#statstab #394 Difference-in-Differences Estimation
Thoughts: A bit of love for the python coders. DiD with lots of examples and estimators.
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Say goodbye to the container testing headache! Learn how #pytest_container + test infra make testing apps inside #containers smooth and scalable (all in #Python) from this #oSC25 talk. #pytest #DevOps #openSUSE https://youtu.be/kU9NS1FpfY8?si=qyjoR5zfMWI7qpY3
Tomorrow evening @pyohio starts. I am excited to see old friends and to meet new ones.
I finally tried using a #Quarto doc with #Python in #PositronIDE .
Y'all. 
It's so good. It's so flippin nice. I even added a snippet to easily add a python code cell by pressing `p + tab`.
It finds my `uv` virtualenv, I can just add more code and hit `Ctrl + Enter` and it goes to the console, and everything behaves *mostly* like it does when I'm writing #RStats .
I love that @readeck has a well documented API. It means that someone like me with rudimentary enough Python skills can do stuff. By stuff I mean send my Mastodon bookmarks to a Readeck collection and also work with them in bulk (operations like marking things as read and archiving)
What #libre #IDE (integrated development environment for programming code) would y'all want to coalesce around using, supporting, and developing? Asking especially for coding websites and applications with #PHP, #JavaScript, #CSS, and #HTML but #Python, #Elixir, #Rust, and #Go would all be great for us @agaric too.
Over the last couple days, I wrote a #Python program that will take the CSVs generated by YNAB and massage them into the right format for the quarterly reports I make for the mister's business. It'll take what was a 30 minute process down to about 3 minutes.
I did spend a bunch of hours on this (and learned a lot about Pandas!), so it may be in the category of not actually saving me time in the end, but it does save me from dread. Oh, how I hated doing all that stuff by hand, so I would just majorly procrastinate on it. Now it's easy, and I am so pleased with myself.
Not all code needs to be an app! You can write code for yourself! It's actually kind of fun! And easier than you think!
Shout out to @AlSweigart for "Automate the Boring Stuff" - I ended up going a different direction code-wise, but the book gave me the idea to try. Thanks, Al!
[I realize that there is potentially a way for me to automate the whole damn process and make it output the full Excel spreadsheet automatically, but that would take more hours, and I'm not sure it's worth it. I've put it on my list of "backburner" projects.]
20,000 Django packages on PyPI – and other interesting metrics about the size of the #Django package ecosystem 
️ https://wagtail.org/blog/20000-django-packages/
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You can be a part of guiding the future direction of the PSF 
Nominate yourself or someone else for the PSF Board for the 2025 election! Nominations open Tuesday, July 29th, 2:00 pm UTC and close Tuesday, August 12th, 2:00 pm UTC. #python
https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/07/psf-board-nominations-opening-july-29th.html
Python Software Foundation BlogPSF Board Election Nominations Opening July 29th
New VScode extension - Python Environments
The Python Environments is a fairly new VScode extension from Microsoft that provides tools for creating and managing Python environments. This includes the following features:
Create, delete, and manage environments
Install and uninstall packages within the selected environment
Create activated terminals
Add and create new Python projects
https://marketplace.visualstudio.com/items?itemName=ms-python.vscode-python-envs
To the best of my knowledge, it does not support UV.
License: MIT
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MASTER OSINT TOOLKIT
Free #python tool with a lot of features:
- wayback machine lookup
- metadata extraction
- username recon
- data breaches search
- phone number validation & dorking
and more.
https://github.com/techenthusiast167/Master-OSINT-Toolkit-
Creator x.com/CtPrecious
MASTER OSINT TOOLKIT
Free #python tool with a lot of features:
- wayback machine lookup
- metadata extraction
- username recon
- data breaches search
- phone number validation & dorking
and more.
https://github.com/techenthusiast167/Master-OSINT-Toolkit-
Creator x.com/CtPrecious
#JeRecrute un•e ingénieur•e data/backend #Python / #PostgreSQL pour Ecobalyse, la startup d’État qui calcule combien coûtent à la planète les mer^Wtrucs qu'on achète
PS: ça va faire super malpoli/yolo mais je me casse en vacances ce soir et j'ai vraiment besoin d'un gros break donc je laisse mes adorables collègues dont @vjousse vous filer toutes les infos complémentaires dont vous auriez besoin (désolé copain)
www.welcometothejungle.comData back-end pour Ecobalyse (MTE/ADEME) - beta.gouv.fr - Freelance - Télétravail totalbeta.gouv.fr recrute un(e) Data back-end pour Ecobalyse (MTE/ADEME) !
That doesn't sound like a security nightmare and a vector for attack just waiting to be exploited. /sarcasm
#security #ComputerSecurity #InformationSecurity #VulnerabilityManagement #InfoSec #python #SoftwareDevelopment
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- https://willmcgugan.github.io/announcing-toad/ (2025-07-23, Announcing Toad - a universal UI for agentic coding in the terminal, by https://willmcgugan.github.io/, @willmcgugan)
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I’m a little salty that neither Anthropic nor Google reached out to me before they released their terminal-based AI coding agents.
