dazfuller, 11 hours ago to DuckDuckGo

So, with #DuckDuckGo being down, what is everyone using instead (that isn't Google)?

I'm currently looking at #StartPage which seems okay

adamchainz, 1 day ago to random

♦️ Yay, my #Git force push blog post was featured in this week’s @pythonbytes ! 🥳

https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/show/384/force-push-lightly

yvonnezlam, 3 days ago to random

Greetings new followers! I believe many of you got here because @kevlin (thank you!) mentioned a tweet of mine in a talk. My stance on many of the questions/discussions taking place in my mentions might be addressed by the original thread, so here it is:

Or even "we don't have guests, and the guest room bathroom is mysteriously out of toilet paper. Can whoever is using that bathroom please make sure it's restocked?" The thing with tech debt is that in order to have a useful discussion, you need to be able to talk about
@yvonnezlam - As anyone who has ever argued about housework knows, housework arguments are disturbingly specific. It's always "Who minds the most?" and "l don't use that," and "Who's going to do the work?" and (rarely) "Who's going to manage getting this done?" @yvonnezlam - Bringing some of that uncomfortable specificity to discussions of tech debt could be really useful. We need to be able to talk about who minds and why and where the work should live. @yvonnezlam - We also need to talk about how what we do affects other teams/people. Team A can decide not to worry about concurrency right now, but they might be sticking Team B with that work down the road. @yvonnezlam - Right now, with the financialization metaphor, no one cares, because we know "down the road" might never happen. But: that means we don't think "Hm. We're not going to develop in-house expertise on concurrency in a hurry. Maybe we should hire/send people to training/support ... @yvonnezlam - ... people who are interested in this kind of thing doing some study?" or any number of other things to spread the load when the time comes. We don't think about what work Team B might need to put down in order to pick up the problem that everyone knows has been brewing forever.
@yvonnezlam - We don't think "Team A took on this debt because they didn't know how to do the right thing and they had to do something. Not their fault, but...that wasn't good." @yvonnezlam - Whereas if we thought of it as more like housework, we could think "ok, the kids made this mess, now someone has to clean it up, can we get some of the kids involved since they have context for what they did, and it'd help everyone to get context for what to do next time?" @yvonnezlam -The debt conversation assumes a kind of statelessness, because that is the magic of financialization and financial metaphors. Anyone who has ever dealt with tech debt in an org knows that it's not stateless. @yvonnezlam - Mar 29, 2021 Housework is stateful. You don't get a clean slate. You often end up moving stuff from Place A to Place B so that you can clean and tidy Place A properly. And people have state (feelings) about it. O boy do they have feelings about it. @yvonnezlam - Mar 29, 2021 We picked a metaphor for "tech work that is about cleaning up old stuff instead of making new stuff" that sounds like something that would make sense to The Business, but (a) it's not clear it does, and (b) it confuses us thereby falsely constraining our options. /fin

izzy, 5 days ago to DataViz

Absolutely gorgeous #visualizations on transport in cities.

https://citiesmoving.com/visualizations/

#dataViz #dataDon #viz

erictleung, 8 days ago to opensource

food for thought when giving feedback to contributors.

the author reflects on giving feedback in OSS vs corporate.

OSS, you invest in the ppl and give lots of feedback. not in corporate.

and I like this takeaway:

> And so, I’ve learned that a person can absorb only about one piece of feedback per interaction, and then only if it’s labeled very specifically as feedback with the best intentions, and wrapped delicately in a feedback sandwich.

#OSS #OpenSource #GitHub

https://matthewrocklin.com/feedback.html

arildsen, 9 days ago to python

I have used numpy.allclose to test for approximate equality in Python for years, but I recently found pytest.approx better, because it lets Pytest interpret the result. For example, with numpy.allclose:

> assert np.allclose(result, 3.061, atol=1e-3, rtol=1e-3)
E assert False
E + where False = <function allclose at 0x7f8fea7efa60>(1.4872, 3.061, atol=0.001, rtol=0.001)
E + where <function allclose at 0x7f8fea7efa60> = np.allclose

#Python #pytest

hamatti, 10 days ago to blogging

Combining hockey and development? Yes please.

