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RE: https://hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime/116487817082303086 This. ...

2026-04-29T14:19:27Z

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@fasterthanlime/116487817082303086

This.

Regardless of the fact they did this to themselves, I would understand slow CI/web pages (and they are, indeed, slow). But GitHub is now riddled with incredible logical bugs that can only be explained with reckless vibe coding.

Like how could THIS happen (and this is the only Prime Video I’ve ever made it until the end because I just couldn’t believe it): https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=b13m-iuu4XU

“begging stochastic systems to be good boys is not a security ...

2026-04-27T09:46:28Z

“begging stochastic systems to be good boys is not a security strategy” exhibit ♾️

What really grinds my gears is how a whole industry chose to forget the 101 of ops security. This is not an “AI" problem, this is gross negligence by cloud providers like Raleway pretending "having evals" is an acceptable defense against catastrophic data loss & users having production tokens of any kind lying around such that an attacker (or misguided agent) can find it.

https://archive.ph/T3LU6

given the claude code leak i'm starting to suspect that when ...

2026-04-01T12:49:46Z

given the claude code leak i'm starting to suspect that when boosters say they don't look at the code it's an act of fear, not confidence

I’ve found myself feeling unmoored by the current crop of FOSS ...

2026-03-08T14:21:42Z

I’ve found myself feeling unmoored by the current crop of FOSS contributions. I genuinely don’t know how to proceed.

Of course there’s the slop where the PR checklist gets deleted & almost all items violated. The truly annoying part about this is that I always try to be kind & not a stickler about policies. I guess I don’t owe kindness to a bot, but it’s a bad look to be assertive in public. (1/5)

happy `ModuleNotFoundError: No module named ...

2026-02-09T05:29:51Z

happy `ModuleNotFoundError: No module named 'pkg_resources’` day to all who celebrate #setuptools

I needed a simple thing: 1. Create 3000x1000 document. 2. Add a ...

2026-01-22T10:50:20Z

I needed a simple thing:

1. Create 3000x1000 document.
2. Add a white box as background.
3. Insert a 9 KB SVG.
4. Export as SVG.

Exported SVG sizes:

Inkscape: 9 KB
Affinity Designer 2: 32KB
Affinity (new): 120 KB
Pixelmator Pro: 1 MB

2026 and Inkscape remains the only first-class SVG editor. 😳

2025 was a wild ride for me. It was absolutely amazing & ...

2025-11-19T19:43:14Z

2025 was a wild ride for me. It was absolutely amazing & I’m not sure I’ll be able to top my non-YT (sorry 🙈) output but I was also permanently stressed out as fuck.

So now, after giving one of my most important speeches for some of the most important people in my life, I’m collapsing to human goo.

new DM footgun has entered the chat ...

2025-11-03T08:21:03Z

new DM footgun has entered the chat https://bolha.one/@cadusilva/115481273902006842

Also pretty sure this constant glitch is somehow caused by Safari ...

2025-10-19T10:37:31Z

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Also pretty sure this constant glitch is somehow caused by Safari

https://hynek.me/til/macos-window-focus-desktops/

The main reasons for me to use Safari on macOS despite being ...

2025-10-19T10:31:14Z

The main reasons for me to use Safari on macOS despite being behind on web standards is integration with its iOS siblings and performance.

However: bookmark sync is unreliable and relatedly reading list is so janky too that I switched to GoodLinks. And somehow the UI gets increasingly sluggish until I restart it like an old Windows system.

I guess it's time for an experiment.

baby’s first read model! 🎉 :D (there’s a lot of dogma ...

2025-10-11T10:56:31Z

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baby’s first read model! 🎉 :D

(there’s a lot of dogma based on lack of deeper understanding going around the topic of denormalization; but it’s totally fine to have read-optimized tables that can be recreated from primary data as a kind of cache. CQRS even encourages it; especially when paired with event sourcing)

Long but very good: "An essay on wank" It names and ...

2025-09-30T06:59:05Z

Long but very good:

"An essay on wank"

It names and identifies one of my least favorite genre of posts – finally I have a proper term for it!

