Async-first - Built for modern async Python with asyncio Rust performance - SQL generation and execution in native Rust Multi-database - PostgreSQL, SQLite, MySQL support Transactions - transaction.atomic() context manager with savepoints Migrations - Django-style makemigrations and migrate CLI Brian #3: Typeshedded CPython docs Thanks emmatyping for the suggestion Documentation for Python with typeshed types Source: typeshedding_cpython_docs Michael #4: Raw+DC Database Pattern: A Retrospective A new design pattern I’m seeing gain traction in the software space: Raw+DC: The ORM pattern of 2026 I’ve had a chance to migrate three of my most important web app. Thrilled to report that yes, the web app is much faster using Raw+DC Plus, this was part of the journey to move from 1.3 GB memory usage to 0.45 GB (more on this next week) Extras Brian: Lean TDD 0.5 update Significant rewrite and focus Michael: pytest-just (for just command file testing), by Michael Booth Something going on with Encode httpx: Anyone know what's up with HTTPX? And forked starlette and uvicorn: Transfer of Uvicorn & Starlette mkdocs: The Slow Collapse of MkDocs django-rest-framework: Move to django commons? Certificates at Talk Python Training Joke: Neue Rich

Topics covered in this episode: Lock the Ghost Fence for Sandboxing MALUS: Liberate Open Source Harden your GitHub Actions Workflows with zizmor, dependency pinning, and dependency cooldowns Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course **Patreon SupportersConnect with the hosts** Michael: @[email protected] / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) Brian: @[email protected] / @brianokken.bsky.social Show: @[email protected] / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky) Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it. Michael #1: Lock the Ghost The five core takeaways: PyPI "removal" doesn't delete distribution files. When a package is removed from PyPI, it disappears from the index and project page, but the actual distribution files remain accessible if you have a direct URL to them. uv.lock uniquely preserves access to ghost packages. Because uv.lock stores direct URLs to distribution files rather than relying on the index API at install time, uv sync can successfully install packages that have already been removed, even with cache disabled. No other Python lock file implementation tested behaved this way. This creates a supply chain attack vector. An attacker could upload a malicious package, immediately remove it to dodge automated security scanning, and still have it installable via a uv.lock file, or combine this with the xz-style strategy of hiding malicious additions in large, auto-generated lock files that nobody reviews. Removed package names can be hijacked with version collisions. When an owner removes a package, the name can be reclaimed by someone else who can upload different distribution types under the same version number, as happened with "umap." Lock files help until you regenerate them, then you're exposed. Your dependency scanning needs to cover lock files, not just manifest files. Scanning only pyproject.toml or requirements.txt misses threats embedded in lock files, which is where the actual resolved URLs and hashes live. Brian #2: Fence for Sandboxing Suggested by Martin Häcker “Some coding platforms have since integrated built-in sandboxing (e.g., Claude Code) to restrict write access to directories and/or network connectivity. However, these safeguards are typically optional and not enabled by default.” “JY Tan (on cc) has extracted the sandboxing logic from Claude Code and repackaged it into a standalone Go binary.” Source code on GitHub: https://github.com/Use-Tusk/fence Related: Simon Willison lethal trifecta for AI agents article from June 2025 Claude Code Sandboxing Michael #3: MALUS: Liberate Open Source via Paul Bauer The service will generate the specs of a library with one AI and build the newly licensed library using the specs with another AI circumventing the licensing and copyright rules. AI that has not been trained on open source reads the docs and API signature, creates a spec. Another AI processes that spec into working software. Is it a real site? Are they accepting real money, or are they just trying to cause a stir around copyright? Brian #4: Harden your GitHub Actions Workflows with zizmor, dependency pinning, and dependency cooldowns Matthias Schoettle Avoid things like this: hackerbot-claw: An AI-Powered Bot Actively Exploiting GitHub Actions - Microsoft, DataDog, and CNCF Projects Hit So Far Extras Brian: GitHub is asking to spy on us, that’s nice Michael: Michael’s new SaaS for podcasters: InterviewCue DigitalOcean’s Spaces cold storage for infrequently accessed data Minor issue about my fire and forget post, was a latent bug? Fire and Forget at Textual follow up article Joke: Can you?

