Python Bytes
by Michael Kennedy and Calvin Hendryx-Parker
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#504 Who turned the GIL back on?
#504 Who turned the GIL back on?
About this podcast
Python Bytes is a weekly podcast hosted by Michael Kennedy and Calvin Hendryx-Parker. The show is a short discussion on the headlines and noteworthy news in the Python, developer, and data science space.
Episodes
The newest 50 of 504 episodes
- #504 Who turned the GIL back on? · 30 min · Episode 504Topics include PyPI's redesigned project pages, gilguard catches the import that turns the GIL back on, pip 26.3:, and All developer tools.
- #503 It’s not 85% HTML · 30 min · Episode 503Topics include Your GitHub language bar is lying (how to fix it), Python Typing Survey 2026: developers mix type checkers, and AI is writing the hints, Flask Vibe - Build Apps…
- #502 Introducing chameleon-rs · 34 min · Episode 502Topics include , chameleon-rs, Bringing uv and ty together, and Stlite runs Streamlit apps entirely in the browser.
- #501 A Nod to Sir-Mix-Alot · 38 min · Episode 501Topics include Nod: pause your Python program and open a notebook at any line, Polars 2.0 ships: streaming engine by default, spill-to-disk, and a row-order gotcha…
- #499 So many questions?? · 33 min · Episode 499Topics include PEP 824 brings ?? and ??= to Python for None handling, Python 3.15 Python 3.10, asyncio.shield, and Pyxel: the retro game engine for Python.
- #498 A Tiny Episode · 33 min · Episode 498Topics include MemTensor / MemoryOS PyPI package hijacked via a malicious build backend, TinyMongo, , and One innocent dict read makes attribute access permanently slower.
- #497 Faster than light profiling · 27 min · Episode 497Topics include Tachyon: A sampling profiler ships in Python 3.15's stdlib, Python Workers are now generally available on Cloudflare, Flet 1.0 - build cross-platform apps in…
- #496 A lake house in Seattle · 33 min · Episode 496Topics include Pandas Should Go Extinct, Pydantic-pint puts real-world units in your Pydantic models, How Libraries Run Rust Inside Python (With PyO3), and AWS acquires DuckLabs.
- #495 Banned · 28 min · Episode 495Topics include EuroPython 2026 videos are online, The State of Django 2026: Boring is so back, htmx 4.0.0 has been released, and Functionally Zen.
- #494 Python Wrapture · 29 min · Episode 494Topics include OpenAI's Python SDK has migrated to HTTPX2, TMOG - Native Task Manager for macOS, Windows, and Linux, wrapture - one wrapper for mocking, tracing, and…
- #493 CalVer and LTS · 41 min · Episode 493Topics include Web UIs for your reverse proxy, , , and Django’s annual releases make every version an LTS.
- #492 Codeberg Puts Head in Sand · 39 min · Episode 492Topics include , Codeberg’s AI-code ban tests its role as a GitHub alternative, , , , and.
- #491 Feeling Judged · 42 min · Episode 491Topics include , Post-quantum crypto lands in Python, MCP goes stateless — and FastMCP gets renamed, and inshellisense - IDE style command line auto complete.
- #490 It’s a vibe coding party · 37 min · Episode 490Topics include Some more things about Django I've been enjoying, Who cleans up after the vibe-coding party, AgentsView, and.
- #489 Or JSON? · 31 min · Episode 489Topics include django-orjson, Best Django Redis configuration for speed and size, puts the foot down, and Django Steering Council backs the Triptych Project.
- #488 tau - it's 2pi and it writes code · 32 min · Episode 488Topics include , JupyterLab 4.6 and Notebook 7.6 are out!, Tau, and Django Tasks and Django 6.1.
- #487 Minimum requirements · 28 min · Episode 487Topics include dust, Hermes Agent, and llm-coding-agent 0.1a0.
- #486 underscore-underscore-ghost-emoji · 30 min · Episode 486Topics include Free-threaded Python: past, present, and future, django-admin-site-search, Qwen 3.6 27B is the sweet spot for local development, and.
- #485 Creating memories · 38 min · Episode 485Topics include Backup Docker volumes locally or to any S3, Pyodide 314.0 Release, nb-cli, and Hindsight.
- #484 All our tools · 50 min · Episode 484Topics include pi superpowers, Warp.dev OhMyZSH, Blink mosh tmux, Claude code, MacWhisper Handy, and Tailscale.
- #483 Thanks Brian · 29 min · Episode 483Topics include , HTTP GET requests with the Python standard library, , and alembic-git-revisions.
- #482 Mr. Beast's episode · 24 min · Episode 482Topics include CVE-2026-48710: A Maintainer's Perspective, daily-stars-explorer, Markdown to pdf with pandoc and typst, and postman2pytest.
