feb 2026
Date: Monday, February 9th @ 7pm
Princeton Python Monthly: Feb 2026
Happy February!
Our next meeting is a week from Monday!
As usual we will start with a beginner-friendly code opener, this time introducing the ollama api, then everyone's introductions/updates;
and finally our links, Python news and the usual mix of the latest tools, testing, and tutorials at https://www.princetonpy.org/next-meeting/.
We'll include links that outline how to securely install moltbot, the open source personal assistant taking the internet by storm, since it's so popular and yet so easy to install vulnerably.
And as always, your questions/ideas/doings are welcome--so join us!
Note our unchanging meeting url--use the Jitsi meeting link on our home page.
But first, check out AI Study Group this Sunday! To the long-standing agentic coding, battle robot, and "lerobot" robot arm threads, this month folks are talking about open source voice cloning with qwen3-tts, and of course clawdbot-renamed-to-moltbot .
[plus 4th Wednesdays in-person at fubar labs]
events:
sun01feb 2p AI Study Group [first sundays]
mon09feb 7p princetonpy meeting [second mondays]
links:
The gathering links: https://www.princetonpy.org/next-meeting/
AI Study Group: https://fubarlabs.org/calendar/
ollama: https://ollama.com
qwen3-tts: https://github.com/QwenLM/Qwen3-TTS/blob/main/README.md
moltbot: https://moltbot.you/
Securing Moltbot: https://auth0.com/blog/five-step-guide-securing-moltbot-ai-agent/
links
I Replaced Redis with PostgreSQL (And It's Faster) and cheaper--but an incredibly fair and detailed treatment, with great comments--thanks Adam!
- tprof, a targeting profiler for Python 3.12+ that only measures the time spent in specified target functions.
uses Python’s sys.monitoring, a new API introduced in Python 3.12 for triggering events when functions or lines of code execute.
sys.monitoring allows tprof to register callbacks for only specific target functions, meaning it adds no overhead to the rest of the program. Timing is done in C to further reduce overhead.
https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/01/14/python-introducing-tprof/
sys.monitoring
https://docs.python.org/3/library/sys.monitoring.html
- What is Just The Browser?
https://www.zdnet.com/article/just-the-browser-tool-more-privacy-less-clutter-chrome-firefox-edge/
Just the browser strips your web browser of the things you don't want, such as AI and telemetry. It's free, easy to use, and works with the three most popular browsers (Chrome, Edge, and Firefox).
I was skeptical at first, but after looking through the project's GitHub repository, I was convinced that Just The Browser was worth a try.
Essentially, what Just The Browser does is apply configuration files to the browsers mentioned above, stripping them of unwanted features.
- Clawdbot -> Moltbot -> OpenClaw
https://openclaw.ai/
- Moltbot is a security nightmare: 5 reasons to avoid using the viral AI agent right now
https://www.zdnet.com/article/10-ways-ai-will-do-unprecedented-damage-in-2026-experts-warn/
- Securing Moltbot: A Developer's Checklist for AI Agent Security
https://auth0.com/blog/five-step-guide-securing-moltbot-ai-agent/
- OpenClaw Security Guide
https://openclawsecurity.org/
- OpenClaw Partners with VirusTotal for Skill Security
https://openclaw.ai/blog/virustotal-partnership
- Moltbook is the most interesting place on the internet right now by Simon Willison
https://simonwillison.net/2026/Jan/30/moltbook/
refers to
The lethal trifecta for AI agents: private data, untrusted content, and external communication by Simon Willison
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/16/the-lethal-trifecta/
- The Normalization of Deviance in AI
organizations confuse the absence of a successful attack with the presence of robust security.
https://simonwillison.net/2025/Dec/10/normalization-of-deviance/
- Terrible Software Companies
https://www.thebignewsletter.com/p/monopoly-round-up-the-2-trillion
- Cimba - Multithreaded Discrete Event Simulation
- some C habits I employ for the modern day