Armin Ronacher: Your MCP Doesn’t Need 30 Tools: It Needs Code

Link: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/8/18/code-mcps/

I wrote a while back about why code performs better than
MCP for some tasks. In particular, I pointed out that if
you have command line tools available, agentic coding tools seem very happy to
use tho

Python Software Foundation: The 2024 Python Developer Survey Results are here!

Link: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/08/the-2024-python-developer-survey.html

We are excited to share the results of the eighth official annual Python Developers Survey. This survey is done yearly as a collaborative effort between the Python Software Foundation and JetBrains. C

PyCharm: The State of Python 2025

Link: https://blog.jetbrains.com/pycharm/2025/08/the-state-of-python-2025/

Real Python: Single and Double Underscores in Python Names

Link: https://realpython.com/python-double-underscore/

Python has a few naming conventions that are based on using either a single or double underscore character (_). These conventions allow you to differentiate between public and non-public names in APIs

Python Bytes: #445 Auto-activate Python virtual environments for any project

Link: https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/445/auto-activate-python-virtual-environments-for-any-project

<strong>Topics covered in this episode:</strong><br>

<ul>
<li><strong><a href="https://astral.sh/blog/introducing-pyx?featured_on=pythonbytes">pyx - <em>optimized backend for uv</em></a></strong></l