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Rye Grows With UV written on Thursday, February 15, 2024 Two weeks ago I asked the question again about What Rye should be. There has been one thing that I have not publicly shared before and that is that ever since Rye exists I have also been talking to Charlie Marsh about Python packaging and Python tooling. It turns out that we had some shared ideas of what an ideal Python tooling landscape wou

Rye: A Vision Continued written on Sunday, February 4, 2024 In April of last year I released Rye to the public. Rye, both then and now, represents my very personal vision of what an improved Python packaging and project management solution can look like. Essentially, it's a comprehensive user experience, designed so that the only tool a Python programmer would need to interface with is Rye itself

A Better Way to Borrow in Rust: Stack Tokens written on Wednesday, November 23, 2022 As a Rust programmer you are probably quite familiar with how references work in Rust. If you have a value of type T you can generally get various references to it by using the ampersand (&) operator on it. In the most trivial case &T gives you just that: a reference to T. There are however cases where you can get

Uninitialized Memory: Unsafe Rust is Too Hard written on Sunday, January 30, 2022 Rust is in many ways not just a modern systems language, but also quite a pragmatic one. It promises safety and provides an entire framework that makes creating safe abstractions possible with minimal to zero runtime overhead. A well known pragmatic solution in the language is an explicit way to opt out of safety by

I'm not feeling the async pressure written on Wednesday, January 1, 2020 Async is all the rage. Async Python, async Rust, go, node, .NET, pick your favorite ecosystem and it will have some async going. How good this async business works depends quite a lot on the ecosystem and the runtime of the language but overall it has some nice benefits. It makes one thing really simple: to await an operation

You can't Rust that written on Saturday, March 31, 2018 The last year has been fun because I could build a lot for really nice stuff for Sentry in Rust and for the first time the development experience was without bigger roadblocks. While we have been using Rust before it now feels different because the ecosystem is so much more stable and we ran less against language or tooling issues. However ta

Be Careful About What You Dislike written on Saturday, November 5, 2016 The last few months I keep making the same observation over and over again in various different contexts: that whenever you are confronted with a very strong opinion about a topic, reasonable discussions about the topic often involve arguments that have long become outdated or are no longer strictly relevant to the conversatio

I don't understand Python's Asyncio written on Sunday, October 30, 2016 Recently I started looking into Python's new asyncio module a bit more. The reason for this is that I needed to do something that works better with evented IO and I figured I might give the new hot thing in the Python world a try. Primarily what I learned from this exercise is that I it's a much more complex system than I expe

Rust and Rest written on Sunday, July 10, 2016 A few months back I decided to write a command line client for Sentry because manually invoking the Sentry API for some common tasks (such as dsym or sourcemap management is just no fun). Given the choice of languages available I went with Rust. The reason for this is that I want people to be able to download a single executable that links everything

Micropackages and Open Source Trust Scaling written on Thursday, March 24, 2016 Like everybody else this week we had fun with the pad-left disaster. We're from the Python community and our exposure to the node ecosystem is primarily for the client side. We're big fans of the ecosystem that develops around react and as such quite a bit of our daily workflow involves npm. What frustrated me personal

Introducing Lektor — A Static File Content Management System For Python written on Monday, December 21, 2015 The longer I'm programming and creating software, the more I notice that I build a lot of stuff that requires maintenance even though it should not. In particular a topic that just keeps annoying me is how quickly technology moves forward and how much effort it is to maintain older code tha

Python's Hidden Regular Expression Gems written on Wednesday, November 18, 2015 There are many terrible modules in the Python standard library, but the Python re module is not one of them. While it's old and has not been updated in many years, it's one of the best of all dynamic languages I would argue. What I always found interesting about that module is that Python is one of the few dynamic lang

Rust for Python Programmers written on Wednesday, May 27, 2015 Now that Rust 1.0 is out and quite stable, I thought it might be interesting to write an introduction to Rust for Python programmers. This guide goes over the basics of the language and compares different constructs and how they behave. Rust language wise is a completely different beast compared to Python. Not just because one is a com

Nameko for Microservices written on Wednesday, April 8, 2015 In December some of the tech guys at onefinestay invited me over to London to do some general improvements on their nameko library. This collaboration came together because nameko was pretty similar to how I generally like to build certain infrastructure and I had some experience with very similar systems. So now that some of those impro

