Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

Sam Partee started out his love for tech/engineering by working on cars. After many y ears of working on cars, and even starting his own car stereo installation business, he decided that cards were finite and moved onto computers. He fell in love with the space, and the rest is history, filled with super computers, AI, distributed training, Redis and the lot. Outside of tech, he loves to take long hikes with his snowy husky.

Sam and his team built a prior solution, an agent to solve bugs for you. They ran into a litany of problems, but eventually figured out that there was a dire need for an authorization for the activities that agents wanted to do on your behalf. Fast forward, and they are working with Anthropic to define these auth protocols.

This is the creation story of Arcade.

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Links

• https://www.arcade.dev/
• https://www.linkedin.com/in/sampartee/

• * PyPI+*
• * uv-ship - a CLI-tool for shipping with uv*
• * How fast is 3.14?*
• * air - a new web framework built with FastAPI, Starlette, and Pydantic.*
• Extras
• Joke

About the show

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Michael #1: PyPI+

• Very nice search and exploration tool for PyPI
• Minor but annoying bug: content-types ≠ content_types on PyPI+ but they are in Python itself. Minimum Python version seems to be interpreted as max Python version.
• See dependency graphs and more
• Examples
  • content-types
  • jinja-partials
  • fastapi-chameleon

Brian #2: uv-ship - a CLI-tool for shipping with uv

• “uv-ship is a lightweight companion to uv that removes the risky parts of cutting a release. It verifies the repo state, bumps your project metadata and optionally refreshes the changelog. It then commits, tags & pushes the result, while giving you the chance to review every step.”

Michael #3: How fast is 3.14?

• by Miguel Grinberg
• A big focus on threaded vs. non-threaded Python
• Some times its faster, other times, it’s slower

Brian #4: air - a new web framework built with FastAPI, Starlette, and Pydantic.

• An very new project in Alpha stage by Daniel & Audrey Felderoy, the “Two Scoops of Django” people.
• Air Tags are an interesting thing.
• Also Why? is amazing
  • “Don't use AIR”
  • “Every release could break your code! If you have to ask why you should use it, it's probably not for you.”
  • “If you want to use Air, you can. But we don't recommend it.”
  • “It'll likely infect you, your family, and your codebase with an evil web framework mind virus, , …”

Extras

Brian:

• Python 3.15a1 is available
  • uv python install 3.15 already works
• Python lazy imports you can use today - one of two blog posts I threatened to write recently
• Testing against Python 3.14 - the other one
• Free Threading has some trove classifiers

Michael:

• Blog post about the book: Talk Python in Production book is out! In particular, the extras are interesting.
• AI Usage TUI
• Show me your ls
• Helium Browser is interesting. But also has Python as a big role.
  • GitHub says Languages
    • Python 97.4% 👀
    • Shell 1.9%
    • Other 0.7%
• Smallest Python release? 3.13.9

Joke: An unforgivable crime

Rick Heitzmann is the founder and managing director of FirstMark Capital. Heitzmann joins Big Technology Podcast to discuss whether AI startups can compete against the ChatGPTs of the world, or whether the big AI bots have ingested all the opportunity. Tune in to hear Heitzmann break down the economics of AI investing today and whether the application layer is investable. We'll also break down the big funding deals in AI today, looking at the potential for the frenzy to pay off. Tune in for a sensible discussion of the potential future of AI innovation.

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Raja Tabet lives in Austin, TX, but grew up overseas in Lebanon. When he migrated to the states for his education, he did not speak English, and had to go through the process of learning the language to fully integrate. He studied computer science for undergrad, and computer engineering for graduate school. And eventually, went to work for companies like IBM, Freescale, and others, prior to landing in his current role. Outside of tech, he has been married for 35 years, and has 3 kids. He and his wife are empty nesters, so they love to travel, hike and explore new areas.

In 2019, Raja joined Synopsys, specifically in their custom design and manufacturing group. A few years ago, and alongside the advent of AI, he changed roles and began building an AI powered solution for electronic design automation, or EDA.

This is Raja's creation story at Synopsys.

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• https://www.synopsys.com/
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Ryan welcomes Dhruv Batra, co-founder and chief scientist at Yutori, to explore the future of AI agents, how AI usage is changing the way people interact with advertisements and the web as a whole, and the challenges that proactive AI agents may face when being integrated into workflows and personal internet use. 

Episode notes:

Yutori is building AI agents that can reliably handle everyday digital tasks on your behalf on the web.

Connect with Dhruv via his website. 

Congrats to the winner of today’s Populist badge, user Don Kirkby, who earned it with their answer to Find all references to an object in python.

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Ranjan Roy from Margins is back for our weekly discussion of the latest tech news. We cover: 1) Why the AI industry needs to get to AGI to make the investments pay off 2) The diverging tracks between AI model improvement and investing in scaling 3) Why the LLM craze may delay the path to AGI 4) So what is all this compute for? 5) OpenAI's $1 trillion infrastructure investment 6) The increasing prevalence of debt in AI funding 7) Could an AI collapse hit the global economy? 8) OpenAI and AMD's wacky deal 9) Oracle's margins 10) OpenAI's Sora 'surprise' 11) Will John Ternus be Apple's next CEO?

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Peter O’Donohue, CTO at Tyto Athene, and Gaurav “GP” Pal, Principal at Stack Armor join the show to unpack the future of federal compliance, security, and cloud modernization. From automating risk management frameworks to balancing mission urgency with cybersecurity, the discussion dives into how government and industry can partner to drive efficiency, accountability, and continuous monitoring. Finally we explore insights on the evolution of FedRAMP, secure-by-design practices, and the role of AI and quantum in shaping the next five years of compliance.

Ryan welcomes back Evan You, the creator of Vite and Vue.js, to discuss the evolution of build tools in web development, the unique features of Vite from its plugins to its hot module capabilities, and the future of Vite, including its integration with Rust. Plus, they touch on Vite’s new documentary and the power of open-source communities.

Episode notes:

Vite is a frontend build tool powering the next generation of web applications. 

Check out all of the work Evan is doing at his company VoidZero. 

For more on the origins of Vite, watch the newly-released Cult.repo’s documentary. 

If you’d rather hear Evan talk about Vue.js, listen to the podcast we published with him earlier this summer. 

Today’s shoutout goes to user dbush for winning a Populist badge on their answer to How does printing a union itself and not its member work in C?.

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