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Cutting the Gordian Hairball

A meditation on the close of a veritable odyssey, and how Intertwingler—the application server I'm creating—is actually a frontal assault on link rot.

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Packaging Summit at PyCon US 2026

The Packaging Summit at PyCon US 2026 is now live: You can find the attendance request form, topic proposal form, and key dates there. A few quick details: Friday, May 15, 2026 1:45 PM to 5:45 PM Room 201A, Long Be…

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Introducing Incremental

I’m pleased to announce the release of Incremental (well commented mli here), a powerful library for building self-adjusting computations, i.e., computations...

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Lisp: Common Lisp, Racket, Clojure, Emacs Lisp - Hyperpolyglot

grammar and execution | variables and expressions | arithmetic and logic | strings | regular expressions | dates and time | lists | fixed-length arrays | dictionaries | user-defined types | functions | execution control | exceptions | streams | emacs...

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Async I/O in Zig 0.16, today

Zig 0.16 shipped last month with std.Io, a cross-platform interface for I/O and concurrency. This is a big step for the ecosystem. Libraries can now be written against a standard I/O abstraction, independent of the runtime, and application developers can...