Topics covered in this episode: Starlette 1.0.0 Astral to join OpenAI uv audit Fire and forget (or never) with Python’s asyncio Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @[email protected] / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) Brian: @[email protected] / @brianokken.bsky.social Show: @[email protected] / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky) Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it. Brian #1: Starlette 1.0.0 As a reminder, Starlette is the foundation for FastAPI Starlette 1.0 is here! - fun blog post from Marcello Trylesinski “The changes in 1.0 were limited to removing old deprecated code that had been on the way out for years, along with a few bug fixes. From now on we'll follow SemVer strictly.” Fun comment in the “What’s next?” section: “Oh, and Sebastián, Starlette is now out of your way to release FastAPI 1.0. 😉” Related: Experimenting with Starlette 1.0 with Claude skills Simon Willison example of the new lifespan mechanism, very pytest fixture-like @contextlib.asynccontextmanager async def lifespan(app): async with some_async_resource(): print("Run at startup!") yield print("Run on shutdown!") app = Starlette( routes=routes, lifespan=lifespan ) Michael #2: Astral to join OpenAI via John Hagen, thanks Astral has agreed to join OpenAI as part of the Codex team Congrats Charlie and team Seems like **Ruff** and uv play an important roll. Perhaps ty holds the most value to directly boost Codex (understanding codebases for the AI) All that said, these were open source so there is way more to the motivations than just using the tools. After joining the Codex team, we'll continue building our open source tools. Simon Willison has thoughts discuss.python.org also has thoughts The Ars Technica article has interesting comments too It’s probably the death pyx Simon points out “pyx is notably absent from both the Astral and OpenAI announcement posts.” Brian #3: uv audit Submitted by Owen Lemont Pieces of uv audit have been trickling in. uv 0.10.12 exposes it to the cli help Here’s the roadmap for uv audit I tried it out on a package and found a security issue with a dependency not of the project, but of the testing dependencies but only if using Python < 3.10, even though I’m using 3.14 Kinda cool Looks like it generates a uv.lock file, which includes dependencies for all project supported versions of Python and systems, which is a very thorough way to check for vulnerabilities. But also, maybe some pointers on how to fix the problem would be good. No --fix yet. Michael #4: Fire and forget (or never) with Python’s asyncio Python’s asyncio.create_task() can silently garbage collect your fire-and-forget tasks starting in Python 3.12 Formerly fine async code can now stop working, so heads up The fix? Use a set to upgrade to a strong ref and a callback to remove it Is there a chance of task-based memory leaks? Yeah, maybe. Extras Brian: Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity - interesting read and unfortunate truth in too many places. pytest-check - All built-in check helper functions in this list also accept an optional xfail reason. example: check.equal(actual, expected, xfail="known issue #123") Allows some checks to still cause a failure to happen because you no longer have to mark the whole test as xfail Michael: TurboAPI - FastAPI + Pydantic compatible framework in Zig (see follow up) Pyramid 2.1 is out (yes really! :) first release in 3 years) Vivaldi 7.9 adds minimalist hide mode. Migrated pythonbytes.fm and talkpython.fm to Raw+DC design pattern Robyn + Chameleon package Joke: We now have translation services

Topics covered in this episode: chardet ,AI, and licensing refined-github pgdog: PostgreSQL connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder Agentic Engineering Patterns Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @[email protected] / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) Brian: @[email protected] / @brianokken.bsky.social Show: @[email protected] / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky) Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 10am PT. Older video versions available there too. Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it. Michael #1: chardet ,AI, and licensing Thanks Ian Lessing Wow, where to start? A bit of legal precedence research. Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens on the Register Also see this GitHub issue. Dan Blanchard, maintainer of a Python character encoding detection library called chardet, released a new version of the library under a new software license. (LGPL → MIT) Dan is allowed to make this change because v7 is a complete “clean room” rewrite using AI BTW, v7 is WAY better: The result is a 48x increase in detection speed for a project that lives in the hot loops of many projects. That will lead to noticeable performance increases for literally millions of users (the package gets ~130M downloads per month). It paves a path towards inclusion in the standard library (assuming they don’t institute policies against using AI tools). Thread-safe detect() and detect_all() with no measurable overhead; scales on free-threaded Python 3.13t+ An individual claiming to be Mark Pilgrim, the original creator of the library, opened an issue in the project's GitHub repo arguing that Blanchard had no right to change the software license, citing the LPGL requirement that the license remain unchanged. A 'complete rewrite' is irrelevant, since they had ample exposure to the originally licensed code (i.e. this is not a 'clean room' implementation). Blanchard disagreed, citing how version 7.0.0 and 6.0.0 compare when subjected to JPlag, a library for detecting plagiarism. Blanchard told The Register he had wanted to get chardet added to the Python standard library for more than a decade since it’s a core dependency to most Python projects. Brian #2: refined-github Suggested by Matthias Schöttle A browser plugin that improves the GitHub experience A sampling Adds a build/CI status icon next to the repo’s name. Adds a link back to the PR that ran the workflow. Enables tab and shift tab for indentation in comment fields. Auto-resizes comment fields to fit their content and no longer show scroll bars. Highlights the most useful comment in issues. Changes the default sort order of issues/PRs to Recently updated. But really, it’s a huge list of improvements Michael #3: pgdog: PostgreSQL connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder PgDog is a proxy for scaling PostgreSQL. It supports connection pooling, load balancing queries and sharding entire databases. Written in Rust, PgDog is fast, secure and can manage thousands of connections on commodity hardware. Features PgDog is an application layer load balancer for PostgreSQL Health Checks: PgDog maintains a real-time list of healthy hosts. When a database fails a health check, it's removed from the active rotation and queries are re-routed to other replicas Single Endpoint: PgDog can detect writes (e.g. INSERT, UPDATE, CREATE TABLE, etc.) and send them to the primary, leaving the replicas to serve reads Failover: PgDog monitors Postgres replication state and can automatically redirect writes to a different database if a replica is promoted Sharding: PgDog is able to manage databases with multiple shards Brian #4: Agentic Engineering Patterns Simon Willison So much great stuff here, especially Anti-patterns: things to avoid And 3 sections on testing Red/green TDD First run the test Agentic manual testing Extras Brian: uv python upgrade will upgrade all versions of Python installed with uv to latest patch release suggested by John Hagen Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It NY Times Article Suggested by Christopher Best quote: “Pushing code that fails pytest is unacceptable and embarrassing.” Michael: Talk Python Training users get a better account dashboard Package Managers Need to Cool Down Will AI Kill Open Source, article + video My Always activate the venv is now a zsh-plugin, sorta. Joke: Ergonomic keyboard Also pretty good and related: Claude Code Mandated Links legal precedence research Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens this GitHub issue citing JPlag refined-github Agentic Engineering Patterns Anti-patterns: things to avoid Red/green TDD First run the test Agentic manual testing uv python upgrade Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It Suggested by Christopher a better account dashboard Package Managers Need to Cool Down Will AI Kill Open Source Always activate the venv now a zsh-plugin Ergonomic keyboard Claude Code Mandated claude-mandated.png blobs.pythonbytes.fm/keyboard-joke.jpeg?cache_id=a6026b

Topics covered in this episode: chardet ,AI, and licensing refined-github pgdog: PostgreSQL connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder Agentic Engineering Patterns Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @[email protected] / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) Brian: @[email protected] / @brianokken.bsky.social Show: @[email protected] / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky) Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 10am PT. Older video versions available there too. Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it. Michael #1: chardet ,AI, and licensing Thanks Ian Lessing Wow, where to start? A bit of legal precedence research. Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens on the Register Also see this GitHub issue. Dan Blanchard, maintainer of a Python character encoding detection library called chardet, released a new version of the library under a new software license. (LGPL → MIT) Dan is allowed to make this change because v7 is a complete “clean room” rewrite using AI BTW, v7 is WAY better: The result is a 48x increase in detection speed for a project that lives in the hot loops of many projects. That will lead to noticeable performance increases for literally millions of users (the package gets ~130M downloads per month). It paves a path towards inclusion in the standard library (assuming they don’t institute policies against using AI tools). Thread-safe detect() and detect_all() with no measurable overhead; scales on free-threaded Python 3.13t+ An individual claiming to be Mark Pilgrim, the original creator of the library, opened an issue in the project's GitHub repo arguing that Blanchard had no right to change the software license, citing the LPGL requirement that the license remain unchanged. A 'complete rewrite' is irrelevant, since they had ample exposure to the originally licensed code (i.e. this is not a 'clean room' implementation). Blanchard disagreed, citing how version 7.0.0 and 6.0.0 compare when subjected to JPlag, a library for detecting plagiarism. Blanchard told The Register he had wanted to get chardet added to the Python standard library for more than a decade since it’s a core dependency to most Python projects. Brian #2: refined-github Suggested by Matthias Schöttle A browser plugin that improves the GitHub experience A sampling Adds a build/CI status icon next to the repo’s name. Adds a link back to the PR that ran the workflow. Enables tab and shift tab for indentation in comment fields. Auto-resizes comment fields to fit their content and no longer show scroll bars. Highlights the most useful comment in issues. Changes the default sort order of issues/PRs to Recently updated. But really, it’s a huge list of improvements Michael #3: pgdog: PostgreSQL connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder PgDog is a proxy for scaling PostgreSQL. It supports connection pooling, load balancing queries and sharding entire databases. Written in Rust, PgDog is fast, secure and can manage thousands of connections on commodity hardware. Features PgDog is an application layer load balancer for PostgreSQL Health Checks: PgDog maintains a real-time list of healthy hosts. When a database fails a health check, it's removed from the active rotation and queries are re-routed to other replicas Single Endpoint: PgDog can detect writes (e.g. INSERT, UPDATE, CREATE TABLE, etc.) and send them to the primary, leaving the replicas to serve reads Failover: PgDog monitors Postgres replication state and can automatically redirect writes to a different database if a replica is promoted Sharding: PgDog is able to manage databases with multiple shards Brian #4: Agentic Engineering Patterns Simon Willison So much great stuff here, especially Anti-patterns: things to avoid And 3 sections on testing Red/green TDD First run the test Agentic manual testing Extras Brian: <code>uv python upgrade</code> will upgrade all versions of Python installed with uv to latest patch release suggested by John Hagen Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It NY Times Article Suggested by Christopher Best quote: “Pushing code that fails pytest is unacceptable and embarrassing.” Michael: Talk Python Training users get a better account dashboard Package Managers Need to Cool Down Will AI Kill Open Source, article + video My Always activate the venv is now a zsh-plugin, sorta. Joke: Ergonomic keyboard Also pretty good and related: <code>Claude Code Mandated</code> Links legal precedence research Chardet dispute shows how AI will kill software licensing, argues Bruce Perens this GitHub issue citing JPlag refined-github Agentic Engineering Patterns Anti-patterns: things to avoid Red/green TDD First run the test Agentic manual testing <code>uv python upgrade</code> Coding After Coders: The End of Computer Programming as We Know It Suggested by Christopher a better account dashboard Package Managers Need to Cool Down Will AI Kill Open Source Always activate the venv now a zsh-plugin Ergonomic keyboard <code>Claude Code Mandated</code> claude-mandated.png blobs.pythonbytes.fm/keyboard-joke.jpeg?cache_id=a6026b

Topics covered in this episode: Setting up a Python monorepo with uv workspaces cattrs: Flexible Object Serialization and Validation Learning to program in the AI age VS Code extension for FastAPI and friends Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @[email protected] / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) Brian: @[email protected] / @brianokken.bsky.social Show: @[email protected] / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky) Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it. Brian #1: Setting up a Python monorepo with uv workspaces Dennis Traub The 3 things Give the Root a Distinct Name Use workspace = true for Inter-Package Deps Use importlib Mode for pytest Michael #2: cattrs: Flexible Object Serialization and Validation cattrs is a Swiss Army knife for (un)structuring and validating data