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.

Now that Transgender Day of Remembrance is behind us, I want all of my trans friends and trans no-relations to know that I will also remember you the rest of the year.

I'm making a second pot of coffee, trying to straddle the line between "Caffeine can increase anxiety" and self-medicating my scattered attention span today.

Does anyone else know what asottile is referring to in this comment on a pre-commit issue? I have utterly failed to find a duplicate here:

GitHub

Python language: add option to use uv instead of pip for venv creation & dependency installs · Issue #3222 · pre-commit/pre-commit

search you tried in the issue tracker "uv" "uv pip" "pip" "astral" describe your actual problem I've been using uv instead of pip and virtualenv an...

I think LLMs are basically the new generation of code templating engines, except that they are way more context aware and less fiddly to set up, at the cost of some present day output quality issues. Now I want to try write a project layout generator driven entirely by LLMs and see if it would actually, like, work.