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Missed the PyCon US 2026 CFP deadline because you were “just about to submit”? ⌛

If you too are a “professional procrastinator”, don’t worry, this is your lucky exception 😉

The CFP for PyCon is still open…
just not the one in Long Beach 🏖️

Jokes apart, you can present your talk in Bologna at PyCon Italia 2026: English talks, 1k+ attendees, late spring weather, great food, and a historic city 🇮🇹

Submit here 👉 https://2026.pycon.it/en/call-for-proposals

CC @pycon@social.python.itPyCon Italia @pyconPyCon US

#PyCon #PyConUS #PyConItalia #PyConIT #CFP

'LeBron James of spreadsheets' wins world Microsoft Excel title

Link: https://www.bbc.com/news/articles/cj4qzgvxxgvo
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46339031

#microsoft

#GoodAfternoon, good #tzag, and happy #Caturday!

Currently doing a #BBQ for a family member's company Christmas party. Hoping all goes well.

Meanwhile, Da Fonz has got everything covered.

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@fasterthanlimeamos it's being worked on. Any help, as ever, is much appreciated https://github.com/rust-lang/rustup/issues/988#issuecomment-3323542617

HEY, #Seattle folk (and or local #retrocomputing folk)

Want a 45U server rack?

It's FREE!

But you have to come get it from my workshop in Everett

Seriously this thing is taking up a big chunk of space and I want it *gone*

If nobody takes it by Jan 4th I'm just gonna push it out into the alley way and let nature take its course

EDIT: CLAIMED!

TIL that “curb weight” is American English and British English spells it “kerb weight.”

My head’s spinning trying to imagine Curmit the Frog and Kerb Your Enthusiasm.

아 결혼하고싶다...
결혼하면 하객으로 올사람 미리 모집해야지

학교옆에 중국면 파는곳 있는데
여기 최애 가게되었어
왜냐 기존 최애가게가 돈을 너무 벌어서 장사를 접었대요

미국이랑 캐나다 접견지역사람들 이야기들어보니까
대부분 지식인들이 트럼프에게 매우매우 화가 나있어서, 3-4년내로 큰 사건들이 더 터질거고 상당한 저항이 있을것 같더라

Now's a good time to mention this neat little box I've been helping with...

It's not yet ready for prime time, but we have GPS, PPS, and NTP, working on SyncE

I think she is mad at me.
#caturday #CatsOfMastodon #cat #cats

지금 자면 언제 일어나는지 확인해보자
지금이라면 정확하게 잴 수 있을것같아

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早く起きすぎたので、１時間くらい二度寝かましたいかも…​​

Left a wreath on the table for 5 minutes. #Caturday #CatsOfMastodon #cats

OpenSCAD Is Kinda Neat

Link: https://nuxx.net/blog/2025/12/20/openscad-is-kinda-neat/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46337984

I spent a week without IPv4

Link: https://www.apalrd.net/posts/2023/network_ipv6/
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46338365

After crunching over 100 contributions yesterday, Django HealthCheck is back under my maintainership. 🎷

Thank you @frankFrank Wiles and everyone over at REVSYS for your care, unrivaled community support, and for passing the torch. 💚
https://github.com/codingjoe/django-health-check
#Django #Python #Docker

Christmas came early

That is I don’t have any *super* novel ideas here just yet, but I do know the space I want to play around in

아 미친 저속멜섭 주인님한테 렌틸콩으로 디지게 얻어맞는다는 읍내 글 보고 그저 웃었다...

I keep seeing anti-vaxxers, freebirth advocates, etc., be like, “Well, what did babies do before modern medicine, then?!”

This. They did a lot of this.

Immersa: Open-source Web-based 3D Presentation Tool

Link: https://github.com/ertugrulcetin/immersa
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46336097

Christmas came early

#EpsteinFiles

今日はことりん書かなくちゃなんだけどとりあえず寝よう。風邪治りかけだし←

帰るぞー​​(充電残り7％)z

#LLM coding agents (particularly #ClaudeCode and #Cursor) are powerful. But they can leave a mess in their wake if you let them do too much all at once.