I love building small projects to enhance community projects and this spring the NHL playoffs and IIHF World Championships have been keeping me busy with building two web projects between the games.

https://hamatti.org/posts/two-small-hockey-web-projects/

#blogging

mhoye, 12 days ago to random

I'm on here looking for text indexers and everything is 'lightning fast exoscale terafloops that scales to enterprise quantawarbles with polytopplic performanations' and it would be great if this industry could breathe into a bag until it remembers that one person with one computer is a constituency that matters.

nota, 16 days ago to random

oh: neurotypicals should really learn to mask better. I know you want to talk about the weather but please just pretend you have a favorite lizard or something, it's not that hard

nicoespeon, 22 days ago to random

I will attend MenderCon 2024—a remote conf for people who deal with legacy codebases

📅 May 16
📍 Remote
🎫 Pay what you want (suggested $5)

There will be open-space sessions: you can bring up a topic you want to discuss

Interested? Join us 😉

Details & registration: https://mendercon.com/

hynek, 22 days ago to random

I have just read a sentence that said that mocks are crucial for relevant tests and now I have a migraine.

jonty, 23 days ago to random

User: you charge me when people make unauthorised requests to an S3 bucket?

AWS: yes of course

User: but

AWS: working as intended

User: but

AWS: thank you for your money

https://medium.com/@maciej.pocwierz/how-an-empty-s3-bucket-can-make-your-aws-bill-explode-934a383cb8b1

ludicity, 24 days ago to random

Just read through this very thoughtful piece from @lkanies on why large companies are painful to work at, and I highly recommend it!

https://lukekanies.com/writing/why-we-hate-working-for-big-companies/

"Even thinking about it now, my reaction is, “How would they know what my goals are?”

That’s the kind of question you can only ask in an authoritarian state, not in a free market economy. My goals became my company’s goals, and the only real way to ensure people worked toward them was providing a plan."

calpaterson, 27 days ago to random

Spent a lot of this week fixing several bugs in csvbase that people found.

I've always done test-first development. csvbase apparently has 89% test coverage (I just checked) and most of that 11% is non-production stuff or experiments. The test base has caught a huge number of bugs and regressions but still - a lot of mistakes get through.

I've never understood how anyone manages to write real production code without tests. Am I doing something wrong?

webology, 28 days ago to random

🤔 Friends, I hate to say this with fresh layoffs happening, but you are about to see how much "Big Tech ❤️s Open Source" after years of exploiting our work.

>$100 billion in cash reserves and record quarterly profits going back a decade doesn't provide even an ounce of job safety, job security, or even loyalty for the employees and projects who got them there.

If you believe otherwise and work for one of these companies, I hope you are mentally and financially ready for what is to come.

davep, 28 days ago to python

TIL Midlothian is in a different timezone from Hampshire.

#Python #Programming #Ollama

jamescooke, 29 days ago to random

Here's a smell that your Big Query query ain't that big - lots of 1 row tables getting used to load config-like values, which are then used for JOINs later.

So much cruft to clean up 😥 .

My brain says: - maybe couldda just done it in a PAndAs?! Let's definitely not learn about CTEs right?! 😬

#BigQuery

alper, 1 month ago to random

"A third truth is that we have a generation in crisis and in desperate need of the best of what science and evidence-based solutions can offer. Unfortunately, our time is being spent telling stories that are unsupported by research and that do little to support young people who need, and deserve, more."

The experts agree that kids need to be cared for better. The experts also agree that people like Haidt are grifters who do not contribute anything into that direction.

https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-024-00902-2

faithlierheimer, 1 month ago to random

https://open.substack.com/pub/faithfacts/p/dbt-documentation-for-dummies?selection=cfedbc78-df50-4a76-98ef-7d312c70a332&r=6sm7p&utm_medium=ios

Snarky but true

benroyce, 1 month ago to iran

With #Iran attacking #Israel, I'd like to point out the concept of a side channel attack in intelligence gathering

This is the Papa John's Pizzeria near the #Pentagon

notice something interesting about the little "busier than usual" indicator

and, why would that be, gentle reader?

allendowney, 1 month ago to random

Here's the first in a series of blog posts where I use Python (and Jupyter notebooks) to answer questions from Reddit's statistics forum.

"Can you calculate a standard error for harmonic mean?"

Yes!

https://www.allendowney.com/blog/2024/04/09/data-qa/

jonty, 1 month ago to random

I made something to watch the 2024 eclipse remotely!

This is every public webcam in the path of totality, with a live-updating view of the umbra.

https://jonty.github.io/2024_eclipse_webcams/

The view from a webcam showing that it is 1:31 PM and dark.

rmoff, 1 month ago to random

High-level post looking at Spotify's Data Platform—looking forward to the deep-dives that are apparently going to follow…

https://engineering.atspotify.com/2024/04/data-platform-explained/

xahteiwi, 1 month ago to random

Tapping the sign:

You don't take meeting notes for the people in the meeting. You take them for people who aren't in the meeting.

That includes three-months-from-now-you, who also isn't in the meeting.

joeyh, 1 month ago to random

Lasse Collin has started making some commits to #xz, interesting starting point here.

https://git.tukaani.org/?p=xz.git;a=commitdiff;h=f9cf4c05edd14dedfe63833f8ccbe41b55823b00