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If you have a WordPress blog and want to retrospectively update your media library with image descriptions ... consider my little python script https://repos.mxhdr.net/maxheadroom/wp-image-alt-generator
This will generate images descriptions using various LLM providers …

wp-image-alt-generator
A Python script to add image descriptions to WordPress images in the gallery and also update existing blog posts with these descriptions. Provides multiple LLM backends.

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How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster.
https://iscinumpy.dev/post/packaging-faster/
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How we made Python's packaging library 3x faster
Along with a pip (and now packaging) maintainer, Damian Shaw, I have been working on making packaging, the library behind almost all packaging related tools, faster at reading versions and specifiers, something tools like pip have to do thousands of times during resolution. Using Python 3.15’s new statistical profiler and metadata from every package ever uploaded to PyPI, I measured and improved core Packaging constructs while keeping the code readable and simple. Reading in Versions can be u…

He was so clueless and so computer-oriented that he thought pyongyang was some sort of weird python library.

I'm porting a bunch of code that delves heavily into index math from Python to Lua for my incremental/reversible RNG library. In Lua, indices start at 1. I have never in my life been more glad to have a robust suite of unit tests, because the number of off-by-one errors I'm introducing is astronomical.
#coding

Can someone smarter than me explain why Python doesn’t offer native JSON serialization for their decimal library? I get that JSON is limited in its support for various numeric types, but we’ve all moved on and lived with it for a decade or so. 🤬

Just finished up final polish on first release of my anarchy RNG library in Lua! Have you ever wanted an incremental or reversible shuffle? I've got one for you :)
Lua REAME page w/ links: #coding #rng #random