Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Write a program to fish for him and you maintain it for a lifetime.

We used to fine tune our neurons on stack overflow for each specific problem we faced.

RT @dinosaurs1969: forgetting ur headphones at home is the modern equivalent of leaving ur sword behind in the middle ages.

RT @charliermarsh: Tonight's hack: deploy a uv-based project to Cloudflare Containers

RT @alexlindsay: Look, I get going to meetings with virtual backgrounds. Not everyone has a space for day-to-day discussions. But you shou….

RT @joelgrus: ✍️ snowmeth - an AI Novel-Writing Assistant. I am trying to get into vibe coding and AI agents, so the last few days Claude C….

Standardization (via PEPs) made it possible. Now the ecosystem can evolve without being constrained by legacy tools.

In 2017, PEP 517 changed everything. It introduced a standard interface for build systems. That broke the lock-in—and opened the door to tools like:. - flit (simple builds).- hatch (modern, configurable).- PDM (npm-style workflows).- and now, uv (fast and comprehensive).

As Python exploded in scientific computing, web dev, data science, and enterprise use, packaging demands got… messy. Sci: Reproducible builds w/ C extensions.Web: Reliable dependency locking.Enterprise: Private repos, security.

Python, created in 1991, didn’t even have a package manager until 2000 (distutils in Python 1.6). It was limited, so in 2004, the community built setuptools. Despite not being in the stdlib, it became the de facto packaging tool for a decade.

Why are there so many Python packaging tools anyway (setuptools, flit, hatch, pip, uv. )?.

RT @PaulSkallas: Doubled in 5 years

RT @notnotstorm: PSA if you haven't used python in the past 5 years it's a completely new language now. - uv solved the package management….

git-delta give you syntax highlighting in your git diffs .

Thanks I hate it

One thing this has shown me is a lot of uv users are running old versions. It’s worth upgrading!.

Here's the repo

There are a bunch of ways to install uv, which is great but can also be confusing when trying to upgrade. Now you can run. uvx uvhow. to see how your version was installed and how to upgrade

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