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 benchmarks, pipeline migrations, and technical postmortems from projects and systems I have built and/or actively maintain. 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.