Long but very good: "An essay on wank" It names and identifies one of my least favorite genre of posts – finally I have a proper term for it! I'm sure I've been guilty of it too in the past, so it's useful for self-regulation, too.

An essay on wank | deadSimpleTech

i’ve made it thru Mathematik für Informatiker 1–3 so legally I don’t have to do math ever again

so we have started offering the white label version of

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Weigh the soul of incoming HTTP requests to protect your website!

to customers struggling with overload, and well… #rageAgainstTheSlopMachine

the only valid shirt to wear while giving an eulogy for Michael “voidspace” Foord. #EuroPython

There’s gonna be an open space on Python and complex applications tomorrow at 10am in room 223+224: “Is Python suitable for writing maintanable (complex) software?” I’ll try to be there & as far as I am concerned, Betteridge's Law of Headlines doesn’t apply! #EuroPython https://calendar.google.com/calendar/u/0/r/month/2025/7/17

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Design Pressure: The Invisible Hand That Shapes Your Code

Why does good code go bad? Hidden design pressures shape your architecture. Learn to spot these forces and leverage good ones while avoiding the bad.

*closes final cut, opens up keynote*

I just noticed something rather unfortunate: a negative payout in my GitHub Sponsors a bit of spelunking revealed that apparently thanks.dev—that allows to transfer your money into GHS—has refunded a bunch of payments from last year. if you used this feature, I recommend checking your account

Watching the frustratingly fruitless fights over the USEFULNESS of LLM-based coding helpers, I've come down to 3 points that explain why ppl seem to live in different realities: Most programmers: 1) Write inconsequential remixes of trivial code that has been written many times before. 2) Lack the taste for good design & suck at code review in general (yours truly included). 3) Lack the judgement to differentiate between 1) & FOSS repos of nontrivial code, leading to PR slop avalanche. 1/3

James Jani is one of the best serious YouTubers out there and he burned out. So far, so common. What I find interesting is something what he says that doesn’t resonate with me at all: “you gotta enjoy the process” For me, I’ve NEVER enjoyed the process of creating ANYTHING. I always: 1. wanted something to exist (sometimes out of spite 😇), 2. hated every second of making it happen, 3. enjoyed that it exists. Guess there’re 2 types of creators. 😅

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