Python Gem of the Day: 💎 Interlock: github.com/bagowix/inte... - uv add interlock-cb - Circuit breaker implementation for network calls ( temporarily stops calls to a failing service, helping prevent repeated failures and giving it time to recover). - Supports FastAPI, Requests/httpx, and more.

AI Gem of the Day: 💎 Unsloth Desktop: github.com/unslothai/un... - @unsloth.ai released their desktop app, which allows users to run and train AI Models locally (supports Muse Glimmer) - A strong competitor to LM Studio/Ollama - Fully open-source app, no telemetry.

AI Gem of the Day: 💎Agent Plugins Standard: agent-plugins.org - A plugin is a package containing skills and MCP server config. - Claude, Codex, etc support plugins. But there was no common spec. - Once widely adopted, a single plugin implementation can work across IDEs and Coding CLI tools.

Agent Plugins

A portable package format for reusable components that extend AI agents.

agent-plugins.org

Excited to be speaking at @pyconau.bsky.social in Brisbane! 🇦🇺🐍 I’ll be giving a talk on “Exploring the Free-threaded mode in Python”, looking at what free-threaded Python changes, and the trade-offs involved. 📅 August 26–30, 2026 See the full schedule and get your tickets: 2026.pycon.org.au

AI Gem of the Day: 💎What Codex Actually Sends to the Model: www.0xkato.xyz/what-codex-a... A researcher pointed Codex CLI to a local server to see what requests it sends to the model. The post explains how Codex handles default tools, MCP servers, compaction, etc, inspected via real requests.

What Codex Actually Sends to the Model

I recorded the requests Codex generated for a 16-character prompt and measured what changed as it loaded instructions, exposed tools, read files, ran commands, received images, and compacted its histo...

0xkato.xyz

Python Gem of the Day: 💎Plain Web Framework (@plainframework): An agent-ready Python framework. - Familiar feel of Django, modular design. - Agent-ready: `plain agent install` command installs rules and skills. - Ships with docs: Full docs are embedded in the source code. plainframework.com

The Python web framework for building apps · Plain

plainframework.com

Python Gem of the Day: 💎Trafilatura (pip install trafilatura): Python package and command-line tool for scraping and extracting web page contents.

#AI Gem of the Day: 💎 Grok 4.5 (x.ai/news/grok-4-5): SpaceXAI released Grok 4.5 - co-trained with Cursor. - The model achieves comparable performance to Claude Opus 4.8. (1/2)

Introducing Grok 4.5

Grok 4.5 is SpaceXAI's smartest model built for coding, agentic tasks, and knowledge work.

x.ai

#Python Gems of the Day 💎 Otari (github.com/mozilla-ai/o...): Mozilla AI’s open-source LLM Gateway written in Python. Can be self-hosted to provision custom budgets and API keys, and to track usage for OpenAI-compatible clients. Powered by @fastapi.tiangolo.com

GitHub - mozilla-ai/otari: Open-source, OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway you run yourself. One endpoint for 40+ providers, with virtual keys, budgets, and usage tracking.

Open-source, OpenAI-compatible LLM gateway you run yourself. One endpoint for 40+ providers, with virtual keys, budgets, and usage tracking. - mozilla-ai/otari

github.com

Just published the Tricky Python Quiz web app: trickypython.adarshd.dev Test your esoteric #Python skills by answering questions from "wtfpython" GitHub repo 🐍 Take the quiz and share your results!

My first post on the SerpApi blog is live: "Building an AI Agent in Python." serpapi.com/blog/buildin...

Building an AI Agent in Python

Learn to build AI agents in Python by understanding the core pieces behind them: LLMs, tools, memory, context, and the agent loop.

serpapi.com

We (@serpapi.com) are joining @pycon.us (by @python.org) as a Maintaining Sponsor. Proud to support one of the biggest gatherings in the Python world.

What really happens when you do `my_dict[key]` in Python? 🐍 In this session, Akshay M, Software Engineer at Google, will take us under the hood of Python’s dict and explore how they actually work behind the scenes. 🗓️ Date: 16 April, 2026 📍 Venue: Online 🔗 Register: ddp.py3.in

I’ve joined @serpapi.com as Python Developer Advocate. 2026 feels like the year of AI agents, and agents need reliable real-time information to be useful. SerpApi gives developers search data from Google, Bing, Amazon, and more. Building agents & need search data? Let's connect.

blog.adarshd.dev/posts/explor...

