I went to a meetup up at Doordash on Friday, so it's amusing to find this "TEST TEST TEST [pulse 2022.07.28.19.59.32]" restaurant and 4 others, next door to "Mx Menu Demoooooo1231245"

"Nothing's immortal, except maybe COBOL" - Chuck Harris at #scipy2025 This was just one of the gems at his lovely keynote: My Dinner with Numeric, Numpy, and Scipy: A Retrospective from 2001 to 2025 with Comments and Anecdotes.

Any project that accepts code that was generated by tools violating license terms dilute and invalidate their own license. These include all automated tools in use today, as even training sets that exclude GPL nevertheless violate the terms of BSD and MIT licenses which require attribution. 1/5

Wouldn't it be nice if someone went through to highlight the newly un-redacted parts of previous JFK reports? I got you! Let me introduce you to `diff-jfk`

Look what I stumbled across with today's JFK files release: Hede Massing was a CIA contract agent 1956-1975 www.archives.gov/files/resear...

I just filled out the copyright year of a new project as 2015, how's your Monday going?

Spent too much time chasing down chiptune renditions of some music I like yesterday. Started off today feeling distracted and unproductive. Then it was "8-bit, engage!" You know what? I think it's going to be ok. A little extra dopamine drip flywheel keep things moving.

"Current Challenges in Free Software and Open Source Development" transcript now up: pirsquared.org/blog/current...

The #SciPy2025 Call for Proposals is live (as of mid December 2024, sorry forgot to share) over on scipy2025.scipy.org! Deadline for submissions is 2025-02-26, so get submitting!