Wow So this weekend at North Bay Dan Lyke / comment 0
Wow. So this weekend at North Bay Python, the Apify folks were doing a "try out our API, win something". I'd had a glass of wine, so I fired up my phone, did a few queries to enter myself in the raffle, and carried on.
I'm not sure what I did that's ongoing, but just got the "you hit your $100 intro bonus API cost" email.
So clearly there was something I didn't understand. Another entry in the "I'm scared of cloud billing" bucket.
My talk on Modern Western Square Dan Lyke / comment 0
My talk on Modern Western Square Dancing at North Bay Python this weekend is live...
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aJVvaz8eFwA
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mixed blessings Dan Lyke / comment 0
pubes with poop on em @poopypubes@jorts.horse
Me: it's not OK to stan any side of a war
Iran: *bombs an Oracle data center
Me: *biting knuckles, squirming*
A clown event is possible Dan Lyke / comment 0
ni cole4fox -> GPN @nicole4fox@datastream.cortexvoid.net
"I'm down for whatever as long as it doesn't increase shareholder value"
<br> handling. Dan Lyke / comment 2
After years and years of tolerating it, I finally fixed an issue with how the Flutterby formatter handles <br> tags. Actually, not so much how it handles it as with how modern browsers handle </br> tags.
Anyway, in the process I willy-nilly changed the doctype. Holler if you see anything stupid, or if I regressed utf-8 handling again, or something.
PocketOS, Railway DB, and Claude: kaboom Dan Lyke / comment 0
Kinda thinking LLM coding is like playing with live grenades. I mean, sure, you're bored, they're something to juggle, and hot damn, did you see that behind the back under the leg combo, why are you backing away, this is really cool?
Via Peter @peter@thepit.social who observes:
That thread also has the original Twitter thread.
Also, if an LLM does nuke your data, please, for the love of all that's holy, do not ask the plausible sentence generator why it deleted your data. It does not "know". It doesn't matter how frustrated and angry you are. It just exposes that you are suffering from epistemia (mentioned previously).
Extremely simple little music player Dan Lyke / comment 0
Extremely simple little music player display, in Rust. MacBook Pro M2. The egui library is costing me 8.22ms per update (measured over 1k updates).
I'm offended by how inefficient this is. Is there a Rust GUI library that's actually practical, or that does minimal repaint/refreshes?
a shed is insufficient Dan Lyke / comment 0
NowWeAreAllTom @tom@labyrinth.social
please join me in condemning the appalling bloodshed. we need a much more secure and refrigerated solution for the storage of blood. a shed is insufficient
That could have been a child Dan Lyke / comment 0
Fox 35: VIDEO: Truck runs over 250K Lamborghini in parking lot
By way of ReindeR Rustema @rrustema020@mastodon.nl
@notjustbikes about SUVs that are too dangerous.
In Orlando a lady in a huge monster truck drove her machine on top of a Lamborghini sports car in the parking lot of Crunch Fitness. Because she couldn't see the car.
Not fake, confirmed by journalists. https://www.nu.nl/325970/video...peperdure-lamborghini-in-vs.html
Another angle: https://youtu.be/mR1ojA5tlSs?si=zT_HHZ
Writing in C Dan Lyke / comment 0
Wolf SSL: Why C Remains the Gold Standard for Cryptographic Software. Lots of good stuff in here, including:
Side-channel resistance is difficult in any language.
What is true: as abstractions obscure execution behavior, side-channel properties become harder to reason about and harder to verify at scale. Rust provides tools to mitigate this—but using them extensively means abandoning most safety abstractions, bringing the problem space back toward C.
The issue is not impossibility—it’s verifiability without abstraction collapse.
An Economy of Empathy Dan Lyke / comment 0
Mario Munoz has put the text of his Sunday morning talk at North Bay Python online. I'm waiting for the recording to experience it again, but it was exactly the Sunday morning angry sermon I needed: https://pythonbynight.com/talks/empathy
Byte Magazine at Archive.org Dan Lyke / comment 0
Not replaced by AI... Dan Lyke / comment 0
Jeff Baker @jwbee.bsky.social
AI has already taken my software job, not in the sense that I don't have one, but in the sense that I now hate the job and most of the other people.
The laser pointer does not own Dan Lyke / comment 0
"The laser pointer does not own you." - @baconandcoconut@freeradical.zone
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Technology only helps if your Dan Lyke / comment 0
"Technology only helps if your successor understands it." - Philip James
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Technology is here to serve Dan Lyke / comment 0
"Technology is here to serve people, not the other way around." - Philip James
Not a "to serve man" reference.
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If you believe that the best part of a Dan Lyke / comment 0
If you believe that the best part of a conference is the hallway track, this year's North Bay Python feels like that. The conversations and presentations feel like the sort of thought provoking topics I want from a conference.
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