It's October once again, and that means it is time to take the new release of Python for a spin (technically, it is the 3.15.0rc3 release that I'm using, the official 3.15 release is still a few days out). As I did with my Python 3.14 performance article of a year ago, today I'm sharing a new run of my informal Python benchmark, comparing Python 3.15 against previous interpreters all the way back

The other day a serious vulnerability was disclosed in one of the newer Linux distributions (the one led by the racist, so it isn't getting a mention here). The issue was interesting because it was caused by a non-standard Docker configuration that their installer applied by default, without alerting users that this configuration was creating a security risk. The end result was that any process ru

In this second Forgejo Hack installment I'll tell you how to connect a git repository that lives in your self-hosted Forgejo instance to Read the Docs , so that commits to the repository automatically trigger documentation builds, exactly like it works with GitHub.

I'm currently working on migrating my open source projects from GitHub to a self-hosted Forgejo instance. As part of this effort I often end up looking through the Forgejo source code to figure out if there are hidden ways to configure certain things to my liking when I can't do it on the administration UI. I thought I'd start putting my discoveries in writing here, in case they can help others. S

About a year ago I wrote on this blog about how coding with LLMs would not work for me , even if there were no ethical or environmental concerns preventing me to use them. I'm not going to repeat the arguments I made that time because my views on the subject haven' t changed. What has changed, however, is that the number of contributions I receive on my open source projects has gone up, and nearly

To conclude with my SQLAlchemy 2 in Practice series, this article contains the solutions to all the exercises. If you'd like to support my work, I encourage you to buy this book, either directly from my store or on Amazon . Thank you!

This is the eighth and final chapter of my SQLAlchemy 2 in Practice book. If you'd like to support my work, I encourage you to buy this book, either directly from my store or on Amazon . Thank you! Whether you are building a traditional web application, or a web API that works alongside a web front end or smartphone app, SQLAlchemy is one of the best choices to add database support to a Python web

This is the seventh chapter of my SQLAlchemy 2 in Practice book. If you'd like to support my work, I encourage you to buy this book, either directly from my store or on Amazon . Thank you! Starting with release 1.4, SQLAlchemy includes support for asynchronous programming with the asyncio package, for both the Core and ORM modules. This is an exciting improvement that brings the power of SQLAlchem

As part of my efforts in reducing my dependency on Big Tech, I have been researching how to self-host my password manager. One solution that looks very promising is Vaultwarden , an open source clone of the Bitwarden cloud server. An interesting aspect of this server is that it stores all the secrets in a standard SQLite database, so in addition to having the self-hosted password server I could ke

This is the sixth chapter of my SQLAlchemy 2 in Practice book. If you'd like to support my work, I encourage you to buy this book, either directly from my store or on Amazon . Thank you! The goal of this chapter is to use the concepts you have learned to build a web traffic analytics solution. This will serve as reinforcement of the techniques demonstrated in previous chapters as well as an exampl