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Always read the PKGBUILD. Always read the updates diffs. It’s that easy.

> I have no idea if it works or not because I haven’t yet tried running it. This should have been disclosed in the first paragraph

Wow it just keeps going. Extremely thorough.

This is a relief in many ways. With Fivetran’s acquisitions of both dbt labs and Tobiko, I was expecting the end of the open source data ecosystem.

Astral was always going to have to find some way to sustain itself financially. They weren’t going to just make the best free tools in the ecosystem forever. uv is sufficiently ent…

Ruff solves this. You should not be manually fiddling with indentations in 2026.

Hah, thanks. Believe it or not I proofread it like three times but my mental autocorrect is just really aggressive.

I keep making this argument elsewhere on the Internet, so I thought it would be nice to make my point all in one place. Python is good now, if you weren't paying attention.

Related recent discussion: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=47202864

Thanks! And you're right this is true for storage and at the transaction level where nothing smaller than, e.g., a penny is allowed to move or exist in the first place. But when yo…

Author here. I thought was doing what I was supposed to do by using Decimals heavily in my credkit[0] Python library, but I did some testing and discovered it wasn't worth the pain…

I work in credit risk and needed to model consumer loans in Python. I couldn't find a tool that made it easy to model simple loans either individually or at the pool level, so I de…

It made no sense to me that QuantLib makes it so hard to do simple loan portfolio modeling, so I've been working on credkit to fill that gap with something that works the way I thi…

I highly recommend this one too. It completely solved my issues with FOMO/compulsive refreshing

Classic mistake theory vs conflict theory. Just being right is not a good enough reason for someone to believe you. They have to believe you’re on their side.

Tbf I don’t think the parent meant all Lexuses (Lexes? Lexi?) are soulless, just theirs. But the brand has its fans.

> No one will look at it and feel stirred by its beauty Except for the Toyota nerds who will want to come talk to you about the LFA. Ask me how I know!

I’m sympathetic to the desire to recapture the electricity of early Twitter, but I’m reminded of the famous quote that “a man cannot step in the same river twice.” I’m on Bluesky t…

This makes me think of The Sort, coined by the venerable patio11. The types soft skills it takes to to be effective in the kinda crappy jobs described by the author can command muc…

Wait, this is Andy Weir? Like, that Andy Weir? Like, The Martian and Project Hail Mary Andy Weir? I had no idea.