Modern Python Tooling in 2026: Package Managers, Type Checkers, and Speed
A complete guide to modern Python tooling in 2026: uv, Poetry, and pip; mypy, Pyright, ty, and Pyrefly; plus free-threading, t-strings, and Polars vs Pandas.
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AI and Tech Careers in 2026: Layoffs, Salary Shifts, and What's Actually Happening
9 deep dives into the 2026 tech job market: layoffs, AI displacement data, salary benchmarks from Cyprus to the US, and the productivity paradox. Full guide.
Making LLMs Fast and Small: A Guide to Inference Optimization Research in 2026
Five approaches to making LLMs faster and cheaper — compression, diffusion decoding, architecture, KV cache, and sparse attention — explained with real numbers.
AI Coding Tools in 2026: The Complete Guide to What Works, What Doesn't, and What's Coming
Everything we've covered on AI coding tools — comparisons, pricing, privacy, agents, and the security risks nobody expected. Updated April 2026.
How to Build an AI Agent in Go (From Scratch, No Framework)
Build an AI agent in Go from scratch: a tool-calling loop against the Anthropic API in ~120 lines, no frameworks, with real code and the gotchas I hit.
Django-Bolt Review: Rust-Powered Django, FastAPI Speed
Django-Bolt puts Actix and Rust under Django to hit 188K RPS. I dug through the source and benchmarks — where it beats FastAPI, and where the speed evaporates.
Python 3.15: Lazy Imports, frozendict, and Faster Startup
Python 3.15 lands lazy imports, a frozendict builtin, unpacking in comprehensions, and the Tachyon sampling profiler. Here's what changed and what to test.
FastAPI vs Litestar vs Django Ninja: 2026 Verdict
FastAPI vs Litestar vs Django Ninja in 2026: real code, serialization speed, dependency injection, and a clear pick for every kind of Python API project.
Is a Computer Science Degree Worth It in 2026?
Is a computer science degree worth it in 2026? CS grad unemployment hit 6.1%, yet the answer flips depending on whether you study in the US or the EU.
Claude Sonnet 5 Review: A Week With Anthropic's New Default
Claude Sonnet 5 review after a week: it nearly matches Opus 4.8 on coding, beats it on Terminal-Bench, and runs at just $2/$10 — but the tokenizer bites.