I read the whole 35k word Claude constitution last night during my long biphasic sleep break last night. Love that Anthropic made it CC0. I'm eager to experiment with revising it It was fascinating. I do wish it gave the models knowledge of their own flaws, e.g. unintentional bias, content theft

Simon Willison@simonwillison.net · 7mo ago

A few quick notes on the Claude "soul document" that was released by Anthropic today under a CC0 public domain license - it's a huge 35,000 token essay used as part of Claude's training to instill core values and help define Claude's personality simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/21/...

Merry Christmas, AirDragon 0.4.0 is out! Our work on @airwebframework.bsky.social's new component library is accelerating New tags: Form, H3, Input, Link Plus better test coverage, the start of an AGENTS file to get AI to generate nice website layouts, and a fix to work with Air 0.43.0

Merry Christmas and happy holidays, everyone! You can also pip install it, but using uvx saves you a step

Daniel Roy Greenfeld@daniel.feldroy.com · 8mo ago

Merry Christmas! 🎄 I just helped @audrey.feldroy.com release this year's implementation of the deckthehalls Christmas card. If you have `uv`, just run: uvx deckthehalls Run it several times 😉

Revisited the Cookiecutter modernization effort that @daniel.feldroy.com and I had started this summer. Yeah! We still want to do it! First comes getting it into good shape. Baby steps, we just dropped Python 3.9 since it reached EOL at the end of October

Oh wow, my post is #3 on Hacker News right now!

Hacker News Top Stories@hackernewsbot.bsky.social · 9mo ago

Django: What's new in 6.0 – Adam Johnson | Discussion

The surreal moth on www.python-httpx.org that was so beautifully photographed by @lovelydinosaur.bsky.social is something that has brought me joy every time I've gone to the httpx docs It's long been fluttering around in my subconscious, even accidentally inspired art that I'm shy to post publicly

It’s here!!

Django@djangoproject.com · 9mo ago

Django 6.0 released ✨ a mosaic of modern tools and thoughtful design 🎨🧩🛠️💡#Django -- www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025...

Love that @hamel.bsky.social is putting on a hackathon where the goal is for your agent to score the highest on evaluations, not just do something flashy. click.convertkit-mail2.com/gkumlz753lc5...

Watching the mysterious masked speaker Dr. Sony Valdez live-code a @djangoproject.com chat app with asgi, channels, websockets, Redis at the first PyCon Davao

Quick call for your absolute favorite Python tricks? Not just language features but tools, techniques, specific uses of particular libraries? Putting the finishing touches on my PyCon Davao keynote and would love to reference+credit anyone who sends me a cool trick to include

NumPy's type completeness was 33%. @marcogorelli.bsky.social fixed a typo to get it to 80%! Now it's at almost 90%. Cool post telling the story and showing how to check Python type completeness percentage: pyrefly.org/blog/numpy-t...

Bringing NumPy's type-completeness score to nearly 90% | Pyrefly

We tell the story of how we brought NumPy's type-completeness score from ~33% to nearly 90%

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Release 0.37.0: - Adds the first draft of the Air Book by @audrey.feldroy.com - Vastly improved llms.txt files - Bugfix for Jinja rendering of non-AirTag data - Two new first time contributors! github.com/feldroy/air/...

Release v0.37.0 · feldroy/air

What's Changed BOOK: The Air Book by @audreyfeldroy in #504 BUG: Constrain renderers to only stringify items inheriting from BaseTag by @bluerosej and @pydanny in #561 DOCS: book example uses the...

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It's still early in @airwebframework.bsky.social's development, so it's cool to see @intellectronica.net (of Ruler fame, github.com/intellectron...) post this thread about already having a positive experience using @airwebframework.bsky.social When you do open source, this stuff keeps you going :)

Eleanor Berger@intellectronica.net · 12mo ago

PSA if you're in the market for a Python web framework, you should check out @AirWebFramework. It brings together a lot of what's good in other products (FastAPI, Pydantic, support for Jinja, HTML in Python, HTMX) and leaves out much of the less fun stuff.

