[June 2025] Python Monthly Newsletter 💻🐍

Welcome to the 67th issue of Python Monthly!

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The quick version: I curate and share the most important Python articles, news, resources, podcasts, and videos.

Think the Pareto Principle (80/20 rule) meeting the Python world. I give you the 20% that will get you 80% of the results.

If you're a long time reader, welcome back old friend.

Alright, let's not waste any valuable time and jump right into this month's updates.

Here's what you missed in June 2025 as a Python Developer…

Optimize Your Python 🧙‍♀️

A fun little read demonstrating 4 ways you can optimize your python code. By optimizing Python code, you improve performance, reduce resource consumption, and enhance scalability. While Python is known for its simplicity and readability, these characteristics can sometimes come at the cost of efficiency.

State of Free-Threaded Python 🛠

Free-threade Python has been a big discussion topic in the community for the last couple of months and you should know all about it if you have been following this newsletter. The Python foundation has give a little update of its status: A must read.

Dict Trick 🕹

A fun little trick to do with your Python Dict. Get your head out of the gutter.

Fastest Python 🏃

What is the best way to detect if a string has a vowel in it? Seriously, think about it and write down your answer. Once you think you have it, read this article to discover the best way to do this. It may surprise you.

If you like this kind of stuff, and want to nerd out even more, read this: O(no) You Didn't

MCP Eats The World 🍩

2 things you need to read this month about MCP - the hypest of hype technologies out right now:

ChatGPT Makes You Dummer 🔬

No, seriously. They actually performed a study and a scientific paper was released on how ChatGPT usage lowers ones ability to be a critical thinker. Over four months, LLM users consistently underperformed at neural, linguistic, and behavioral levels. These results raise concerns about the long-term educational implications of LLM reliance and underscore the need for deeper inquiry into AI's role in learning.

Best Time For Software Developer? 🎡

This is an interesting take and one I tend to agree with. Be fearful when others are greedy, be greedy when others are fearful. Now might be the best time to learn software development

Self-Aware Smol Brained 🧌

This article is amazing. It's collection of thoughts on software development gathered by a grug brain developer: A layman's guide to thinking like the self-aware smol brained...is free country sort of and end of day not really matter too much, but grug hope you fun reading and maybe learn from many, many mistake grug make over long program life.

News Around the World 🗺

Honda Conducts Successful Launch and Landing Test of Experimental Reusable Rocket. Check out the video.
Billions of login credentials have been leaked online from pretty much all major platforms. This story is ongoing as they still do not know the extent of this leak.

Big Tech News aka AI News 🏢

Apple had their yearly marketing conference to show off the latest news. Although they seem to be lagging behind the AI trend with the other big companies, they have made some big announcements for developers that is worth checking out. Apple is also in talks to potentially acquire Perpexity AI.
Mistral announced their first Reasoning model: Magistral
Meta went on a big spending spree this month as they seem to be falling behind on the LLM race with their latest model release that was a disappointment. So they went ahead and are finalizing $15 billion deal for Scale AI stake. Oh but, don't worry, Meta is still doing classic meta things.
Did you know that the fastest growing startup of all time is one you've never heard of? Crazy how much money is going into this space.
Google released Gemini CLI - an open source AI agent for your terminal. Between this and Claude Code, I think these are the top 2 contenders.
Exciting news out of Anthropic: This month they introduced the ability to build, host, and share interactive AI-powered apps directly in the Claude app. Now developers can iterate faster on their AI apps without worrying about the complexity and cost of scaling for a growing audience.

Completely useless to your career but still great 🙃

A tetrahedron is the simplest Platonic solid. Mathematicians have now made one that’s stable only on one side, confirming a decades-old conjecture. Check out the video if none of that made sense.. it's cooler than it reads.

Best Resource of the Month 🥽

How do you keep up with all these AI updates coming out almost every day? The best resource of the month will show you the latest updates in the past 6 months with a cool little trick on how you can test out new LLMs as they come out... it might surprise you how effective this little trick is.

This is a must read for everyone from one of my favourite authors: The last six months in LLMs, illustrated by pelicans on bicycles

Once you are done with the above, this video is worth the watch and has made the rounds this month. I will admit I do not agree with the software v1, v2, v3 logic, but the talk itself is interesting.

Trick of the Month 🎩

Airpass - Easily overcome wifi time limits.

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