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Updated: 2026-11-09 04:31 PM CT
#568: Cloudflare Python Workers
[Talk Python To Me] #568: Cloudflare Python Workers

Where does your Python code actually run? A server in Virginia? A container in Frankfurt? Pyodide put Python into the browser. Cloudflare put the browser into the server. Combine the two and you get P...

#567: Personal AI Agents for Pythonistas
[Talk Python To Me] #567: Personal AI Agents for Pythonistas

The most popular Python project you've probably never heard of has 252,000 GitHub stars and merged over 1,800 pull requests in a single week. It's Hermes, a self-hosted AI agent you program just by ta...

#566: State of the art in Python 2026
[Talk Python To Me] #566: State of the art in Python 2026

Which of your Python tools would you still pick if you started fresh today? For a long time, the answer was easy. The stack felt settled. AI has reopened almost every one of those choices. Some tools ...

#565: Tachyon, Python 3.15's Built-in Sampling Profiler
[Talk Python To Me] #565: Tachyon, Python 3.15's Built-in Sampling Profiler

Do you know what's actually slow in your Python app? Or are you guessing? Until now, profiling Python meant a tracing profiler that made your code 2 to 3 times slower. Or a third-party tool that broke...

#564: EVE Online Departs for Python 3
[Talk Python To Me] #564: EVE Online Departs for Python 3

Every ship in EVE Online eventually undocks and leaves the station. This time, it's the whole game. EVE has run on Python 2 since it launched in 2003, all 2.4 million lines of it, on a custom Stackles...

#563: Getting Started with Rust as Python Devs
[Talk Python To Me] #563: Getting Started with Rust as Python Devs

Lint the entire CPython code base from scratch. It takes 0.3 seconds. Three blinks of an eye. That is ruff, and it is written in Rust. So are Pydantic, Polars, uv, and Granian. Rust shows up in Python...

#562: DuckLake: The Lakehouse That's Just SQL and Parquet
[Talk Python To Me] #562: DuckLake: The Lakehouse That's Just SQL and Parquet

How many files does your query read before it reads any data? On some data lakes, you go through JSON and metadata files first, just to learn which Parquet files matter. DuckLake asks one SQL question...

#561: TonIO, a Multi-threaded Async Runtime for Python
[Talk Python To Me] #561: TonIO, a Multi-threaded Async Runtime for Python

How many cores does your machine have, 10, 18? Your async Python code uses just one of them. That isn't a bug in asyncio. That's the design, and optimizing event loops to be faster by 20% doesn't chan...

#560: Building a Research OS: From Django to 30,000 Samples
[Talk Python To Me] #560: Building a Research OS: From Django to 30,000 Samples

In 2020, a gastroenterologist in Glasgow did the math on his new research study and came up with 30,000 samples, arriving over two years from three cities and a dozen hospitals. He asked around about ...

#559: 12 Things You Should (and Shouldn't) Do in AWS
[Talk Python To Me] #559: 12 Things You Should (and Shouldn't) Do in AWS

Your site is down. It's 3am. Is it a bug, a bill, or a breach? You can't tell yet, and everyone is watching you find out. Matt Lea has spent fifteen years being the person companies call when an outag...