in Python. A natural alternative/follow on from DataClass Wizard Converts to ←→ from dictionaries cattrs also focuses on functional composition and not coupling your data model to its serialization and validation rules. When you’re handed unstructured data (by your network, file system, database, …), cattrs helps to convert this data into trustworthy structured data. Batteries Included: cattrs comes with pre-configured converters for a number of serialization libraries, including JSON (standard library, orjson, UltraJSON), msgpack, cbor2, bson, PyYAML, tomlkit and msgspec (supports only JSON at this time). Brian #3: Learning to program in the AI age Jose Blanca “I teach a couple of introductory Python courses and I've been thinking about which advice to give to my students, that are studying how to program for the first time. I have collected my ideas in these blog posts” Why learning to program is as useful as ever, even with powerful AI tools available. How to use AI as a tutor rather than a shortcut, and why practice remains the key to real understanding. What the real learning objectives are: mental models, managing complexity, and thinking like a software developer. Michael #4: VS Code extension for FastAPI and friends Enhances the FastAPI development experience in Visual Studio Code Path Operation Explorer: Provides a hierarchical tree view of all FastAPI routes in your application. Search for routes: Use the Command Palette and quickly search for routes by path, method, or name. CodeLens links appear above HTTP client calls like client.get('/items'), letting you jump directly to the matching route definition. Deploy your application directly to FastAPI Cloud from the status bar with zero config. View real-time logs from your FastAPI Cloud deployed applications directly within VS Code. Install from Marketplace. Extras Brian: Guido van Rossum interviews key Python developers from the first 25 years Interview with Brett Cannon Interview with Thomas Wouters Michael: IntelliJ IDEA: The Documentary | An origin story video Cursor Joined the ACP Registry and Is Now Live in Your JetBrains IDE What hyper-personal software looks like I’m doing in-person training again (limited scope): On-site, hands-on AI engineering enablement for software teams with Michael Joke: Saas is dead

Topics covered in this episode: Raw+DC: The ORM pattern of 2026? pytest-check releases Dataclass Wizard SQLiteo - “native macOS SQLite browser built for normal people” Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @[email protected] / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) Brian: @[email protected] / @brianokken.bsky.social Show: @[email protected] / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky) Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it. Michael #1: Raw+DC: The ORM pattern of 2026? ORMs/ODMs provide great support and abstractions for developers They are not the native language of agentic AI Raw queries are trained 100x+ more than standard ORMs Using raw queries at the data access optimizes for AI coding Returning some sort of object mapped to the data optimizes for type safety and devs Brian #2: pytest-check releases 3 merged pull requests 8 closed issues at one point got to 0 PR’s and 1 enhancement request Now back to 2 issues and 1 PR, but activity means it’s still alive and being used. so cool Check out changelog for all mods A lot of changes around supporting mypy I’ve decided to NOT have the examples be fully --strict as I find it reduces readability See tox.ini for explanation But src is --strict clean now, so user tests can be --strict clean. Michael #3: Dataclass Wizard Simple, elegant wizarding tools for Python’s dataclasses. Features 🚀 Fast — code-generated loaders and dumpers 🪶 Lightweight — pure Python, minimal dependencies 🧠 Typed — powered by Python type hints 🧙 Flexible — JSON, YAML, TOML, and environment variables 🧪 Reliable — battle-tested with extensive test coverage No Inheritance Needed Brian #4: SQLiteo - “native macOS SQLite browser built for normal people” Adam Hill This is a fun tool, built by someone I trust. That trust part is something I’m thinking about a lot in these days of dev+agent built tools Some notes on my thoughts when evaluating I know mac rules around installing .dmg files not from the apple store are picky. And I like that But I’m ok with the override when something comes from a dev I trust The contributors are all Adam I’m still not sure how I feel about letting agents do commits in repos There’s “AGENTS” folder and markdown files in the project for agents, so Ad Extras Michael: PyTV Python Unplugged This Week IBM Crashes 11% in 4 Hours - $24 Billion Wiped Out After Anthropic's Claude Code Threatens the Entire COBOL Consulting Industry Loving my 40” ultrawide monitor more every day Updatest for updating all the mac things Ice has Thawed out (mac menubar app) Joke: House is read-only!

