Read more of this story at Slashdot.

Markdown has emerged as the lingua franca of AI, especially with the proliferation of AI agents.

The post Anthropic Engineer Debates Use of Markdown vs. HTML in AI Agent Output appeared first on Thurrott.com.

Daniel Williams stops by to chat with Mazen and Robin! We dig into Storybook 10's leaner bundle, the 10.3 MCP server unlocking AI agent workflows, what Chromatic is cooking up for visual regression testing in React Native, and his work on Repack.

Show Notes

• Storybook announcement on X
• How to Cleanly Swap Between React Native Storybook 10 and Your App
• Storybook website
• Agent Device: iOS & Android Automation for AI Agents
• React Native Porto
  • Meetup
  • X

Connect With Us!

• Daniel Williams: @Danny_H_W
• Robin Heinze: @robinheinze
• Mazen Chami: @mazenchami
• React Native Radio: @ReactNativeRdio

This episode is brought to you by Infinite Red!

Infinite Red is an expert React Native consultancy located in the USA. With over a decade of React Native experience and deep roots in the React Native community (hosts of Chain React and the React Native Newsletter, core React Native contributors, creators of Ignite and Reactotron, and much, much more), Infinite Red is the best choice for helping you build and deploy your next React Native app.

• httpxyz one month in
• Learn concurrency - a deep dive into multithreading with Python
• pip 26.1 - lockfiles and dependency cooldowns
• Python 3.15 sentinal values from PEP 661
• Extras
• Joke

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: @mkennedy@fosstodon.org / @mkennedy.codes (bsky)
• Brian: @brianokken@fosstodon.org / @brianokken.bsky.social
• Show: @pythonbytes@fosstodon.org / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky)

Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 11am 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.

Michael #1: httpxyz one month in

• First version of httpxyz contained just the fixes to get zstd working, and the fixes to get the test suite running on python 3.14, some ‘housekeeping’ changes related to the renaming
• End of March: a compatibility shim that allows you to use httpxyz even with third-party packages that import httpx themselves, as long as you import httpxyz first.
  • Importing httpxyz automatically registers it under the httpx name in sys.modules , see https://httpxyz.org/httpx-compatibility/
• Fixed a WHOLE bunch of performance related issues by forking httpcore

Brian #2: Learn concurrency - a deep dive into multithreading with Python

• Nikos Vaggalis
• “Whenever you are trying to speed up code using multiple cores, always ask yourself: “Do these threads need to talk to each other right now?” If the answer is yes, it will be slow. The best parallel code splits a big job into completely isolated chunks, processes them separately, and merges the results at the finish line.”
• Good overview of thread concurrency with Python and how that’s been improved dramatically with free-threaded Python
• Defines lots of terms you come across, including “embarrassingly parallel multithreading”
• There’s a counter example that’s nice
  • Start with a shared resource, a counter, and multiple threads updating it
  • Attempt to fix with threading.Lock(), which fixes it, but slows things down
  • Good explanation of why
  • Proper fix with concurrent.futures and separating the work of different threads so that they can be independent and their results can be combined when they’re all finished.

Michael #3: pip 26.1 - lockfiles and dependency cooldowns

• Python 3.9 is no longer supported
• Experimental: installing from pylock files
• Dependency cooldowns (see my post about this)
• Lifting several 2020 resolver limitations

Brian #4: Python 3.15 sentinal values from PEP 661

MISSING = sentinel("MISSING")
def next_value(default: int | MISSING = MISSING):
    ...
    if default is MISSING:
       ...

• Take a name str as a constructor parameter
• Intended to be compared with is operator, similar to None
• Sentinal objects can be used as a type, also similar to None
  • and can be combined with other types with |.
• Unlike None, sentinal values are truthy. (Elipses ... are also truthy)
  • This seems like a strange choice. but I guess it must have made sense to someone.
  • It does force you to use is instead of depending on False-ness, so I guess it’ll make code using sentinels more readable.
• Interesting that the PEP was started in 2021, and we’re finally getting it this year.

Extras

Brian:

• Before GitHub - Armin Ronacher
• tenacity - cross-platform multi-track audio editor/recorder
  • learned about it from Armin’s article

Joke:

• Joke option Make it myself
  • Seems similar to what people think about software now

Links

• httpxyz one month in
• httpxyz.org/httpx-compatibility
• Learn concurrency - a deep dive into multithreading with Python
• pip 26.1 - lockfiles and dependency cooldowns
• my post about this
• Python 3.15 sentinal values from PEP 661
• Before GitHub
• tenacity
• Make it myself

Music Tech Pioneers VII : Wolfgang Kundrus : Steinberg,  Studio One and Beyond !

Hosted by Vin Curigliano of AAVIM Technology, I am joined by guest co-host Pete Brown of Microsoft and special guest Wolfgang Kundrus, who is one of the leading and most influential music software architects of the last 4 decades. 

He was part of the team behind Steinberg Cubase and Nuendo, as well as the game changing innovations that were brought forward during that tenure.

He was also the co-founder of PreSonus Software and one of the leading developers of Studio One, and is currently the lead developer of the Opus Engine at East West.

We discuss Wolfgangs early history with music and technology , and how that lead a path to joining the team at Steinberg, the concepts and innovations that he brought to Cubase ( arrange window/toolbox, etc ) that became the blueprint for the way DAW workflow environments were approached and implemented across most if not all DAW's that followed.

We cover the early days of introducing digital audio to the Cubase sequencing environment, the preliminary excursions using initially 3rd party audio hardware, then moving to the first native version on Atari Falcon, and the eventual evolution of VST ( Virtual Studio Technology ), which launched the native DAW era on Mac and Windows.

We discuss the development of Nuendo, the eventual merging of the codebase with Cubase SX, and the exodus after the initial Cubase sale to Pinnacle.

We also cover Wolfgang co-founding Presonus Software and being a lead developer of Studio One,  his move to East West to lead the Opus Engine Development, his recent adventures with AI coding, sharing some great insights and behind the scenes stories, and much, much more.

Host & Guest Links :

AAVIM Technology : www.aavimt.com.au

DAWbench : www.dawbench.com

Microsoft : www.microsoft.com

Pete Brown : https://twitter.com/Pete_Brown

East West : https://www.soundsonline.com/

VO :

Andrew Peters : www.andrewpetersvo.com

Music Themes :

Original DAWbench VI Theme Music composed by Rob John : Independent Music Productions : http://www.indmusicprods.com

DAWbench Radio Show ReMix by Erin McKimm : www.erinmckimm.com

All Rights Reserved : © AAVIMT 2026