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Due to popular demand (it's me—I'm the demand), I've decided to cut pgbg in two and liberate the database-agnostic parts.
So if you want a self-healing way to run a background thread in Python with flexible wakeups, check it out!
The ideal outcome would be if someone wrote something like mysqlbg or so on top of it. :D
https://bgt.hynek.me/stable/
To clean myself of my writing dry spell, here's a TIL that probably should’ve been a blog post:
TIL: SQLite WAL Mode Can Lock Short-Lived Readers
https://hynek.me/til/sqlite-read-only-wal-locked/
It was to be expected, but I need to stress how much #EuroPython benefitted from being the host of the CPython Core Summit this year.
As I keep repeating, the main value of #PyConUS for the COMMUNITY is the gathering of stakeholders for in-person exchange.
Given that I barely got any code written at the sprints (thanks, impromptu attrs sprinters, tho! ❤️) b/c I kept walking and talking and solving problems that otherwise take weeks to resolve, is a testament to how strong the attendance was.
I fear we’re watching multiple generations to give up any kind of ambition to improve at whatever craft can be automated mediocrely by LLMs.
Repeatedly pulling the prompt lever will never end in excellence. ESPECIALLY if the boosters are right, “prompting” is not a long-term valuable skill.
LLMs _can_ be used as skill multipliers but it’s up to YOU whether you choose to use them as a leverage for your own capabilities or whether you deskill yourself into a helpless slop slinger.
old and busted: delete failing tests
new and hotness: delete CI configuration
this is FOSS DoS; I have no other term for it
https://github.com/python-attrs/attrs/pull/1585/changes#diff-2e34befd0a8baf062ee92bf489a59da4b399ee4df628eae384f92b572ada48bb
can’t fucking believe that “omg we’re down all the time b/c we're being ddosed by too much code 🥺”-github is fucking hosting a fucking meet and greet with the fucking dude who’s responsible for some of the worst offenses by enabling an legion of mac minis flooding the world with slop.
guess github is now fully integrated into the org chart
https://github.blog/open-source/register-now-for-openclaw-after-hours-github/
it's happening huh
I've kept silent for a long time b/c I hate throwing fellow maintainers under the bus, but the situation around httpx 1.0 (which is developed in private and has a focus on adding a SERVER!?) has become untenable for a project of such importance.
I hope we as a community will find a way to navigate this situation gracefully ideally without 20 forks but with a reconciliatory ending.
And yes, this is very much adjacent to the MkDocs drama.
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like the “AI" part is just a smoke screen to do something really stupid and point at all kinds of advertising materials and pretending to be the victim.
and looking at the “wah wah we used flagship wah wah"… I'm having a gut feeling that the smarter the models become, the better they will get at a) convincing themselves any means are justified and b) finding adversarial ways to achieve whatever they want
excitedly awaiting a report of how claude code used a kernel exploit to drop a database
OH: Long Beach – The City That Sleeps #PyConUS
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(there's also already a surprise 3.0.1)
Merch idea for Beeware sprints #PyConUS
I have arrived in the highest creator echelon 🥲❤️
How to ruin the lives of a whole room in one slide. #PyConUS
OH: if you have Kerberos brain it all makes sense #PyConUS
TIL the Austin version of a Tim Tam Slam is a bone marrow mezcal.
Still not sure if it was a tourist joke but I got a compliment for not having mezcal-fat goo in my face unlike most others.
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viewing all replies still doesn’t work on this website :(
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@yossarian@infosec.exchange @jezdez@publicidentity.net thanks!
looks like i'm a baby: 41240
so close to funny numbers but no cigar!
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@leathekd@hachyderm.io there are many layers of "everyone should go to jail, but everyone is 100% responsible for their own hurt”
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@itsthejoker@hachyderm.io @drgroftehauge@sigmoid.social Also Y o
Your life is measurably worse now.
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@chrisjrn@social.coop Amarone, but stronger!
It’s a desert wine based on a wine that’s already lowkey a dessert wine
they finally broke coffeezilla https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rpZmjI8wFss
things are getting very stupid
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@ancoghlan@mastodon.social @mwb@fosstodon.org I mean what happened here is that any kind of community involvement was refused to the point of taking projects private. That’s not quite the typical playbook.
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@squidfunk@fosstodon.org An unlinked “look how awesome httpx 2 is gonna be” landing page has been posted at some point but I can’t find it anymore.
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@tdelmas@mamot.fr I've switched it to archive.ph which IIRC is problematic in other ways but beggars aren't choosers I guess
TIL there’s a “what if Amarone, but stronger”: Recioto della Valpolicella
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@freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz I was thinking of you, sir, while pressing every single letter on the keyboard.
It was indeed pretty good, can recommend. Somewhat different vibe tho. ;)
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@carlton@chaos.social The circle closes! ❤️
I really like to think that that talk put some thoughts and things in motion.
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@mwb@fosstodon.org @squidfunk@fosstodon.org Ah yeah right it was even worse: the server stuff was for 1.0 already :( and it’s both private and seeking funding to work on it…
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@kyle@mister.computer @nick@sloan.host There is no formal roadmap to excellence: I’m not pearl-clutching over entry jobs or interns who knows how that will play out. Some companies are even hiring them in the hopes LLMs can baby-sit them. Rather, I’m observing growing nihilism towards getting good at things “because an AI can do that better” which is true for almost all skills except those that we cho(o)se to be excellent at.
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@pauleveritt@fosstodon.org I’ve never heard that expression; I thought you misspelled Catbert until I double-checked :D
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@nedbat@hachyderm.io @freakboy3742@cloudisland.nz … with poor contrast because some people think colors that look great on their hi-dpi monitor looks great on a projector too. And I mean both classic light/dark contrast AND color contrast.
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