CF Bolz-Tereick

Some news, I’ll be departing the PSF as a staff member at the end of this week.

Thanks for everything ee!

😂 Just say the word

There's a bunch operating in Germany and under protected building status, so they won't actually go away (might just be broken indefinitely or something). If you ever make it to Duisburg, let me know, we'll go to the town hall

we must imagine Sisyphus being directed to the boulder corporation’s outsourced mental health support service for up to 2 hours of free counselling per eternity

www.der-postillon.com/2025/12/drog...

PEP 8107 – 2026 Term Steering Council election | peps.python.org This document describes the schedule and other details of the 2025 election for the Python steering council, as specified in PEP 13. This is the steering council election for the 2026 term (i.e. Pytho...

I’m incredibly excited to serve on this coming term’s Steering Council!

Working on CPython has been one of the most rewarding endeavours of my career. I’m so grateful to everyone who voted & honoured that so many placed their trust in me.

peps.python.org/pep-8107/

Re-upping this, since it's only available for two days:

People have argued with me about every single square of this, on one channel or another 🤷‍♀️

woman with shell necklace and a redirects belt accessory

it's happening!!!

from now until the end of the day on Friday, November 28th (if it’s Friday anywhere, the sale’s still on!), all my pdf zines are 50% off, and print zines are 30% off!

wizardzines.com

Photo of the German review of the book

@tartanllama.xyz Building a Debugger got a review in c't, a big German computer magazine:

lol @hikikomorphism.bsky.social just described Ea-Nāṡir as "CMOT Dibbler (Assyrian Edition)"

An animal hide covered in blue felt with a floor plan of a museum drawn on it

Tlingit artist Nicholas Galanin, “Architecture of return, escape (The British Museum)”, a deerskin map a floor plan of the British Museum and possible escape routes for various Indigenous cultural belongings held there.

This alignment chart explores what counts as an "interpreter" across two dimensions: implementation (what form the interpreter takes) and input (what it processes). Implementation Axis Implementation Purist: An interpreter must be a program—software that executes on a computer. Implementation Neutral: An interpreter must be electronic—it can be hardware or software, but requires circuits and electricity. Implementation Rebel: An interpreter can be anything—no restriction on physical form or medium. Input Axis Input Purist: An interpreter works on a program—it must execute formal code or instructions. Input Neutral: An interpreter works on text—it processes symbolic or written information. Input Radical: An interpreter works on anything—no restriction on input type. Examples Across the Spectrum Lua (program processing programs) CPU (electronic processing programs) CEK-Machine (anything processing programs) Excel (program processing text) LLM (electronic processing text) Shredder (anything processing text) Doom (program processing anything) TV (electronic processing anything) Choir (anything processing anything)

Interpreter alignment chart

it has been 0 days since I wrote a tiny interpreter to prototype some new database features. you will never regret writing a tiny interpreter

4 terrifying new novels to get you through the scariest season With an emphasis on body horror, these books by Alma Katsu, Bitter Karella, Andrew Joseph White and A. Rushby will leave you with a lingering sense of dread.

It's spooky season! So I reviewed four great recent scary books:

Fiend by @almakatsu.bsky.social
Moonflow by @bitterkarella.bsky.social
Slashed Beauties by A Rushby
You Weren't Meant to be Human by @ajwhiteauthor.bsky.social

www.washingtonpost.com/books/2025/1...

📣 The “People from PSF” interview series continues! 🐍💬Meet the people behind the @python.org staff, directors & contributors making the magic happen.

💟 Meet Deb Nicholson
@eximious.bsky.social

🔗Read the full interview 👇
dennyperez.dev/projects/psf...

#Python #PyLadies #PSF #PeopleFromPSF

The SPy project is kicking off community calls! 🎙️

Join us tomorrow (Oct 7th, 17:30 CEST) on Discord to chat, ask questions, and meet other SPy folks. Everyone’s welcome! 💚 🥸

Discord link: discord.gg/ZN4afjvq?eve...

Google calendar link: lnkd.in/d3U62QNn

Even his London post hints at transphobia in the paragraph about Lineham's arrest. A dog whistle anti trans people would recognize 😒

Tracing JITs in the real world @ CPython Core Dev Sprint My experience at the CPython Core Dev Sprint

Last week I was lucky to take part in the CPython Core Dev Sprint.
This is a summary of what I did, including an annotated and extended version of my talk on tracing JITs in real-world Python scenarios, plus some comparisons between PyPy’s JIT and CPython’s new JIT.

👉 antocuni.eu/2025/09/24/t...

Moonflow "A bizarre and fiercely original splatterpunk phantasmagoria of queerness. Deranged and gleefully weird as f*ck, this is an impressive debut from a singular...

hey we have a lot of fun here, living in a fascist dystopia and goofing on the very real lives being ruined by the state, it's great, things are fine, we love it! Why not enjoy the end of civilization with a good book? why not do it with MY book?? www.hachettebookgroup.com/titles/bitte...

2008, I am driving back across the Canadian border from Montreal with @stillsostrange.bsky.social and @batwrangler.bsky.social in my tiny1998 Honda Civic sedan.

happy analog gender week nerds 💛🤍💜🖤

Anil Dash wrote this post about this question: bsky.app/profile/anil...

Thanks for being so cool Danielle!

There was a new movie this year! And the one before that was the highest grossing German movie in 2023 😅

The books series is unbelievably popular in Germany, until today. It's called The Three Question Marks here and my eight year old devours it. There are extra novels that were written just for the German market, radio plays, movies, two spinoff series etc. en.wikipedia.org/wiki/German_...

OMG no!!! I still think Knuth's deep dive from "I want to write about algorithms" to "I need typesetting software" to "I need fonts" to "I need font software" to "I need software to write software" may be the most epic software exploration in human history, and kids these days have NO IDEA about it.

New blog post by @cfbolz.bsky.social: "How fast can the RPython GC allocate?" pypy.org/posts/2025/0...

It's 100 copies of that loop that are traced in 34ms. But yes, I hope so!