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OpenAI have dropped their new Agents Platform. Swyx and Alessio chat with Nikunj Handa and Romain Huet of OpenAI to discuss the release.

Let's be real, nobody wakes up in the morning thinking, "You know what I need more of in my life? Python lambda functions." But here we are. Buckle up, because this is the lambda tutorial you didn't ask for—but secretly need.

I listened to Senra's great episode on Todd Graves of Raising Cane's fame this morning. Here are my snips from the episode.

The io.BytesIO class in Python is an in-memory stream for binary data. It provides a file-like interface that lets you read and write bytes just like you would with a file, but all the data is kept in memory rather than on disk. This can be extremely useful when …

Pelican provides a syntax for linking to another post by its filename.

I’ve long used rsync for high fidelity, detailed copies of large swathes of files in Linux. For example:

I bought an 8TB external SSD to use as a live boot Linux device. I knew that this issue was due to the way that bits are aggregated into terabytes, but — thanks to our mate ChatGPT — here’s a nice explanation of why my 8TB SSD only shows 7,452 …

Using the Emmet capabilities in VSCode (see previous TIL) you can highlight a section of HTML code and quickly wrap it with other HTML using Emmet shortcuts.

This is, to a Python project / module, what if __name__ == '__main__ is to an individual Python file.

First, create a new project using poetry