> Each time a successful person has enormous leverage over a critical piece of shared code and each time something triggers them... and **each time a corporate gatekeeper steps in, patches the...
↗ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWuT5N-rcd8Happy to announce that we're sponsoring at local gaming workshop with Kids Next Code!
↗ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/youth-and-teen-game-design-gamified-learning-program-ages-8-16-tickets-1990242130789
Reminder to myself... I moved my brewfile into my .dotfiles repo so it can be managed with stow. I'm hoping to get better at managing things and one way to do that is to consolidate some of the...
↗ https://github.com/kjaymiller/.dotfilesA great recap and explainer for why PyCon US means so much to us as Black Python Devs!
The challenge of sending physical atoms across the world to some countries is utter madness.. This is why we're happy to support initiatives like books for techies! They get it.
The photos from PyCon Asia are live! This was my favorite conference of the year!
↗ https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMt-0LmSQFsEn46gF7Y8_n1GXSejneo38tMrxR11Pr9gzn6pF9wyhMZ9R71XULFmQ?pli=1&key=aFN6bzgtNzZEVU44MFE0YkczbXFJWUZDVDgwYTZR
A version bump touched three lines of pyproject.toml. CI failed across the whole Python matrix with an error blaming a circular dependency on render-engine-cli. The real culprit was four layers down: a shallow checkout starving setuptools_scm of tags.
These are personal notes and not meant to be a review or critique of PyCon US. ## Soft Metrics Speakers - A lot Attendees - Less that usual and it's obvious Talks - I went to a couple and they...
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To all my friends in and around Toronto (or those who want to hang out there). I'll be doing a live recording and meet and great for Conduit on July 18, 2026! Details here and get your tickets before they sell out!!!
↗ https://www.theunicornsidekick.com/conduit-live-show/
I like the UI that AI has put together for wytchr and I wonder if there is. world where I put all my bookmarks in a similar system. My first thought was that I could put them here but there are a...
I look at the challenge of sustaining open-source projects like pgBackRest and how community funding is fading despite their critical role in developer ecosystems.
They were not interested. They had RAM to buy and GPUs to provision. The AI gold rush has thoroughly reshuffled what companies consider worth paying for, and apparently “the person who makes sure your data survives a disaster” did not make the cut.
To Companies, we are resources and are evaluated against other resources. AI resources, GPUs, RAM and data companies bring the possibility of "massively scalable attention" and "investment" of which we're just not capable.
Its depressing to know but it's the reality of the situation.
I was a little intrigued by cmux but I realized all I wanted was a sidebar for zellij. So (A)I forked cfal's plugin and added a pane layer.
↗ https://github.com/kjaymiller/zellij-vertical-tabs-and-panes
With news that PGBackrest being EOL'd I'm interested in hearing that the Enterprise #PostgreSQL Community is thinking about this.
There are a couple companies that have forks. Is this project too important for one company to run and maintain?
I don't know the maintainer, but the messaging is one that I resonated with. They mentioned that they thought someone would fork it. I wonder if the conversation of donating it to a foundation that could try to help with funding and maintenance of it would work?