KJayMiller

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    Using AI to consider the options

    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.

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    PyCon US 2026 Recap

    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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    We'll have our community booth at #PyConUS and we hope that you'll consider...

    We'll have our community booth at #PyConUS and we hope that you'll consider helping us support Black Python Devs.

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    On Companies Sponsoring Tech Communities

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    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.

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    > They were not interested. They had RAM to buy and GPUs to provision. The...

    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.

    ↗ https://mydbanotebook.org/posts/pgbackrest-is-dead.-now-what/
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    With news that PGBackrest being EOL'd I'm interested in hearing that the...

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    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?

    ↗ https://github.com/pgbackrest/pgbackrest#notice-of-obsolescence
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