What the PSF Conduct WG does

In the past week I had two people separately tell me what they thought the Python Software Foundation Conduct WG did and both were wrong (and incidentally in the same way). As such,

Don't return named tuples in new APIs

In my opinion, you should only introduce a named tuple to your code when you're updating a preexisting API that was already returning a tuple or you are wrapping a tuple

My impressions of ReScript

I maintain a GitHub Action called check-for-changed-files. For the purpose of this blog post what the action does isn't important, but the fact that I authored it originally in TypeScript is.

Saying thanks to open source maintainers

After signing up for GitHub Sponsors, I had a nagging feeling that somehow asking for money from other people to support my open source work was inappropriate. But after much reflection, I realized

State of WASI support for CPython: March 2024

The biggest update since June 2023 is WASI is now a tier 2 platform for CPython! This means that the main branch of CPython should never be broken more than 24 hours for

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