A Data Love Letter to the NYC Subway
“We’ve put together a reading list about capitalism, imperialism, policing, and the...
“We’ve put together a reading list about capitalism, imperialism, policing, and the politics and strategies of anti-war resistance movements of the past and present — tools in the struggle against repression, surveillance, and state violence.”
An interview with Ann Goldstein, Elena Ferrante’s English translator. “I had never...
Quoting Gergely Orosz
I get a feeling that working with multiple AI agents is something that comes VERY natural to most senior+ engineers or tech lead who worked at a large company
You already got used to overseeing parallel work (the goto code reviewer!) + making progress with small chunks of work... because your day has been a series of nonstop interactions, so you had to figure out how to do deep work in small chunks that could have been interrupted
Tags: gergely-orosz, parallel-agents, coding-agents, ai-assisted-programming, generative-ai, ai, llms
Bird Photographer of the Year for 2025
TIL: Testing different Python versions with uv with-editable and uv-test
Skateboard
Claude can write complete Datasette plugins now
This is a lovely & thoughtful essay on the messiness of teaching...
A History of the Slave-Breeding Industry in the United States
Citation Needed
• Molly White
Issue 94 – Backdoor deals
Trump is still corrupt, a core developer warns bitcoin won’t survive an upcoming code change, and crypto lenders are ratcheting up leverage like it’s 2022.
The Oatmeal’s take on AI art. “When I consume Al art, it...
The Family of Migrants is a new book & museum exhibition that...
As they labor to fight off the slop bots, Wikipedia maintains a...
As they labor to fight off the slop bots, Wikipedia maintains a fairly extensive list of signs & tells that text was written by AI. “This list is descriptive, not prescriptive; it consists of observations, not rules.”
Python 3.14 Is Here. How Fast Is It?
Python 3.14 Is Here. How Fast Is It?
Miguel Grinberg uses some basic benchmarks (likefib(40)) to test the new Python 3.14 on Linux and macOS and finds some substantial speedups over Python 3.13 - around 27% faster.
The optional JIT didn't make a meaningful difference to his benchmarks. On a threaded benchmark he got 3.09x speedup with 4 threads using the free threading build - for Python 3.13 the free threading build only provided a 2.2x improvement.
Via lobste.rs
Tags: gil, performance, python