 I don't know how to work Okay this week and The eight of her newsletter From a different daily comms. This is a good newsletter I went out one day later because we had a issue with send stuff out, but it out it came out I'll get to the story. I was gonna ask you about but we went over if you haven't seen our shows last week or Some of the things that we've been writing about a to fruit penguin. You can use any font needle cat that's exciting and we definitely a Abused papyrus quite a bit and people will see as as I'm doing a lot of board We orders right now as new boards come in you're gonna see some of the nice silk screens filter in You know, you might get ones with the older versus newer silk screen is like as I make them all pretty using Penguin it's made it so fast. I do it instantly and then order the boards great And then this is interesting because we just had our show-and-tell. That's a long go Tandy Tandy and a lot of folks are taking some of the retro hardware, but now they're updating it with new things So this is a Tandy TRS 80 model. We have one model 100. This is a retrofit So it uses Raspberry Pi hardware uses Pico running circuit Python and while the machine itself is faster They kept the same display too. So this is very neat Look at the first part of the keyboard and then the next thing they're gonna do is maybe put in like a Raspberry Pi with like a bar display Yeah, it'll be a color display Couple interesting things program environment for micro Python called one I checked out badger if you want to hack your ID badges play games This is a cool Badge from the folks at pi Maroney He's micro Python with that and then the circuit Python ID. I don't know if you all have seen this But there's an online ID for it a couple new features File modification Indicator and the other is a serial mode indicator. So you can check that out Yes, and this is a River Wangs and we also have our own as well. So there's so here it is And yeah, this is like real and live and like, you know, you can connect to your board Yeah, and I just went you know straight here from the newsletter. What a wonderful time to be doing All right, you can check out some of the shows that we have we just talked about Paul Who is on the show and tell who has a bootloader in addition to other shows? I think this week is Wait in right in and rain showed some Projects last week on the show and tell yeah, and then don't forget September 29th, which is coming up tomorrow The circuit Python community help desk. Oh Here's a bootloader product. Oh, yeah, that's cool. That's a nice logo. Okay, Todd and Paul Yeah, and this was one of random projects here So the thing I wanted to give you a couple of minutes of airtime Lady Aida is I saw this running around and everyone's like, you know Nothing. Well, this isn't nothing. Yeah, nothing divides people up like programming languages or bring people together So mainline Python 3.14 predict to be faster than C++ really. Okay. What's this all about? It's a little bit of a joke. So basically you know As of Python for the biggest deal with Python was just trying to get Everyone on to three which took a while and I think you know, we can see is by the time we got to like three six three seven You know a lot of people moved over to three and so You're one of the things that seems like the Python Foundation wanted to focus their time on because there's so much stuff built in and There were a couple additional like the walrus operators and and you know, I think async also got a little bit more support In recent versions, but looks like what they've really been working on The last couple versions starting with three ten and three eleven is in in improving by Decreasing the amount of time it takes to execute Python script. So Interpreted languages are great because they have memory management and garbage collection and You know, they're often dynamically typed and I just love it. I love it. I'll sit there compile stuff trade-off is of course, you know Things can fail halfway through the program because they weren't they're not all it's not all compiled at once But second thing is usually they're all slower because they're run through a virtual machine but it looks like one of things they've really been working on is Really in improving the the quality quality the speed of the Python runtime Looks like it, you know, there's a Example loop that they use in the loop time usually 10 milliseconds or 10 seconds for this example loop And they got it down to sorry 11 seconds and it got down to like about six so it's about a you know, two times increase in speed which is which is great because if the only trade-off between interpretive languages and compiled languages is the running time then you know If you can just increase the improve the running time then maybe more people will use Python for live applications not just for speed of programming, but also speed of of running and so there's this joke of Like is it uses like the xkcd graph generator where it's like if you extrapolate You know like yesterday you weren't married today. You are married Which means in three days you will have like, you know, seven husbands If the loop time has has gone down this much so far, you know, basically within a year We will have negative loop time. Yeah, not really, but it'll get closer. I mean like I think we could probably squeeze another two times speed improvement Now that they're looking at it and you know one of the great things now is everyone can try something out for free Essentially, like there's some way to try something out for free. So my suggestion is You know stay away from the arguments online like a make sure you cut your teeth Then you should write things in assembly remember don't listen to any of those folks in fact run away from them Try something out and one of the things that's kind of nice now is With microcontrollers and being able to do Python with microcontrollers You can learn a skill that can work on desktop Data sciences you can any of the machine learning stuff any the AI stuff like there there's tons of things And then the Raspberry Pi with Blinka like one learning learning a programming language to start and then being able to do a lot Of stuff with it and then figuring out where you want to do like, you know, literally deep dives You have a shit deep dive. Yeah is really powerful and the microcontrollers are fast enough now Where there really isn't like like, what are you doing with these things where? You know a millisecond's gonna matter For a lot of these yeah, and one of the things that we've always prioritized in circuit pipe I mean this is Python, which is of course a different core than Circuit Python, but one of the things that you know, we've always prioritized is ease of use over runtime speed because you can always Improve the runtime speed fact later But getting the usability it is important to get done first because it's one of those things that if you don't Bake in the usability and the ease of use to start. It's really hard to add that later I found that things don't get easier to use with time. They'll get faster Yeah, but usually it's like whatever system you have set up to program the boards in That's why like using math storage was really important to us using Wi-Fi workflow Yeah, I feel like the biggest barrier right now is just getting people started and having some success with what they're trying to do Yeah, that seems to be the thing that's taking the longest is like a total abandonment and not wanting to do it And then like hey, no really there's other ways to do things. So anyways, it's cool stuff Yeah, so the graph is a joke, but the performance improvement is real. Yeah, and that's my son on her Thank You Blinka And we deliver this every single week tour you're in the box Usually Tuesdays sometimes Wednesdays and Speaking of it for daily so the Adafruit IOT newsletter monthly is coming out and go to Adafruit daily comment sign up for that And then we also have our new product newsletter that that's the only one you can get through our website if you want to You can go to Adafruit comm slash newsletter But we also do it as a standalone newsletter on Adafruit daily to so you don't even need to use our store site So do check those out. I strongly recommend the IOT newsletter. So she's in so much stuff is happening It's like none it's non-stop So if you're interested in the rapid development that's occurring on Whipper snapper and Adafruit IO and of course, you know general IOT news around the industry Do subscribe. Yeah, and you know just because y'all know us so even though it's our newsletter We put everything in there. It doesn't matter which company is making an IOT thing. We're just picking the best stuff Oh, yeah, people can send in stuff. There's no affiliate links. There's no ads There's no Amazon affiliate links. There's nothing like that. We just cover this stuff that that we like and we want to show and share and I think that's why people like these newsletters because they never feel like They're getting tricked or they're getting sold something It is really like here's cool stuff that we like and we're up to and things that other people make I kind of wish more newsletters were like this