I'm sure I've been guilty of it too in the past, so it's useful for self-regulation, too.

https://deadsimpletech.com/blog/essay_on_redacted

i feel like your pedaling pelicans are approaching Goodhart’s ...

2025-07-30T16:14:25Z

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i feel like your pedaling pelicans are approaching Goodhart’s Law 🤨

i’ve made it thru Mathematik für Informatiker 1–3 so legally ...

2025-07-23T17:32:59Z

i’ve made it thru Mathematik für Informatiker 1–3 so legally I don’t have to do math ever again

so we have started offering the white label version of ...

2025-07-23T07:16:13Z

so we have started offering the white label version of https://anubis.techaro.lol to customers struggling with overload, and well… #rageAgainstTheSlopMachine

the only valid shirt to wear while giving an eulogy for Michael ...

2025-07-17T13:57:23Z

the only valid shirt to wear while giving an eulogy for Michael “voidspace” Foord. #EuroPython

There’s gonna be an open space on Python and complex ...

2025-07-16T10:39:52Z

There’s gonna be an open space on Python and complex applications tomorrow at 10am in room 223+224:

“Is Python suitable for writing maintanable (complex) software?”

I’ll try to be there & as far as I am concerned, Betteridge's Law of Headlines doesn’t apply! #EuroPython

https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r/month/2025/7/17

Python 2.6 🥲

2025-07-09T03:41:53Z

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Python 2.6 🥲

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2025-07-07T17:20:43Z

surpriiiseee https://ep2025.europython.eu/session/design-pressure-the-invisible-hand-that-shapes-your-code

*closes final cut, opens up keynote*

I just noticed something rather unfortunate: a negative payout in ...

2025-07-07T14:57:44Z

I just noticed something rather unfortunate: a negative payout in my GitHub Sponsors

a bit of spelunking revealed that apparently thanks.dev—that allows to transfer your money into GHS—has refunded a bunch of payments from last year.

if you used this feature, I recommend checking your account

Watching the frustratingly fruitless fights over the USEFULNESS ...

2025-06-18T08:44:49Z

Watching the frustratingly fruitless fights over the USEFULNESS of LLM-based coding helpers, I've come down to 3 points that explain why ppl seem to live in different realities:

Most programmers:

1) Write inconsequential remixes of trivial code that has been written many times before.

2) Lack the taste for good design & suck at code review in general (yours truly included).

3) Lack the judgement to differentiate between 1) & FOSS repos of nontrivial code, leading to PR slop avalanche.

1/3

IOW: for everything I create, I have to hate the fact that it ...

2025-05-29T18:51:43Z

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IOW: for everything I create, I have to hate the fact that it doesn’t exist more than the process of creating it. That’s why I don’t create that much. 😅

James Jani is one of the best serious YouTubers out there and he ...

2025-05-29T18:41:05Z

James Jani is one of the best serious YouTubers out there and he burned out. So far, so common.

What I find interesting is something what he says that doesn’t resonate with me at all: “you gotta enjoy the process”

For me, I’ve NEVER enjoyed the process of creating ANYTHING.

I always:

1. wanted something to exist (sometimes out of spite 😇),
2. hated every second of making it happen,
3. enjoyed that it exists.

Guess there’re 2 types of creators. 😅

https://youtu.be/LGtitmMwsB8

Have you gone full mad scientist? 😅

2025-05-13T17:17:37Z

In reply to nevent1q…a0pz
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Have you gone full mad scientist? 😅

counter point: Spain just blocked all of Cloudflare on the ...

2025-04-17T07:13:30Z

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counter point: Spain just blocked all of Cloudflare on the weekends so people can’t watch pirate streams of football games. This whole „we’re safe because decentralized“ is just a cute lie we’re telling to ourselves. If fedi ever leaves the „cute but inconsequential hangout for nerds“ state, we’ll see how fast it will go. If mastodon.social is somehow blocked, fedi is practically toast anyway.

Not a fan of either since it works by monkeypatching the real ...

2025-04-09T10:10:08Z

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Not a fan of either since it works by monkeypatching the real thing. That makes it both brittle and less meaningful. I strongly prefer https://pytest-httpserver.readthedocs.io/

Maybe Someone™ should find a way to automate the interaction recording and we’d have best of both worlds.

