#2 was "The Golden Pince-Nez" (1922), the weakest one of the bunch. The setting is done well, as is Holmes's dropping of cigarette ash to reveal a hiding place, but the motive is neutered and no longer political. Instead of the professor having betrayed his fellow anarchists in Russia, there's […]

With only a few hours left to go, WE HAVE CROSSED THE FINISH LINE, and fully matched all $17,000! Here is a screenshot of my own match (as I said at the beginning, I was going to give $5000 regardless and $5000 to match, so this is the full $10k).

Now that the remaining PNG files have been manually OCR'd, the total stands as follows:

We've raised $9238.74 which is 54.3% of our $17000 total. Once again within 24h of a contributor joining the match we are over half full, but we all stand ready to be maxed out so please keep those donations […]

As with all such collective-action problems institutional changes are what's required to make big changes, but personal changes can help, and one change you can easily make is to run DevPI on every development machine you run Python on.

In addition to lightening the load on PyPI's global […]