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What's New in Emacs: Last Decade Edition
What's New in Emacs: Last Decade Edition
Some folk use Emacs out of the box, and never realise just how much more it can do if you sprinkle some of the newer stuff over your configuration. This article does a good job of explaining some of those additions.
·lambdaland.org·
What's New in Emacs: Last Decade Edition
slash pages
slash pages
Fun little guide to all sorts of "common" pages you could add to a website. I imagine most people would never discover them, but I like it as an idea.
·slashpages.net·
slash pages
Indexing outgoing blog links
Indexing outgoing blog links
Nice idea that I might have to try myself some time: index and analyse the outgoing links from blog posts to see what it is you link to the most.
·blog.jim-nielsen.com·
Indexing outgoing blog links
Neil Gaiman's reply/explanation to a question about Wanda, in The Sandman
Neil Gaiman's reply/explanation to a question about Wanda, in The Sandman

Contains an answer to this question:

Neil, you've written a trans woman character in Sandman but the way the story develops makes it seem like you think trans women arent actual women. And well, considering what you said about your friend, im sure thats not the case. So... could you clarify things? (i hope this doesnt sound accusatory, thats not how i mean it)

·neil-gaiman.tumblr.com·
Neil Gaiman's reply/explanation to a question about Wanda, in The Sandman
Musings on Python Type Hints
Musings on Python Type Hints
As a huge fan of type hinting in Python, I feel this is a good article introducing the sorts of things you should think about, and the benefits you should derive from using type hints.
·samgeo.codes·
Musings on Python Type Hints
How to improve Python packaging, or why fourteen tools are at least twelve too many
How to improve Python packaging, or why fourteen tools are at least twelve too many
"Join me on a journey through packaging in Python and elsewhere. We’ll start by describing the classic packaging stack (involving setuptools and friends), the scientific stack (with conda), and some of the modern/alternate tools, such as Pipenv, Poetry, Hatch, or PDM. We’ll also look at some examples of packaging and dependency-related workflows seen elsewhere (Node.js and .NET). We’ll also take a glimpse at a possible future (with a venv-less workflow with PDM), and see if the PyPA agrees with the vision and insights of eight thousand users."
·chriswarrick.com·
How to improve Python packaging, or why fourteen tools are at least twelve too many
A Retrospective on Requests
A Retrospective on Requests

As per the title: a retrospective of requests.

Possibly killer quote: "After receiving our first security disclosure, I was told that Requests wasn't a serious project but instead one person's art project and thus we shouldn't fix the vulnerability. This was despite the project being touted as being used by multiple international government agencies, political campaigns, and boasting about it's #1 download spot on PyPI. So when I say it might be artful, I'm trying to take a neutral stance on what is art and what isn't art and whether the internals of Requests are actually beautiful art."

·blog.ian.stapletoncordas.co·
A Retrospective on Requests
HN: Lessons I learned from working full-time on a FOSS project for 503 days
HN: Lessons I learned from working full-time on a FOSS project for 503 days

A submission to HackerNews of Rodrigo's blog post about working at and on Textual. What's pretty funny in the comments is the speculation about how Textualize would make money, which shows that some folk were speculating on the post without actually having read it.

So nothing new for HN there.

·news.ycombinator.com·
HN: Lessons I learned from working full-time on a FOSS project for 503 days