The Sentry in my Life written on Monday, March 30, 2015 The idea of converting an Open Source project into a company is something that excites many of us, but very often this is something that will not succeed. Often times it's because many Open Source projects fill a void that exists largely because in that space no money can be made. This is especially true for my projects which are largely deve

The Future of Payments and Open Source Support written on Sunday, November 2, 2014 I kept my mouth shut about Bitcoin on my blog so far, but I do feel like I need to bring it up now because of how many comments and mail I got about a bug report I wrote two weeks ago for removing projects of mine from a bounty website called tip4commit. It feels like you are not allowed to say anything other than "

On Error Handling in Rust written on Thursday, October 16, 2014 Rust is improving quite a lot lately and it makes it very exciting to play with the language and see how good API design could look like. There are areas in it however that are a bit frustrating still. For me one area is error handling. But some improvements might be coming up which I find quite exciting because it changes things arou

A Fresh Look at Rust written on Wednesday, October 1, 2014 I have been programming with Rust for quite a long time now but that does not mean much. Rust has been changing for years now in such dramatic ways that coming back after two months feels almost like working in a different language. One thing however never changed: the trajectory. With every update, with every modification the whole thing

Revenge of the Types written on Sunday, August 24, 2014 This is part two about "The Python I Would Like To See" and it explores a bit the type system of Python in light of recent discussions. Some of this references the earlier post about slots. Like the earlier post this is a bit of a diving into the CPython interpreter, the Python language with some food for thoughts for future language designer

The Python I Would Like To See written on Saturday, August 16, 2014 It's no secret that I'm not a fan of Python 3 or where the language is currently going. This has led to a bunch of emails flying my way over the last few months about questions about what exactly I would prefer Python would do. So I figured I might share some of my thoughts publicly to maybe leave some food for thought for future

Everything you did not want to know about Unicode in Python 3 written on Monday, May 12, 2014 Readers of this blog on my twitter feed know me as a person that likes to rant about Unicode in Python 3 a lot. This time will be no different. I'm going to tell you more about how painful "doing Unicode right" is and why. "Can you not just shut up Armin?". I spent two weeks fighting with Python 3 again a

On Programming Communities written on Thursday, February 13, 2014 This post was a long time coming but Ian Bicking's recent post about Saying Goodbye to Python made me finally sit down and write it. This is personal and probably not all that interesting, but it's important for me to have it written down somewhere. It's very easy to forget about all the people that put you to the place you are toda

Python on Wheels written on Monday, January 27, 2014 The python packaging infrastructure has long received criticism from both Python developers as well as system administrators. For a long time even the Python community in itself could not agree on what exactly the tools to use were. We had distutils, setuptools, distribute, distutils2 as basic distribution mechanisms and then virtualenv, buildou

More About Unicode in Python 2 and 3 written on Sunday, January 5, 2014 It's becoming increasingly harder to have reasonable discussions about the differences between Python 2 and 3 because one language is dead and the other is actively developed. So when someone starts a discussion about the Unicode support between those two languages it's not an even playing field. So I won't discuss the actual

My Favorite Database is the Network written on Sunday, November 17, 2013 Every once in a while I see discussions about how nice key value stores like redis or memcache are for storing short lived things such as access tokens and session data. While it's true that redis and memcache are perfect for this, you still need to actually connect to a database to retrieve the data. One on hand this means t

Beautiful Native Libraries written on Sunday, August 18, 2013 I'm obsessed with nice APIs. Not just APIs however, also in making the overall experience of using a library as good as possible. For Python there are quite a few best practices around by now but it feels like there is not really a lot of information available about how to properly structure a native library. What do I mean by native li

The Updated Guide to Unicode on Python written on Tuesday, July 2, 2013 I figured that it might be the right time to do an updated introduction to unicode in Python. Primarily because the unicode chapter got a whole lot of new confusing chapters on Python 3 that a developer needs to know. Let's start first with how unicode worked on Python 2. Unicode on Python 2 Unicode on Python 2 is a fairly sim

New Werkzeug and Flask Releases written on Thursday, June 13, 2013 I'm very happy to announce that after a long break there are finally new releases for Werkzeug and Flask. These releases took their fair amount of time and I will ensure the process is quicker next time around. There is however a good reason it took this long: they come with support for Python 3 and we had to do some API changes in