This talk by @amcasari at #nbpy had some necessary lessons about the state of the industry from a 1983 paper. Automation increases the need for operators who can comprehend the scope of the task being automated. HIGHLY RECOMMENDED: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=V9_AbI6ma54

Notices weird breaking change (not a big deal, but still) in pyca/cryptography, looks up change log, not mentioned, finds pr, pr description is just a link to a claude session which can’t be accessed without a claude account, merged without comment.

@NorthBayPython thanks for hosting such an excellent event! Thrilled that I get to have such a cool crowd in my new neighborhood. I’ll definitely be back next year.

#nbpy 2026 ran at a loss this year. It's a public service and we'll be back in 2027, but we could use your help closing the budget gap. Donate at https://nbpy.link/donate

Not at North Bay Python? We'll have talk recordings available and... for the first time ever, we're also livestreaming! #nbpy https://youtube.com/live/HoI6XKk9Tno

Hello if you are in the bay area over the weekend and are interested in technology and how it affects actual people, may I recommend popping up to Petaluma for @NorthBayPython? It's this weekend! Talks and tickets: https://northbaypython.org/ (We'll waive ticket costs on request too, if you […]

Been reading A Wrinkle in Time, etc. to my kid lately. Now in A Swiftly Tilting Planet, which is from 1978 and all about fear of imminent nuclear war. It wasnt supposed to be this timely.

Some flowers—such as this water lily—close at sunset. Pretty neat to watch.

I know it’s tough to get the details of grammar right in templated log messages, but I’m looking at “failed to pushing the blob…(the 3th running)” and that’s got to be up there.

TIL: oboes used to be called “hautbois.” Words are wild.

Bobcat blep

Hi folks, I'm trying to put together a list of AI generated contribution policies for different open source projects. Do you have any you can link to me here? You can also directly submit a PR to https://github.com/melissawm/open-source-ai-contribution-policies

Oh, hey, cool, my great great great grandfather’s portrait is the header image on a Wikipedia article. I wonder what it’s about…Oh. Boo, Joe. Boo.