Month: April 2025

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Python Bytes - #429 Nitpicking Python

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Michael #1: Huly

  • All-in-One Project Management Platform (alternative to Linear, Jira, Slack, Notion, Motion)
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  • Manage your tasks efficiently with Huly's bidirectional GitHub synchronization. Use Huly as an advanced front-end for GitHub Issues and GitHub Projects.
  • Connect every element of your workflow to build a dynamic knowledge base.
  • Everything you need for productive team work: Team Planner • Project Management • Virtual Office • Chat • Documents • Inbox
  • Self hosting as a service: elest.io

Brian #2: CVE Foundation formed to take over CVE program from MITRE

  • Back story: CVE, global source of cybersecurity info, was hours from being cut by DHS
    • The 25-year-old CVE program, an essential part of global cybersecurity, is cited in nearly any discussion or response to a computer security issue.
    • CVE was at real risk of closure after its contract was set to expire on April 16.
    • The nonprofit MITRE runs CVE on a contract with the DHS.
    • A letter last Tuesday sent Tuesday by Yosry Barsoum, vice president of MITRE, gave notice of the potential halt to operations.
    • Another possible victim of the current administration.
  • CVE Foundation Launched to Secure the Future of the CVE Program
    • CVE Board members have spent the past year developing a strategy to transition CVE to a dedicated, non-profit foundation. The new CVE Foundation will focus solely on continuing the mission of delivering high-quality vulnerability identification and maintaining the integrity and availability of CVE data for defenders worldwide.
    • Over the coming days, the Foundation will release more information about its structure, transition planning, and opportunities for involvement from the broader community.

Michael #3: drawdb

  • Free and open source, simple, and intuitive database design editor, data-modeler, and SQL generator.
  • Great drag-drop relationship manager
  • Define your DB visually, export as SQL create scripts
  • Or import existing SQL to kickstart the diagramming.

Brian #4: 14 Advanced Python Features

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Michael:

Joke: Python Tariffs

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NBN Book of the Day - Saleem H. Ali, “Sustainability: A Very Short Introduction” (Oxford UP, 2024)

The growing concern about global environmental change and human impacts on the planet has led to the emergence of a broad field of study on the 'sustainability' of human societies. The term's common usage can be traced back to the advent of the Earth Summit in 1992 when 'sustainable development' was broadly embraced by the international community as an ostensibly win-win proposition for economic development, social inclusion, and ecological conservation. Yet both the natural science underpinnings and the social implications of a quest for sustainability have been diffuse. There is a need for a coherent

Sustainability: A Very Short Introduction (Oxford UP, 2024) begins by introducing the concept of sustainability and how it has developed. The central chapters consider four key concepts crucial to sustainability: a) material and energy flows in consumption and production; b) technological interventions for a sustainable society; c) tipping points, and resilience in natural and social systems; and d) renewability and circularity in the economy. In the concluding chapter, Saleem H. Ali explores political means of managing anthropogenic change for a more sustainable society.

Saleem H. Ali is Chair and Distinguished Professor of Geography at the University of Delaware.

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Strict Scrutiny - Are Trump Administration Officials in Criminal Contempt?

Leah, Melissa and Kate join forces to dig through the Trump administration’s latest affronts to the law and the possibility that its officials could be held in criminal contempt. They also react in real time to the Court’s decision to take up the question of birthright citizenship and cheer Harvard’s stand against the administration. Finally, they take a look at what’s in front of SCOTUS this week, including a new opportunity for the conservative majority to use the EPA as a punching bag and its latest foray into the culture wars.

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What A Day - America At A Tipping Point

President Donald Trump still hasn’t hit the 100-day mark of his second term, but it feels like the country is already hitting some kind of inflection point. On Saturday, we saw a second day of mass protests against the Trump administration’s agenda. Massachusetts Democratic Gov. Maura Healy compared this moment to the start of the Revolutionary War, saying, ‘Our freedoms are once again under attack.’ Even New York Times conservative columnist David Brooks wrote about how it’s ‘time for a comprehensive national civic uprising.’ Amid all these proverbial alarm bells, it might seem a little perverse for some Democrats to advocate for a return to a kind of New Deal-era of politics, where more centralized power allowed the government to do big things. But that’s exactly the argument made in the new book 'Abundance.' Co-author Derek Thompson joins us to talk about how America can go back to building and inventing new things, and how Democrats can get people to trust the government again.

And in headlines: The Supreme Court issued an emergency decision blocking more flights of alleged Venezuelan gang members to an El Salvador super prison, Vice President JD Vance got an audience with the Pope, and the Israeli military admitted to several “professional failures” when it killed 14 Gaza rescue workers and a U.N. staffer last month.

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The NewsWorthy - Powerful Storms, Another Signal Scandal? & Robots Race Humans – Monday, April 21, 2025

The news to know for Monday, April 21, 2025!

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We’re talking about intense storms that brought heavy rain, flash flooding, and tornadoes to several states… and the threat that still exists today.

Also, news of White House officials using yet another Signal group chat to share attack plans with people not authorized to see them.

Plus, another round of nationwide protests, a major credit card merger, and a race that pitted human runners against humanoid robots.

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The Best One Yet - 🧾 “wtf is that?” — Say Hello to Tariff Fees. Costco’s 1st beer dupe. Return of the Mascots.

You’re about to see “Tariff Fee” on your receipts… But the phrasing is about to get political.

Companies are embracing mascots again … Jake From State Farm just beat the Kardashians. 

Costco’s one weakness? It’s never successfully sold a Kirkland beer… until now.

Plus, we’ve got Duolingo’s CEO on tomorrow’s pod… and he’s announcing something big.


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Short Wave - Should Humans Live On Mars?

As global warming continues and space technology improves, there is more and more talk about the growing possibility of a sci-fi future in which humans become a multiplanetary species. Specifically, that we could live on Mars.

Biologist Kelly Weinersmith and cartoonist Zach Weinersmith have spent four years researching what life on Mars would look like if we did it anytime soon. In their book A City On Mars, they get into all sorts of questions: How would we have babies in space? How would we have enough food? They join host Regina G. Barber and explain why it might be best to stay on Earth.

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The Indicator from Planet Money - A trap-loving DJ takes on economics

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What Next | Daily News and Analysis - Why Did Big Law Fold So Easily?

Some of the nation’s biggest law firms have found themselves in Trump’s crosshairs and have pledged pro-bono legal service to maintain their security clearances and access to government buildings. Others, however, are trying to fight back.


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