Patrick DeVivo
@patrickdevivo
software engineer in NYC. built http://mergestat.com, working on https://www.augmentable.dev/
PSA if you haven't used python in the past 5 years it's a completely new language now - uv solved the package management problems entirely - mypy type checks have become actually useful - cpython is now much faster - polars + fastapi + ruff replaced pandas + flask + black
I'm rediscovering python after a few years, and between @astral_sh and @modal_labs, I'm completely blown away by how fun it is. no more env/dep insanity, and practically instant remote code execution 🎉
Queues. The most requested feature since I started Vercel 🥹 1️⃣ Send 𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚒𝚝 𝚜𝚎𝚗𝚍("𝚝𝚘𝚙𝚒𝚌", { 𝚖𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚐𝚎: "🔥" }); 2️⃣ Receive 𝚊𝚠𝚊𝚒𝚝 𝚛𝚎𝚌𝚎𝚒𝚟𝚎("𝚝𝚘𝚙𝚒𝚌", "𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚞𝚖𝚎𝚛", 𝚖 => { 𝚌𝚘𝚗𝚜𝚘𝚕𝚎.𝚕𝚘𝚐(𝚖.𝚖𝚎𝚜𝚜𝚊𝚐𝚎); // 𝙻𝚘𝚐𝚜 "🔥" });…
Vercel Queues offload work to the background, allowing slow or long-running jobs to guarantee completion. Now available in Limited Beta. vercel.com/changelog/verc…