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Banning free API use blocks anyone who's inclined to abide by the rules but does nothing to stop anyone who's already using the official app API keys to look like a human

@hynek yeah that was my main misgiving, straddling those use cases made me nervous. I do need to update the library workflows at some point. I'll keep an eye on it.

@hynek PDM has also caught my wandering eye. Seems like you're using it for an application/tool, as opposed to a PyPI-published library?

@pganssle management fiction is/should be a genre unto itself. I think it started with "The Goal" but I first ran into it with "The Phoenix Project". Probably "out there" incarnation is the Moshidora anime, where an unlikely baseball manager successfully fixes a baseball team using Drucker.

Business people love to set up their idealized selves to perfectly solve their strawman scenarios. :P

@pradyunsg Thanks for this! 6k words might seem a lot (especially when you're writing it), but as a reader, the overview is so much easier than trying to track down all the threads. Keep up the good work!

"Thoughts on the Python packaging ecosystem"

A new blog post, with some of my thoughts on the state of Python packaging ecosystem.

pradyunsg.me/blog/2023/01/21/t

Layoffs are mostly useless, a kind of “social contagion” that don’t improve company performance in the long term (news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/e).

Layoffs are an indication that a company is particularly willing to shoot you and itself in the foot just to give shareholders a sugar rush.

Take note. Choose accordingly.

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No errors after a couple hours, manual testing ftw lol

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@hynek It's like riding a bike! A bike that over the years has fused to my flesh, rendering me a two-wheeled centaur-like creature, forced to pedal to survive. glompad is like 90% tho ;)

Cruising through complex (with and ): sedimental.org/cruising_throug

Six techniques for wrangling tricky structures. Plus, more readable and actionable errors by overriding the default Python traceback.

Also co-released with glom 23.1 and my latest project, glompad, glom in the browser (with /#pyodide). Take a look!

I think #poetry gives some bad advice on #python dependency pins: python-poetry.org/docs/faq/#wh

Pessimistic pins like this plunge your consumers into dependency hell when packages update to consume fresh versions of their shared dependencies at different rates. If package Foo needs a new feature from click 8, and package Bar says "well, I work with click 7, better not try click 8" and never releases again, I'm hosed, even if Bar works fine with new click.

Your users should rely on CI, not #semver.

@hynek @cole Pretty sure the cheap ones in California are still $2 per 150g 😂

Enough about program synthesis, we need to move on to program antithesis already

@tim would be amazing. I'm enjoying the novelty of for now, but seems like it might get ...

Tansu (github.com/AmadeusITGroup/tans) and Svelte Immer Store are interesting, and may solve the underlying problems I'm having, but don't really address the general state timeline visibility problem.

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Loving working with this @sveltejs project, but surprised to find myself missing . Curious if folks have patterns they recommend for tracing state changes.

New year, new post: sedimental.org/intentional_cre

Well, not entirely new. This one's a director's cut with a few edits that didn't appear in the original version posted on GitHub's blog: github.com/readme/guides/inten

TL;DR: Lever yourself out of the quicksand of consumption overload by writing critiques and curating collections. Inspiration is sure to strike, and creativity will follow.

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