How to use pykinect2 on Python 3.8 or later

API, and surrounding ecosystem have changed significantly from the environment in which PyKinect2 was developed (around ...

Handling Dates and Times with Python's datetime: From Days Later, Date Differences, and Durations to String Conversion

Why handle dates and times In this lesson, we will explain how to handle dates and times using Python's standard library: ...
xenospectrum

Python 3.15 Makes UTF-8 the Default, Easing Windows Text Issues — but Legacy Code Needs a Check

Python 3.15's UTF-8 default reduces environment-dependent behavior when no encoding is specified. We look at what it means ...

Python 3.15 released: Lazy imports, UTF-8 and new data types

Python 3.15 is expected to speed up some programs and simplifies handling immutable data. UTF-8 as standard requires testing.
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In the AI era, coding means thinking like a systems architect

Now, anyone can prompt an AI model to construct complex computational pipelines that would otherwise require days or weeks of ...
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How to Build Reliable LLM Classifiers With Confidence Thresholds

Swap the label names on a typed decision model's definitions and it flips up to 77% of its answers with zero format errors.
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I host a real website on a $5 ESP32, and it handles more traffic than I expected

Worth it for a portfolio, not for an app.
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Taskwarrior turned my Linux terminal into a retro to-do list that syncs with Google Calendar and Keep

Marking tasks done from the command line can't get better than this.
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Scrypt vs bcrypt: $37K vs $1,480 to Crack a Password [2026]

The short version: scrypt leans on memory, forcing an attacker to buy expensive RAM-heavy hardware instead of cheap GPU ...
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Building AI Applications with OGX, the Open-Source Agentic API Server

OGX is plainly described as: an open-source agentic API server for building AI applications, OpenAI-compatible, any model, any infrastructure. It is the rebrand of Meta's Llama Stack, with the name ...
shattered.io

How to Verify a Provably Fair Dice Roll Yourself: Seeds, Nonces and HMAC-SHA256 Step by Step

Verify provably fair dice yourself: check the server seed hash, compute HMAC-SHA256, convert the digest to a roll, with a ...
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XRPL Commons Hackathon Puts AI Agent Payments to the Test

These challenges will be explored at the AI & Fintech XRPL Hackathon, hosted by XRPL Commons in New York on October 24 and 25. The 36-hour event will bring together developers and other participants ...