I'm spending the morning cleaning up generated code that looks like this:

<div class="compose-drawer">
    <i class="compose-drawer__pull"/>
    <button class="compose-drawer__btn compose-drawer__secondary"/>
    <some_other_set_of_elements/>
</div>


<style lang="scss">
compose-drawer {
    background: black;


    &__pull {
        background: white;
    }


    &__btn {
        some-style: something;
    }


    &__secondary {
        some-style: something-else;
    }
}
</style>

I don't use that __ syntax - maybe that's something that real front-end coders do, but it looks terrible to me. In tens of thousands of lines of code, I don't do that anywhere, but the LLM decided it should write a lot of it like that. What I generally write is more like this:

<div class="compose-drawer">
    <i class="pull"/>
    <button class="secondary"/>
    <some_other_set_of_elements/>
</div>


<style lang="scss">
compose-drawer {
    background: black;


    .pull {
        background: white;
    }


    button {
        some-style: something;


        &.secondary {
            some-style: something-else;
        }
    }
}
</style>

It may not look like that matters much, but with deeply nested HTML, those long a__b__c__d class names just piss me off.

It's probably the sort of stylistic choice I could enforce in an instructions file and I should look into that. But in general, the LLM doesn't seem to do a great job with CSS stylistic conformity. The code it generates works, but I hate looking at it and certainly wouldn't want to impose it on anyone else without adjustment.

The Dress™ arrived. It's right from the package, so it will need some ironing to get into shape.
But it fits pretty well!

The bow in the back is so large that it's nearly impossible to see the back neckline

Backing Up Spotify

Link: https://annas-archive.li/blog/backing-up-spotify.html
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46338339

So let me get this straight. The current state of fediverse integration on Threads is that you can write posts that federate, people can read and reply to them, you can like their replies, but you can't reply back, repost, or even share the post from Threads. And that's how they're gonna leave it.

RE: https://mastodon.online/@electrek/115751865309327929

What an odd (and bad, in my rather uninformed opinion) decision by the Delaware Supreme Court.

Please, people. Stop buying #Tesla. This company is not only broken, it’s literally financing Elon’s evil deeds. The man has starved 600,000 people through DOGE’s destruction of USAID. He’s a white supremacist. He’s a Hitler sympathizer. He’s polluting the sky with junk satellites. He’s poisoning poor people with his data center emissions. What more does he have to do for you to stop sending him your money?

#FuckTesla

FYI: 20 U.S.C §20i(a) (https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/20/76i): "The Board shall construct for the Smithsonian Institution, with funds raised by voluntary contributions, a building to be designated as the John F. Kennedy Center". In other words, the name is set by statute. And I reviewed all of the other relevant sections of the statute—none give the Board the power to change the name. In fact, there are other provisions that make sure that this stays as a memorial to Kennedy, e.g., §76j(b)(1): "no additional memorials or plaques in the nature of memorials shall be designated or installed in the public areas of the John F. Kennedy Center for the Performing Arts."

Wookash interviewed me a while back and the video is now public: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T7nIghaXJ80

spoiler: we don't really even make it past the introductory questions despite the length :)

목이 가니까 듀오링고 음성인식이 안되네 -_-;;;

Today's #caturday is Cat vs Cream Cake! (We stopped the cat in time.)

Worked with a hand-held circular saw today. It's been a good day. I am a sucker for power tools.

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ヽ( ・∀・)ﾉ ｳﾝｺｰ

Kerkvaart

#Landscape #Nature #Photography

Here's a WIP #SneakPeek

I needed this, built it. No idea what's the direction yet but it's fun.

#PhanpySocialDev (still on my local dev)

Big GPUs don't need big PCs

Link: https://www.jeffgeerling.com/blog/2025/big-gpus-dont-need-big-pcs
Discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=46338016

하루가 정신없이 지나가서 일기 쓸 시간이 안나