You see until recently I was the CEO of Textualize, a startup promoting rich applications for the terminal. Textualize didn’t make it as a company, but I take heart that we built something amazing. There is now a thriving community of folk building TUIs that I am still a part of.
So you will understand why when I finally got round to checking out Claude code and Gemini CLI, I was more interested in the terminal interface than the AI magic it was performing. And I was not impressed. Both projects suffer from jank and other glitches inherent to terminals that Textualize solved years ago.
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I’m currently taking a year’s sabbatical. When Textualize wrapped up I genuinely thought I was sick of coding, and I would never gain be able to find joy in building things. I’m happy to be wrong about that. I still enjoy coding, and Toad feels like the perfect hobby project for my very particular set of skills. Something I can build while continuing to focus on my physical and mental health (running a startup is taxing).
So I am going to build it.
I am building it.
Here’s a quick video of Toad in its current state: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=EKsCS54xduo
What I have in mind is a universal front-end for AI in the terminal. This includes both AI chat-bots and agentic coding. The architecture I alluded to earlier is that the front-end built with Python and Textual connects to a back-end subprocess. The back-end handles the interactions with the LLM and performs any agentic coding, while the front-end provides the user interface. The two sides communicate with each other by sending and receiving JSON over stdout and stdin.
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Toad isn’t quite ready for a public release. It remains a tadpole for now, incubating in a private repository. But you know I’m all about FOSS, and when its ready for a public beta I will release Toad under an Open Source license.
With a bit of luck, this sabbatical needn’t eat in to my retirement fund too much. If it goes well, it may even become my full-time gig.
I will shortly invite a few tech friends and collaborators to the project. These things can’t be the work of a single individual and I am going to need feedback as I work. If you would like to be a part of that, then feel free to reach out. But please note, I would like to prioritize folk in the Open Source community who have potentially related projects.
For everyone else, I will be posting updates regularly here and on my socials (link at the bottom of the page). Expect screenshots, videos, and long form articles. Please be patient—you will be agentic toading before too long.
Looking for markdown streaming? : https://willmcgugan.github.io/streaming-markdown/ (Efficient streaming of Markdown in the terminal)
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Will McGugan · Announcing Toad - a universal UI for agentic coding in the terminalI’m a little salty that neither Anthropic nor Google reached out to me before they released their terminal-based AI coding agents.
I blogged about efficient streaming of Markdown in the terminal.
This was part of a different post, but it was a bit of a footnote. I think it deserves its own post.
Will McGugan · Efficient streaming of Markdown in the terminalWhile working on Toad, it occurred to me there was a missing feature I would need. Namely streaming markdown. When talking to an LLM via an API, the Markdown doesn’t arrive all at once. Rather you get fragments of markdown (known as tokens) which should be appended to an existing document. Until recently the only way to render this in Textual was to remove the Markdown widget and add it again with the updated markdown. This worked, but it would get slower to append content as the document grew. It wasn’t a scalable solution.
#TIL I learned, why my debian #Python #systemd service output wasn't live updating in journalctl. This was a problem which I "temporarily" solved by using screen or tmux when I need to follow the output live. (= for about a decade or so...)
Turns out I just need the flag "-u" for unbuffered output and to set the StandardOutput/-Error to "journal" (which should be the default anyway)
And then suddenly after reloading "sudo journalctl -fu my_service" will produce a live, updating output.
This is not meant as an attack on the awesome work being done with the #Python docs, I'm really just wondering: Does anyone else find it a bit hard to read pages with plenty of code examples? For me those pages feel extremely noisy, with so much trying to grab my attention. I find it somewhat tricky to parse. I can't fully put my finger on whether it's due to the code highlighting, a lack of vertical whitespace or sth like this, but sth about the styling makes it hard to digest. Anyone else?
I'm trying to install #CHIRP remotely via SSH on a computer that is not accessible for now, and I used #wget to download the latest #Python #whl archive. Since that moment, the website https://chirpmyradio.com rejects all connections from my IP address.
How do I know? I've tested with my smartphone in 4G and it works fine.
The guy managing the website/server is a 
chirpmyradio.comHome - CHIRPRedmine
Świat Pythona, koloryzowane:
— Cześć, napisaliśmy nową bibliotekę dla tej specki.
— Hej, wygląda na to, że implementacja jest niepoprawna i nie pokrywa się z przykładami ze specki.
— Racja, zaraz to naprawimy.
…i to było ponad 3 lata temu.
A mimo to różne projekty zaczynają używać tej biblioteki, która ma jedno, jedyne wydanie jako "pre-alpha" 3,5 roku temu, i w której pierwszy zgłoszony błąd mówi, że jest niepoprawna.