TFW you get the “time to wind down” and “your flight is delayed by an hour” notifications at the same time #neverflywithhynek

so sad we’ll never know who the “some people in the front row” are https://fosstodon.org/@europython/115247600761994749

me: I can’t see British breakfast anymore; I’ll skip breakfast in the hotel and eat something nice in the lounge! the lounge:

I have to update my take on iOS 26: going from “meh” to “I really like it”! The redesign is a lot more thoughtful than the outrage-hungry takesmen wanted you to believe. This might be a good time to introspct whom not to boost in the future. (My understanding is that macOS 26.0 is indeed pretty […]

Our waiter just lost a bet because he thought we’re a Dungeons & Dragons group. #pyconuk

#pyconuk is one of the best executed conferences I’ve ever attended. 😮

Since #pyconuk has its AV on point, my keynote yesterday is already live on YouTube. I don't want to say/spoil anything about it, except that it's the first real keynote I've ever written, it encompasses almost 20 years of writing Python, the feedback has been phenomenal, and that you should […]

OH: they put a man on the moon with GOTO

OH: I know you from `pip install` #pyconuk

the perfect sticker does not exis…

Leaving rainy Berin for rainy Manchester! #pyconuk

i choose to believe that i’ve sold out a theater https://fosstodon.org/@PyConUK/115214349583768453

to my enormous shock, I’ve learned that a nontrivial amount of my American friends has no clue who Louis de Funès is so I guess I’ll have to plan a Clockwork-Orange-style The Wing or the Thigh watch party/intervention for next #pyconus

I’m hearing it might sell out 👀 https://fosstodon.org/@PyConUK/115191861020795735

There is something beautiful about taking notes about my first real keynote on the notebook from my first conference. 🥲

look i really don't want to be grandpa yelling at the cloud but i just don't understand how this can happen while scrolling thru a blog post

To make the solution to my Git problem searchable, I’ve dusted off the TIL section of my homepage: TIL: How to Push and Pull from GitHub Pull Request Branches https://hynek.me/til/github-pull-request-git-push-pull/

I feel stupid for asking this… but is there still no good way to checkout and later pull a pull request branch from another repo? We've got `gh pr checkout NUMBER` but the only way I've found to fetch updates is to delete the local branch and start over. I really don't want to play adlib with […]

now that I’ve got one to replace my rusty old TS3, you may know that the CalDigit TS5+ is back in stock in Europe again: https://shop.caldigit.com/eu/Docking-Stations?product_id=226

i know there's many all-stars to choose from but my favorite german word remains Steuererstattung

you know you’re on mastodon when someone posts about accepting imperfections to be a stronger movement and half of the replies are complaining about the moral imperfection of the post https://hachyderm.io/@haubles/115169969055033272

end of a saga! 🥲 https://github.com/python-cffi/cffi/releases/tag/v2.0.0

“At what point are folks going to try literally any other tactic than condescending rants? Does it matter that LLM apps are at the top of virtually every app store nearly every day because individual people are choosing to download them[…]?” https://simonwillison.net/2025/Sep/7/anil-dash/

it’s always a great sign when someone angry speaks of themselves in the third form

always good to receive a monthly reminder of all the wrong turns i've taken in my life

Brat. https://youtu.be/pzq_4REOABk

My first keynote draft left me in a weird melancholic state. I’m realizing that this is exactly the ONE keynote I can give right now. Everything’s in it that I have to give—including ALL my pet peeves. 🥰 Maybe I can write another in 20 yrs; but not now. Anyhow, tickets: https://2025.pyconuk.org/

Now that the first draft of my PyCon UK keynote is done and my nerves are settling down a bit, why don’t I check on the issues and PRs the accumulated on my FOSS projects…

Ouch, very familiar: > I maintain the project alone, as over the years the community has not expressed a need for more active participation. This is typical for infrastructure-level solutions that users don’t interact with directly. From […]

obviously if you're angry with something you should shit on the people trying to make the world better instead of shitting on the people making the world worse, that makes complete sense!

no I will not reply "no” if I'm not interested – I will report you for spam and block your whole domain forever

It’s a bummer this bundle ends before my PyCon UK keynote (~mild spoiler~), but why don’t y’all get these 25 books on software architecture just in case? (OF COURSE it has Architecture Patterns with Python) https://www.humblebundle.com/books/software-architecture-2025-oreilly-books

wow cool did Sentry just fucking HALF the spans included in our plan!? gotta love when a company introduces a feature you never asked for and doubles the price on a feature you care about cool cool cool, no action required indeed

I was never on Typepad but my blog was on Movable Type for a while. This is truly an end of an era. 🫡 https://everything.typepad.com/blog/2025/08/typepad-is-shutting-down.html

"We simply don’t know to defend against these attacks. We have zero agentic AI systems that are secure against these attacks.[…] It’s an existential problem that, near as I can tell, most people developing these technologies are just pretending isn’t there." […]

I can tell I‘m stressed when I stop reading for fun and only can relax by playing Donkey Kong Bananza as if it were PowerWash Simulator

holy shit that disk utility icon looks like **I** made it 😳 https://mastodon.social/@BasicAppleGuy/115089810537348465

morning read

this remains my most visited website 🫠https://shop.caldigit.com/eu/Docking-Stations?product_id=226

SO many #python frens that I see wayyy too rarely in less than 2mins 💔😭 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6G_QIu7Im4

intellectually, I always knew those "podcast interview” and “street interview” ads on Instagram were fake, but little did I know there's a whole big-ass agency specialized just on that: https://www.sgsocialbranding.com

SO close to 10x programmer! #agianytimesoon https://infosec.exchange/@adamshostack/115050433640095929

“What if AI Doesn’t Get Much Better Than This?” – a pretty good summary for those who don't want to read Gary Marcus’s rather… elaborate… treatizes. > I think it’s safe, at least for now, to turn your attention away from the tech titans’ increasingly hyperbolic claims 🧘‍♂️ […]

really loving to get told both that our whole economy is about to collapse because ai is such a big deal and that our economy is about to collapse because ai is a silly bubble

Today, we're announcing our first hosted infrastructure product: pyx, a Python-native package registry. We think of pyx as an optimized backend for uv: it’s a package registry, but it also solves problems that go beyond the scope of a traditional "package registry".

Just is now in debian stable 🥳 https://www.debian.org/News/2025/20250809

my love language is sending my friends LWN gift links to articles about them

tfw you finally get an MVP into prod that you thought would be done by Xmas… 2024

It is so profoundly bizarre to see both: - The insinuation that coders writ large don’t want to use AI tools and have to be forced - and the claim that somehow AI is the bee’s knees because all of genX are using it after passing on crypto or whatever. Both takes are obvious nonsense and this […]

🚨🚨🚨 uv has fixed my pet issue https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/issues/6314 and `uv tool install ansible --with-executables-from ansible-core` works now! 🚨🚨🚨 for us, that was the last blocker before going all-in on uv.