Lars Wirzenius @liw@toot.liw.fi

"Protip: Don't delete your Python virtual environment while you are using it."

From my upcoming book "Protips: Things to NOT Delete". All chapters are based on my hard earned experience of deleting things and then regretting it a moment later.

here is the sticker

reminder: if due process is revoked for one group -- illegal immigrants, for example -- it can be revoked for everyone. All the government has to do is say you're an illegal immigrant. You say, "but I'm not, and I can prove it" -- but prove it to who?? the government doesn't have to give you a chance to prove it, that's what revoking due process *means.*

But of course, most people who say it's okay to revoke illegal immigrants' due process are white. so.

Dear fediverse:

Fascism joining the fediverse is extremely bad, and we have to do something about it. But please, please, please: give me two weeks before you roll out any new solutions. Some of the solutions being proposed look like they will make the situation better but will make it much worse.

I am dropping nearly everything to write a demo and spec explaining how to do things right. Please give me two weeks. I've been preparing for this.

pretty hilarious how people think everyone having their basic needs met is somehow the greatest evil known to history and humankind

I'm seeing a lot of chatter about 10x engineers and whether they exist or not.

I just want to say we have clear proof they exist.

tcsh.

#puns #programming

gPodder.net is looking for a new maintainer!

If nobody comes forward by 2020, it'll be forced to shut down. Please boost to spread the word.

https://github.com/gpodder/mygpo/blob/master/maintainer-needed.md

Note that this is the podcast-sharing website: I'm not sure about the status of the app, but I think that's still doing fine.

#gPodder #podcasts #python #webdev #helpwanted

JESUS FUCKING CHRIST, THIS IS SERIOUSLY WHAT THEY THINK WE ARE?

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https://hypebeast.com/2019/7/lashana-lynch-new-james-bond-daniel-craig-007

Can't wait to see the throngs of bigots losing their shit and imploding at this news.

*grabs popcorn*

@liw "The Morning Paper" can partially fill the gap:

- a paper about "convoy phenomenon", a peculiar way in which one slow process can leave the whole system bottlenecked even when it's done doing the work: https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/07/01/the-convoy-phenomenon/

- a paper about bugs that cause incidents in clouds (applicable to any system IMHO): https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/06/21/what-bugs-cause-cloud-production-incidents/

- a paper about how Go's concurrency primitives don't actually lower the number of bugs: https://blog.acolyer.org/2019/05/17/understanding-real-world-concurrency-bugs-in-go/

- and many more in the archives.

@liw Also Greg Wilson is one of the people I miss seeing now that I no longer use Twitter. I need to get back to using an RSS feed reader.

I need solidarity hosts files containing the domain names of the businesses where employees are striking. Something to help me know when I am "crossing the picket line" in this world of ubiquitous online services.

(Bonus points if I was directed to a page explaining the situation.)

@harthacnut Hi! I don't accept follows from librem.one due to their lax moderation policies. If you want to follow me, feel free to do so from another instance.

Open question for people who regularly have to grapple with projects developed across a variety of programming languages::

What lang-specific package repositories — if any — stand out as doing a particularly good or particularly terrible job of helping users on a day-to-day basis?

Plz RT for reech

Him, mid twenties, fresh out of college, first proper job in his life. Thinks he's seen it all and knows it all, just appropriate for him to make blanket, stereotypical comments about an entire industry.

We've all been there, myself included. But please: try and don't be that kind of person. It's really, really embarrassing.