PEP 686: Python Finally Kills the Windows Locale Default
Python 3.15 makes UTF-8 the default across all platforms. Legacy PowerShell 5.1 can still get in the way.
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Val Data
Data insights, analytics, and technical explorations.
Iām Dominick Ryan, a data and systems engineer. I design reliable data pipelines, profile compute and memory trade-offs, and build targeted software to solve concrete operational problems. This site documents engineering benchmarks, pipeline migrations, and technical postmortems from systems I've built. There are also some personal opinions and musings which you are free to ignore or embrace or rail against as it may suit you.
My Posts
Air-Gap Your AI for Fun and Safety: When Local Models Make the Most Sense
How a hybrid workflow pairing basic Python pre-filtering with a local, air-gapped AI model turned an unmanageable 40 MB production log dump into an actionable root-cause analysis.
Don't Call Me If You're a Quitter
Reflections on history, economic friction, and resilience while walking the streets of Tbilisi.