Dr. Kai Blin

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Microbiologist, co-author of antiSMASH, Open Source geek, views are my own.
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GitHubgithub.com/kblin

Project manager: "What's technical debt? Explain it to me like I'm 6 years old"

Devs:

(source: "Richard Scarry's Storybook Dictionary" : https://archive.org/details/1scarryRichardStorybookDictionary/page/n56/mode/1up )

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Haha, of course, the opinion piece that open source license discussions are pointless and "free for noncommercial use" is good enough for people is from a dude doing developer relations at MongoDB.
Saying Goodbye to GitHub

I've been using GitHub since I was eleven years old. To be fair, I didn't really understand git at the time, but I was able to fumble my way through it...

@kblin no. and I have to admit I nearly nerdsniped myself thinking it would be fun to write the clever version but I have a deadline :( and it would be wrong at some point. I’m sure it’s just 3 lines of #fsharp. C’mon folks, let’s sunday code golf this! roman numerals to arabic in the least characters ?

Docker Inc would like to thank the open source community for making registry successful.

As a token of appreciation open source organizations are invited to subscribe to the paid version in the next month, or their data will be deleted.

A reminder to non-Americans: assigning Pi Day to 22nd July is not only more accurate than 3.14 (22/7 is 3.14285), it's also more likely to annoy Americans.

I'm genuinely starting to wonder if programmers are afraid (or not incentivized) to write "plain" looking code.

I look at a lot of Python examples these days and the main thing going through my mind is "wow, that thing you just wrote is like exactly the opposite of everything that initially attracted me to Python."

Normalize using the word "Safe" as the opposite of "Smart" in the context ot #IoT / home appliances.

"I got myself a nice new Safe TV." 👍

#InfoSec

So You Want to Solve Python Packaging: A Practical Guide

First, the technical: Python is used by vastly different groups of people, some that don't identify as "developers". Those groups often have disparate expectations about how packaging should work. Some don't even know what a package is.

And it looks like we're back in business, for now. 🤞