On this day, 20 years ago, I received a short email that radically changed the direction of my life. I can't thank @npub1k3lq...3e8u and @jacobian enough for starting me on this journey.
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Russell Keith-Magee
Russell Keith-Magee
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Founding Apiarist on @PyBeeWare project. Former @DjangoProject Core Developer. Itinerant shaver of yaks. Subject to occasional, wild, enthusiastic rants.
Github: https://github.com/freakboy3742
Founder: https://beeware.org
Homepage: https://cecinestpasun.com
Python 3.14 brought us t-strings... will Python 3.15 add d-strings? While I'm wary of having so many prefixes (anyone want a `rtfd`string?), I can see myself using these a *lot*. 
Python Enhancement Proposals (PEPs)
PEP 822 – Dedented Multiline String (d-string) | peps.python.org
This PEP proposes to add a feature that automatically removes indentation from multiline string literals.
You judge a community on how it makes the hard decisions, not the easy ones - and with $1.5M on the line, this was a hard call to make.
I *strongly* endorse the principled position that the PSF has taken on this.
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Python Software Foundation (@ThePSF@fosstodon.org)
TLDR; The PSF has made the decision to put our community and our shared diversity, equity, and inclusion values ahead of seeking $1.5M in new reven...
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A question for macOS/iOS experts.
I have an iOS Xcode project. The project has an XCUnit test suite. That test suite generates logs. If I run the test suite through Xcode, I see the logs as they are generated.
However, I want to run the test suite through xcodebuild. If I do this, the log output *is* captured - but it's all dumped into an xcresults file, and isn't visible until *after* the test suite is complete.
Is there any way to *live stream* iOS log output from xcodebuild?
OH: “two senior engineers and a manager debugging Python”, Oil on PowerPoint, 2025. #europython
Is anyone aware of a reason why Github Actions has, over the last week or so, become completely flaky when trying to connect to *any* of Fedora’s package mirrors? Something that used to be completely reliable is now failing maybe 50% of the time for me…
According to @Python Software Foundation, Tasmania apparently got drunk and woke up in the Tasman sea. #pyconus
If anyone knows how to get the attention of someone at Apple who won’t respond to an App Review request with a platitude that ignores the evidence right in front of them, I’d appreciate the connect.
Sincerely, the CPython iOS platform maintainer…
Github has clearly just rolled out a bunch of new UI rework - and it's very clear that they've been developed and tested by engineers that have a multi-gigabit network connection to the server in the building next door.
Know how I can tell? Almost every UI interaction that involves a page change now involves clicking a button, then a multi-second wait until *something* loads in the background… but with no UI feedback that anything is happening at all.