- do you want to use google to sign in?
- do you want to add a passkey?
- do you want to add a 2FA token?
- we know you have 2FA but we've sent you an email instead
- this login attempt seems suspicious we've sent you a text about it
- can you click on these buses?
- you failed to click on the buses click on these bicycles instead
- should we save these details for next time?
- do you accept these trackers?
- you can opt out but we've decided it's legitimate interest anyway
- would you like to see a list of our 847 partners we share your data with?
- can we send you desktop notifications?
- can we access your location?
- do you want 10% off for signing up to the mailing list?
- do you want me to translate this page?
- hi I'm your friendly chatbot how can I help?
- oh no you can't buy this, reach out to us for a quote!
- do you want—

I'm tired boss

Before: "Don't spend too long documenting things so people can know what's going on, write code."
After: "Don't spend too long writing code, document things so the agents know what's going on."

Before: "Don't spend too long trying to set up the culture and processes of the team so the develop/test/ship loop is smooth, write code."
After: "Don't spend too long writing code, make sure the agents are in a smooth develop/test/ship loop."

We weren't allowed to do it for humans, we _must_ do it for the robots.

The Python Security Response Team membership is now public with a documented nomination process 🥳

https://devguide.python.org/developer-workflow/psrt/

#security #opensource #oss #python

Thanks, Quansight for supporting open source so forcefully!

https://labs.quansight.org/blog/oss-fund-2025

sometimes when i feel my code has too many confusing states, i like to stop, take a deep breath, and open the MSDN page for the MsoTrioState enum.

MsoTrioState is "a tri-state Boolean value". it has five possible values. only two of them are supported.

the only supported values are true and false.

If you're a Python developer, definitely make your voice heard here: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/01/your-python-your-voice-join-python.html

I filled it out. I feel like it was briefer than previous years? And obviously there are a bunch of questions about genAI junk, which I suspect will end up showing up as very widely used, so I hope some of you skeptics will also fill it out and at least we might be legible as a meaningful minority