Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

• Starlette 1.0.0
• Astral to join OpenAI
• uv audit
• Fire and forget (or never) with Python’s asyncio
• Extras
• Joke

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Brian #1: Starlette 1.0.0

• As a reminder, Starlette is the foundation for FastAPI
• Starlette 1.0 is here! - fun blog post from Marcello Trylesinski
• “The changes in 1.0 were limited to removing old deprecated code that had been on the way out for years, along with a few bug fixes. From now on we'll follow SemVer strictly.”
• Fun comment in the “What’s next?” section:
  • “Oh, and Sebastián, Starlette is now out of your way to release FastAPI 1.0. 😉”
• Related: Experimenting with Starlette 1.0 with Claude skills
  • Simon Willison
  • example of the new lifespan mechanism, very pytest fixture-like

    @contextlib.asynccontextmanager
    async def lifespan(app):
    async with some_async_resource():
        print("Run at startup!")
        yield
        print("Run on shutdown!")
    app = Starlette(
    routes=routes,
    lifespan=lifespan
    )
    

Michael #2: Astral to join OpenAI

• via John Hagen, thanks
• Astral has agreed to join OpenAI as part of the Codex team
• Congrats Charlie and team
• Seems like **Ruff** and uv play an important roll.
• Perhaps ty holds the most value to directly boost Codex (understanding codebases for the AI)
• All that said, these were open source so there is way more to the motivations than just using the tools.
• After joining the Codex team, we'll continue building our open source tools.
• Simon Willison has thoughts
• discuss.python.org also has thoughts
• The Ars Technica article has interesting comments too
• It’s probably the death pyx
  • Simon points out “pyx is notably absent from both the Astral and OpenAI announcement posts.”

Brian #3: uv audit

• Submitted by Owen Lemont
• Pieces of uv audit have been trickling in. uv 0.10.12 exposes it to the cli help
• Here’s the roadmap for uv audit
• I tried it out on a package and found a security issue with a dependency
  • not of the project, but of the testing dependencies
  • but only if using Python < 3.10, even though I’m using 3.14
• Kinda cool
• Looks like it generates a uv.lock file, which includes dependencies for all project supported versions of Python and systems, which is a very thorough way to check for vulnerabilities.
• But also, maybe some pointers on how to fix the problem would be good. No --fix yet.

Michael #4: Fire and forget (or never) with Python’s asyncio

• Python’s asyncio.create_task() can silently garbage collect your fire-and-forget tasks starting in Python 3.12
• Formerly fine async code can now stop working, so heads up
• The fix? Use a set to upgrade to a strong ref and a callback to remove it
• Is there a chance of task-based memory leaks? Yeah, maybe.

Extras

Brian:

• Nobody Gets Promoted for Simplicity - interesting read and unfortunate truth in too many places.
• pytest-check - All built-in check helper functions in this list also accept an optional xfail reason.
  • example: check.equal(actual, expected, xfail="known issue #123")
  • Allows some checks to still cause a failure to happen because you no longer have to mark the whole test as xfail Michael:
• TurboAPI - FastAPI + Pydantic compatible framework in Zig (see follow up)
• Pyramid 2.1 is out (yes really! :) first release in 3 years)
• Vivaldi 7.9 adds minimalist hide mode.
• Migrated pythonbytes.fm and talkpython.fm to Raw+DC design pattern
• Robyn + Chameleon package

Joke: We now have translation services

Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) OpenAI leadership says no more side quests 2) The company is focusing on enterprise and coding 3) Does this mean consumer AI is dead? 4) OpenAI's new focus era 5) Why OpenAI is building a Superapp 6) OpenAI partners with the consultants 7) Most first time AI buyers are choosing Anthropic 8) Nvidia CEO Jensen Huang says those who use AI to cut jobs lack imagination 9) The Metaverse is dead, or is it? 10) Jeff Bezos is raising $100 billion to automate industrial work 11) Do you dry chat?

