David Brochart

@maartenbreddels Yeah, JavaScript and Python are not too different.

@davidbrochart Then ask it to rewrite in rust ;)

I'm vibe coding a port of Yjs to Python in: github.com/davidbrochart/… Quite impressed by @mistralvibe so far.

@willmcgugan You were a visionary!

I was doing TUIs before they were cool #justsaying

@willmcgugan AnyIO has async versions of Path operations, that are run in a thread. It also supports subinterpreters: anyio.readthedocs.io/en/stable/subi…

Further refinements to the fuzzy path searching. I was using sub interpreters to do the matching across cores. Worked great, but it took ~300ms to start all those Python instances. It happens one time, but the delay was noticeable The fix was to ensure the code in the interpreter didn't pull in more imports that necessary. With that in place it is under 50ms. I've also fixed an issue with the directory scanning, where it was going multiple parallel scans. 🤦‍♂️ Now the initial directory scan is faster. Fixed a bunch of Path operations. Things like Path.resolve() touch the filesystem and will block asyncio for a brief period, potentially cause a tiny stutter. Always do those in asyncio.to_thread. Finally, I added truncation of the paths with a midline horizontal ellipsis (⋯) at the left if there is truncation. This makes much more sense for paths, where the final component should have priority. I *could* wrap the paths, but I figured that might look odd. WDYT? New Toad release coming tomorrow.

Just published textual-editor to PyPI. It's a textual widget that is similar to TextArea but that actually runs a real editor and connects it to an embedded terminal emulator, so that you get all the power of neovim (or whatever your preferred editor is). github.com/davidbrochart/…

Jupyverse now supports legacy Jupyter server extensions. It does that by proxying the server, so no rewrite of the original extensions is needed. You can try jupyterlab-git and jupyterlab-lsp with: pip install jupyverse[jupyterlab,auth,jupyterlab-git,jupyterlab-lsp]

@samuelcolvin @mitsuhiko BTW, are you competing with openclaw? 😂

@samuelcolvin @mitsuhiko Very interesting, I can see a use-case with Jupyter.

Fuck it, a bit early but here goes: Monty: a new python implementation, from scratch, in rust, for LLMs to run code without host access. Startup time measured in single digit microseconds, not seconds. @mitsuhiko here's another sandbox/not-sandbox to be snarky about 😜 Thanks @threepointone @dsp_ (inadvertently) for the idea. github.com/pydantic/monty

RTFM is turning into ATFA (ask the fucking AI)

Nice mention of @willmcgugan in @ThePrimeagen's video about the tech behind Claude Code (and why its TUI should be simpler): youtube.com/watch?v=LvW1HT…

@fvoron @MistralAI @Spotify @ProtonMail GitHub -> Codeberg?

My resolution of 2026: reduce reliance on US services – a hard task, sadly! ✅ Google Drive/Photos ➡️ Personal NAS ✅ OpenAI/Claude ➡️ @MistralAI ✅ @Spotify ✅ Netflix 🚮 🔄 Gmail ➡️ @ProtonMail 🤔 macOS ➡️ Linux Let’s go 🇪🇺

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@willmcgugan Maybe use AI to describe the diff like a human 😂 ?

Been deep diving in to diffing lately in Toad. Had to unlearn a bunch of assumptions regarding diffs, which is not something I had ever given much thought before. There doesn't seem to be a perfect diff algorithm. At least not one for presenting to the user. And diffs just do not produce changes as if the user had edited them. Which makes sense given that from the POV of the algorithm, ever character is the same. The algorithm doesn't understand syntax or how humans edit. You would have to be a psychopath to insist upon preserving individual characters when editing a string. But that's what diffs show. 🤷‍♂️

Jupyter has integrated AI in the notebook's environment. I think @willmcgugan's Toad is doing the other way around: integrating the notebook in the AI environment.

I recorded a short video on Toad's shell. If we are going to use AI in the terminal, it shouldn't replace the kind of terminal workflows devs have been using for years. We can keep the stuff that worked from the past. While benefiting from AI. Give Toad a try! 🐸 github.com/batrachianai/t…

@willmcgugan @warpdotdev Interesting, now throw Python in the mix by directly running code blocks (instead of copy/pasting into a new interpreter) and you're getting closer to Jupyter.

A little polish on Toad's shell. How long before the other CLIs catch on? This is how agent CLIs should work. One upped by some cranky Scottish dude. Big tech? Big feck more like. Shell and AI interleaved like best bros. Sit down @warpdotdev Nobody was talking to you. github.com/batrachianai/t… No, I can never spell Fibonacci without looking it up. And probably never will.

@willmcgugan @dhh It seems that having their own CLI is actually a good thing for companies because it allows to differentiate them, like for Mistral's Vibe who could have chosen to use Toad.

@dhh How about one tool with all the agents? github.com/batrachianai/t…

I think it's great that all the model providers are coming out with their own CLIs, but let's be honest, no dev is going to want to have five different CLIs installed. They're going to want to learn and use one tool with all the models. For me, that tool is OpenCode.

@willmcgugan Back to the Amstrad/Atari/Commodore era :)

A keyboard with a builtin computer? mashable.com/article/ces-20…

@willmcgugan too bad I don't get the supercopter music 🥲

More tweaking with Toad and Claude. Hopefully fixed sound on Windows. 🤞 Count down to New Years 2026. Pythonistas, run this in your terminal: uvx ny2026 #Python #AI #Toad