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  • 2026-08-05 19:30
    The Django team is happy to announce the release of Django 6.1. The release notes offer a harmonious mélange of new features and usability improvements. A few highlights are: Model field fetch modes for configuring on-demand fetching behavior Database-level delete options for ForeignKey.on_delete Dictionary-based email settings You can get Django 6.1 from our downloads page or from the Python Package Index . The PGP key ID used for this release is Jacob Walls: 131403F4D16D8DC7 With the release of Django 6.1, Django 6.0 has reached the end of mainstream support. The final minor bug fix release, 6.0.8 , which was also a security release, was issued yesterday, Aug. 4, 2026. Django 6.0 will receive security and data loss fixes until April 2027. All users are encouraged to upgrade before then to continue receiving fixes for security issues. See the downloads page for a table of supported versions and the future release schedule.
  • 2026-07-22 20:00
    Django 6.1 release candidate 1 is now available. It represents the final opportunity for you to try out the version that offers a harmonious mélange of new features and usability improvements , before Django 6.1 final is released. The release candidate stage marks the string freeze and the call for translators to submit translations . Provided no major bugs are discovered that can't be solved in the next two weeks, Django 6.1 will be released on or around August 5. Any delays will be communicated on the Django forum . Please use this opportunity to help find and fix bugs (which should be reported to the issue tracker ), you can grab a copy of the release candidate package from our downloads page or on PyPI. The PGP key ID used for this release is Jacob Walls: 131403F4D16D8DC7
  • 2026-07-18 18:09
    A short note for visibility. PyPy builds tarballs of the python interpreter ready for download . These include the latest releases and also nightly builds, fresh from our fleet of buildbots. Over the next couple of days, the nightly builds on linux will transition from manylinux2014 based docker images to manylinux2_28 images . The practical implication is that nightly images, and the next releases, will require a minimum of GLIBC>=2.28 , i.e. AlmaLinux8, amanzonlinux 2023, debian 10, ubuntu 20.04. For a good overview of how this glibc/distro/manylinux all works, see the PEP 600 compliance page . The next release will indicate this change by a new PyPy major version, 8.0.0. It should include a Python3.12 interpreter, in which case it will be the last release of the Python 3.11 interpreter.
  • 2026-06-10 00:00
    Three months ago I saw that PyCharm shipped with a “ Full Line Completion ” plugin that “uses a local deep learning model to suggest entire lines of code”. These suggestions manifest as whole-line suggestions after you start typing and can be accepted with Tab . Essentially auto-complete for entire lines. I decide to test this functionality. I started by writing import urllib3 , created a new line, and then typed u and received a suggested completion for the line marked below with a dashed border . I was not impressed by the result: import urllib3 u rllib3 . disable_warnings ( urllib3 . exceptions . InsecureRequestWarning ) Accepting this line would mean that any insecure requests made with urllib3 would not result in a user-visible warning. I didn't accept this suggestion and then began to instantiate a urllib3.PoolManager and what I feared would come next was confirmed: import urllib3 urllib3 . PoolManager ( cert_reqs = 'CERT_NONE' , The suggestion offered to disable certificate verification ( CERT_NONE ) which would make every request made by the PoolManager susceptible to monster-in-the-middle (MITM) attacks. Accepting this code as-is would mean the program I am writing has a severe vulnerability. ..
  • 2026-05-24 11:04
    Last week was PyCon US in Long Beach California. As always, it was a jam-packed intense time. I'll try to report on my experience. The videos aren't uploaded yet, but I'll link to them later when they are. This recap is longer than I've done in the past. I don't know why, it's just how it came out. I want to convey a sense of what I get out of PyCon and what you can get out of PyCon. Thursday Opening reception I came with five of my colleagues from Netflix. I got to the Thursday night reception with Anika (first PyCon) and Josey (first PyCon with me). They said, "we're going to count how many people Ned says hi to!" They were at 16 after five minutes and gave up. I don't blame them. The reception is a very social time, and I have lots of friends I really enjoy seeing there. New friends and backpacks Besides seeing old friends, one of the great things about unstructured time like the opening reception is meeting new people. Tower Research Capital was giving away full-size Osprey backpacks at their booth. This was easily the most appreciated swag at PyCon. At the booth a clump of us were wondering what was required to get one. While there I met Maria , Camila , and Vinícius . They are from Brazil, and were very friendly. They will ..