Topics covered in this episode: Better Python tests with inline-snapshot jolt Battery intelligence for your laptop Markdown code formatting with ruff act - run your GitHub actions locally Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @[email protected] / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) Brian: @[email protected] / @brianokken.bsky.social Show: @[email protected] / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky) Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 11am PT. Older video versions available there too. Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it. Brian #1: Better Python tests with inline-snapshot Alex Hall, on Pydantic blog Great for testing complex data structures Allows you to write a test like this: from inline_snapshot import snapshot def test_user_creation(): user = create_user(id=123, name="test_user") assert user.dict() == snapshot({}) Then run pytest --inline-snapshot=fix And the library updates the test source code to look like this: def test_user_creation(): user = create_user(id=123, name="test_user") assert user.dict() == snapshot({ "id": 123, "name": "test_user", "status": "active" }) Now, when you run the code without “fix” the collected data is used for comparison Awesome to be able to visually inspect the test data right there in the test code. Projects mentioned inline-snapshot pytest-examples syrupy dirty-equals executing Michael #2: jolt Battery intelligence for your laptop Support for both macOS and Linux Battery Status — Charge percentage, time remaining, health, and cycle count Power Monitoring — System power draw with CPU/GPU breakdown Process Tracking — Processes sorted by energy impact with color-coded severity Historical Graphs — Track battery and power trends over time Themes — 10+ built-in themes with dark/light auto-detection Background Daemon — Collect historical data even when the TUI isn't running Process Management — Kill energy-hungry processes directly Brian #3: Markdown code formatting with ruff Suggested by Matthias Schoettle ruff can now format code within markdown files Will format valid Python code in code blocks marked with python, py, python3 or py3. Also recognizes pyi as Python type stub files. Includes the ability to turn off formatting with comment <!-- fmt:off --> , <!-- fmt:on --> blocks. Requires preview mode [tool.ruff.lint] preview = true Michael #4: act - run your GitHub actions locally Run your GitHub Actions locally! Why would you want to do this? Two reasons: Fast Feedback - Rather than having to commit/push every time you want to test out the changes you are making to your .github/workflows/ files (or for any changes to embedded GitHub actions), you can use act to run the actions locally. The environment variables and filesystem are all configured to match what GitHub provides. Local Task Runner - I love make. However, I also hate repeating myself. With act, you can use the GitHub Actions defined in your .github/workflows/ to replace your Makefile! When you run act it reads in your GitHub Actions from .github/workflows/ and determines the set of actions that need to be run. Uses the Docker API to either pull or build the necessary images, as defined in your workflow files and finally determines the execution path based on the dependencies that were defined. Once it has the execution path, it then uses the Docker API to run containers for each action based on the images prepared earlier. The environment variables and filesystem are all configured to match what GitHub provides. Extras Michael: Winter is coming: Frozendict accepted Django ORM stand-alone Command Book app announcement post Joke: Plug ‘n Paste

Topics covered in this episode: Command Book App uvx.sh: Install Python tools without uv or Python Ending 15 years of subprocess polling monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @[email protected] / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) Brian: @[email protected] / @brianokken.bsky.social Show: @[email protected] / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky) Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 10am PT. Older video versions available there too. Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it. Michael #1: Command Book App New app from Michael Command Book App is a native macOS app for developers, data scientists, AI enthusiasts and more. This is a tool I've been using lately to help build Talk Python, Python Bytes, Talk Python Training, and many more applications. It's a bit like advanced terminal commands or complex shell aliases, but hosted outside of your terminal. This leaves the terminal there for interactive commands, exploration, short actions. Command Book manages commands like "tail this log while I'm developing the app", "Run the dev web server with true auto-reload", and even "Run MongoDB in Docker with exactly the settings I need" I'd love it if you gave it a look, shared it with your team, and send me feedback. Has a free version and paid version. Build with Swift and Swift UI Check it out at https://commandbookapp.com Brian #2: uvx.sh: Install Python tools without uv or Python Tim Hopper Michael #3: Ending 15 years of subprocess polling by Giampaolo Rodola The standard library's subprocess module has relied on a busy-loop polling approach since the timeout parameter was added to Popen.wait() in Python 3.3, around 15 years ago The problem with busy-polling CPU wake-ups: even with exponential backoff (starting at 0.1ms, capping at 40ms), the system constantly wakes up to check process status, wasting CPU cycles and draining batteries. Latency: there's always a gap between when a process actually terminates and when you detect it. Scalability: monitoring many processes simultaneously magnifies all of the above. + L1/L2 CPU cache invalidations It’s interesting to note that waiting via poll() (or kqueue()) puts the process into the exact same sleeping state as a plain time.sleep() call. From the kernel's perspective, both are interruptible sleeps. Here is the merged PR for this change. Brian #4: monty: A minimal, secure Python interpreter written in Rust for use by AI Samuel Colvin and others at Pydantic Still experimental “Monty avoids the cost, latency, complexity and general faff of using a full container based sandbox for running LLM generated code. “ “Instead, it lets you safely run Python code written by an LLM embedded in your agent, with startup times measured in single digit microseconds not hundreds of milliseconds.” Extras Brian: Expertise is the art of ignoring - Kevin Renskers You don’t need to master the language. You need to master your slice. Learning everything up front is wasted effort. Experience changes what you pay attention to. I hate fish - Rands (Michael Lopp) Really about productivity systems And a nice process for dealing with email Michael: Talk Python now has a CLI New essay: It's not vibe coding - Agentic engineering GitHub is having a day Python 3.14.3 and 3.13.12 are available Wall Street just lost $285 billion because of 13 markdown files Joke: Silence, current side project!