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 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

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. 😅

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

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if you ACTUALLY need an VPN, get @npub1xh7c...v9hj (and definitily none of the sketchy drifters advertized on podcasts & YouTube videos)

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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 Without DDoSing Yourself in #Python – Safe Retries with stamina 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 English dictionary again.

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.