Could’ve been `import dramatiq as celery` 🤡

2025-03-22T23:22:06Z

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Could’ve been `import dramatiq as celery` 🤡

Y‘all should subscribe but since it’s Festivus: ...

2024-12-23T10:34:31Z

Y‘all should subscribe but since it’s Festivus: https://buttondown.com/hynek/archive/goodbye-2024-with-a-video-a-podcast/ 🤫 https://mastodon.gamedev.place/@touilleMan/113701445771592526

I feel like saying yes would implicate me in you losing a working ...

2024-12-12T06:29:45Z

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I feel like saying yes would implicate me in you losing a working day

if you ACTUALLY need an VPN, get @npub1xh7…v9hj (and definitily ...

2024-12-12T05:25:33Z

if you ACTUALLY need an VPN, get Mullvad VPN (npub1xh7…v9hj)

(and definitily none of the sketchy drifters advertized on podcasts & YouTube videos)

https://x41-dsec.de/news/2024/12/11/mullvad/

pretty sure the last dropped yesterday?

2024-12-12T04:51:47Z

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pretty sure the last dropped yesterday?

I've been called "Jason Segel of Python" in a YouTube ...

2024-12-11T15:00:51Z

I've been called "Jason Segel of Python" in a YouTube comment and the universal reaction (including mine) is: "nahhh" *checks photos side-by-side* “loool”

I'm happy to announce my latest video: Taming Flaky Systems ...

2024-12-09T16:57:13Z

I'm happy to announce my latest video:

Taming Flaky Systems Without DDoSing Yourself in #Python – Safe Retries with stamina

https://youtu.be/BxikFuvaT1Y

Yes, I made another ad for one of my projects, sneakily hidden behind explanations of the dangers of bad retries. Enjoy, like, and subscribe! 💛

TIL the “w” in “wrong” is silent and I want burn an ...

2024-11-24T18:43:50Z

TIL the “w” in “wrong” is silent and I want burn an English dictionary again.

People embracing Just shouldn’t make me as happy as it does, ...

2024-11-21T15:12:38Z

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People embracing Just shouldn’t make me as happy as it does, yet here we are!

Such an underrated tool. 🥺

I’m seeing a lot of „lol remember mastodon?“ and „I tried ...

2024-11-14T05:32:58Z

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I’m seeing a lot of „lol remember mastodon?“ and „I tried mastodon and it never clicked so I went back to twitter but I can’t do it anymore“

Their hate might be a memory from 2022 but that doesn’t make it less real or the reasons ppl bounced off back then less relevant. We can’t even tell them that „Mastodon is good now“ because zero of the major problems from 2022 have been solved.

It's very on-brand for Mastodon to turn even more obnoxious ...

2024-11-14T05:23:52Z

It's very on-brand for Mastodon to turn even more obnoxious & sanctimonious as we watch Bluesky sucking in tech Twitter.

Ppl KNOW that Mastodon exists—& they hate it. The reasons why they hate it have been known for years but nothing has been done about it.

Being condescending to users for wanting to be hand-held or have effective protections against the very reply guys that are going around scolding the impure is just proving them right.

No amount of dirt-digging on Bluesky will change that.

🧘‍♂️🧘‍♂️ (You should configure systemd to send ...

2024-11-10T10:21:05Z

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🧘‍♂️🧘‍♂️

(You should configure systemd to send the HUP instead of awk shenanigans 🤪)

why do you care about PID files in 2024 at all, tho? forking on ...

2024-11-10T09:23:11Z

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why do you care about PID files in 2024 at all, tho? forking on startup is such a terrible 1990s anti-pattern that emerged due to bad tooling it gives me an headache just thinking about it. it’s been obsolete since at least supervisord, but belongs on the compost of history since systemd by the latest. #freeYourMind

bugs aside, it doesn’t support dependency groups for uv pip and ...

2024-11-04T09:40:30Z

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bugs aside, it doesn’t support dependency groups for uv pip and it doesn’t support dynamic versions in project mode (uv lock/sync)

that’s a double-whammy that makes it impossible to use for FOSS except as a faster replacement for pip.

also uv tool/uvx doesn’t support inheriting dependencies which makes it impossible to run Ansible which is kinda a big deal

I’m kinda waiting until uv is good for FOSS so don’t hold ...

