Christopher Bailey

A screenshot of the Positron interface, labeled with its components: "Activity bar," "Primary side bar," "Editor," "Secondary side bar," and "Panel." The text "A quick tour of Positron" is on the left.

Take a quick tour of Positron, Posit's next-generation data science IDE, built by the creators of RStudio.

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YouTube video by CultRepo (formerly Honeypot) Python: The Documentary [OFFICIAL TRAILER]

We’re excited to officially announce the premiere of the FULL Python documentary! 🐍

🗓️ August 28th
🕖 7PM CET | 12PM CST

Subscribe on YouTube, set your reminder, & tell anyone who will listen! 📢 🙏

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Announcing molab Cloud-based notebooks for our community

Announcing molab: a cloud-hosted marimo notebook workspace with link-based sharing.

Experiment on AI, ML and data using the world’s best Python (and SQL!) notebook.

Launching with examples from @huggingface, @weights_biases, and using @PyTorch

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Like grim noir detectives looking at the typewriter.

From a side project in Amsterdam to powering AI at the world’s biggest companies - this is the story of Python. Featuring Guido van Rossum, Travis Oliphant, ... Python: The Documentary [OFFICIAL TRAILER]

The story of Python: from a holiday project to changing the world 🌍 Featuring Guido van Rossum, our founder, Travis Oliphant, and the community that built it. Proud to sponsor this documentary! Watch the trailer 🔗 www.youtube.com/watch?v=pqBq...

I've recorded another #PydyTuesday Uncut session with @mchow.com. Watch the full episode: www.youtube.com/watch?v=kyVS...

They are amazing as audiobooks. The voice actor is Jefferson Mays and he does a great job with all the voices and roles. He even does the novellas. Can really recommend!

Episode #256: Solving Problems and Saving Time in Chemistry With Python – The Real Python Podcast What motivates someone to learn how to code as a scientist? How do you harness the excitement of solving problems quickly and make the connection to the benefits of coding in your scientific work? Thi...

It was really great to talk with Ben Lear and Christopher Johnson about their book and learning the advantages of coding as a chemist! realpython.com/podcasts/rpp...

Wait, sheepdogs are terrible at woodworking. I have enough trouble keeping my border collie entertained let alone getting her to hold the wood still while I saw.

Episode #86: The Legacy of OLPC and Charismatic Pitfalls in Teaching Programming – The Real Python Podcast Do you remember the One Laptop Per Child program? What went wrong, and what can we learn from the program's failure? What are the potential pitfalls of charismatic technology, and how can we avoid the...

We did a podcast with Morgan and @alsweigart.bsky.social about the charisma issue in learning code. realpython.com/podcasts/rpp...

positron: Data Science IDE #python Positron, a next-generation data science IDE. Contribute to posit-dev/positron development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Another two @realpython.com Intermediate Python Deep Dive cohort courses are over…

…and the feedback started coming in. Here are some comments from participants:

"The course structure and delivery were perfect. Learnt a lot to make me a better programmer."

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“So juicy sweeeet!”

Always fun to be on @talkpython.fm! Don't forget to check out the course:

training.talkpython.fm/courses/pola...

YouTube video by Programmers are also human Interview with 0.1x engineer [FULL]

I'm officially 0.1X:

youtu.be/hwG89HH0VcM

I got creeped out when I used Gemini for under 2 minutes and it used my name twice.

The last year six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles I presented an invited keynote at the AI Engineer World’s Fair in San Francisco this week. This is my third time speaking at the event—here’s my talks from October 2023 …

Here's video, slides and a detailed annotated transcript from my talk at this week's AI Engineer World's Fair conference in San Francisco - "The last year six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles" simonwillison.net/2025/Jun/6/s...

Episode #252: Rodrigo Girão Serrão: Python Training, itertools, and Idioms – The Real Python Podcast Once you've learned the vocabulary and syntax of the Python language, how do you progress into learning the right combinations to put into your code? How can Python's built-in itertools library enhanc...

I want to thank @mathspp.com for coming on the show this week! It was an interesting dive into teaching, the itertools modules, and comparing vocabulary to idioms in programming.
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Milk! The other white fluid!

I mean Bailey isn’t that hard, why skip the ‘e’, come on it’s right there on the bottle!

Episode #251: Python Thread Safety & Managing Projects With uv – The Real Python Podcast What are the ways you can manage multithreaded code in Python? What synchronization techniques are available within Python's threading module? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week,…

On this week's episode, @digiglean.bsky.social and I talk about t-strings, the release of pip 25.1, synchronization primitives, and uv.

With content from: @willmcgugan.bsky.social, @adamj.eu, @davepeck.org, @snarky.ca and others not on the 🦋

YouTube video by Rick Beato Zedd: “Clarity” to “The Middle” Unlocking His Hit Song Production SECRETS

What an amazing interview with Zedd by Rick Beato. Listing production techniques, plug-ins, building arrangements, and so much more. Really amazing. www.youtube.com/watch?v=UM2z...

YouTube video by PyCon US Make Python Talk, Make Python Listen - Al Sweigart

My US PyCon 2025 talk is now online. I talk about Python packages for OCR, speech recognition, and text-to-speech. But really it's about the politics of technology.

I also have a 6 foot snake puppet.

You can watch it here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=bHUv...

Informal Pointless Python Survey This is an informal, unscientific survey of (sort of) Python questions, with which I'd like to try to make something amusing, maybe something involving families feuding somehow. (I may have been inspi...

Use #Python at all? I would like to do a silly thing, which I hope will bring amusement to others as well as me (if it works out).

If you wouldn't mind, please fill out this form, and boost for reach:

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Just finished a new blog post! 🎉 👀

This goes into a deep dive into Python's two new type checkers, Pyrefly by Meta and ty by Astral (the team behind uv and ruff)

Check it out here: blog.edward-li.com/tech/compari...

Episode #250: DjangoCon Europe 2025: Live Recording From Dublin – The Real Python Podcast What goes into making video courses at Real Python? How should you build an installable Django application? Christopher Trudeau is back on the show this week, bringing another batch of PyCoder's…

Wow, episode 250 already? This was a special recording session at DjangoCon EU where @digiglean.bsky.social and I recorded in front of a live audience. We discussed our favourite talks at the conference, answered audience questions and more. Enjoy it, it was fun to make!

The Crafters of Andor. Anil Dash has compiled the DVD extras for Andor, an expertly crafted action drama about fighting fascism that also happens to be a Star Wars series. [anildash.com]

Congratulations on the new role!

The trailer for "Python, the Documentary" is here! 🔥🐍

From its humble beginnings in the Netherlands to powering AI at the world’s biggest companies - this is the story of Python.

🎥 The film premiers at @europython.eu in July and will follow on our YouTube channel.

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Episode #249: Going Beyond requirements.txt With pylock.toml and PEP 751 – The Real Python Podcast What is the best way to record the Python dependencies for the reproducibility of your projects? What advantages will lock files provide for those projects? This week on the show, we welcome back Pyth...

Thanks @snarky.ca for coming on the show again to discuss PEP751, pylock.toml files, and moving beyond requirements.txt. Plus some updates on Python WASI!
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