September 22, 2025

#450 At-Cost Agentic IDE Tooling

32 minutes

Topics covered in this episode:

pandas is getting pd.col expressions

Cline, At-Cost Agentic IDE Tooling

uv cheatsheet

Ducky Network UI

Extras

Joke

Watch on YouTube

About the show

Sponsored by us! Support our work through:

Our courses at Talk Python Training

The Complete pytest Course

Patreon Supporters

Connect with the hosts

Michael: @[email protected] / @mkennedy.codes (bsky)

Brian: @[email protected] / @brianokken.bsky.social

Show: @[email protected] / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky)

Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 10am PT. Older video versions available there too.

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Brian #1: pandas is getting pd.col expressions

Marco Gorelli

Next release of Pandas will have pd.col(), inspired by some of the other frameworks

I’m guessing Pandas 2.3.3? or 2.4.0? or 3.0.0? (depending on which version they bump?)

“The output of pd.col is called an expression. You can think of it as a delayed column - it only produces a result once it's evaluated inside a dataframe context.”

It replaces many contexts where lambda expressions were used

Michael #2: Cline, At-Cost Agentic IDE Tooling

Free and open-source

Probably supports your IDE (if your IDE isn’t a terminal)

VS Code

VS Code Insiders

Cursor

Windsurf

JetBrains IDEs (including PyCharm)

You pick plan or act (very important)

It shows you the price as the AI works, per request, right in the UI

Brian #3: uv cheatsheet

Rodgrigo at mathspp.com

Nice compact cheat sheet of commands for

Creating projects

Managing dependencies

Lifecycle stuff like build, publish, bumping version

uv tool (uvx) commands

working with scripts

Installing and updating Python versions

plus venv, pip, format, help and update

Michael #4: Ducky Network UI

Ducky is a powerful, open-source, all-in-one desktop application built with Python and PySide6.

It is designed to be the perfect companion for network engineers, students, and tech enthusiasts, combining several essential utilities into a single, intuitive graphical interface.

Features

Multi-Protocol Terminal: Connect via SSH, Telnet, and Serial (COM) in a modern, tabbed interface.

SNMP Topology Mapper: Automatically discover your network with a ping and SNMP sweep. See a graphical map of your devices, color-coded by type, and click to view detailed information.

Network Diagnostics: A full suite of tools including a Subnet Calculator, Network Monitor (Ping, Traceroute), and a multi-threaded Port Scanner.

Security Toolkit: Look up CVEs from the NIST database, check password strength, and calculate file hashes (MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512).

Rich-Text Notepad: Keep notes and reminders in a dockable widget with formatting tools and auto-save.

Customizable UI: Switch between a sleek dark theme and a clean light theme. Customize terminal colors and fonts to your liking.

Extras

Brian:

Where are the cool kids hosting static sites these days?

Moving from Netlify to Cloudflare Pages - Will Vincent from Feb 2024

Traffic is a concern now for even low-ish traffic sites since so many bots are out there

Netlify free plan is less than 30 GB/mo allowed (grandfathered plans are 100 GB/mo)

GH Pages have a soft limit of 100 GB/mo

Cloudflare pages says unlimited

Michael:

PyCon Brazil needs some help with reduced funding from the PSF

Get a ticket to donate for a student to attend (at the button of the buy ticket checkout dialog)

I upgraded to macOS Tahoe

Loving it so far.

Only issue I’ve seen so far has been with alt-tab for macOS

Joke: Hiring in 2025 vs 2021

2021:

“Do you have an in-house kombucha sommelier?”

“Let’s talk about pets, are you donkey-friendly?”, “Oh you think this is a joke?”

2025:

“Round 8/7”

“Out of 12,000 resumes, the AI picked yours”

“Binary tree? Build me a foundational model!”

“Healthcare? What, you want to live forever?”

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September 22, 2025

#450 At-Cost Agentic IDE Tooling

32 minutes

Topics covered in this episode:

pandas is getting pd.col expressions

Cline, At-Cost Agentic IDE Tooling

uv cheatsheet

Ducky Network UI

Extras

Joke

Watch on YouTube

About the show

Sponsored by us! Support our work through:

Our courses at Talk Python Training

The Complete pytest Course

Patreon Supporters

Connect with the hosts

Michael: @[email protected] / @mkennedy.codes (bsky)

Brian: @[email protected] / @brianokken.bsky.social

Show: @[email protected] / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky)

Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 10am PT. Older video versions available there too.

Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it.

Brian #1: pandas is getting pd.col expressions

Marco Gorelli

Next release of Pandas will have pd.col(), inspired by some of the other frameworks

I’m guessing Pandas 2.3.3? or 2.4.0? or 3.0.0? (depending on which version they bump?)

“The output of pd.col is called an expression. You can think of it as a delayed column - it only produces a result once it's evaluated inside a dataframe context.”

It replaces many contexts where lambda expressions were used

Michael #2: Cline, At-Cost Agentic IDE Tooling

Free and open-source

Probably supports your IDE (if your IDE isn’t a terminal)

VS Code

VS Code Insiders

Cursor

Windsurf

JetBrains IDEs (including PyCharm)

You pick plan or act (very important)

It shows you the price as the AI works, per request, right in the UI

Brian #3: uv cheatsheet

Rodgrigo at mathspp.com

Nice compact cheat sheet of commands for

Creating projects

Managing dependencies

Lifecycle stuff like build, publish, bumping version

uv tool (uvx) commands

working with scripts

Installing and updating Python versions

plus venv, pip, format, help and update

Michael #4: Ducky Network UI

Ducky is a powerful, open-source, all-in-one desktop application built with Python and PySide6.

It is designed to be the perfect companion for network engineers, students, and tech enthusiasts, combining several essential utilities into a single, intuitive graphical interface.

Features

Multi-Protocol Terminal: Connect via SSH, Telnet, and Serial (COM) in a modern, tabbed interface.

SNMP Topology Mapper: Automatically discover your network with a ping and SNMP sweep. See a graphical map of your devices, color-coded by type, and click to view detailed information.

Network Diagnostics: A full suite of tools including a Subnet Calculator, Network Monitor (Ping, Traceroute), and a multi-threaded Port Scanner.

Security Toolkit: Look up CVEs from the NIST database, check password strength, and calculate file hashes (MD5, SHA1, SHA256, SHA512).

Rich-Text Notepad: Keep notes and reminders in a dockable widget with formatting tools and auto-save.

Customizable UI: Switch between a sleek dark theme and a clean light theme. Customize terminal colors and fonts to your liking.

Extras

Brian:

Where are the cool kids hosting static sites these days?

Moving from Netlify to Cloudflare Pages - Will Vincent from Feb 2024

Traffic is a concern now for even low-ish traffic sites since so many bots are out there

Netlify free plan is less than 30 GB/mo allowed (grandfathered plans are 100 GB/mo)

GH Pages have a soft limit of 100 GB/mo

Cloudflare pages says unlimited