2024-11-04T05:19:06Z

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I’m kinda waiting until uv is good for FOSS so don’t hold your breath :) (notably: dynamic versions and dependency group support for uv pip)

People literally beg me to make a video about how to package PyPI ...

2024-11-03T09:17:06Z

People literally beg me to make a video about how to package PyPI packages, but few realize that the rounded number of viewers for that kind of content is zero, as the glorious failure of my tox/Nox video demonstrated.

I’ll still probably do it because I smoke Gauloises without filters and hate success, but it’s easy to forget how few people actually care about PRODUCING FOSS.

by following @npub1vl7…f6g0

2024-10-31T09:33:39Z

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by following Eugen Rochko (npub1vl7…f6g0)

Plushies are the equivalent of your spouse that has decided to ...

2024-10-31T05:38:09Z

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Plushies are the equivalent of your spouse that has decided to leave you months ago getting agitated by your traits they found initially endearing. It’s annoying to have my TL spammed with it but it takes like two clicks to mute them forever.

we can always hope for some VC dick move, but other than that… ...

2024-10-30T17:02:07Z

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we can always hope for some VC dick move, but other than that… turns out people don’t enjoy righteous scolding. who knew. this constant “how can people be there and not here” is turning off even me.

the fact that the last waves went there and not here is a very bad sign. Especially all of Brazil but also Kelsey now siphoning off tech people? :-/

It’s really sad to watch Mastodon lose to Bluesky but if you ...

2024-10-30T16:31:04Z

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It’s really sad to watch Mastodon lose to Bluesky but if you look closer it makes all the sense in the world. The obnoxious echo chamber energy is only rivaled by mid-2000 IRC channels and we aren’t even the target demographic. It’s enough to just watch what’s scrolling by.

c’mon we all know the only reason is Kelsey Hightower 🤪 the ...

2024-10-30T05:34:04Z

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c’mon we all know the only reason is Kelsey Hightower 🤪

the tragedy is that we could’ve had him, if Mastodon didn’t earn a reputation of being a bad place for black people

and god that plushie shit is irritating

aw thanks I’m trying really hard to streamline indeed 😅

2024-10-22T16:07:55Z

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aw thanks I’m trying really hard to streamline indeed 😅

It’s giving me a bit of creator‘s block because I know I ...

2024-10-22T09:15:45Z

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It’s giving me a bit of creator‘s block because I know I can’t reproduce this success without going down the evil YT SEO optimizer route which I emphatically don’t want. But it’s incredibly exciting; thank you everyone! 🤩

Trying hard to not be too self-indulgent but I’ve passed 2000 ...

2024-10-22T09:15:33Z

Trying hard to not be too self-indulgent but I’ve passed 2000 subscribers and the second uv video passed 22,000 views which is WAY more than all other videos COMBINED. 🥲

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UuW8o4bHbw

Since everyone told you about Phanpy, I’ll mention ...

2024-10-17T18:55:27Z

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Since everyone told you about Phanpy, I’ll mention https://elk.zone/

At this point regular warning from upgrading Nomad: 1.9.0 does ...

2024-10-16T07:06:26Z

At this point regular warning from upgrading Nomad: 1.9.0 does not work with private Docker registries anymore: https://github.com/hashicorp/nomad/issues/24181

I find that an absolutely bizarre regression only eclipsed by Vault stopping to register itself with Consul after a reload: https://github.com/hashicorp/vault/issues/28030

N.B. how there’s ZERO Hashi employees in that ticket even acknowledging the problem. 😐

i’m hearing consistency is everything in content creation

2024-10-14T05:41:08Z

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i’m hearing consistency is everything in content creation

weirdly, Astral is using --frozen in their examples – probably ...

2024-10-11T12:33:06Z

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weirdly, Astral is using --frozen in their examples – probably afraid about breakage but I want my stuff to break as early as possible. :)

You should use --locked otherwise you may install incomplete lock ...

