@eviljonny

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Library lovery, SRE, coder, theatre lover, Retro Gamer and tinkerer, Oscar & BAFTA winner, and lover of the Oxford Comma. He/Him #GoBills #BillsMafia

A hill I will die on: If your app asks me "Tell us what you think of our app", and saying yes opens the app store review page, you are lying to me. Feedback and public reviews are absolutely not the same thing.

I don't mind if you ask me to leave a review, but if you ask me for feedback, and you mean leave a public review, I will have a bad view of your company or app

gopls has to be the best named LSP, it always makes me chuckle :)

“You opened this page. It already knows the following.”

https://sinceyouarrived.world/taken

taken.

A web page that tells you what your browser gave away the moment you arrived. No login, no form, no permission. Most pages do this. None of them tell you.

Since You Arrived

With my need for a new keyboard, I know the fashion is for half size keyboards, but I really like the numpad and arrow keys. Thankfully there's a solution!

My new half size keyboard with all my favourite keys!

Hey #Python library maintainers! 👋 I sometimes see pull requests from well-meaning users about bumping minimum versions of dependencies to "fix security vulnerabilities". Here's a resource you can link to about why this strategy doesn't work in practice:

https://sethmlarson.dev/library-version-specifiers-not-for-vulnerabilities

#python #security #oss #opensource #vulnerability

Library dependency version specifiers aren't for fixing vulnerabilities

Let's say you are the maintainer of a Python library that depends on another Python library like “urllib3”. Because you want to make sure users receive a compatible version of urllib3 you add a ve...

sethmlarson.dev
Keyboard died....ordered a new one....not arriving for 7 to 10 days. I'm sadly relegated to "keyboards that make my wrists hurt" in the meantime. Not ideal

hey "haha github uptime lol" and all that but this is serious: some pull request merges were completely mangled yesterday and the repo may not be in the state that its maintainers expect. If your project processed any updates yesterday, please double-check https://www.githubstatus.com/incidents/zsg1lk7w13cf

#github

Incident with Pull Requests

GitHub's Status Page - Incident with Pull Requests.

Having a night where I'm missing going out to see live bands loads around London. So many brilliant gigs seeing the likes of Kyrb Grinder, The Spindle Sect, Black Iris, Elephant 12. Not to mention the bestest band of all Mötley Künst! (I might be slightly biased there!)

I'm so glad I bought their CDs and EPs back then and can listen to them tonight

Always pleased when my electronics repair skills help someone. Today I fixed two broken VCRs for my step dad, who yes, does indeed still use VCRs! I'll take them back to him next weekend and hopefully return with more broken VCRs

Me: "I wonder if X tool supports env vars in it's config"

Docs: "SURE THING, like this...."

docs show using envsusbt....

....dear docs....this is not support in your tool if I have to manually run envsubst