Had a great time at @pycon.us this year—skipped most talks and went all in on the hallway track. I asked Python folks what they really think about AI taking over programming. Their answers (and a few surprises) are in my latest post 👇 blog.adarshd.dev/posts/pycon-...

Thanks to open-source tools like `python-chess` and Stockfish, anyone can build their own chess analysis program. I'll be walking through how to do this live at @pycon.us poster session this weekend. Let’s write some code, analyze some blunders, and build something fun together. ♟️

#Python Gem of the Day 💎: Peek - Replace print() for debugging code. github.com/salabim/peek - A superset of github.com/gruns/icecream - Supports debugging function calls, benchmarking execution time etc.

GitHub - gruns/icecream: 🍦 Never use print() to debug again.

🍦 Never use print() to debug again. Contribute to gruns/icecream development by creating an account on GitHub.

github.com

#Python Gem of the Day 💎: Pydantic releases PydanticAI: AI agent framework ai.pydantic.dev - Can create LLM-powered agents that can run tools/functions based on user prompts, all with the type-safety guarantees provided by Pydantic. - Can also be run locally using Ollama models that support tools.

Introduction

Agent Framework / shim to use Pydantic with LLMs

ai.pydantic.dev

#Python Gem of the Day 💎: Avoid Counting in Django Pagination by Nik Tomazic: testdriven.io/blog/django-... - Default Django paginator uses SELECT COUNT(*). Slow for big tables. - Discusses an implementation of paginator class without COUNT. (1/2)

Avoid Counting in Django Pagination

This article looks at how to avoid the count query in Django's paginator.

testdriven.io

#Python Gem of the Day. Python in production #1 (Cloud Native vs Stack Native) by @mkennedy.codes 💎: mkennedy.codes/posts/opposi... Covers the architecture of production apps which handle: - 9M req per month - 10 TB traffic (1 TB served by Python) Hosted on a 8 CPU / 16 GB Hetzner server.

Opposite of Cloud Native is?

Time to define what it means to be NOT cloud-native, in a positive way.

mkennedy.codes

#Python Gem of the day: 💎: nedbatchelder.com/blog/202411/... by @nedbat.com for loops can assign to dict keys (and much more).. 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚖𝚜 = {} 𝚏𝚘𝚛 𝚙𝚊𝚛𝚊𝚖𝚜["𝚙𝚊𝚐𝚎"] 𝚒𝚗 𝚒𝚝𝚎𝚛𝚝𝚘𝚘𝚕𝚜.𝚌𝚘𝚞𝚗𝚝(): # 𝚝𝚑𝚒𝚜 𝚠𝚘𝚛𝚔𝚜

Loop targets

People were surprised by my example of assigning to a dict item in a for loop. Here’s more explanation.

nedbatchelder.com

‪#Python Gem of the Day: Pyzzels by Oskar Eriksson 💎https://pyzzles.gptengineer.run/ Python puzzles where we are given test files and need to write solutions to satisfy the tests.

#Python Gem of the Day: Python is said to be the second-best language for everything. 💎: blog.miguelgrinberg.com/post/is-pyth... @miguelgrinberg.bsky.social shares his benchmark comparing Python (multiple Cpython versions, Pypy), NodeJS & Rust.

Is Python Really That Slow?

My standard response when someone asks me how I deal with Python being such a slow language is that Python is by far the fastest to write, cleanest, more maintainable programming language I know, and…

blog.miguelgrinberg.com

Thread local data in #Python Since threads in Python share the memory space of their parent process, we might need to define thread-specific variables for specific use cases to avoid unintended side effects. Read at: blog.adarshd.dev/posts/thread...

Evolution of `sort` in #Python and the role of `cmp_to_key` This article from my "Python in the Wild" newsletter discusses the evolution of sorting from Python 2 to 3, and features an open-source example illustrating the usage of `functools.cmp_to_key` for sort operations.

"TIL: List from Python's typing module is inheritable" Read the full post: adarshd.substack.com/p/til-list-f... #python #typing #list

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