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Michael #1: Raw+DC: The ORM pattern of 2026?
- ORMs/ODMs provide great support and abstractions for developers
- They are not the native language of agentic AI
- Raw queries are trained 100x+ more than standard ORMs
- Using raw queries at the data access optimizes for AI coding
- Returning some sort of object mapped to the data optimizes for type safety and devs
Brian #2: pytest-check releases
- 3 merged pull requests
- 8 closed issues
- at one point got to 0 PR’s and 1 enhancement request
- Now back to 2 issues and 1 PR, but activity means it’s still alive and being used. so cool
- Check out changelog for all mods
- A lot of changes around supporting mypy
- I’ve decided to NOT have the examples be fully
--strict as I find it reduces readability- See
tox.ini for explanation
- But src is
--strict clean now, so user tests can be --strict clean.
Michael #3: Dataclass Wizard
- Simple, elegant wizarding tools for Python’s
dataclasses. - Features
- 🚀 Fast — code-generated loaders and dumpers
- 🪶 Lightweight — pure Python, minimal dependencies
- 🧠 Typed — powered by Python type hints
- 🧙 Flexible — JSON, YAML, TOML, and environment variables
- 🧪 Reliable — battle-tested with extensive test coverage
- No Inheritance Needed
Brian #4: SQLiteo - “native macOS SQLite browser built for normal people”
- Adam Hill
- This is a fun tool, built by someone I trust.
- That trust part is something I’m thinking about a lot in these days of dev+agent built tools
- Some notes on my thoughts when evaluating
- I know mac rules around installing .dmg files not from the apple store are picky.
- But I’m ok with the override when something comes from a dev I trust
- The contributors are all Adam
- I’m still not sure how I feel about letting agents do commits in repos
- There’s “AGENTS” folder and markdown files in the project for agents, so Ad
Extras
Michael:
Joke: House is read-only!
