Adrian SegarBreaks between meeting sessions should be longer than zero minutes. How long should they be? The answer depends on several factors…
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2012/05/give-me-a-break
Jakob NitschkeI have been running a social media account of an organisation in the last years and remember how I felt that I had to post a lot back when the organisation was still on twitter. How AI was such a relieve when I didnt have to think anymore to produce tiny useless posts to shoot into this void.
So good twitter is dead (at least for me).
The Courage to Stop https://zeldman.com/2026/04/15/the-courage-to-stop/ #Brevity, #Communication, #Edit, #Editing, #Essentials, #KillYourDarlings, #LessButBetter, #Usability, #Whitespace
C.Note for Python detractors...
If you post a public diatribe against Python - which is your right, go ahead and express yourself - but your centerpiece is "Python is slow!", you're marking yourself out as (a) not knowing Python very well, and (b) hating it because you don't understand it.
It's the more modern cousin to "Python sucks because I can't (not) indent to my taste! Significant whitespace, yuck!". It makes it very difficult to take any of the rest of your complaint seriously.
(Significant whitespace has been shown to result in less opportunity for confusion when reading code, and you spend a lot more time reading code than you do writing it.)
And while Python may be slower for some tasks compared to some other languages, it's (a) not outrageously slow, and (b) a case of use the right tool for the job. I can't trim my lawn quickly at all with my pinking shears, but that doesn't mean pinking shears are "slow".
So please, write your analysis - but make it deeper than "argh it sux i hate it i hate it" if you want anyone to actually consider your argument.
#python #rant #diatribe #whitespace #argument #LanguageWars #RightToolForTheRightJob
Robin WrenMay I direct your attention to this brilliantly concise post?
The Courage to Stop https://zeldman.com/2026/04/15/the-courage-to-stop/ #Brevity, #Communication, #Edit, #Editing, #Essentials, #KillYourDarlings, #LessButBetter, #Usability, #Whitespace
#AmReading #Writing
Breaks between meeting sessions should be longer than zero minutes. How long should they be? The answer depends on several factors…
https://www.conferencesthatwork.com/index.php/event-design/2012/05/give-me-a-break
Upslide StudioMost people count 2 elements.
Text + image.
But they miss the most important one:
Whitespace.
Whitespace isn’t empty.
It’s what makes everything else work.
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𝕂𝚞𝚋𝚒𝚔ℙ𝚒𝚡𝚎𝚕Beware of blank lines and white spaces — Supply-chain attack using invisible code hits GitHub and other repositories
Unicode that’s invisible to the human eye was largely abandoned - until attackers took notice.
#hacking #blankline #whitespace #github #supplychain #unicode #hack #git #code #coding #invisible #gitrepo #itsecurity #it #itsec
Michal BryxíWhen I say "IT mostly just runs in circles" I mean it: https://arstechnica.com/security/2026/03/supply-chain-attack-using-invisible-code-hits-github-and-other-repositories/
This article from 2026 describes something I've been fighting with ~17 years ago. Sure, slightly more clever payload and different delivery method, but in principle nothing new: https://github.com/MichalBryxi/Apache-fork-hack-finder-cleaner/tree/master
Python PeakHow to Make str.split Lie With One Space
split() splits ALL whitespace. split(' ') splits only spaces. Tabs and newlines behave differently.
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