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Seth Michael Larson: Nintendo Switch 2 physical game price differences

Link: https://sethmlarson.dev/nintendo-switch-2-physical-game-price-differences?utm_campaign=rss

Last week I was able to purchase a Nintendo Switch 2. The console was due to arrive on Monday, so I also picked up a physical copy of Mario Kart World for $80 USD (compared to $70 USD for digital).
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Techiediaries - Django: Python Roadmap with Free Courses/Certifcates to High-Paying Jobs

Link: https://www.techiediaries.com/python-high-paying-certifs/

This article serves as a focused investment of your time. We’ll walk you through five free, targeted certifications, each crafted to prepare you for a specific role that ranks among the highest-paying
Python Software Foundation: PSF Board Election Nominations Opening July 29th

Link: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/07/psf-board-nominations-opening-july-29th.html

This year’s PSF Board Election nomination period opens next week on Tuesday, July 29th, 2:00 pm UTC and closes on Tuesday, August 12th, 2:00 pm UTC. Who runs for the board? People who care about the P
The Python Show: Writing Creating TUI Applications with Textual and Python

Link: https://www.pythonshow.com/p/writing-creating-tui-applications

In this episode, Mike Driscoll talks about his latest book, Creating TUI Applications with Textual and Python.Learn about how and why the book came about, what were some pain points in writing the boo
Ned Batchelder: Coverage 7.10.0: patch

Link: https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202507/coverage_7100_patch.html

Years ago I greeted a friend returning from vacation and asked how it had
been. She answered, “It was good, I got a lot done!” I understand that feeling.
I just had a long vacation myself, and used th
Django Weblog: DjangoCon Africa 2025 Heads to Arusha 🇹🇿

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2025/jul/25/djangocon-africa-2025-heads-to-arusha/

We’re excited to share that DjangoCon Africa is returning this year — and this time we’re heading to Arusha, Tanzania from August 11–15, 2025! 🎉

Arusha city view with Mount Meru in the background, cr
Real Python: The Real Python Podcast – Episode #258: Supporting the Python Package Index

Link: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/258/

What goes into supporting more than 650,000 projects and nearly a million users of the Python Package Index? This week on the show, we speak with Maria Ashna about her first year as the inaugural PyPI
Armin Ronacher: From Async/Await to Virtual Threads

Link: https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2025/7/26/virtual-threads/

Last November I wrote a post about how the programming interface of threads
beats the one of async/await. In May,
Mark Shannon brought up the idea of virtual threads for
Python
on Python’s discussion
Daniel Roy Greenfeld: TIL: How to type args and kwargs

Link: https://daniel.feldroy.com/posts/til-2025-07-how-to-type-args-and-kwargs

An oddity of my work for a while has been that I haven't used *args and **kwargs with type annotations. Recently, however I've been working on code that leans on those things a lot. And I've been igno
Luke Plant: Why I’m not letting the juniors use GenAI for coding

Link: https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/why-im-not-letting-the-juniors-use-genai-for-coding/

In my current project, I am training some junior developers — some of them pretty much brand new developers — and one of the first rules I gave them was “ensure that Copilot (or any other AI assistant
Reuven Lerner: How to conference

Link: https://lerner.co.il/2025/07/27/how-to-conference/

I love conferences. I enjoy everything about them — the nonstop stream of learning, the chance to see old friends and meet new ones, and just generally to be around a lot of interesting, smart, and fu
John Cook: Monero’s elliptic curve

Link: https://www.johndcook.com/blog/2025/07/27/moneros-elliptic-curve/


Digital signatures often use elliptic curves. For example, Bitcoin and Ethereum use the elliptic curve secp256k1 [1]. This post will discuss the elliptic curve Ed25519 [2] using in Monero and in many
Daniel Roy Greenfeld: Unpack for keyword arguments

Link: https://daniel.feldroy.com/posts/2025-07-unpack-for-keyword-arguments

Previously I wrote a TIL on how to better type annotate callables with *args and **kwargs - in essence you ignore the container and worry just about the content of the container. This makes sense, as
Anwesha Das: Joy of automation

Link: http://anweshadas.in/joy-of-automation/

After 145+ commits spread over multiple PRs, 450+ conversations and feedback, and accountable communication via several different communication mediums spanning over 2 years, the Ansible Release Manag
Real Python: Quiz: Bitwise Operators in Python

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/bitwise-operators/

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of the Bitwise Operators in Python.
By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to use Python’s bitwise AND (&), OR (|), XOR (^), NOT (~), left and ri
Real Python: Bitwise Operators in Python

Link: https://realpython.com/python-bitwise-operators/

Computers store all kinds of information as a stream of binary digits called bits. Whether you’re working with text, images, or videos, they all boil down to ones and zeros. Python’s bitwise operators
Ari Lamstein: Video: A Python App for Analyzing Immigration Enforcement Data

Link: https://arilamstein.com/blog/2025/07/28/video-a-python-app-for-analyzing-immigration-enforcement-data/

Last week I wrote a blog post about my latest open source project: an app that analyzes US Immigration Enforcement Data. I just released a video that walks through the app:

This video is in response
Ned Batchelder: Coverage.py regex pragmas

Link: https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202507/coveragepy_regex_pragmas.html

Coverage.py lets you indicate code to exclude from
measurement by adding comments to your Python files. But coverage implements
them differently than other similar tools. Rather than having fixed synt