The Virtue of Finished Things

An email asking if my software was abandoned made me realize how the ideal of completeness has disappeared from our lives. In an era of mandatory updates and disposable goods, I reflect on the value of boring software - the kind that is finished, reliable, and simply does its job.

https://my-notes.dragas.net/2026/01/06/the-virtue-of-finished-things/

#MyNotes #World #Reflections #IT #Life #Blogging

I heard last week that the physics teacher of the daughter of one of my colleagues told the daughter that girls who do their nails don’t do physics. Sigh.

So, here are the nails of an internationally leading particle physics professor. My nails.

Don’t believe the gatekeepers! #womeninSTEM

Its a well known fact that the 4 CPU architectures are x86-64, aarch64, riscv64, and s390x

Nobody has ever actually directly observed s390x but, like dark matter, we can infer its existence through compiler support

You did it—AGAIN! Thanks to you, we hit our second fundraiser goal of $400k 🤯 everyone at the PSF is feeling heaps of astonishment & gratitude for our community’s generosity.

Words can’t fully capture how grateful we are, but we’ll try:

Thank you 💝
Thank YOU 💙💛
THANK YOU 🥰🐍🥰

#PythonForEveryone

Guess who'll be back in 2026?

#pyconcz #pyconcz26

Throwback Thursday from EuroPython 2025! During the last conference, we asked @encukou how mentoring influenced his life. It inspired us all to think more about delegation 💪

#EuroPython #conference #EuroPython2025 #python #mentoring

„10-minute talks, which is exactly that amount of time that still provides enough space for sharing information, but is short enough in case some topics are not hitting your deepest interest“

V Ostravě bude v únoru Python Pizza! Mají otevřené CfP a hledají sponzory.

https://ostrava.python.pizza/

#python #pizza #pythonpizza #ostrava #cfp