github.com/Tinche/quatt... Why did it make me so long to do this? Video games probably

Played a little Death Rally (classic) last night. One of my favorite games from ~30 years ago. It holds up, still a fun game. Although the experience is a little different playing it on a 38" widescreen vs a 14" Adi ProVista 😬

Feeling cute, might publish later: github.com/Tinche/pytes...

@alexwaygood.bsky.social I liked your "typing tests in markdown code blocks" idea so much I stole it into a pytest plugin I'm planning to publish soon. That's ok with you folks right? I mention that it was inspired by you in the README.

Reading the latest extended incident report from Honeycomb makes me want to never run Kafka in production. Which is an approach that's served me fine up to this point in my career, why not in the future as well? 🤞

Ghostty is written in Zig and it really shows, unfortunately

The Steering Council has formally accepted the TypeForm PEP. This is big news for cattrs but I'll hold off on implementing it until Mypy enables support for it without a flag.

Apparently on Linux uv defaults to hardlinking files from its cache when installing stuff into a virtualenv. That kind of sucks for people who sometimes edit third-party libraries to stick prints or breakpoints in there, like me.

It has been [0] days since some monkeypatching has caused me to waste over an hour of debugging.

Since upgrading my OnePlus Open to Android 16, my home screen reset itself to blank twice. Super #firstworldproblems, but it feels like someone rearranged the furniture in my house. Trying to reconstruct app position by muscle memory right now (again).

Doing chess lessons on Duolingo. "Pin my queen with your bishop" sounds way more fun out of context

You find a project you like, but you can't use it due to the license (maybe it's GPL or AGPL). What's stopping you feeding it to an agent and having it port it to another language, and then potentially back again? Bam, no more copyright. This is what AI companies are doing in the first place, yes?

day one in mamdani’s new york

Dipshit Derek king of season 5

Back in the olden days™️ it used to be the case that if a person went to the trouble of publishing an open source project - setting up the repo, tests, CI, documentation) - you could at least assume said person spent a modicum of time validating their idea first, by doing a little research.

Turns out J. Michael Straczynski (of Babylon 5 fame) worked on both the original He-man cartoon and the Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future show. I haven't seen Babylon 5 but this dude had a large influence on my childhood. Maybe I should just watch it 😅

Kudos to @hynek.me for writing hynek.me/articles/mac..., which just solved my problem.

I like `just` a lot. I switched all my open source stuff to it (from make) and we're in the process of adopting it as standard at $DAYJOB. Would not go back to make for my needs. But I have this niggling suspicion a task runner based on Python would be better.

Hot take: saying we need EU big tech is like saying we need EU asbestos

Sick in bed since Monday afternoon Feeling significantly better today, but now the toddler is burning up. 🫠🫠🫠

Looks like Wolfgang Lohr replaces Caravan Palace as my artist of the year on Spotify. Katzenjammer in there too.

Who would win? The most sophisticated mainstream type system of our age vs One unwrappy boi

Hm, but I was told capitalism optimizes resource allocation 🤔

Everyone is ignoring the best part of the proposal to introduce Rust into CPython. We'll be able to stick a big fat "Written in Rust" at the top of the readme.

Bodied by my eldest , frankly

PEP 747 – Annotating Type Forms (peps.python.org/pep-0747/) has been accepted by the typing council! This is great news for cattrs. Also the second PEP I'm aware of where cattrs is mentioned by name.

I just ordered 2 usb sticks from ali express, each 64 TB(!!) for like 11 euros. This has to be a scam, right?

Resisting... The urge... To buy... A Steam Machine... And hack it... Into... A home server... Send... Help...

Found a Python library for type-safe functional effects: github.com/suned/statel... Not sure if I'd use it but it's been a long long time since I've come across a library that's genuinely interesting.

@alexwaygood.bsky.social hello, quick question. Why does this type-check? It's very clearly wrong. (It also checks on Mypy.)

Reading a comment on a chess subreddit: "A peasants greatest achievement is to change its gender" Almost snorted tea out of my nose, fr

SemVer is just an attractive nuisance at point. The concept simply doesn't survive even a short contact with reality.

me: I should release more often boto3 maintainers: do u even lift bro

I naively thought my switch from Ubuntu to Arch (not omarchy, no worries) had been successful before actually fighting the final boss: printer setup 😬

Final tally, with SEVERAL HOURS to spare: * aiofiles: ✅ * cattrs: ✅ * quattro: ✅ * incant: ✅ * uapi: ✅

I'm putting together a talk for the Zagreb Python group about asyncio and free threading. Which asyncio (not necessarily ASGI even) web servers work on 3.14 free threading right now? Looks like uvicorn, hypercorn and aiohttp don't, yet? Granian yes maybe?

The Duolingo chess course is actually super fun

My desktop Ubuntu computer has had suspend issues for ages now. After debugging for a few hours, I'm trying a new strategy: simply replacing my Nvidia GPU with an ATI one from eBay. 🤷‍♂️

We get to drop 3.9 from testing matrices in a month. How time flies!

Python 3.14 readiness status of my stuff: * aiofiles: ✅ * cattrs: ❎ (blocked by attrs and potentially CPython) * quattro: ✅ * incant: ✅ * uapi: ❎ (no time atm)

Re: all of these outlandish claims made by various CEOs about how the majority of code in the future will be written by AI. In my particular case this might actually be true, but not for the reasons you think.

Conway's law basically states that you ship your org structure. I'm unsure if this is supposed to be a bad thing? Because multiple teams mixing their code in a single service is working out quite badly for me. At this point I'm all in favor of shipping my org structure. Sounds great.

let me throw some fuel on the fire that is the discourse about boys getting laid!!! current-day manopshere content is not good at getting boys laid and that's an effect of the incentives at play. you cannot build an audience of resentful little virgins if you succeed at helping them to have sex

Inspired by @hynek.me 's latest videos, I've switched cattrs to uv and just. While doing it I figured out I don't actually need tox any more. `just --set python 3.9 test` and uv takes care of everything. Not only does removing tox remove significant complexity, the tests are faster too.

The dangers of templating languages, exhibit 564

@alexwaygood.bsky.social hi, I'm close to switching cattrs from pdm to a combination of uv and just, removing tox altogether (github.com/python-attrs...). Anything I can do to support you folks running the test suite?

thanks everyone, all is good again, that was a bunch of pleasant emails to wake up to 🙏❤️ it looks like that the refunds were caused by GitHub, NOT Thanks.dev. They apparently double-charged them first & then screwed up the refunds: {{ COPILOT_JOKE }} Original warning stands: check your balances!

Seeing the same as Hynek on my account

Instead of hatewriting I used my time constructively and took Stanley's aiofiles PR over the line, so now we test on 3.14 and use uv!

Got the baby sleeping next to me so I'm reading a draft for PEP 795, adding deep immutability to Python. It contains this gem: Currently in Python, x: Foo does not give very strong guarantees about whether x.bar(42) will work or not, because of Python’s strong reflection support...