Stefan Scherfke

In case you're wondering why I haven't been as active here lately and why there hasn't been a new #TypedSettings release in a while, I've shifted my priorities a bit and have been spending more time outdoors: pixelfed.de/p/sscherfke/... But I’m planning to do a release with some nice features soon.

since I see a lot of gloom re Astral x OpenAI: ⁃ Even if Astral actively (malice) or passively (neglect) ruins uv, Python packaging is 1000x better today than 2 yrs ago. 1/4

Fuck you people. Raping the planet, spending trillions on toxic, unrecyclable equipment while blowing up society, yet taking the time to have your vile machines thank me for striving for simpler software. Just fuck you. Fuck you all. I can't remember the last time I was this angry.

Sehr wichtiges Video eines Russen darüber, wie Propaganda in Wirklichkeit funktioniert. Hört euch mal die 10 Minuten an (englisch) und dann lauscht aufmerksam in euch hinein. Wir sind mitten drin.

Just released #TypedSettings 25.3.0 🎉 Changes - Extract attribute docstrings and use them as CLI help texts (thx to a snippet from @davidism.bsky.social). - Support dotenv (.env) files - detect competing usages of the Click context object typed-settings.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ch...

Fifteen Years xkcd.com/3172/

I finally manged to get working winbars in #neovim that only appear in actual files (but not in quickfix or term) and which also show LSP breadcrumps if available. And they are also slightly dimmed for inactive buffers. gitlab.com/sscherfke/do... #neovim #lualine #lspsaga #lsp

pytest 9.0 just released! Notable changes: * subtests support * Native TOML configuration * Progress output in the terminal taskbar And others. Check the changelog: docs.pytest.org/en/stable/ch...

Just released #TypedSettings 25.2.0! 🎉 It no longer needs to call `os.chdir()` to resolve relative paths, which could lead to problems under specific (but rare) conditions. It also drops support for Python 3.9. typed-settings.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ch...

Another highlight from #PyConUK! Katie Bickford gives a junior's perspective on doing difficult things. Contains advice for both junior developers *and* (importantly) the senior developers working with them! This is a topic that doesn't normally get enough airtime. youtu.be/7yfGMMei0b8?...

Good keynote by @hynek.me. Can recommend. 👌 www.youtube.com/watch?v=gDvw... #PyConUK

🎉 I just released #TypedSettings 25.0.0 – the first release this year and since last November. It adds support for "Mapping", "IntEnum", and "StrEnum", increases flexiblity and documentation of nested settings, and, finally, improves error handling. typed-settings.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ch...

Almost 4 months later, here it finally is: uv: Making Python Local Workflows Fast and Boring in 2025 youtube.com/watch?v=TiBI... 1/3

Just released: Python 3.14.0 beta 2! 🚀🐍 🥧 Deferred type annotation evaluation! 🥧 T-strings! 🥧 Zstandard! 🥧 Syntax highlighting in the REPL! 🥧 Colour in unittest, argparse, json and calendar CLIs! 🥧 UUID v6-8! 🥧 And much more! discuss.python.org/t/python-3-1... #Python #CPython #Python314 #release

Today, we’re announcing the preview release of ty, an extremely fast type checker and language server for Python, written in Rust. In early testing, it's 10x, 50x, even 100x faster than existing type checkers. (We've seen >600x speed-ups over Mypy in some real-world projects.)

PhD Timeline xkcd.com/3081

Among the many oddities in YAML is the variety of string formatting options. Here's a site that explains them: yaml-multiline.info

Tariffs xkcd.com/3073

Tell me your team is entirely comprised of over-confident twenty-somethings without telling me your team is entirely comprised of over-confident twenty-somethings

#neovim 0.11 is out! - List of notable changes since 0.10: neovim.io/doc/user/new... - Summary blog post: gpanders.com/blog/whats-n... - Release binaries: github.com/neovim/neovi... Thank you all for the support! More things to come in 0.12!

Finally, here's attrs 25.2.0: vroom–vroom edition! attrs always had impressive runtime performance because we generate optimal code for your configuration. But now @tinche.bsky.social also made this code gen 30–50% faster! This is the last version to support Python 3.8. github.com/python-attrs...

Hi everyone, Just to announce that the handle bsky.app/profile/nico... is not Bruno, but an impersonator. That account has already been reported. Bruno can be reached at bsky.app/profile/soli....

#UV is just pure awesomeness. Combined with #TypedSettings, it’s sooo easy to write a CLI. Also #rich. 🤩

I just released quattro 25.1.0. The biggest change is the addition of `create_background_task` to our TaskGroup class. Background tasks are similar to normal tasks, but they don't block the TaskGroup exit. Instead, they get cancelled if they're still running.

sybil 9.1.0 released! It's a #python tool for testing examples in documentation and source code: sybil.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

https://codspeed.io is pretty cool and class creation will be 38–52% faster in attrs 25.2.0 https://github.com/python-attrs/attrs/pull/1407

How to create a Python CLI that's globally available in your system in 5 easy steps. 1. Install uv 2. Init project with `uv init --app --package mycli` 3. Write code 4. Install with `uv tool install . -e` 5. Use `mycli` anywhere in your computer

My brother is raising funds for establishing a partnership between Luckau (Wendland), Germany and Faléa, Mali. Most of the expenses are already covered but they need some extra money for the initial trip to Africa. You can find more info here: www.gofundme.com/f/luckau-falea Thank you ❤️

“Celebrated are the minimal dependencies, the humble function that just quietly does the job, the code that doesn't need to be touched for years because it was done right once.” lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/1/24/bu...

I sometimes receive emails from someone I've never met thanking me for something that I made or was part of well over a decade ago. I always appreciate it. If you're grateful for something, thank someone. They may not respond, but I'd be willing to bet they'll appreciate it.

Being 100% serious, for me what's described here is a big part of Rust's success. It's fun. And it makes things that are often un-fun (installing the toolchain, adding dependencies) easy.

I think this is the best outcome for the moment. We don't fully understand the problem of lockfiles in Python yet and a universal standard would come too early. bsky.app/profile/snar...

#neovim Development News The 0.11 version will allow fuzzy matching in built-in Insert mode completion (like <C-x><C-n> and friends). Add "fuzzy" flag to 'completeopt' option. PR (a ported Vim patch): - github.com/neovim/neovi...

One of the fun things you can do with uvx to just … run python. Super useful to play around with a python package without having to make a virtualenv somewhere.

Publisher: Do you want to put an LLM clause in the copyright statement? Me: Definitely. How specific can we get? Publisher: As specific as you like.

sybil 9.0.0 released! It's a #python tool for testing examples in documentation and source code: sybil.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

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