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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Pinchflat out / wytchr in, service-status shim, SearXNG, 1Password pilot, restic prune, justfile.
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...
Bot Gate is real: I wanted to build something like [pinchflat](https://github.com/kieraneglin/pinchflat) but wound up running into a strange issue that I haven't been able to resolve. YouTube is...
Home Assistant + MQTT stack landed, ytdl-sub bot-gate handling shipped, wytchr replaced Pinchflat, plus glance/restic/grafana cleanups.
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?
I need to check this out for my homelab. My multiple unorganized folders for Print Files is getting out of hand.
↗ https://manyfold.app/So excited to see the Mets finally remembered that they were a baseball team and should probably play baseball....
(A)I redesigned my website to have a home/away/city connect design that matches my favorite baseball team.
↗ https://kjaymiller.com
This is a great little game that I was able to explain and play with my kiddo and with adults.
↗ https://boardgamegeek.com/boardgame/408545/fairy