2024-10-11T11:08:03Z

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You should use --locked otherwise you may install incomplete lock files. It already saved me a few times where I almost used wrong index servers in CI. It uv sync thinks it needs to update the lock files something is going wrong.

It depends what you need from it. In that generality the answer ...

2024-10-10T02:31:11Z

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It depends what you need from it. In that generality the answer is a clear no, it depends on what you use. If it’s just colors and multi line editing it’s a yes.

tfw when you have to use legacy python 3.12 with its prehistoric ...

2024-10-09T09:23:18Z

tfw when you have to use legacy python 3.12 with its prehistoric repl

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2024-10-02T18:27:05Z

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I’m confused, are you getting different results than when ...

2024-10-01T14:44:20Z

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I’m confused, are you getting different results than when running `. .venv/bin/activate` by hand? For me, it just works, or are you using some special direnv feature? but I also use starship as should you 🤓: https://starship.rs

I have probably even committed a copyright infringement against ...

2024-10-01T05:52:50Z

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I have probably even committed a copyright infringement against the PSF just for that quip! That jail time will be worth it. 💪

P.S. you’re in the video! this is my shtick now to trick people ...

2024-10-01T05:06:14Z

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P.S. you’re in the video! this is my shtick now to trick people into watching my shit. random references!

this reminds me I wanted to ask you forever: are you aware of a ...

2024-10-01T03:48:52Z

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this reminds me I wanted to ask you forever: are you aware of a tool that I can feed audio (or video) in and that spits out subtitles that I can upload to YouTube? YT’s auto-subs are a bit challenged by my… speaking idiosyncrasies… but e.g. AudioHijack’s Whisper model produces pretty good results but not in a format I can use (I think I need SRT?). MacWhisper doesn’t mention anything like that either :-/

Finally, I present y’all my latest video: uv IS the Future of ...

2024-09-30T15:12:26Z

Finally, I present y’all my latest video: uv IS the Future of Python Packaging 🐍📦

It's the result of everything that happened since uv 0.3.0 shipped and I'm excited to share it with y’all: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8UuW8o4bHbw

I'm happy to report that it's almost a minute shorter than the last one. And now I collapse.

“It is harder to write code with $X.” and “It is easier to ...

2024-09-15T08:53:37Z

“It is harder to write code with $X.”

and

“It is easier to write CORRECT code with $X.”

is a pair of statements that comfortably can be true at the same time, making people uncomfortable because holding two thoughts at once is distressing.

This is a Toot about Rust, Python type hints, testable code in general, …

Something weird about myself that I keep learning the hard way is ...

2024-09-12T07:24:17Z

Something weird about myself that I keep learning the hard way is that for some weird reason, my brain does not click with an one-tool-for-everything approach.

I love Obsidian & I love it for knowledge management. But for some reason, I cannot write in it. There’s no meaningful difference between writing in iA Writer & Obsidian, but forcing myself to write in Obsidian causes so much resistance I just don’t write. I also had to move research back into MindNode. (1/2)

I would probably _need_ AI to slice things somewhat sensibly, but ...

2024-09-10T04:17:28Z

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I would probably _need_ AI to slice things somewhat sensibly, but this one doesn’t support Mastodon and Bluesky and I hate the future we’re living in

doesn’t support Twitter & LinkedIn, so not a big help :-/ ...

2024-09-10T04:11:44Z

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doesn’t support Twitter & LinkedIn, so not a big help :-/ I’m trying to post natively and not just URLs to some blob somewhere, so I don’t think a proper mirroring is even possible.

no :( the problem is that each has a different max length, too, ...

2024-09-10T03:35:19Z

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no :(

the problem is that each has a different max length, too, so it wouldn’t be trivial to achieve.

a) that’s what people WANT. It’s emphatically not what _I_ ...

2024-09-07T06:35:57Z

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a) that’s what people WANT. It’s emphatically not what _I_ want but talk to Python normies, look at the blog posts: they all want one tool to rule them all and consider the current state of having to choose bad.

b) you can’t fork Uber/Lyft, so I don’t think it’s a fair comparison. If uv were commercially-licensed I would get the argument, but not as long as it’s MIT/Apache.

Yeah the times of “give us money, BUT NOT LIKE THAT” live in ...

