 Let's do some Python on hardware. Python honored hardware this week in the newsletter. Do you want to talk about a few things? So we have a Python 9 release candidate. Yes, finally, enough bugs were squished by Jepler and Dan and Scott and some other contributors that we were able to get out of beta, out of alpha, and into a release candidate. That means we really want more people to use 9.0, find bugs. We will squish them. They're doing an excellent job. And we hope to do an actual release in the next week or two. So everybody will be updated. This is a major release. There's a couple of breaking changes. Just documented. You can see the blog post for the changes. Think display.show is one that I think got moved. And also got other API changes. SD card. Mount location needs to exist as a candidate. You just can't make a fake directory on fly. And then what was the third big one? Boy, I don't remember. There's a couple of little details. An MPY format change also. Because we merged with upstream MicroPython. So, yeah, you're going to have to re-download your MPY files. But that's a great reason to use circup or the bundle fly. OK. And then what else did you want to talk about this week? Let's see. The other thing that I thought was interesting. Basically, I don't remember. I remember I told you, but then I took a... Yeah, was it in this? Was it in this? Boy, I don't remember what it was. Shoot. What's up, Jogging Memory? As we go through this enormous newsletter. There's a lot of cool projects. I like this. Oh, well, the pager thing was funny. Oh, no, wait. There was something other than the pager thing. What was it? There was the RC candidate. Can you keep going down? No, no. Boy, I don't remember. I feel a little full. I probably should have... I should have went it down and sent it to you, so I don't remember. Well, we want to talk about... Well, this was actually cool. The embedded Swift was that was quite interesting. So I think Apple is like, oh, hey, microparathon is kind of cool, but we won't be able to use Swift. So they've created Swift that can run on STM and RP2040. So I don't like Swift, but it's like... It's kind of interesting to see a language go back, right? Not just require more intense circuitry, but going back in time. I don't remember what the other thing, but the pager step was, I think, funny. Yeah, we... Because when we did pager projects, we did some poxsag decoding projects, using a pager to get the... It's like there's a bipolar signal to a differential signal that you can parse with a microcontroller. And so we did a poxsag decoder that used an existing pager. You'd use the guts of a pager as the antenna receiver. And people were like, totally outrageous. You're like, how dare you decode pager? And I'm just like, it's not encrypted, guys. If you're using pager data, it's out there. And there are people who still use emerging responders, still use the pager network. So I thought it was... Yeah, it's not so different than if you have a radio scanner. You can listen in on radio signals from police, fire department, and emergency. So I thought that was kind of cool to use Python to decode poxsag and print it out. Yeah, that was the name I was talking about. Yeah, I mean, people... And I remember a kingpin was decoding poxsag pagers in like 97. So, yeah, this is a perennial project. Every generation, we just cover this. And then it's not DJ Devin mentioned that General had mentioned this in a weekly meeting. There were about 300 plus unique contributors between eight and nine. Oh, now I remember what it was. We hit the 9,000th issue slash pull request. We had PR number 9,000. So now we were over 9,000. There it is, that's right. It was a pull request 9,000. So it's issue and pull request, but still it's like that's a number. That's a big deal. Also, it's like nice. Yeah, we're almost up to 3,000 learn guides. We have, you know, we've had over... Yeah, this is cool. This is a contributor. ...a contributor supported 9,000 issues fixed. And now we're up to nine. So this is the thing. Nine, 9,000, it's thematic. Yeah, one of the cool things about circuit Python is this is open source. We want the world to have it and use it. And it's doing surprising things that we never expected or planned to do. And there's lots of people working on it. And it's something that people run their businesses on. They're able to make hardware and not have to worry about the latest firmware. We generate all the firmware bits and stuff. And there's easy ways to... Can I say a quick thing? Yeah. So one thing that's interesting is from a previous NPI, which I had to do the text, the layered module, what I didn't realize is actually they have a micro Python build for the module for the NRF. And they don't release the source code, but it's still very interesting to see more and more companies are using micro Python as a way to get their valve boards up and running quickly. We've got a lot of developer investment time. Yeah, I think since so many people know Python, I think that's been the change in the past. Maybe there's a lot of efforts. Like maybe they'll try Arduino, but I think now Python seems to be where folks to get started really fast are going. Okay, that's Python on hardware. We do this every single week. You can get this delivered to your inbox. You can get on GitHub. You can check it out on Aida for Daily. All those places, check it out. Okay.