Will McGugan

Man, the internet is a weird place.

Odd little website. What’s this all about?

www.batrachian.ai

GitHub - adamghill/django-new: Create new Django applications with pizazz. 🚀 Create new Django applications with pizazz. 🚀. Contribute to adamghill/django-new development by creating an account on GitHub.

0.4.0 of django-new is released. 🚀

Now with interactive mode! ✨

`uvx django-new` steps through prompts to create a Django application. It also shows the tree structure of what was created.

Both thanks to `rich` by @willmcgugan.bsky.social.

🛠️ github.com/adamghill/dj...
📦 pypi.org/project/djan...

did you know that Nilearn optional supports the awesome rich library (h/t @willmcgugan.bsky.social) for prettier logging?

rich.readthedocs.io/en/stable/

Textual - Testing Textual is a TUI framework for Python, inspired by modern web development.

We have a custom framework for testing. Very selenium like, but Textual specific I’m afraid.

textual.textualize.io/guide/testing/

Well all Textual widgets are reusable. so it could be used outside of Toad. And I’d love for it to be used in other tools.

My BMI is now in the healthy range. This deserves a celebration. Cake for breakfast.

What browsers see being output from Air, which is HTML with unnecessary whitespace stripped for speed and efficiency.

What developers can see if they so choose. Which is HTML formatted for clarity and highlighted for easier reading.

Coming in Air 0.32, released hopefully tomorrow!

To make reading HTML output easier, we will have features for converting dense HTML to pretty printed HTML!

All credit goes to github.com/tallerasaf for the PR and
@willmcgugan.bsky.social for the rich library its built on.

Put some final touches to Toad's permission request screen.

When the agent has an update, it pops this screen up. You can review the diffs in unified or split view, then decide if you want to accept or reject the changes.

Watch this space!

How’s that work. Do you literary diff the AST then translate that back to the source offsets?

That sounds challenging!

I have spent the last few days implementing a Diif viewer for Toad.

It supports unified and split view diffs, with line-level highlights.

Rather pleased with the results!

#Python #Textual

You can critique art in any way you like. None of his other works would make any sense whatsoever if you take them that literally.

Judges are not actually beating people with gavels. So your interpretation that he is blaming judges isn't even literal.

I feel that's a somewhat surface level appraisal. It could easily be interpreted as the law being used to beat down protestors. Not literal judges.

If you do decide to vote, please read the candidate details.

If you do read the details, do notice how one stands out.

If you do notice one standing out, do check out how that person is acting on discuss.python.org right now.

If you do all that, then please cast your vote.

There was one nominee statement that gave me the willies.

There is a fair bit of overlap there. I suspect Toad will become even more Jupyter like as it progresses!

Last year I gave a talk at #PyCon Sweden about one of my pet-projects: rich-click.

The title was "Accidentally popular: Beautiful CLI interfaces with rich-click". I talked about the library, but also the #opensource journey, involving @willmcgugan.bsky.social, @tiangolo.com and Daniel Reeves 😊

I posted about Toad, my agentic coding interface for the terminal. Going to make this a regular-ish thing until the app is solid enough to share.

willmcgugan.github.io/toad-report-1/

CultRepo (formerly Honeypot) 🧠 Formerly Honeypot, now independently owned and led by the original team behind the viral tech documentaries 📽️ Documentaries and shorts about the human stories of open source and technology 🌟 Our mi...

The Python documentary by @cultrepo.bsky.social is going to be debuting live on YouTube on Thursday the 28th at 7pm CET/10am PT! www.youtube.com/@cultrepo

I'll share a link the day before to the doc that will have a countdown to the debut. I'm planning to be in the live chat during the debut.

Of course. That’s when I do my best work!

Screenshot of Toad, my agentic coding UI.

I've been working on a new fuzzy search file picker for Toad (my terminal AI interface).

It is similar to the other terminal based agentic coding tools, but I want to address a few UX issues, and hopefully make it prettier in the process!

Announcing Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q2 2025! 🎉 The PSF is pleased to announce its second batch of PSF Fellows for 2025! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q2! The following people continue to do amazing things for the Python community:

Please congratulate our newest PSF Fellow Members for Q2, 2025! Their continued contributions to the Python ecosystem are so very important to our community. #python

Patching Multiprocessing News and announcements from the Python community for the week of Aug 4th, 2025

Python Bytes 443: Patching Multiprocessing
pythonbytes.fm/episodes/sho... w/ @mkennedy.codes and @brianokken.bsky.social
#Python
- rumdl - markdown linting in Rust
- Coverage 7.10 and subprocess
- aioboto3
- Friends don't let friends create unnecessary Python classes
- PyPI phishing

Not so easy talking about the UI of agentic CLIs running inside a terminal. h/t to @willmcgugan.bsky.social for talking about the issue.

thenewstack.io/user-interfa...

Episode #259: Design Patterns That Don't Translate to Python – The Real Python Podcast Do the design patterns learned in other programming languages translate to coding in Python? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's Weekly articles and…

On this week's episode, @digiglean.bsky.social and I talk about lots of releases, using coverage to make sure your tests are running, t-strings, and much more.

With content from: @willmcgugan.bsky.social @simonwillison.net @hugovk.dev @martinfowler.com @mitsuhiko.at and others.

Lots of overlap definitely. Think of Toad as an interface to many kinds of AI services, to prevent wheels from being reinvented.