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Ryan is joined by Stefan Weitz, CEO and co-founder of the HumanX Conference, for a conversation on how AI has evolved in the last year. They discuss whether “the year of the agent” came to fruition, why companies are moving away from AGI, and the major blockers for AI adoption, from distrust in non-deterministic systems to enterprise data-readiness. 

Episode notes: 

HumanX 2026, one of the biggest AI conferences of the year, is happening in San Francisco from April 6-9. Listen to our episodes recorded on the conference floor last year. 

Connect with Stefan on LinkedIn.

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TRANSCRIPT

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Reannah Wyatt is from Bandera, TX, raised on a 4th generation cattle and horse ranch. Eventually, she went to West Texas for school, rodeoing for Howard University, specifically barrel racing. She eventually started selling residential real estate, and fell in love with the industry. Outside of tech and real estate, she is a mom and still loves horses and cattle. She doesn't ride anymore, but leans more into the breeding side of the animals.

Reannah was in residential real estate for over a decade, and was in the mix when Zillow was launched. The platform helped her grow her business, and she knew this was where the industry was headed. But what she couldn't understand was... why wasn't there something built to track the end to end real estate process and transaction?

This is the creation story of The Real Time.

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In this episode of Leaders of Code, Stack Overflow’s Chief of Product and Technology, Jody Bailey, sits down with Dana Lawson, CTO at Netlify. Dana shares her insights on leading a lean, globally distributed engineering team that powers 5% of the internet. The conversation touches on the realities of remote work, the importance of maintaining a written culture, and why Dana believes AI and agents are lowering the barrier to entry for builders everywhere.

The discussion also:

• Explores how to manage a polyglot environment and the trade-offs between adopting nascent tech and maintaining operational reliability with a globally distributed team.
• Highlights Netlify’s approach to AI integration and how Dana addresses the natural scepticism from those hesitant to hand over control to AI.
• Covers realities of technical debt and how Netlify balances rapid product work with scaling.

Notes

• Connect with Dana Lawson on LinkedIn.

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Andrew Ross Sorkin is an anchor at CNBC, columnist at The New York Times, and author of 1929, a bestselling book about the worst market crash in history. Sorkin joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss whether AI achieving its potential could lead to a similar crash, either via a labor shock or the disruption of software. Stay tuned for the second half where we discuss private credit risks, prediction market gambling, and the SpaceX IPO. Hit play for a dynamic conversation about where AI could lead, and its potential economic benefits or consequences.

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Chapters:

0:00 Introduction

3:37 Could AI's Success Cause a Market Crash?

7:02 The Mass Unemployment Question

34:39 Private Credit Explained

39:09 Private Credit Alarm Bells

42:43 The AI Debt Risk

47:14 The Prison of Financial Mediocrity

54:38 Could We Have a 1929-Scale Crash?

56:11 Fed Independence

1:03:08 The SpaceX IPO

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Ryan sits down with Chainguard CEO Dan Lorenc to chat about how his team is keeping the foundation of the internet—open source projects—alive by forking archived but widely-used repos to provide security maintenance and dependency upgrades. They also discuss open source’s sustainability problems when it comes to funding, security, and maintainer burnout, and how trusted stewardship can reduce risk when maintainers step away.

Episode notes: 

Chainguard provides secure-by-default open source artifacts for the modern software stack, keeping important open source projects maintained instead of archived.

Chainguard just announced a whole bunch of new stuff at their user conference, Assemble. 

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Dane Witbeck grew up in Georgia, and has always had an entrepreneurial spirit. He was the kid selling ripped CD's in school, along with other odds and ends. He went to Georgia Tech to study engineering, and eventually went on to join a startup called Meshify, in the iOT place - which eventually was bought by a large insurance company. Outside of tech, he is married with 4 kids. He is involved in many entrepreneurial groups around Austin, and is the proud owner of a 1969 Ford Bronco - which he enjoys getting out of town in and camping.

Post his prior startup, Dane was on the lookout for problems to solve. He observed his son's friend getting a hand-me-down iPhone, and it hit him that he was going to have to monitor this as his children got phones. As he started to dig into what was available, he realized there wasn't a good solution... and decided to build his own.

This is the creation story of Pinwheel.

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