2024-09-07T05:27:20Z

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Yeah the times of “give us money, BUT NOT LIKE THAT” live in the ZIRP past. TBH I personally find the Fastly situation a lot more distressing because as you said there’s not alternative and unlike uv it’s not MIT/Apache-licensed.

And Ruff is a separate topic entirely to me; a topic that I see a ...

2024-09-07T05:13:27Z

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And Ruff is a separate topic entirely to me; a topic that I see a lot more critical. But we’ve been BEGGING corporations to spend money to fix Python packaging and now we’re turning up our noses. I find that highly irritating. We can’t expect this to be fixed by individuals making beer money on GitHub Sponsors.

I don’t think y’all quite grok what uv makes so special due ...

2024-09-07T05:10:38Z

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I don’t think y’all quite grok what uv makes so special due to your seniority. The speed is really cool, but the reason Rust is elemental is that it’s one compiled blob that can be used to bootstrap and maintain a Python development. A blob that will never break because someone upgraded Homebrew, ran pip install or any other creative way people found to fuck up their installations. Python has shown to be a terrible tech to maintain Python.

Given how much of Python’s ecosystem nowadays depends on Rust, ...

2024-09-07T04:58:57Z

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Given how much of Python’s ecosystem nowadays depends on Rust, I don’t consider that a valid argument anymore. As Jacob wrote in the initial post, it’s a thing now wherever we like it or not. uv is neither the first nor the last and it shouldn’t be held against it. I’m pretty sure Hatch has a Rust component nowadays too.

As much as I hate VC, I find this whole genre of pearl-clutching ...

2024-09-07T04:42:42Z

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As much as I hate VC, I find this whole genre of pearl-clutching around uv weird. FOSS projects flame out all the time too. If Frost loses interest, there’s no PDM anymore. Same for Ofek and Hatch(ling).

I fully expect Astral to flame out and us having to fork/take over—it’s the circle of FOSS. To me uv looks like a genius sting to trick VCs into paying to fix packaging. We’ll be better off either way.

uv just shipped target virtualenvs and has—for my ...

2024-09-04T08:16:00Z

uv just shipped target virtualenvs and has—for my workflows—become the finest #Python packaging tool. I’ve updated my Docker guide to the latest features and have no notes left: https://hynek.me/articles/docker-uv/

I mean in the sense of not being able to build wheels for older ...

2024-09-03T16:46:27Z

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I mean in the sense of not being able to build wheels for older macOS. Although not sure how much of a problem that is in reality

this sucks wrt to cibuildwheel, no? :|

2024-09-03T15:22:13Z

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this sucks wrt to cibuildwheel, no? :|

Since whenever I talk about #Python and #Docker, I invariably get ...

2024-09-02T09:23:39Z

Since whenever I talk about #Python and #Docker, I invariably get told that virtual environments inside of Docker make no sense, I’ve spent my weekend writing down why I think it does.

I don’t intend or expect to convince everybody, but I hope to add nuance to the discussion: https://hynek.me/articles/docker-virtualenv/

AI is not a practice, it’s a tool and potential shortcut. ...

2024-08-31T14:27:01Z

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AI is not a practice, it’s a tool and potential shortcut. People will find ways to use it despite bans which will make everything even worse.

Yeah but that’s exactly gonna happen once you work under ...

2024-08-31T14:05:07Z

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Yeah but that’s exactly gonna happen once you work under economic constraints and middle managers pining for promotions. My point is exactly what you’re accidentally implying: they’re amazing for tinkering but a time bomb in prod envs. 🤷‍♂️

There’s kinda a difference between tinkering where ambition is ...

2024-08-31T13:40:46Z

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There’s kinda a difference between tinkering where ambition is good, and writing production software, no? What that articles predicts is a wave of janky, poorly-understood, and unidiomatic code that will eventually collapse under its own weight. I like LLMs as an assistant to learning, but man a world where people “learn” .NET in an afternoon and start churning out “production” code is positively dystopian to me

LLMs propelling XML back into the mainstream is not what I had on ...