  • 2026-04-22 10:00
    A new app called Hermes Desktop makes Hermes Agent easier to use for people who do not want to stay in the terminal. If you have been looking for a cleaner way to install and use an agent on your own machine, this sits in the same wider conversation as how people run AI locally with lighter setup friction. This is not an official Nous Research desktop app. Hermes Desktop is a separate open-source project created by GitHub user fathah. It sits on top of Hermes Agent and gives it a native interface for setup, chat, and day-to-day management. It is a third-party desktop companion for Hermes Agent, not the upstream project itself. What Is Hermes Desktop? Hermes Desktop is a native app for installing, configuring, and chatting with Hermes Agent without doing everything by hand from the command line. According to the project's GitHub repo, it uses the official Hermes install script, stores Hermes under ~/.hermes , and provides screens for chat, sessions, profiles, memory, skills, tools, schedules, and messaging gateways. That makes it less of a simple wrapper and more of a desktop control panel for Hermes. What Can the App Do? Based on the repo and release notes, Hermes Desktop already goes well beyond a basic chat ..
  • 2026-04-12 13:00
    The open-source AI agent space got crowded fast in 2026, but two names kept showing up in the same conversations: OpenClaw and Hermes Agent . At first glance, they look like direct rivals. They're both open-source. They both run on your own hardware or a cheap VPS. They both promise a more useful kind of AI assistant than the usual chatbox. But after spending time with both, I don't think the real question is which one kills the other . That framing is lazy. The better question is this: what job do you want the agent to do? Because OpenClaw and Hermes Agent are built around different ideas. OpenClaw feels like a capable runtime for getting things done across apps, channels, and workflows. Hermes feels more like an agent that is trying to become better at being itself. That difference matters. The Short Version If you want a practical assistant that can live in Telegram, WhatsApp, Discord, email, the browser, and your shell, OpenClaw makes a lot of sense . If you want an agent with stronger memory, a built-in self-improvement loop, and a setup that invites experimentation with lots of models, Hermes Agent is the more interesting bet . And if you're deep enough into this space to care about both orchestration and ..
  • 2026-04-11 00:00
    Whenever a new technology shows up, the conversation quickly splits into camps. There are the people who reject it outright, and there are the people who seem to adopt it with religious enthusiasm. For more than a year now, no topic has been more polarising than AI coding agents. What I keep noticing is that a lot of the criticism directed at these tools is perfectly legitimate, but it often comes from people without a meaningful amount of direct experience with them. They are not necessarily wrong. In fact, many of them cite studies, polls and all kinds of sources that themselves spent time investigating and surveying. And quite legitimately they identified real issues: the output can be bad, the security implications are scary, the economics are strange and potentially unsustainable, there is an environmental impact, the social consequences are unclear, and the hype is exhausting. But there is something important missing from that criticism when it comes from a position of non-use: it is too abstract. There is a difference between saying "this looks flawed in principle" and saying "I used this enough to understand where it breaks, where it helps, and how it changes my work." The second type of criticism is expensive. It costs ..
  • 2026-04-10 13:00
    If you make product demos, tutorials, walkthroughs, or short social clips, there's a good chance you've looked at Screen Studio before. And for good reason. It's one of the nicest screen recording tools around if you care about presentation. You record your screen, and it handles a lot of the polish for you: cursor-following zooms, smooth motion, clean framing, and a result that looks far better than a raw screen capture usually has any right to. The problem, of course, is that it's not free. If you only make polished demos once in a while, another subscription can feel a bit ridiculous. That's exactly where OpenScreen comes into play. It aims at the same kind of workflow, but it's free, open source, and available across macOS, Windows, and Linux. That alone makes it worth a look. What Is OpenScreen? OpenScreen is an open-source desktop app built for turning ordinary screen recordings into cleaner, more watchable demos. It is positioned very clearly as an alternative to Screen Studio, and the overlap is obvious the moment you look at it. You can record your screen or a specific window, then refine the result with zooms, cursor effects, backgrounds, annotations, and timeline-based edits. In other words, it is not just ..
  • 2026-04-07 13:00
    If you have been watching the AI coding tool space, you know the story by now. OpenAI put Codex into ChatGPT. Anthropic shipped Claude Code . Both will write your code, debug your mess, refactor your spaghetti, and run agentic tasks while you grab coffee. But they price differently. And usage limits? That is where it gets interesting, and where a lot of comparisons fall apart. I spent time with both. Here is what I found. Pricing Both start at $20/month. That is where the similarity ends. Plan OpenAI Codex Cost Claude Code Cost Base ChatGPT Plus $20 Claude Pro $20 Mid ChatGPT Pro $200 Claude Max 5x $100 Heavy None – Claude Max 20x $200 Teams ChatGPT Business ~$25-30/user Claude Team Custom Prices updated at time of writing. A few things worth noting: Codex has no standalone pricing. It is bundled into ChatGPT plans. If you want it, you are on Plus ($20) or Pro ($200). Claude Code has a sweet mid-tier at $100. The Max 5x plan is genuinely compelling for power users who do not want to jump to $200. OpenAI also has a lighter ChatGPT Go tier around $8/month, casual users only, and Codex access is reduced there. On paper, $20 gets you ..
