2025-05-01

👾 IT

• It’s happening, pylock.toml is supported by pip and uv and are we experiencing a fight for type checkers? (link)
• Alex showcases how efficiently export and import sqlite #database - awesome hack! (link)
  • $ sqlite3 explorer.db .dump | gzip -c > explorer.db.txt.gz
• Ibrahim has enough of bots and fights them with a clever zip bomb (link)

🔬Science

• Satirical life journey of a PhD student (link). I wonder how many PhDs can relate to this story 🤔

🔗 Links

• Thanks to metagenomics, doctors cured Bristol’s eyesight infection by targeted antibiotics treatment. This showcases we need access to precision medicine (link)
• FDA approves genetically modified pigs using CRISPR which can be safely eaten. The genetic modification boosts immune system of pigs agains 99% of known PRRS viruses. Would you still eat them knowing this? (link)

🔧 Tools

• With dataframely you can specify a validation schema for your polars (link)