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Hynek Schlawack
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Pythonista & PSF fellow 🐍🏆, Gopher 🐹, blogger 📝, speaker 📢, YouTuber 📺. ❤️ nuance & outcomes, 🗣️🇨🇿🇩🇪🇺🇸

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2025 marks the year of the lord where the last cash holdout in Berlin fell: Xmas markets 🧑‍🎄🍷🔥💳
December 27, 2025 at 11:46 AM
December 26, 2025 at 5:11 PM
Reposted by Hynek Schlawack
Kudos to @hynek.me for writing hynek.me/articles/mac..., which just solved my problem.
December 23, 2025 at 9:54 PM
Remember PayPal's Honey scam? It's been a minute (a year, in fact), but MegaLag has just published part two to his Patrons and I'm 11 minutes in and it's already a doozy. Yes, it gets (much) worse.

www.patreon.com/MegaLag
Hol dir weitere Inhalte aus MegaLag auf Patreon.
Investigative Journalism in Tech
www.patreon.com
December 21, 2025 at 7:04 AM
I know I've glazed Overmind in my last video, but I think I've come to like mprocs more now! It separates the output, is actively maintained, and it works better overall for me: github.com/pvolok/mprocs
GitHub - pvolok/mprocs: Run multiple commands in parallel
Run multiple commands in parallel. Contribute to pvolok/mprocs development by creating an account on GitHub.
github.com
December 20, 2025 at 2:22 PM
it's kinda wild that there's still no widely supported file format for video files that allows multiple subtitle tracks. at this point apple's insistence on not supporting mkv can only be seen as a political decision?
December 19, 2025 at 12:21 PM
Blip is amazing: it's kinda AirDrop that works over the Internet & locally on iOS, macOS, Windows, and Android – Linux pending. Works with folders and data goes directly, no upload.

I've learned about it from MKBHD and I'm already sad how it'll inevitably go bad.

blip.net/
Blip is the fastest way to send files
Send big files with no size limits, at full quality, across platforms, directly to other people and devices
blip.net
December 15, 2025 at 9:45 AM
I have just bought my first Bluray in decades because I refuse to subscribe to another streaming service… it's less than $15 for a whole season… were they always this cheap!?

(I'll rip and stream it locally; my DiskStation/LG combo seems to support AV1 out of the box 🤩)
December 14, 2025 at 12:05 PM
DK: Bananza light be the game that ruined itself most by self-indulgently never fucking ending. Ever since Junction 2.0 I've been begging it to end but it kept finding ways to keep going. :( At the beginning I loved it, at the end I yelled expletives at it when it just wouldn't end. What a waste.
December 14, 2025 at 9:53 AM
nice, pinact, the GitHub Action pinning tool added version cooldowns in 3.5.0!

github.com/suzuki-shunsuke/pi...
Release v3.5.0 · suzuki-shunsuke/pinact
v3.4.6...v3.5.0 Features #1266 #1267 Add --min-age (-m) option Skip recently released versions when updating actions with -u flag. pinact run -u --min-age 7 # or using short alias pinact run -u -m ...
github.com
December 11, 2025 at 10:16 AM
I’m slightly feverish (I’m sure that’s the reason) to announce stamina 25.2.0! Among others, it allows `on` hooks to return custom back-off values (think: Retry-After headers!) and adds support for retrying generators (both sync and async):

github.com/hynek/stamin...
Release 25.2.0 · hynek/stamina
Highlights The headliners for this release are that on hooks now may return a manual back-off value (think: Retry-After headers!) and the support for generator functions (sync and async). Full chan...
github.com
December 11, 2025 at 9:19 AM
a pypi release script of mine just failed because sphinx linkcheck failed because… wikipedia has to throw 403s after the first request

i hate living in the future
December 11, 2025 at 8:28 AM
can't wait for ai bros to argue that csam laws are holding agi back www.404media.co/a-developer-a...
A Developer Accidentally Found CSAM in AI Data. Google Banned Him For It
Mark Russo reported the dataset to all the right organizations, but still couldn't get into his accounts for months.
www.404media.co
December 10, 2025 at 4:36 PM
I think my body is telling me to get back to Hawaii
December 10, 2025 at 7:18 AM
Reposted by Hynek Schlawack
The perfect chart that illustrates why Genocide Joe is a meme and Genocide Donny is not. Bonus points for “never happens”.
December 9, 2025 at 4:32 AM
guess who's booked first conference travel for 2026 👍👍
December 9, 2025 at 5:47 AM
Oura just told me to get ready for bedtime at 5am in the morning so I guess computers can get jet lag now too. #agi

(Yes, I'm physically back home; expect an exciting stamina release that was ready before I left but was too chicken to push before travel.)
December 7, 2025 at 4:05 AM
dropping liquid ass on us and fucking off sure is a boss move
December 5, 2025 at 2:34 AM
My resort (mix of timeshares & private property) has a Mai Tai Thursday that I accidentally walked into & it's the first time I've seen rowdy boomers & it's kinda cute. Didn't even know there's so many ppl here until they started cheerfully appearing with their walking frames from all corners.
December 5, 2025 at 2:14 AM
Hawaiʻi is paradise but coming back to Lahaina after 9 years is heart-breaking. What used to be a cute city is still a flat construction site with a few new houses, a few shell constructions, & lots of trailers & containers.

I remember the pain seeing the 🔥 on TV & it hits again. #lahainaStrong
December 3, 2025 at 5:22 PM
Who's ready for Xmas!?

(He said after working off the 1st-of-month dependabot/pre-commit GitHub PR queue.)
December 1, 2025 at 7:30 PM
Paddling into the 1st Advent
November 30, 2025 at 9:35 PM
I've been less the 24h at a hotel that has a Spectrum internet connection and I already know why everybody hates it.
November 29, 2025 at 11:33 PM
In 2020, after it became clear I'm unlikely to die of COVID, I've switched my perspective from fear to fascination.

I looked around & ~enjoyed~ experiencing unprecedented times. Couldn't change them, so I channeled my inner Willink & make the best out of it.

Today, I feel similarly about AI. 1/2
November 29, 2025 at 10:08 PM