Python was awarded a funding grant, funding grant asked Python foundation to remove all diversity and inclusion initiatives they have.

Python foundation said no and rejected the grant.

If you use Python, send a few dollars to the charity to keep it going. I’m pushing a dono on behalf of ScamGuard.

Inside the Hermitage, the winter palace where Tsar Nicholas II and his family lived before they were executed—in a country where Russians were starving.

I realized I’ve been sort of mourning the internet lately. It’s odd. This ‘place’ that used to contain a wealth of actually valuable information, and introduced me to many people I now call friends, and which paved the way for my career, has almost completely rotted away. It’s not coming back.

Bullying works.

It’s incredibly noticeable how often ‘and an army of outsourcers outside America and Western Europe’ is left out of these team sizes. That’s the part I find real uncomfortable.

"The products you love are tangibly worse. We're richer than ever, especially after all those layoffs. We're also building giant data centers that cost billions of dollars to force new and bad features into products you're already mad at, at the low cost of "the environment and every work of art."

It's a weird world where the shittier a piece of software looks, the more I trust it.

The fancy looking ones? They're going to steal my data or extort me in pricing or just not work.

Crappy looking tools made by some random dude? This shit is going to get the job done and do nothing else.

The problem with most machine-based random number generators is that they’re not TRULY random, so if you need genuine randomness it is sometimes necessary to link your code to an external random process like a physical noise source or the current rate of US tariffs on a given country.

in case you're wondering, "what's the harm in claiming an extinct species has been brought back from the dead" when it most certainly has not, our interior secretary is already using it to justify taking animals off the endangered species list

I feel bad for all the indie game devs out there making horror games right now, having to compete with reality and all.

between resist libs flooding bsky, facebook becoming a dead mall with ai users, twitter becoming a kingdom of gooners who punish each other for sincerity, and young ppl uncritically treating phones like digital oracles, we are coming up with new & exciting ways to Not Know How To Use The Computer

It seems 2025 will be very unsubtle with its metaphors and foreshadowing.

if arguing online changed anything we'd all be running Linux

great week if you’re interested in emergent narrative

It is really a pain in the ass to launch a video game!!

Art drawn by people who very rarely make art and think they are “bad at art” is 1000x cooler than AI art. It’s life-affirming. It’s often unexpected. I cannot overemphasize how much I love when people just go for it. You do not need the machine for this human endeavor.

the arc of the moral universe could be a bit shorter imo