Topics covered in this episode:
terminal-tree * posting: The API client that lives in your terminal * Extra, extra, extra * UV does everything or enough that I'm not sure what else it needs to do * Extras * Joke*

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Michael #1: terminal-tree

• An experimental filesystem navigator for the terminal, built with Textual
• Tested in macOS only at this point. Chances are very high it works on Linux. Slightly lower chance (but non-zero) that it works on Windows.
  • Can confirm it works on Linux

Brian #2: posting: The API client that lives in your terminal

• Also uses Textual
• From Darren Burns
• Interesting that the installation instructions recommends using uv:
  • uv tool install --python 3.12 posting
• Very cool. Great docs. Beautiful. keyboard centric, but also usable with a mouse.
• “Fly through your API workflow with an approachable yet powerful keyboard-centric interface. Run it locally or over SSH on remote machines and containers. Save your requests in a readable and version-control friendly format.”
• Able to save multiple environments
• Great colors
• Allows scripting to run Python code before and after requests to prepare headers, set variables, etc.

Michael #3: Extra, extra, extra

• spaCy course swag give-away, enter for free
• New essay: Opposite of Cloud Native is?
• News: We've moved to Hetzner
• New package: Introducing chameleon-flask package
• New release: Listmonk Python client
• TIOBE Update
• PEP 750 – Template Strings
• Canary email
• Left Omnivore, for Pocket, left Pocket for, …, landed on Instapaper
  • Supports direct import from Omnivore and Pocket
  • Though Hoarder is compelling
• Trying out Zen Browser
  • Wasn’t a fan of Arc (especially now) but the news turned me on to Zen

Brian #4: UV does everything or enough that I'm not sure what else it needs to do

• Jeff Triplett
• “UV feels like one of those old infomercials where it solves everything, which is where we have landed in the Python world.”
• “My favorite feature is that UV can now bootstrap a project to run on a machine that does not previously have Python installed, along with installing any packages your application might require.”
• Partial list (see Jeff’s post for his complete list)
  • uv pip install replaces pip install
  • uv venv replaces python -m venv
  • uv run, uv tool run, and uv tool install replaces pipx
  • uv build - Build your Python package for pypi
  • uv publish - Upload your Python package to pypi, replacing twine and flit publish

Extras

Brian:

• Coverage.py originally was just one file
• Trying out BlueSky brianokken.bsky.social
  • Not because of Taylor Swift, but nice.
  • There are a lot of Python people there.

Joke: How programmers sleep