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• Post #4271353

  With cheap server upgrades on Hetzner being unavailable, I'm going back to the roots, babyyyy (all my servers have grown swapfiles over the last month. swapon like it's 2008)

• Post #4122750

  I did not realise I had strong feelings on docstrings. I use them sparingly, and while they are a hack, at least they serve a good purpose. I know people have opinions on the placement of line breaks and quotes, but I thought I was above these things. That this was Python programmers yearning for curly-brace level style wars. I was mistaken. I just encountered docstrings written in regular quotes rather than triple quotes and, no, apparently I DO have strong feelings on docstrings. #python

• Post #4062994

  The Internet is an amazing place that we built. (None of us are free of sin.)

• Post #3562483

  TIL: If your (Android) phone is not rooted, there is no way to get your Firefox history beyond the ~two months included in Firefox Sync.

• Post #2294932

  Excellent post on the correct SI unit for (HTTP or not) request rate: https://entropicthoughts.com/si-units-for-request-rate The world needs more blog posts like this.

• Post #2138120

  ATTENTION, Public Service Announcement: Do not upgrade your npm. Do not upgrade to 5.7.0, released yesterday. It changes file permissions of /etc, /boot, /user, … when run with sudo. Avoid, duck, cover, whimper. https://github.com/npm/npm/issues/19883

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• Post #1978822

  The new pip version comes with experimental lockfile support *and* `--uploaded-prior-to` for dependency cooldowns, neat. #python

• Post #1978821

  "Fast16: The Cyberweapon That Predates Stuxnet by Five Years" was an interesting read https://hackingpassion.com/fast16-pre-stuxnet-cyber-sabotage/

• Post #1841355

  #Stuttgart

• Post #1682080

  It brings me great joy to block my first drive-by AI open source PR guy <3 (not for using AI; for drive-by spamming a PR and then returning with the same PR two weeks later after I closed his first one explaining why it was not suitable to be merged at this point)

• Post #1682078

  Where would I go if I wanted reliable CI for my Python software project? Running tests, linting checks, docs checks, translation checks and so on. Does not need to produce build artifacts (though seeing console output of the process would be nice for debugging reasons). With GitHub Workflows approaching Travis-levels of reliability, I'm at "some 9s would be nice"

• Post #1100724

  some good notes by @DRMacIver on his use of AI for coding at https://drmaciver.com/2026/04/how-ive-been-using-claude-code/

• Post #1100723

  Oooh, the new camera comes with integrated AI!

• Post #1022641

  I've been an admin and moderator for chaos.social for nearly five years now (😱). A good enough reason as any to reflect on the Good/Bad/Ugly aspects of community management. https://rixx.de/blog/on-running-a-mastodon-instance/

• Post #815011

  Tja, Triodos macht zu, wo geht’s jetzt mit dem Geschäftskonto hin …

• Post #815010

  I am so very confused Like, I'm glad to be back at 32GB of memory, though I'd have preferred it if I hadn't had to buy 16GB for more than 32GB cost me a few months ago But also wdym each works fine on its own but one always produced errors when used with others

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• Post #812736

  Delightful morning reading: “An ssh adventure” (or: smuggling your bashrc onto remote servers) The perfect amount of unhinged. I was already sold on reading the whole thing and giggling throughout when I got to “The filesystem is basically global state, global state is morally wrong.” https://gitlab.com/-/snippets/2149340

• Post #750527

  roll roll roll your own upstream's being mean if you see dependabot don't forget to scream