NostraDavid

*Freedom of Expression

We don’t have Freedom of Speech, but we do have Freedom of Expression. Important difference, even though it may freak out some Americans.

It’s still a draft, but that’s just a weirdly unnecessary change, IMO. There is no need from anyone to have the versions shift by 11 versions.

Here’s a better overiew: https://devguide.python.org/versions/

Oh man, I remember this from years ago when the only 1-up on Minecraft it had, was that I could run it at 60 FPS, infinite chunks in all directions, no extreme lag spikes while generating the map, and further view distance.

Zero mods back then, so I’m happy to see the mod support!

Learn how to test (which is also what the article recommends).

Write unit tests. Write property-based tests. I don’t care which ones, but automate the SHIT out of your tests.

Also curse at your school for not teaching you this from day one.

Alas, I don’t know any articles or books on how to learn, because school didn’t teach me either. I learned the theory from Uncle Bob, among some others, but had to learn the actual work from work…

One year left, before W10 support goes out the Window.

Protip: pip install pyupgrade And then find . -name '*.py' -not -path '*.tox*' -print0 | xargs -0 pyupgrade --py310-plus in your repo to update what can be updated.

BTW, pyupgrade’s creator, asottile (that’s his name) also has an informative channel: Anthony Writes Code where he explains Python features, or goes into interesting bugs he ran into, etc. The good stuff.

So I remember the plan to improve Python’s speed from 3.9 to 3.13… Has there been an updated plan since? I presume the JIT will likely be faster in 3.14 (it’;s already at parity - pretty impressive for a first release), but is there anything else planned?

VSCodium doesn’t have the Python plugin, does it? It also misses the config sync when you’re logged in (IIRC). Not the worst to miss if you start out, but I’ll take it over having to track EVERYTHING in my code-workspace file.

Nice! I didn’t go because I couldn’t find anything I really wanted to see, but my co-workers enjoyed themselves, which was nice :D

ThePrimeagen invited Matt to explain what’s going on.

TL;DW Matt’s claim is that he tried to get WP Engine to pay for a Trademark license (or whatever it’s called - I’m recalling from watching yesterday), over several months, and they tried to legally block him in every way. Their self-claimed contributions to Wordpress were (as he tells it) that they held conferences where they promoted their own stuff only - code contributions have been minimal.

So the combination of not willing to pay for the trademark + not contributing back (not in code, not in helping the community) is Matt’s reasoning for blocking them from using Wordpress’ resources.

He also mentioned that he has good relations with other Wordpress hosts, so it’s not like he’s trying to block anyone else from hosting, but they were all willing to pay for the use of the Trademark (and/or contribute back).

Well, she did tell that she didn’t get a budget, so they just effectively stole from other departments. Want a table that’s not bolted down? Take it.

But that’s Navy internals, (arguably) not a massive for-profit company that’s going it out of sheer greed.

As well as the release date for 3.13! 2024-10-01

https://devguide.python.org/versions/

Wild that Reddit’s creation is closer to the start of the Eternal September than it is to today (19 years).

Good. Super-fast growth fucks with local internet culture. Look at what happened to reddit when digg died.

Because if we are in different zones we could both commit around 09:00 local time, so then it would seem we both committed at the same instance in time, which we didn’t.

If we were both running UTC it could work, I guess; otherwise the order of commits would stop making sense.

edit: unless you meant to auto-convert the local time to a unix timestamp, that could work. I’m overthinking stuff.

I blame Digg for failing. It increased Reddit’s popularity too fast, which was a bad thing bringing too many people, fucking up the culture reddit had built (which wasn’t much, but it was ours).

It’s a containment site; has been for a while.

Downvoted for paywalled medium article. That being said: I have no idea how I would use Python differently without the GIL, but I’m glad we’re getting the option!

This blog is my favorite Linux blog!

I love Robert and his YT antics - his whole “The X command is my favourite Linux command!” shtick was both funny AND informative!