I am deliberately eclectic.
I write mostly about software engineering, and I also post #programminghumor, #gaming, #writing, #gamdev, and lots of other stuff.
I tend to write stuff in #python these days with bits of #js / #go / #rust tossed in. Playing with #godot too!
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| 🗺️ | Greenville, SC |
OpenAI is buying Astral https://openai.com/index/openai-to-acquire-astral/
1. I'm happy Astral got their exit (which we all knew was the end goal)
2. I'm glad no one will accuse me of trying to kill the company anymore by working on standards or saying there are other workflow tools
3. I'm taking a wait-and-see view (e.g. Astral already said more AI is coming to their tools https://blog.pamelafox.org/2026/03/learnings-from-pyai-conference.html#:~:text=Astral%20is%20also%20re%2Dprioritizing%20based%20off%20the%20move%20towards%20100%25%20agentic%20coding%2C%20with%20less%20emphasis%20on%20tools%20that%20would%20be%20used%20solely%20by%20a%20developer%20who%20is%20manually%20typing.)
4. I'm going to continue to work on standards for a baseline workflow experience to make my kid happy someday
@ianthetechie I'm using IDEs less and less. I never got into emacs or vim originally.
My main editor has been Zed, and I don't use any of the fancy features. I use the file explorer, the file viewer, and the terminal.
I've only in the past 2 years started to use neovim.
@ianthetechie LinkedIn on the web was super slow over the weekend. I looked into the console, and it was spamming itself trying to talk to Chrome plugin for recruiters apparently. So that was explainable in a very weird sense.
Yes, GitHub has felt worse. So has Slack. So has Jira.
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