Miikka

Miikka, 11 days ago to random

I'm looking forward for 1Password to bring out a LLM-based password generator trained out on user data

hynek, 3 months ago to random

Shots fired by the flake8 maintainer.

We can have a nuanced discussion about the failures of flake8 etc, but you’ll still have to acknowledge that a VC-backed, non-Python project profited from decades of community work, & has sucked all air out of the space.

It’s not like I’m not using Ruff—but I do it begrudgingly & find the cheerleading around it baffling. It has practically destroyed a part of the ecosystem & it looks like nobody has seen the VC playbook play out.

https://youtu.be/XzW4-KEB664

hynek, 5 months ago to random

This has been bothering me forever: does anyone know why in VS Code in Python the import Quick Fix doesn’t work in tests?

Like: I write code with a symbol that isn’t imported yet. When I go on the squiggled symbol and press ⌘. in code within src/pkg_name, I always have to option Add “from X import Y”. If there’s multiple symbols with that name, I get them shown all.

If I do the same within tests, I get nothing except “Ruff (F821): Disable for this line”

Is this normal? Any leads?

b0rk, 7 months ago to random

git rebase: what can go wrong? https://jvns.ca/blog/2023/11/06/rebasing-what-can-go-wrong-/

drewdevault, 7 months ago (edited 7 months ago) to random

A "stable" release

hynek, 9 months ago to random

I’ve finally done it: the first stable version of my svcs (read: services) package is up on PyPI.

As you may have noticed, I have spent the past months trial-and-erroring, talking to everybody who wouldn't run away, and writing docs. So many docs. [1]

Miikka, 1 year ago to random

Great post from Graydon Hoare about what Rust would be like if he had been a BDFL.

Graydon is great and I would've liked many of the features in the hypothetical Graydon Rust. However, Rust is going to be around for a long time and I believe that the community will be better at evolving and adapting the language over the years than any BDFL and that's a big plus in my books.

https://graydon2.dreamwidth.org/307291.html

Miikka, 1 year ago to random

I’m thinking of participating in the #ShittyCameraChallenge with this CAT B35 mobile phone. It’s actually only a couple of years old, but you wouldn’t know it from the camera quality. Example pic attached.

View from a sea kayak with a pylon in the distance. The colors are overly dark.

Miikka, 1 year ago to random

This blog post on AI's effects on work skills by danah boyd is great.

I learned the concept of "moral crumple zones", introduced by Madeleine Elish. When an autonomous system, such as self-driving car, loses control, it assigns the control back to a human operator. It's too late for the human to do anything, but they will bear the moral and legal responsibility.

The human is the part of the self-driving car that is designated to absorb the moral impact on crash.

http://www.zephoria.org/thoughts/archives/2023/04/21/deskilling-on-the-job.html