Mahmoud Hashemi @mahmoud@qoto.org

Did you know that ISO 8601 is a very large standard that describes more than a single date and time format?

It describes periods, repetitions, many different syntax of describing years, week-of-year, day-of-year, seasons, quarters, semesters, trimesters.

It's mostly unknown because the standards are paywalled: you can't just read ISO 8601 without paying ISO money.

Most of the time, when people refer to ISO 8601, they mean the subset that is described in RFC 3339.

I realize it's very evocative but I kind of hate the term "hallucinate" when talking about AI. When humans hallucinate, it's cognitive apparatus coming unmoored from sensory input. Something different is happening in the brain and in the sense organs when hallucinations are occurring than when one is accurately apprehending the world. But LLMs _only_ hallucinate. They do not have sense organs. The lies they generate are not, in their internal mechanisms, any different from the truths.

Is how every go app is versioned, I call it GoVer because go mod fucked everything up.

I know necromancy was banned by the Mages Guild... but it's just so much fun!

#Python #html5lib

The #Python docs will hopefully soon have a dark theme! 🌒

Demo build at:
https://septatrix.github.io/cpython-dark-docs/

Please try it out and let us know if you find any big problems!
https://github.com/python/python-docs-theme/pull/44

#documentation #docs #DarkTheme #DarkMode

So I read this

https://infrequently.org/2023/02/the-market-for-lemons/

and then I read this

https://www.nytimes.com/2023/02/04/us/politics/littoral-combat-ships-lobbying.html

and they are the same article. Modern front-end framework development is military contracting is every other prestige industry where complexity : sophistication :: expense : value and outcomes are assumed because testing is disincentivized.

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

"Thoughts on the Python packaging ecosystem"

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

https://pradyunsg.me/blog/2023/01/21/thoughts-on-python-packaging/

Layoffs are mostly useless, a kind of “social contagion” that don’t improve company performance in the long term (https://news.stanford.edu/2022/12/05/explains-recent-tech-layoffs-worried/).

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.

"so, how did you get into hacking?"

I think #poetry gives some bad advice on #python dependency pins: https://python-poetry.org/docs/faq/#why-are-unbound-version-constraints-a-bad-idea

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.