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Python developer, Apache Airflow core committer/PMC
GitHubhttps://github.com/ashb
LocationLondon, UK
Very pleasing

It’s somehow a bit absurd that i can be on half-houlry electricity import pricing via Octolus Agile, but have a fixed export rate of 12p a kWh.

At noon today I’m getting paid to charge my battery, and then I’ll going to sell it right back

inspired by CLAUDE.md, I’ve started putting markdown files named after coworkers into work code repos so I can remind them to stop doing shit to the codebase that annoys me

for some reason they’re all mad at me now, which means ill be adding commands to JEREMY.md for an attitude adjustment

4yr old: Daddy, are the little things next to boys willies tesla coils?

Me: what!? No?

Me: oh, no, they are called testicles, not tesla coils

Everyday is a good day to remember that the word "boycott" is the name of a british landlord and general agent of empire so revolting that the people of County Mayo shunned him so hard that his name entered the English language as a prototype

but today is a particularly good day

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Boycott#Lough_Mask_affair

Charles Boycott - Wikipedia

I’m sure they’re are some colour nerds amongst you who will enjoy this, i certainly did

https://www.keithcirkel.co.uk/too-much-color/

Too Much Color

I spent too much time looking at too many colo(u)rs to try and optimise them for csskit. Here are some interesting findings.

Keith Cirkel
10K curl downloads per year

The Linux Foundation, the organization that we want to love but that so often makes that a hard bargain, has created something they call "Insights" where they gather lots of metrics on Open Source project. I held back so I never blogged and taunted OpenSSF for their scorecard attempts that were always lame and misguided. … Continue reading 10K curl downloads per year →

daniel.haxx.se
Achievement unlocked: got to play with polyurethane glue
@marijn “clean” as in “laundered”
Me today