Tim Hopper
@tdhopper
http://pydevtools.com 👨🏻💻 machine learning engineer 🐦 math and programming jokes
Give a man a fish and you feed him for a day. Write a program to fish for him and you maintain it for a lifetime.
Tonight's hack: deploy a uv-based project to Cloudflare Containers
Look, I get going to meetings with virtual backgrounds. Not everyone has a space for day-to-day discussions. But you should NEVER speak at an online event with a virtual background. It just looks... so bad. It's like serving martinis in a styrofoam cup.
✍️ snowmeth - an AI Novel-Writing Assistant I am trying to get into vibe coding and AI agents, so the last few days Claude Code and I have been hacking on snowmeth, an AI that you can guide through the "Snowflake Method" for writing a novel
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
git-delta give you syntax highlighting in your git diffs github.com/dandavison/del…
One thing this has shown me is a lot of uv users are running old versions. It’s worth upgrading!
There are a bunch of ways to install uv, which is great but can also be confusing when trying to upgrade. Now you can run uvx uvhow to see how your version was installed and how to upgrade
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Editors come and go. Git is forever.
When VS Code already has the Source Control feature, why do developers still use Git commands in the terminal for pushing, committing, or cloning repositories? 👀
Big day for Python tooling enjoyers: @modal_labs finally has first-class uv support! Use: • `uv_sync` to sync your Modal image with your local project • `uv_pip_install` to install packages lightning fast⚡️
I miss whatever age I was when I was able to sleep through the whole night without waking up.
Twitter was launched 19 years ago. What is your favorite tweet ever?
Twitter was launched 19 years ago. What is your favorite tweet ever?