Gregory M. Kapfhammer

@sue +100 to this, except I think that learning to code has become more daunting than ever thanks to package managers, CI/CD, linting tools, etc. - I've been doing this a while, and I find lists like https://willigottstein.medium.com/from-good-code-to-reliable-software-a-practical-guide-to-production-ready-python-packages-aa881c2c31e9 intimidating. (Type hints in Python? Whatever happened to the friendly, approachable little language I once knew?)

Honestly I think there is a lot to this, when I see some of the guides to using LLMs for folk without coding skills I think I could more easily just teach them to code. The mystification of coding is also a huge part of the appeal of this stuff for lots of people.

✍️ New post on using Memray to profile the memory usage of a Django project.

You can use this tool to find and eliminate memory-costly lines of code. The example in the post finds and removes a costly import, reducing startup time.

https://adamj.eu/tech/2026/01/29/django-profile-memray/

#Django #Python

Regular reminder: 85,000 developers a week run the wrong commands `npm add user` instead of the correct `npm adduser`

https://www.npmjs.com/package/user

Using the new Tachyon profiler coming to Python 3.15 I profiled a one-liner to find a bottleneck, then sped up some 26-year-old code in @pillow!

https://hugovk.dev/blog/2026/faster-pillow/

#Python #python315 #Tachyon #Pillow #PythonPillow #performance