I'm starting to get a little worried that a distributed ledger might, in fact, turn out to be the solution to a problem I see looming

I'll be at SCaLE 23x today! Come say hi at the Python mega booth in the expo hall!

When you're in Long Beach y'all gotta stop by San & Wolves bakeshop. Their cinnamon buns are wonderful. Also, I learned what a sylvana was, and those are terrific as well!

Something I'm learning is that if you're a senior on your team, all your questions are read as leading questions. So "is this a good idea?" which I intended as a genuine request for feedback, is instead taken as "this is a good idea and we should do it". Need to exercise caution and figure out how not to ask questions this way!

After way too much time futzing about with VirtualBox I learned about UTM, and wow, what a step up!

Happy new year! Glad we made it, here's hoping 2026 is a good one for us all!

For PyCon US 2026, I strongly advise you to 1) fly to Long Beach airport if you can, 2) stay in Long Beach, do not book a hotel in LA. I live in LA, and even I'm thinking of booking a hotel in Long Beach to avoid battling the 405 each day.

PyCon US 2026! In Long Beach! It's real! https://pycon.blogspot.com/2025/10/pycon-us-2026-call-for-proposals-now.html

I admittedly didn't understand everything here but I really like this approach and writeup for debugging mysteries! https://elanapearl.github.io/blog/2025/the-bug-that-taught-me-pytorch/