2024-08-30T03:46:35Z

LLMs propelling XML back into the mainstream is not what I had on my 2024 bingo card.

https://simonwillison.net/2024/Aug/30/anthropic-prompt-engineering-interactive-tutorial/

I don't have anything and I'm unlikely to produce ...

2024-08-29T07:53:46Z

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I don't have anything and I'm unlikely to produce anything, because after virtualenvs and src dirs, I have no interest to be prominently in a Python culture war it’s just too fucking exhausting. I'm only talking to you about it because we’re mutuals in the first place. ;)

virtualenvs are the closest we have in Python to a build ...

2024-08-29T07:47:01Z

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virtualenvs are the closest we have in Python to a build artifact. They’re well-documented, widely tested, & can be deployed both as Docker containers, distro packages, or just an rsync. uv even brought back relocatable venvs so you can move them around!?

I see no semantical reason to keep the application outside of the virtualenv—it makes deployments weirder & more complicated to reason about (cue PYTHONPATH).

Well, I wish we would make the good thing easier instead of ...

2024-08-29T07:30:13Z

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Well, I wish we would make the good thing easier instead of enabling sloppiness, but 🎶 maybe I’m just a dreamer 🎶

I don’t know man, this looks a big step back. There’s no ...

2024-08-29T03:31:02Z

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I don’t know man, this looks a big step back. There’s no reason for Django apps to not be properly packaged. I understand why they did it (if you want to go big, you have to support sloppy patterns), but it’s a loss nevertheless. :(

I got nerd-sniped into writing my take on prod-ready #Docker with ...

2024-08-28T08:59:07Z

I got nerd-sniped into writing my take on prod-ready #Docker with uv!

If you care about fast multi-stage builds, here you go: https://hynek.me/articles/docker-uv/ #Python

the uv bug tracker sure feel like a place where history is made ...

2024-08-21T13:44:03Z

the uv bug tracker sure feel like a place where history is made right now

The funny thing is that most of it was there for a while, they ...

2024-08-21T03:43:36Z

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The funny thing is that most of it was there for a while, they just didn’t talk about it. For example due to my GitHub Actions I’ve run into uvx months ago. :D

I mean: cross-platform lock files! They seem to have already ...

2024-08-21T03:39:36Z

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I mean: cross-platform lock files! They seem to have already implemented Brett Cannon (npub1nmm…0f6a) ‘s in-dev PEP!? Single-file scripts! Workspaces! uvx!

Astral’s uv 0.3.0 announcement is a great example of how ...

2024-08-21T03:32:24Z

Astral’s uv 0.3.0 announcement is a great example of how Łukasz Langa (npub1ttn…ahw4) once told me: “you’d be surprised what you can achieve in 8h / day”:

https://astral.sh/blog/uv-unified-python-packaging

Since he’s probably asleep; pretty sure it’s ...

2024-08-19T11:28:01Z

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Since he’s probably asleep; pretty sure it’s https://micro.blog/

There an updated version of my article here btw ...

2024-08-14T18:24:05Z

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There an updated version of my article here btw https://hynek.me/articles/python-virtualenv-redux/

I was wagering 50:50 whether you're old enough to have any ...

2024-08-12T13:24:35Z

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I was wagering 50:50 whether you're old enough to have any idea what I'm talking about 😂

have you checked the jumper configuration??

2024-08-12T13:22:30Z

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have you checked the jumper configuration??

beautiful On macOS, `pipx run --python 3.12 mopup` is so much ...

2024-08-08T05:05:02Z

beautiful

On macOS, `pipx run --python 3.12 mopup` is so much better than any of the on-demand builders and their various weird failure modes. Even standalone-python has failed on me in practice due to the way it’s compiled.

My favorite feature remains that it’s a universal build with a force-x86 binary called `python3.12-intel64` that makes it easy to create virtualenvs that are guaranteed to be Intel-base (and not ARM).

https://blog.glyph.im/2023/08/get-your-mac-python-from-python-dot-org.html

A current pet peeve of mine is people claiming that one starts ...

2024-08-03T21:05:18Z

A current pet peeve of mine is people claiming that one starts one’s programming journey with simple code, then somehow evil OOP and even more evil patterns come along and make everything super complex. But fortunately at the end is enlightenment and simple code again. (1/6)