Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

@jay Even that I wouldn't want because I just have one queue of (non-music) audio, I need it all in one app. I wrote a whole program just to make my audiobooks into podcasts just to make them more "first class" citizens in my podcast app. https://github.com/pganssle/audio-feeder/

@jay Like do people just sit in front of a TV or computer and watch people talking into microphones? Do people not find this extremely boring?

I usually listen to them at 4x speed and only while doing other things like exercising or chores or driving.

@jay I am mostly upset by the dilution of the term "podcast", since I want to find things that are actually podcasts, but also I've been listening to podcasts for like 20 years now and I find it very hard to imagine wanting to consume them as YouTube videos.

@jay I think there is an RSS feed, just you have to search the podcast name on your player to find it.

@bernat I think what they are kind of saying is that AI is not being used as a wholesale replacement for engineers but rather as a force multiplier but it has also obsoleted all our existing skills so people are more interchangeable.

It is a coherent thing to think, though I disagree with it.

@feoh @simon I feel like it might not be that. When I feel like AI has intensified my workload it isn't because I'm stuck cleaning up a bunch of tech debt, it's because I have a lot more leverage. The AIs work really fast and can do a lot of work so it's easy to get into situations where the process is blocked on you. Reviewing the work, scoping out the next work, etc.

@kevin lol I forgot to put the link: https://english.stackexchange.com/questions/292449/incorrect-grammar-vs-dialect-when-whenever

@kevin Yeah I looked this up a whole back because I was shocked when I read some quote from Simone Biles where she said. "Whenever I was younger I used to..."

This post calls it the "punctual whenever" and attributes it to Western Pennsylvania, but I think Simone Biles is from Houston and the article I was reading was about her connection to Belize, so it must have spread further than that.

@ehmatthes @carlton @ghickman As far as I know I have never heard "header" to describe any part of a function. I wouldn't know what you were referring to if you called it that.

@cammerman Might be the kind of thing this talk is for: https://pyvideo.org/pycon-us-2025/processing-large-json-files-without-running-out-of-memory.html

@jefftk Missing the snowstorm but coming back for the aftermath (wet boots, icy sidewalks) would be a serious bummer!

P.S. This isn't some clever satirical subpost obliquely referring to something in the news or something I'm just weird. 🐍⚕️

@lorenipsum Late to the game here but I recall really liking "The Weight of Ink" by Rachel Kadish.