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baggiponteon Agent Client Protocol (ACP)

I’m afraid you missed a bit the mark :(

This is the equivalent of LSP but for coding agents. So any editor does not have to rebuild an interface to support each and every new one.

baggiponteon Agent Client Protocol (ACP)

Really hope for this to get traction so I’m not bound to the usual IDE

baggiponteon Code formatting comes to uv experimentally

i think it's good to let them experiment! cargo (and go?) offers this already, so why not.

baggiponteon Code formatting comes to uv experimentally

uv ruffy sounds funny

baggiponteon Mistral Integration Improved in Llama.cpp

Wow I never realized how much mistral was “disconnected” from the ecosystem

baggiponteon POML: Prompt Orchestration Markup Language

How’s this different from xml?

baggiponteon Jan – Ollama alternative with local UI

Yeah. The docs tell you that you should build it yourself, but…

baggiponteon Litestar is worth a look

Litestar is really underrated but deserves much more usage! I’ve been meaning to try it for at least a year now, but always felt a bit scary to tell the team “hey let’s deviate from our stack”

baggiponteon Timescale Is Now TigerData

Yeah they might be good but the marketing is really bold and, to a certain extent, arrogant if not outright disgusting.

baggiponteon Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python's two new Rust-based type checkers

BasedPyright is much better than pyright! Must use.

baggiponteon Pyrefly: A new type checker and IDE experience for Python

That’s not true, they have been developing it as red knot for a good while :)

baggiponteon Databricks in talks to acquire startup Neon for about $1B

You basically pay databricks a “fee” to choose the more appropriate and modern stack for you to build on, and keep it up to date. Never used it, but it handles with lots of the administrative bs (compliance, SLAs, idk) for you so you can just ship.

baggiponteon Atuin Desktop: Runbooks That Run

This looks so dope!

baggiponteon Python’s new t-strings

sqlalchemy doesn’t really accepts strings - if you do, you need to pass them into a “conn.execute(text(…))”, so end users should not face a breaking change.

baggiponteon Python's new t-strings

Type checkers to the rescue ahaha I think db.get could also raise if the type does not match?

baggiponteon OpenAI says it has evidence DeepSeek used its model to train competitor

OpenAI coping so hard

baggiponteon On DeepSeek and export controls

he's coping so hard.

baggiponteon A new home for Python-build-standalone

Oh you maintain PyTorch right?

baggiponteon Using uv with PyTorch

Absolutely. No second thoughts.

baggiponteon Astral: Next-Gen Python Tooling

also a whole bunch of new features (--script mode), speed of development, a stacked team.

baggiponteon Astral: Next-Gen Python Tooling

Yes but only for linting (the flake8 rules etc). The end goal is to have proper type checking and, I think, proper LSP refactoring capabilities.

baggiponteon Astral: Next-Gen Python Tooling

they are working on it! the internal name is currently red-knot (you can see it in their GH History and in the discord). First thing is a type checker, I think, then the renaming capabilities and such.

baggiponteon Moshi: A speech-text foundation model for real time dialogue

Super interested. Do you have an equivalent of vLLM? Did you have to rewrite batching, paged attention…?

baggiponteon Bento: Jupyter Notebooks at Meta

Uuuh can you tell a bit more about wasabi, the Python LSP? Saw a post years ago and been eager to see whether it’d be open sourced (or why it wouldn’t).

baggiponteon Show HN: Opik, an open source LLM evaluation framework

Have you seen two “prototypes” of standard for LLM telemetry? One is openllmetry, maintained by the folks at TraceLoop. Seems the more popular. The other one is openinference IIRC, by Arize AI.

baggiponteon Package reproducibility in Python notebooks using uv isolated environments

I wouldn't say it's an escape hatch: pip and poetry/pdm/uv serve different purposes. I am not sure what you refer to with `Pipfile`. As per the "command converter": you mean something like from `uv pip` to `uv add`?

BTW, there is a proposal to standardise the lockfile format in Python: https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-751-lock-files-again/59173/...

baggiponteon Package reproducibility in Python notebooks using uv isolated environments

There's an issue about pytorch (I think you might already have seen it since you encountered this). This is still due to lack of support for pinning a package to a third party index (see https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/171).

I am not sure I totally understand what you mean: yes, the lockfile might be messed up, but is the environment working? I'm a bit blessed because I don't have CUDA on my machine so I save myself a lot of hassle.

I am trying to submit an improvement to the docs about this. https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/pull/6523 I'd love to hear your feedback.

baggiponteon Package reproducibility in Python notebooks using uv isolated environments

You are correct - I should've been more specific. Binding a package(s) to a third party index is currently unsupported (see issue: https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/171) as it is something that pip itself does not support. PDM/Poetry implemented this on their own - though this it's an important feature and as far as I can tell it's coming.

baggiponteon Package reproducibility in Python notebooks using uv isolated environments

it's an absolute beast.

They need to add a couple minor painful paths that people usually use package managers with (private indexes, binding packages to third party indexes...) but if you don't need fancy corner cases, it's the best thing ever.

baggiponteon The Rise of Open Source Time Series Databases

Interesting! Too bad it’s just about two of them.