Kashif Khan

🐍🚀 Out now: Python 3.15.0 final! 💤 Lazy imports! 🧊 frozendict builtin! 💂 sentinel builtin! 📉 Tachyon profiler! 🗣️ UTF-8 by default! 🛞 abi3t! 🎨 More colour! 🚌 & more! discuss.python.org/t/python-3-1... Huge thanks @sovereign.tech for supporting my work as RM! #Python #Python315 #CPython #release

finally!! github.com/signalapp/ke...

I self-nominated myself for the Python packaging council today. I have posted my nomination statement as a blog post. snarky.ca/my-nominatio...

And if possible, I would rather this be written in pure Python. There's enough I/O here that if we can get the packaging specs and pip updated then this doesn't inherently have to be "slow" as uv's wins are mostly not due to Rust (although it does help).

Rust isn't actually allowed in CPython (yet); it's still an open PEP. As for forking uv, I think it's more complicated than necessary for beginners (it has a ton of knobs). It also skirts packaging standards in the name of speed.

It's no secret that I want a cross-platform Python Launcher that can install pre-compiled CPython binaries, run Python code easily (both projects by handling virtual environments transparently and inline script metadata), and pipx-like tool running and installation. And all of this from python.org.

The pydantic team released a fork of httpx called httpx2: github.com/pydantic/htt... "Our aim is to honour the original project's design, keep it stable for everyone relying on it, and continue evolving it carefully." I was able to easily upgrade, just :%s/httpx/httpx2

This makes it the largest roll out of MLS that Im aware of 🎉

The latest iOS beta has support for end-to-end encryption between Apple and Android devices via RCS text messaging.

I love watching movies in IMAX, it was so awesome to take a peek behind the scenes of how its put together www.youtube.com/watch?v=7S_g...

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Alright, it's official! 💰 @matthewdgreen.bsky.social and I bet on what will break first, ML-KEM-768 or X25519. The loser donates to a 501(c)(3) picked by the winner. If you have an opinion on quantum computers or lattices, you can join with a side bet. Just submit a PR! github.com/FiloSottile/...

@omg.squire.wtf another handy one github.com/bugaevc/wl-c...

is anyone else implementing MLS encryption or is it just Google and eventually apple for RCS chats. #mls #cryptography

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TIL that every bluesky account has an RSS feed ....simply tack on /rss at the end of a profile to get their accounts feed bsky.app/profile/%3Cy...

Li’l John is performing “Turn Down for What” on the Toys Я Us float and his DJ is Geoffrey the Giraffe.

"We are seeing a 1000x reduction in memory safety vulnerability density compared to Android’s C and C++ code...with Rust changes having a 4x lower rollback rate and spending 25% less time in code review, the safer path is now also the faster one." security.googleblog.com/2025/11/rust...

GNOME Mutter Now "Completely Drops The Whole X11 Backend" - https://www.phoronix.com/news/GNOME-Mutter-Drops-X11

We made MLS more decentralized! We are excited to share DMLS that brings fork resilience to the MLS protocol, solving a key challenge in distributed systems while maintaining Forward Secrecy. This work was made possible by @equalitie.bsky.social, who funded it as part of the Breakout program.

The stable release of Python 3.14 is out now! Go, go, go update! 🙌 discuss.python.org/t/python-3-1...

If this process of converting organs from one blood type to another can get refined and go wide, relatively soon, that'd be some amazingly good news. The immediate and downstream benefits would be enormous.

Let me post a *non*-subskeet for once... We made a thing! discuss.python.org/t/pep-810-ex... #Python #PEP

Interesting read in to the new signal post quantum protocol ...this is not my area of expertise but chunking with erasure codes plus making consistent sizes are sent across the wire is brilliant pqshield.com/diving-into-...

pqshield.com/diving-into-...

In 2023, Signal was the first mainstream messenger to enable post-quantum cryptography. We’re still ahead of the (elliptical) curve, implementing a new hybrid PQ ratchet ensuring Forward Secrecy & Post-Compromise Security even in a post-quantum world. signal.org/blog/spqr/

SSDs are pretty reliable in a technical sense.
 That is, unless you make a really, really bad mistake in firmware. 
 HP had a line of ~20 different Enterprise SSD models for datacenter use.
 In exactly 3 years, 270 days and 8 hours, every one is irrecoverably bricked.

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What's New in Python 3.14: * Support UUID versions 6, 7, & 8 via uuid.uuid6(), uuid.uuid7(), & uuid.uuid8() * uuid.NIL and uuid.MAX represent Nil and Max UUID formats * Generate multiple UUIDs at once via python -m uuid --count docs.python.org/3.14/whatsne... #Python #Python314 #UUID #RFC9652

Signal Secure Backups are here 🙌

I was encountering issues with intermittent wifi drops on my Fedora instance. It's a known issue, so it's being worked on. Can impact hardwire as well but I haven't seen it happen, only on wireless for me discussion.fedoraproject.org/t/talk-kerne... #fedora #linix

Finally cross platform backups on @signal.org 🎉 community.signalusers.org/t/beta-feedb...

Found this after some searching around but Nvidia and Wayland are not playing well with each other after waking up from sleep. Turns out you have to manually suspend gnome shell and the script here works quite well. Hopefully it's fixed in the 580 series forums.developer.nvidia.com/t/trouble-su...

@omg.squire.wtf github.com/kashifkhan/d... - just the setup files for now. Needs more testing on the windows and macos side of things

#FantasticFour is it delight. By being in a separate universe it doesn’t have any baggage, it feels more like a comic book movie than just about anything I’ve seen lately. Absolutely stylized, and even though we’ve clearly reached Peak Pedro, it’s still a breath of fresh air. The Thing is awesome

I took @parkplusplus.bsky.social advice and gone on with podman on fedora

...he says to Signal's president

The Python Steering Council is pleased to announce that the Free-Threading project is no longer considered experimental! discuss.python.org/t/pep-779-cr...

To my surprise an issue I had with Ubuntu and it playing sound softly on my machine was solved with the latest update to gnome. I had moved on to fedora, and almost off my chair post upgrade as I had turned the volume all the way up on the speakers 😂 bugs.launchpad.net/ubuntu/+sour...