March 2026

Date: Monday, March 9th @ 7pm

links!

covers ollama api that we did last month
https://dev.to/rosgluk/integrating-ollama-with-python-rest-api-and-python-client-examples-56hk

Claude terminal from home assistant that Rick likes
https://github.com/heytcass/home-assistant-addons
https://www.home-assistant.io/

Text classification with Python 3.14's zstd module
https://maxhalford.github.io/blog/text-classification-zstd/

Better Python tests with inline-snapshot
https://pydantic.dev/articles/inline-snapshot

Use “\A...\z”, not “^...$” with Python re
https://sethmlarson.dev/use-backslash-A-and-z-not-%5E-and-$-with-python-regular-expressions

Speeding up Pillow's open and save using tachyon [the 3.15 sampling profiler]
https://hugovk.dev/blog/2026/faster-pillow/

uv cheatsheet
https://mathspp.com/blog/uv-cheatsheet

5 Essential Itertools for Data Science
https://codecut.ai/itertools-feature-engineering-essentials/

Compare Python 3.12, 3.13, and 3.14 side by side
https://releaserun.com/python-3-12-vs-3-13-vs-3-14-comparison/

switch-case in Python? It's not match-case!
https://www.pythonmorsels.com/switch-case-in-python/

cattrs: Flexible Object Serialization and Validation
https://github.com/python-attrs/cattrs

Open source AI we use to work on Wagtail
https://wagtail.org/blog/open-source-ai-we-use-to-work-on-wagtail/

py2many translates python to numerous languages
https://github.com/py2many/py2many

supabase--open source pg-based dev platform, online with a free tier
https://supabase.com

Codd’s Twelve Rules

What Python's asyncio primitives get wrong about shared state

Why Objective-C

BuildKit: Docker's Hidden Gem That Can Build Almost Anything

The bare minimum for syncing Git repos