  • 2026-02-28 07:39
    In my previous post I walked through deploying an AI-generated Educates workshop on a local Kubernetes cluster. The workshop was up and running, accessible through the training portal, and ready to be used. But having a workshop that runs is only the first step. The next question is whether it's actually any good. Workshop review is traditionally a manual process. You open the workshop in a browser, click through each page, read the instructions, run the commands, check that everything works, and make notes on what could be improved. It's time-consuming and somewhat tedious, especially when you're the person who wrote the workshop in the first place and already know what it's supposed to do. Even this task, though, is one where AI can help. Reviewing the source vs the experience One option would be to point Claude at the workshop source files directly. Hand it the Markdown content and the YAML configuration and ask it to review the material. This works to a degree, but it only checks the content in isolation. It doesn't tell you anything about how the workshop actually feels when someone uses it. The real test of a workshop is the experience of navigating it as a learner. How do the instructions read when you're looking at ..
  • 2026-02-03 06:41
    Last year we relocated to Metro Manila , Philippines for the foreseeable future. Audrey 's mother is from here, and we wanted our daughter Uma to have the opportunity to spend time with her extended family and experience another line of her heritage. Where are you living? In Makati , a city that contains one of the major business districts in Metro Manila. Specifically we're in Salcedo village, a neighboorhood in the CBD , made of towering residential and business buildings with numerous shops, markets, and a few parks. This area allows for a walkable life, which is important to us coming from London. What about the USA? The USA is our homeland and we're US citizens. We still have family and friends there. We're hoping to visit the US at least once a year. What about the UK? We loved living in London, and have many good friends there. I really enjoyed working for Kraken Tech , but my time came to an end there so our visas were no longer valid. We hope to visit the UK (and the rest of Europe) as tourists, but without the family connection it's harder to justify than trips to the homeland. What about your daughter? Uma loves Manila and is in second grade at an international school here in walking distance of our residence. ..
  • 2025-12-17 00:00
    I've mentioned this a few times now, but when I started using Claude it was because Peter got me hooked on it. From the very beginning I became a religious user of what is colloquially called YOLO mode, which basically gives the agent all the permissions so I can just watch it do its stuff. One consequence of YOLO mode though is that it didn't work well together with the plan mode that Claude Code had. In the beginning it didn't inherit all the tool permissions, so in plan mode it actually asked for approval all the time. I found this annoying and as a result I never really used plan mode. Since I haven't been using it, I ended up with other approaches. I've talked about this before, but it's a version of iterating together with the agent on creating a form of handoff in the form of a markdown file. My approach has been getting the agent to ask me clarifying questions, taking these questions into an editor, answering them, and then doing a bunch of iterations until I'm decently happy with the end result. That has been my approach and I thought that this was pretty popular these days. For instance Mario's pi which I also use, does not have a plan mode and Amp is removing theirs . However today I had two interesting conversations ..
  • 2025-12-02 12:50
    Ubuntu Pro for WSL provides turnkey security maintenance and enterprise support for Ubuntu 24.04 LTS WSL instances in Windows. The subscription will also enable comprehensive management for system administrators.  Today, Canonical announced the general availability of Ubuntu Pro for WSL which can be installed from the Microsoft Store. Source and beta releases are also on GitHub . Canonical and Microsoft have a fantastic partnership, building out the WSL experience. This work will benefit enterprise developers who use WSL to build production Linux solutions. Craig Loewen, Product Manager for WSL at Microsoft Ubuntu Pro delivers enterprise-grade security maintenance and support across desktops, servers, and IoT devices. Now, that same proven value proposition comes to WSL, addressing the security and compliance needs of IT managers and paving the way for broader enterprise adoption. Power to developers, peace of mind for IT teams WSL provides developers, system administrators, and power users with a native Linux experience on Windows, without the overhead of a full virtual machine or dual boot. It allows users to run Linux command-line tools, utilities, and graphical Linux applications directly on Windows. In collaboration ..
  • 2025-12-01 09:02
    We have extended our webhooks capabilities to be able to trigger webhooks on successful and unsuccessful package uploads to Personal Package Archives (PPAs). When a new source package is uploaded to one of your PPAs, the system can now send an instant webhook notification to an endpoint you control. This will make it easier to build automations around package uploads and binary package builds in your PPAs. The webhook configuration includes scopes so you can configure to only trigger on successful use cases, or vice versa. Each webhook payload includes essential metadata about the upload – more details in the Webhooks page of our user documentation. To try it out, you can add a webhook to your archive via the API ( API reference ), or via the UI by going to “Manage Webhooks” in your archive's page. If you have ideas or feedback, reach out to us!