Have you ever noticed that the food graphics in Super Smash Bros. and Kirby Air Riders is flat “billboarded” stock images of food? This artistic decision from director Masahiro Sakurai has persisted through 8 games over nearly 25 years. #gaming #nintendo #smashbros sethmlarson.dev/food-jpegs-i...

2025 was another eventful year for PyPI! Critical security enhancements, powerful new org features, a better overall user experience, and transparent security incident response 🎉👏 Thank you, PyPI team & community! Learn more on our blog: blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-1...

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2,000 ICE agents invading Minneapolis. WTF. It's not that big a city. That's enough to terrorize the entire population. We only have about 600 regular cops.

"[Refusing ICE/DHS] is not reflective of Hilton values" 😡 Apparently Hilton corporate values include more racially motivated kidnapping of neighbors. Thank you for reporting on this @404media.co #uspol #mpls #minnesota

Minnesota has to come first - always. Today, I’m proud of the work we’ve done to make Minnesota the best place to live and raise kids. I’ve decided to step out of the race and let others worry about the election while I focus on the work.

@fexcollects.standingintheodds.com found a new ERAPI function, SetTextSpacing. This allows increasing the spacing between characters, lines, or both, of a run of text. Thanks Fex! ereader.miraheze.org/wiki/ERAPI-Z...

If you haven't already: call your representatives. @5calls.org makes it even easier with phone numbers for offices and scripts, if you aren't sure what to say. #uspol 5calls.org/issue/trump-...

First post in 2026 and we're cutting spritesheets like cookies with #Pillow and #Python 🍪 I needed this for a future project on the blog, maybe you will get some use, too! sethmlarson.dev/cutting-spri... #pixelart #sprites #spritesheet #retrogaming

@wordlessalibi.bsky.social and I went to “Little Bird Delicatessen” for the first time yesterday and this place is a winner!! 😋 We got the Wesley and Miles and both were great. www.littlebirddelicatessen.com #minnesota #mn #mpls #minneapolis

I created a “Wrapped”-style summary of gaming in 2025 on the Nintendo #GameCube, #Switch, and #Switch2 with my favorite games, a public dataset, and a bunch of SQL queries. This is my last post in 2025, thanks for reading! 💜 👉 sethmlarson.dev/nintendo-gam... #gaming #nintendoswitch #nintendo

"FEDERAL AGENTS NOT PERMITTED ON PREMISES" "NEIGHBORS SAY ICE OUT!" "LOVE THY NEIGHBOR RESIST" "PRIVATE PROPERTY NO ICE OR CBP ACCESS" South Minneapolis, December 2025

I published my notes on how I quickly setup a development environment for @play.date on Ubuntu, a hello-world app, and testing with the simulator and actual hardware: sethmlarson.dev/getting-star... #playdate #gamedev #gamedevelopment #lua #ubuntu

trying to cancel your internet service via the website? impossible. must call phone number. all operators are busy. what’s that? you’re in california now? why didn’t you say so!

Learning from @sethmlarson.dev here sethmlarson.dev/deprecations... Applying it to @fastapi.tiangolo.com 🤓

A little late Christmas blog post for the folks who want to organize or schedule parties using text messages 🎄 Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) for SMS, draft and send messages to groups of friends with QR codes! 📱📨 sethmlarson.dev/sms-bcc

A little late Christmas blog post for the folks who want to organize or schedule parties using text messages 🎄 Blind Carbon Copy (BCC) for SMS, draft and send messages to groups of friends with QR codes! 📱📨 sethmlarson.dev/sms-bcc

Happy holidays, Bluesky! I got you a megathrust earthquake, soil liquefaction, spine-tingling papers about the way our networks confound knowledge, and a PDF in a pear tree. It's my wrap on a year of trying to make sense of how we make sense of what's happening to us. www.wrecka.ge/landslide-a-...

PEP 770 was accepted in April of this year, what has happened since then? sethmlarson.dev/pep-770-sbom... #Python #SBOM #CycloneDX #SPDX #auditwheel #cibuildwheel

1. BREAKING Sharyn Alfonsi, a correspondent for 60 Minutes, sent an internal email to colleagues stating that CBS News editor in chief Bari Weiss “spiked our story” about the Trump administration and the transfer of deportees to a prison in El Salvador.

Drawing Truchet tiles in SVG: alexwlchan.net/2025/truchet... I had some fun writing parametric templates to create Truchet tiles and drawing pretty pictures, even if I’m not sure what to use them for. 🤔

Today is Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day "Volunteer Responsibility Amnesty Day is about checking with yourself, and ending the commitments you need to end – maybe by taking a break, or by rotating it on to someone else, or by sunsetting a project." volunteeramnestyday.net

Today, with the windchill struggling to reach 0°F at times, thousands marched down Lake Street in South Minneapolis protesting the actions of ICE. “ICE Out of Minnesota!” "MINNESOTANS KNOW ICE IS SLIPPERY AND DANGEROUS - IT'S TIME TO DE-ICE!" "Immigrants are not the problem"

trying to decide if this would be a good or bad idea

Wrote a short post about what getting elected to the Steering Council means to me. Baby Savannah could never believe it! I love Python! Python is forever <3! savannah.dev/posts/im-on-...

