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Seth Michael Larson: “urllib3 in 2025” available on Illia Volochii’s new blog

Link: https://sethmlarson.dev/urllib3-in-2025-available-on-illia-volochiis-blog?utm_campaign=rss

2025 was a big year for urllib3 and I want you to read about it!
In case you missed it, this year I passed the baton of
“lead maintainer” to Illia Volochii who has a new website and blog.
Quentin Prad
PyCoder’s Weekly: Issue #718: pandas 3.0, deque, tprof, and More (Jan. 20, 2026)

Link: https://pycoders.com/issues/718

#718 – JANUARY 20, 2026 View in Browser » What’s New in pandas 3.0 Learn what’s new in pandas 3.0: pd.col expressions for cleaner code, Copy-on-Write for predictable behavior, and PyArrow-backed
Python Software Foundation: Announcing Python Software Foundation Fellow Members for Q4 2025! 🎉

Link: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/01/announcing-python-software-foundation.html

 The PSF is pleased to announce its fourth batch of PSF Fellows for 2025! Let us welcome the new PSF Fellows for Q4! The following people continue to do amazing things for the Python community:Chris B
Reuven Lerner: Build YOUR data dashboard — join my next 8-week HOPPy studio cohort

Link: https://lerner.co.il/2026/01/21/build-your-data-dashboard-join-my-next-8-week-hoppy-studio-cohort/



Want to analyze data? Good news: Python is the leading language in the data world. Libraries like NumPy and Pandas make it easy to load, clean, analyze, and visualize your data.
But wait: If your co
Real Python: Quiz: How to Integrate Local LLMs With Ollama and Python

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/ollama-python/

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of How to Integrate Local LLMs With Ollama and Python.
By working through this quiz, you’ll revisit how to set up Ollama, pull models, and use chat, text g
Seth Michael Larson: mGBA → Dolphin not working? You need a GBA BIOS

Link: https://sethmlarson.dev/mgba-to-dolphin-not-working-you-need-a-gba-bios?utm_campaign=rss

The GBA emulator “mGBA” supports emulating the
Game Boy Advance Link Cable
(not to be confused with the Game Boy Advance /Game/ Link Cable)
and connecting to a running Dolphin emulator instance.
I am
Real Python: How to Integrate Local LLMs With Ollama and Python

Link: https://realpython.com/ollama-python/

Integrating local large language models (LLMs) into your Python projects using Ollama is a great strategy for improving privacy, reducing costs, and building offline-capable AI-powered apps.
Ollama is
Reuven Lerner: We’re all VCs now: The skills developers need in the AI era

Link: https://lerner.co.il/2026/01/21/were-all-vcs-now-the-skills-developers-need-in-the-ai-era/

Many years ago, a friend of mine described how software engineers solve problems:

When you’re starting off, you solve problems with code.
When you get more experienced, you solve problems with people
Django Weblog: Djangonaut Space - Session 6 Accepting Applications

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2026/jan/21/djangonaut-space-session-6-accepting-applications/

We are thrilled to announce that Djangonaut Space, a mentorship program for contributing to Django, is open for applicants for our next cohort! 🚀
Djangonaut Space is holding a sixth session! This sess
Python Software Foundation: Departing the Python Software Foundation (Staff)

Link: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/01/ee-departing-the-psf-staff.html

This week will be my last as the Director of Infrastructure at the Python Software Foundation and my last week as a staff member. Supporting the mission of this organization with my labor has been unb
Reuven Lerner: Learn to code with AI — not just write prompts

Link: https://lerner.co.il/2026/01/22/learn-to-code-with-ai-not-just-write-prompts/



The AI revolution is here. Engineers at major companies are now using AI instead of writing code directly.
But there’s a gap: Most developers know how to write code OR how to prompt AI, but not both
The Python Coding Stack: The Orchestra Conductor, The Senior Programmer, and AI • [Club]

Link: https://www.thepythoncodingstack.com/p/the-orchestra-conductor-the-senior

I spent a few years learning to play the piano when I was a child. It was always clear I would never be a concert pianist. Or a pianist of any description. This is to say that I don’t know much about
death and gravity: DynamoDB crash course: part 1 – philosophy

Link: https://death.andgravity.com/dynamodb

This is part one of a series
covering core DynamoDB concepts and patterns,
from the data model and features all the way up to single-table design.
The goal is to get you
to understand what idiomatic u
Real Python: The Real Python Podcast – Episode #281: Continuing to Improve the Learning Experience at Real Python

Link: https://realpython.com/podcasts/rpp/281/

If you haven't visited the Real Python website lately, then it's time to check out a great batch of updates on realpython.com! Dan Bader returns to the show this week to discuss improvements to the si
Talk Python to Me: #535: PyView: Real-time Python Web Apps

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/535/pyview-real-time-python-web-apps

Building on the web is like working with the perfect clay. It’s malleable and can become almost anything. But too often, frameworks try to hide the web’s best parts away from us. Today, we’re looking
Ned Batchelder: Testing: exceptions and caches

Link: https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/202601/testing_exceptions_and_caches

Two testing-related things I found recently.Unified exception testingKacper Borucki blogged about parameterizing exception
testing, and linked to pytest docs and a
StackOverflow answer with similar ap
Reuven Lerner: What’s new in Pandas 3?

Link: https://lerner.co.il/2026/01/26/whats-new-in-pandas-3/

Pandas 3 is out!As of last week, saying “pip install pandas” or “uv add pandas” gives you the latest version.What’s new? What has changed? I’ve got a whole YouTube playlist, explaining what you need
Python Software Foundation: Your Python. Your Voice. Join the Python Developers Survey 2026!

Link: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2026/01/your-python-your-voice-join-python.html

This year marks the ninth iteration of the official Python Developers Survey. We intentionally launched the survey in January (later than years prior) so that data collection and results can be comple
Real Python: Quiz: GeoPandas Basics: Maps, Projections, and Spatial Joins

Link: https://realpython.com/quizzes/geopandas/

In this quiz, you’ll test your understanding of GeoPandas.
You’ll review coordinate reference systems, GeoDataFrames, interactive maps, and spatial joins with .sjoin(). You’ll also explore how project
Kushal Das: replyfast a python module for signal

Link: https://kushaldas.in/posts/replyfast-a-python-module-for-signal.html


replyfast is a Python module to receive and send messages on Signal.
You can install it via
python3 -m pip install replyfast
or
uv pip install replyfast
I have to add Windows builds to CI though.