The man with the plan and the pocket comb.
Ex-Mozillian.
I have enough opinions of my own to tell you about, without wasting time trying to give you my employer's.
Don't forget to tip your servers and normalize your Unicode.
| Pronouns | he/him |
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I know folks here don’t like Bluesky, but their custom feed functionality has achieved its highest and noblest purpose today: the automatic feed of cats watching Artemis II splash down.
https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:qrllvid7s54k4hnwtqxwetrf/feed/aaahuawzr46cm
New blog post: I got tired of having repetitive arguments explaining why I think it’s OK to be skeptical of LLMs for coding, so I wrote six and a half thousand words on the topic that I will be referring people to from now on.
New blog post: I got tired of having repetitive arguments explaining why I think it’s OK to be skeptical of LLMs for coding, so I wrote six and a half thousand words on the topic that I will be referring people to from now on.
PERHAPS SLIGHTLY TOO PRIVACY-CONSCIOUS POWER USERS: *gleefully disable all telemetry, even the fully anonymized stuff*
THE DEVS OF THAT APP, WHICH THE USERS RELY ON EVERY DAY: huh, guess only normies use our software? And they only use it in super boring ways? Alright cool. *implements something nominally useful for boring normies, but which power users hate*
THOSE POWER USERS: omg why are you doing things we don’t like instead of working on the features we use?! How could we have possibly foreseen this would happen?!
Does it still count as a mic drop if only three people know about it?
Is there a minimum audience size for a mic drop?
@treyhunner In 3.15 we've added an re.prefixmatch() as an explicit alias to the confusing re.match().
https://docs.python.org/3.15/library/re.html#prefixmatch-vs-match
#Python #python315 #regex
New blog post: Rewriting a 20-year-old #Python library
I am not traditionally a Pokémon completionist, but I decided to be one for Scarlet/Violet.
All storylines complete, all Pokédexes complete. Took a lot longer and a lot more effort than I expected, but it's done.
Jeff Forcier
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