Python 3.15.0 added to actions/python-versions

Bit of a niche link, but I've been waiting for this for a couple of days - I even told ChatGPT to check for it:

Clone https://github.com/actions/python-versions and git pull once an hour until they add the stable 3.15 - then tell me about it

Now that this has landed, you can add "3.15" to a GitHub Actions testing matrix to run tests against the new Python 3.15.0 release.

Tags: github, python, github-actions, chatgpt

Any Nix package, live in your browser

Farid Zakaria calls this his "magnum opus of Nix work", and I can see why.

trynix.dev provides a qemu-wasm powered x86_64 Linux virtual machine running entirely in your browser through WebAssembly. That VM can then be booted with any Nix package from the past 13 years. They are URL addressable, so you can navigate to this page:

https://trynix.dev/?pkg=python3%403.6.2

Then click "Load" and get an interactive shell against a virtual machine running Python 3.6.2 from 2017.

Farid is building all sorts of neat things on top of this. One recent example: Review a pull request by booting it introduces trynix-preview, described like this:

GitHub action that comments a link on a pull request which lets you boot the PR’s build in the browser using https://trynix.dev. No servers, just browsers.

Via Lobste.rs

Tags: code-review, linux, webassembly, github-actions