Sometimes you look at the picture of the author of an in-depth technical article, and you think “yep, that's definitely the kind of person who would write this kind of article”

I am trying real hard not to just be snarky in a conversation about programming right about now.

Is there a nice, modern #Python project template (either for copier or cookiecutter) that is set up for uv and not Poetry? I keep seeing Poetry or pipenv ones, and I don't want one of those.

Some words about my dad.

Ideas.Offby1

Dad

My Dad died last week.

Today's irritated post: Emails with unsubscribe links that go through fucking click trackers.

Whatever you think about the killing of the insurance company CEO a few days back, I think we can all agree that the amount of effort being put into finding this killer far outstrips the amount of effort put into solving the murder of "regular people".

@npub1hv5x...xq0v I feel this; on one level I want to believe that the rule of law (typo’d as “o flaw", which... wow) will have some preservative impact, but I've watched as that has been weaponized over and over again *against* liberal institutions by schemers and opportunists, while it has proven to be very weak as a protection.