Thursday, 19th March 2026
Research
REXC (rx) JSON Test Suite
— REXC (rx) JSON Test Suite provides a comprehensive, language-agnostic test resource for validating implementations of the REXC encoder/decoder. It includes a single JSON file with 206 tests covering base64 encoding, zigzag integer transformations, value conversions, roundtrip integrity, and special numeric values, ensuring correctness across platforms.
Thoughts on OpenAI acquiring Astral and uv/ruff/ty
The big news this morning: Astral to join OpenAI (on the Astral blog) and OpenAI to acquire Astral (the OpenAI announcement). Astral are the company behind uv, ruff, and ty—three increasingly load-bearing open source projects in the Python ecosystem. I have thoughts!
[... 1,381 words]