The @deltaemulator.com added beta support for #SEGA #Genesis and #MasterSystem games and I'm excited about it :) sethmlarson.dev/delta-emulat...

It's the last week to submit a #Python #security talk to #PyConUS, submit by Friday December 19th! pycon.blogspot.com/2025/11/trai...

Beta test!

Dawn (dawnwages.info) and Loren (www.linkedin.com/in/loren-cra...) discuss sustaining Python (www.python.org/psf/), governance, fundraising, PyCon US (us.pycon.org/2026/), and rejecting a $1.5M NSF grant over anti-DEI terms. Listen at 🎙️ podcast.sustainoss.org/276

The Internet forgets, but I don’t want to: alexwlchan.net/2025/social-... I don’t trust platforms to preserve my memories, so I built my own scrapbook of social media. I wrote about what the scrapbook is, how it works, and some of the inspirations and influences.

🚨Exciting News🚨 #PyConUS 2026 registration and hotel blocks are now OPEN and Travel Grant applications are LIVE! 🎉 Grab your early bird tickets now while supplies last and start planning your trip to Long Beach, CA 🌅✈️ All the details here: bit.ly/4s9htHN

Upcoming project for the blog... 👀 🍎🍞🍔🍰 #kirbyairriders #smashbros

The most *chef's kiss* part of this story is when Instacart says it's the stores that set the prices and then the stores point the finger right back at Instacart and say they don't set the prices on the platform. truthout.org/articles/ins...

I built a workflow to extract granular data from Nintendo “Play Activity” mobile phone screenshots using #Python and #OCR. I plan to use this data to create a “2025 Video-Gaming Wrapped 🎮” for myself including #GameCube and #NintendoSwitch data 👉 Read more: sethmlarson.dev/nintendo-swi...

Woohoo! Thanks for supporting Python, everyone 🤩🎉

The first thing you’ll notice when a bowl of Bún bò Huế hits your table is the glistening red color on the top of the soup. That’s pure heat.

urllib3 used "DeprecationWarning" for 3 years to deprecate API features and it didn't work, so what do we do instead? #python #deprecation #deprecate #api sethmlarson.dev/deprecations...

ICE raided a James Beard award winning restaurant & because the chef/owner was prepared, left emptyhanded:

Minneapolis, Saint Paul, Twin Cities: ICE is out terrorizing people. Please be aware. If you see them, call 612-441-2881 and then pull out your phone to record. Comply if they tell you to step aside but keep recording. You are legally allowed to film them.

Do you have a Switch 2 and/or Kirby Air Riders? ⭐ I am judging interest in creating a group of players to play City Trial mode together 🔴🔵 Reply here or send me a DM to register interest. #switch2 #switch #nintendoSwitch #nintendo #kirby #kirbyairriders

Dear neighbor, I want to let you know that we are witnessing increased enforcement actions by agents in South Minneapolis. There continues to be reports of residents being followed while driving, stopped and taken away. 1/

One weird trick for cheaper physical #Switch2 games: Selling your boxes, apparently? 🤔 #nintendo #switch #gaming sethmlarson.dev/one-weird-tr...

Please join us in thanking @sovereign.tech for committing to a €86,000 investment to improve the security of CPython and the Python Package Index (PyPI). We're thrilled to partner with them to improve security for all users. Read more on our blog:

ICYMI, we want your #security talks at #PyConUS 🤩 CFP closes December 19th #python #supplychain #opensource #oss pycon.blogspot.com/2025/11/trai...

🤓 babel format_list() which is similar to the web's Intl.ListFormat, also using unicode cldr data

Got my first #RSS notification for my “Nintendo Classics” tracker! 🤩 sethmlarson.dev/rss-feed-for... #nintendo #nintendoswitch #nintendoclassics

Nothing will top the one that was like “thank god for AI restaurants now know not to seat you outdoors when it’s raining”

There's a nasty #OpenSource #SupplyChain worm going around named Shai-Hulud. It's also capable of exposing some projects' long-lived PyPI API Tokens. Read more on what's happening, and what you can do to protect your projects. TL,DR: Adopt Trusted Publishing 🔐🚀📦 blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-1...

"Python is used everywhere, and every single use of Python is convening in one place: What a unique opportunity." @juanitagomezr.bsky.social and @sethmlarson.dev share why #PyConUS is *the* place for security conversations you'll want to be in! www.youtube.com/shorts/MMe0g...

On December 4, 2007, in the Usenet group “Friends of the Friendless,” someone wrote: “Happy Friendsgiving Y’all!” And that is the first recorded use of ‘Friendsgiving’ in print.