- #481 Ways to die · 33 min · Episode 481Topics include Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die, How to create a pylock.toml lockfile, , and Choosing a Python Logging Library in 2026.
- #480 Proud Parents · 33 min · Episode 480Topics include Using Django Tasks in production, , PyPI packages are increasing rapidly, and httpx2.
- #479 Talking About Types · 36 min · Episode 479Topics include httpxyz one month in, Learn concurrency - a deep dive into multithreading with Python, pip 26.1 - lockfiles and dependency cooldowns, and Python 3.15 `sentinal`…
- #478 Iodine tablets and potable water · 40 min · Episode 478Topics include profiling-explorer, Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15, , and django freeze.
- #477 Lazy, Frozen, and 31% Lighter · 46 min · Episode 477Topics include Django Modern Rest, , Cutting Python Web App Memory Over 31%, and tryke - A Rust-based Ptyhon test runner with a Jest-style API.
- #476 Common themes · 32 min · Episode 476Topics include Migrating from mypy to ty: Lessons from FastAPI, Oxyde ORM, Typeshedded CPython docs, and Raw+DC Database Pattern: A Retrospective.
- #475 Haunted warehouses · 41 min · Episode 475Topics include Lock the Ghost, Fence for Sandboxing, MALUS: Liberate Open Source, and Harden your GitHub Actions Workflows with zizmor, dependency pinning, and dependency…
- #474 Astral to join OpenAI · 46 min · Episode 474Topics include Starlette 1.0.0, Astral to join OpenAI, , and Fire and forget (or never) with Python’s asyncio.
- #473 A clean room rewrite? · 46 min · Episode 473Topics include , refined-github, , and Agentic Engineering Patterns.
- #472 Monorepos · 29 min · Episode 472Topics include Setting up a Python monorepo with uv workspaces, cattrs, Learning to program in the AI age, and VS Code extension.
- #471 The ORM pattern of 2026? · 39 min · Episode 471Topics include Raw+DC: The ORM pattern of 2026, pytest-check releases, Dataclass Wizard, and SQLiteo.
- #470 A Jolting Episode · 25 min · Episode 470Topics include Better Python tests with inline-snapshot, jolt Battery intelligence for your laptop, Markdown code formatting with ruff, and act - run your GitHub actions locally.
- #469 Commands, out of the terminal · 34 min · Episode 469Topics include Command Book App, uvx.sh: Install Python tools without uv or Python, Ending 15 years of subprocess polling, and.
- #468 A bolt of Django · 31 min · Episode 468Topics include django-bolt: Faster than FastAPI, but with Django ORM, Django Admin, and Django packages, pyleak, , and Datastar.
- #467 Toads in my AI · 32 min · Episode 467Topics include GreyNoise IP Check, tprof: a targeting profiler, and TOAD is out.
- #466 PSF Lands $1.5 million · 41 min · Episode 466Topics include , PSF Lands a $1.5 million sponsorship from Anthropic, How uv got so fast, and PyView Web Framework.
- #465 Stack Overflow is Cooked · 36 min · Episode 465Topics include port-killer, How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster, and.
- #464 Malicious Package? No Build For You! · 30 min · Episode 464Topics include ty: An extremely fast Python type checker and LSP, Python Supply Chain Security Made Easy, typing_extensions, and MI6 chief: We'll be as fluent in Python as we are…
- #463 2025 is @wrapped · 43 min · Episode 463Topics include Has the cost of building software just dropped 90%?, , How FOSS Won and Why It Matters, and.
- #462 LinkedIn Cringe · 36 min · Episode 462Topics include , docs, PyAtlas: interactive map of the top 10,000 Python packages on PyPI., and Buckaroo.
- #461 This episdoe has a typo · 29 min · Episode 461Topics include PEP 798: Unpacking in Comprehensions, Pandas 3.0.0rc0, typos, and.
- #460 Overlooked Python Typing · 24 min · Episode 460Topics include Advent of Code, Django 6 is coming, Advanced, Overlooked Python Typing, and codespell.
- #459 Inverted dependency trees · 33 min · Episode 459Topics include PEP 814 – Add frozendict built-in type, Material for MkDocs Zensical, Tach, and.
- #458 I will install Linux on your computer · 23 min · Episode 458Topics include , aiosqlitepool, deptry, and browsr.
- #457 Tapping into HTTP · 28 min · Episode 457Topics include httptap, 10 Smart Performance Hacks For Faster Python Code, FastRTC, and Explore Python dependencies with `pipdeptree` and `uv pip tree`
- #456 You're so wrong · 26 min · Episode 456Topics include The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program, A Binary Serializer for Pydantic Models, T-strings: Python's Fifth String Formatting…
- #455 Gilded Python and Beyond · 39 min · Episode 455Topics include Cyclopts: A CLI library, The future of Python web services looks GIL-free, Free-threaded GC, and Polite lazy imports for Python package maintainers.
