If you think about it, the story of Christmas is a lot like the history of the GNU project… it’s all about a beardy guy who goes around giving away free stuff.

Happy Christmas, internet.

Chrinternet.

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Python enums are really simple in translating back and forth from strings. #adventofcode2024

Love how easy it is to understand the transitive dependencies with uv tree 🚀

Ah, "How to name files", a topic that is near and dear to my 💜

My most recent (and semi-polished) iteration on this stuff was a 5-minute lightning talk for NormConf 2022. Here's the video & the slides:

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This is the first time I have noticed a physical note about GPL licensed code.

Spending the evening with some coding while listening to my liked songs on Spotify.

Nice to stumble on some old songs that I forgot that I really like.

#everythingcounts

Despite being a hardcore LaTeX(www.latex-project.org) user for many years, it is easy to appreciate simplicity of markdown.

I agree with @scott.hanselman.com that Urls are part of the UI, which I why I don't like how LinkedIn mangles urls.

Let's see if BlueSky can handle this descriptive url, without mangling it: www.hanselman.com/blog/urls-ar...

The art of refactoring legacy code is an interesting and challenging intellectual exercise that I suspect many software engineers enjoy.

Expressing the logic by fewer lines of code, well-named methods and the occasional hidden domain object that you "discovered" in the process, feels great!