Post #1056567
2026-03-28 11:01 UTC
I was that kind of person that would run off-the-shelf tools on open source projects and report the findings (you know, those with a high false positive rate) hoping to help.
Now I'm kind of person that will run tools made by myself on open source projects and report the findings hoping to help.
What changed was that I learned enough to develop tools to help. What remains the same is that I often struggle to understand the findings (but I'm improving at this)
#FreeSoftware #OpenSource #Python
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@danzin@mastodon.social 2026-03-28 11:09
In related news, I've reported a couple hundred bugs on Python C extensions this week, that became a couple dozen issues and PRs. Very happy with the results, but the most important part to me is building (and releasing) the tools and running the analyses. Shout out to the maintainers of h5py, lxml, Cython, APSW, psutil, kiwisolver, pyhacl, cereggii, atom, enaml, and maybe others I'm forgetting, for being receptive and giving feedback and guidance. #Python