Evolution of Whois Protocol to RDAP (2019)(icann.org)

14 points by Eavolution 1 year ago | 6 comments

Launching RDAP; sunsetting WHOIS(icann.org)

844 points by radeeyate 1 year ago | 331 comments

ICANN announcement about launching the Registration Data Access Protocol (RDAP) and sunsetting the WHOIS service for domain registration data.

ICANN Is Not the Internet Content Police (2015)(icann.org)

23 points by nerdo 2 years ago | 0 comments

Proposed Renewal of the Registry Agreement for .NET(icann.org)

50 points by thesuperbigfrog 3 years ago | 22 comments

.INTERNAL is now reserved for private-use applications(icann.org)

514 points by joncfoo 2 years ago | 252 comments

ICANN Board approved resolutions from a July 29, 2024 special meeting, including reserving the .INTERNAL top-level domain for private-use applications.

The Internet runs on free and open source software and so does the DNS(icann.org)

234 points by ChrisArchitect 1 year ago | 44 comments

Python’s new t-strings(davepeck.org)

544 points by tambourine_man 1 year ago | 409 comments

Blog post by Dave Peck explaining template strings (t-strings), a feature accepted for Python 3.14 that enables safer, more flexible string processing.

PEP 750 – Template Strings(peps.python.org)

365 points by grep_it 1 year ago | 243 comments

PEP 750, an accepted Python Enhancement Proposal for Python 3.14 that introduces template string literals (t-strings) with Template and Interpolation types.

datetime.utcnow() is now deprecated(blog.miguelgrinberg.com)

364 points by Brajeshwar 2 years ago | 409 comments

Miguel Grinberg's blog post explaining that Python 3.12 deprecates datetime.utcnow() and utcfromtimestamp(), and discussing alternatives.

Pyrefly vs. Ty: Comparing Python's two new Rust-based type checkers(blog.edward-li.com)

364 points by edwardjxli 1 year ago | 144 comments

A blog post comparing Pyrefly (Meta) and ty (Astral), two new Rust-based Python type checkers, against each other and tools like mypy and Pylance.

PSF has withdrawn $1.5M proposal to US Government grant program(pyfound.blogspot.com)

634 points by lumpa 1 year ago | 611 comments

Python Software Foundation blog post explaining why it withdrew a $1.5M proposal to the US NSF Safety, Security, and Privacy of Open Source Ecosystems grant program.

Python on the Edge: Fast, sandboxed, and powered by WebAssembly(wasmer.io)

376 points by baalimago 1 year ago | 143 comments

Wasmer blog post announcing full Python support in Wasmer Edge (Beta), running sandboxed Python on the edge via WebAssembly.