Sending out email newsletters is something I've absolutely feared for years Yesterday @daniel.feldroy.com and I finally rebooted ours, sending out an update for the first time in 5 years We got a few more requests to join after we sent that out. We'll send it to the ~10 of you hopefully by tonight

Getting ready to send out the first newsletter from me and @daniel.feldroy.com in years. Sharing our updates + dev advice/opinions that we don't share publicly If you want in for free, DM me your email address - all welcome! It'll be a paid newsletter soon but you can get grandfathered in free now

Hi, this is Air, the new web framework that breathes fresh air into Python web development

I've figured that @airwebframework.bsky.social works with React in production, for anyone needing to use it that way 🚀 In my AIR app, I created a Jinja template that works with any arbitrary 1-file React app

Documenting last week's historic moment with @daniel.feldroy.com at Python Philippines, because AIR will grow up to be a big web framework one day

The secret project we soft-launched Saturday is github.com/feldroy/air - but note it’s not fully launched, not ready for users yet. More of a preview “hey, check out what I just started working on but don’t look too closely” type of thing

GitHub - feldroy/air: The new web framework that breathes fresh air into Python web development. Built with FastAPI, Starlette, and Pydantic.

The new web framework that breathes fresh air into Python web development. Built with FastAPI, Starlette, and Pydantic. - feldroy/air

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Shan@shan-nav.bsky.social · last yr.

All the very best both ! now tell us the secret 😊

In ~12 hours @daniel.feldroy.com and @isaac-flath.bsky.social will speak about the AI-augmented coding side of how they implement pieces of Air, our new Python web framework. Go sign up (free!) at maven.com/p/0ede3d/mak...

Make AI Work With Any Codebase

This talk shares practical strategies from a real-world project integrating AI into development workflow. What works,   what doesn't, and how to structure code so AI tools can help without degrading ...

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Soft-launching the secret-but-not-secret new open source project with @daniel.feldroy.com at Python Philippines in an hour!

This sounds like a challenge

Frank Wiles@fwiles.bsky.social · last yr.

There is ONE thing no one seems to be rewriting in Rust… COBOL! 🤣

Spending my Saturday morning updating github.com/audreyfeldroy/cookiecutter-pypackage/ - it is taking a lot of courage to face those PRs and failing tests but I am getting through it

GitHub - audreyfeldroy/cookiecutter-pypackage: Cookiecutter template for a Python package.

Cookiecutter template for a Python package. Contribute to audreyfeldroy/cookiecutter-pypackage development by creating an account on GitHub.

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A web framework or other tool is only as good as its ecosystem. Nurturing its third-party package ecosystem leads to its growth and longevity.

So I decided to use Python to work on my ear training... and I've done a post on how I started. naomiceder.substack.com/p/diy-ear-tr... Also on my site at www.naomiceder.tech/posts/ear_tr...

DIY Ear training with Python and Music21, part 1

For the past 3 years I've been studying classical (and now also jazz) guitar, music theory, and doing a little composing.

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I think one of the keys to happiness is surrounding yourself with positive, encouraging, open-minded people. People who uplift you when you try new things, and who give you the courage to keep trying more.

I've left R&D at Answer.AI to focus on independent AI for good & web research projects. I learned so much pair-programming with the best AI researchers in the world, and putting the Lean Startup method into practice daily. Deeply grateful to @howard.fm and @ericries.bsky.social for my time there.

I’m in awe of all the work Tamara has put into the community over the years. And it’s a lot 🫨! You’ve got to listen to this episode of @pypodcats.live when it drops.

PyPodcats@pypodcats.live · last yr.

Sneak peek into our 9th episode of #HiddenFiguresofPython! Meet Tamara Atanasoska! Open source contributer since 2012, in projects like Gnome and e-cidadania (via Google Summer of Code), and Fairlearn. Hosts: @georgically.bsky.social & @mariatta.ca @djangoproject.com @pyladiesberlin.bsky.social

I was kinda surprised that people joined my new discord, and got a bit excited yesterday and created and published a new website around it and started with a new free tutorial :D Check it out: kentro-learn.com/free-content...

Understanding Keyword Search

Understanding how search really works under the hood—from tokenization to BM25 ranking

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Leave it to @daniel.feldroy.com to put hidden Unicode characters into his git branch names