giscus
A widget for blogs and similar that uses GitHub discussions as a comments section. Might be a good idea for my own blog.
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(PDF) How to Build Pride in the Workplace?
The question of "pride" in relation to the employee/employer relationship comes up a lot in internal surveys, in my experience. This paper seems to seek to take a fairly technical approach to understanding the importance and impact.
It does raise the more general question though: what does it really mean to be proud of your employer?
We Shall Fight Them in The Strips: Dudley Watkins and the Battle of Britain - The Gutter Review
Someone has suggested to me, without any sources cited, that DC Thomson was a supporter of the Nazi regime back in the 1930s (similar to the history of the Daily Mail, it seems).
I've gone looking for evidence of this claim and found nothing; I did find this though, which was kind of interesting.
A Complete Guide To Behavior-Driven Testing With Pytest BDD
A comprehensive guide to getting started with BDD testing with pytest.
The secret inside One Million Checkboxes
A pretty wholesome story of some "hacking"; hacking in the correct and best sense of the word.
LaunchFlow - Docs
Another IfC solution; native to Python.
Departure Mono
Not sure I'd ever really have a need for this, but just in case... a fun-looking pixel-based monospace font.
Programming, Motherfucker - Do you speak it?
An anti-agile manifesto, pretty much.
My sticks are moving in a weird way, is it fixable?
Reddit thread covering the problem of stick drift on the Meta Quest 2 controllers.
How to win at CORS
A comprehensive introduction to CORS.
Remove the "Authority" from Packaging - Packaging - Discussions on Python.org
Turns out the A in PyPA, meaning "authority", was originally intended as a joke. TIL.
Rye and uv: August is Harvest Season for Python Packaging
Blog post about the state of Python packaging in 2024, with a particular emphasis on how uv is going (and in part rye too).
» Oh Look, Misplaced Transphobia From a Man in Tech
Blog post talking about the bad take of the author of Pinboard. Pretty much the thing that pushed me over the edge on migrating off Pinboard.
S3 Bucket Namesquatting - Abusing predictable S3 bucket names – One Cloud Please
Given I’m fairly new to AWS, I was surprised to find that S3 has a global namespace. And so of course squatting is a thing.
Nitric Cloud-Native Framework | Get Infrastructure from Code
While getting frustrated that all of the IaC offerings I've seen have seemingly had little to do with actual code, I've come across the concept of IfC. This is one example of that approach.
libyear
A simple measure of software dependency freshness. It is a single number telling you how up-to-date your dependencies are.
Exploring the Lisp Family of languages
An exploration of the Lisp family of languages.
Common Lisp Community Survey 2024 Results
Results of the 2024 Common Lisp community survey.
Bernie Spofforth - RationalWiki
So the individual who has been named in some places as the source of the misinformation that resulted in the UK 2024 summer riots, has a RationalWiki page and some other online history.
Pie Menu - the radial menu for Mac
Love pie menus, so this looks like it could be interesting.
Ask HN: What Happened to Pinboard (Dec '22 edition)?
A not-uncommon theme on the orange site; but this is a useful thread in that there's some options for alterantives given.
linkhut
A bookmarking service that is OpenSource and also apparently API-compatible with Pinboard.
From Pinboard to Raindrop
One person's exsperience of migrating from Pinboard to Raindrop.
Pinboard vs. Raindrop
A comparison of Pinboard vs Raindrop.
Three month suspension for a Core Developer
It's good to see that the Python community cares about its CoC.
GeoFS - Free Online Flight Simulator
A web-based flight simulator. What's not to like?
I fact-checked Ben Shapiro so you don’t have to
An entertaining takedown of some Ben Shapiro nonsense.
RISEN: 5 Steps to Build Context-Rich AI Prompts
A guide to an approach to writing good LLM prompts.
Senior Software Engineer - D.C. Thomson & Co. Ltd.
Hey! You! Yes, you! Looking for a senior hacker role? Want to work for the second biggest creator of comics called DC¹? Fancy working in a team and environment that, in my experience, is the nicest group of folk I’ve worked with in the 35 years I’ve been banging on keyboards for money? Think you could cope working with me? (Okay, fine, forget that last part).
Perhaps know someone who might like that?
1: I think. Honestly, I’ve not actually fact-checked that.
WebGPU Unleashed: A Practical Tutorial
A tutorial on getting to grips with WebGPU.