Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

@freemo Is there any kind of "status" page for qoto.org that is independent of the mastodon instance? Or somewhere that lists known issues?

I'm experiencing significantly degraded performance and I feel like it would be good to have a place to go to find out if this is scheduled maintenance, a DDoS attack, or something else.

Heh, I just noticed that it looks like `virtualenv` seems to use the "COVID-time" version of #calver: https://virtualenv.pypa.io/en/latest/changelog.html

Version 20 starting in 2020, still version 20 now... 😛

@hugovk That's a lot of complexity to find out what version of `setuptools_scm` I've got, particularly when I don't really want to be on the aggressive bitrot train.

The headaches started when I first installed it and they aren't so bad, but honestly it's just kinda not worth it? I don't think the problem it solves is that time-consuming, so it doesn't take much of a headache to not be worth it.

I think at this point `setuptools_scm` (and other tools like it) have probably caused more headaches for me than they've solved.

Haha, `setuptools_scm` apparently does not, itself, expose a `__version__` attribute.

@bernat @internetarchive When I wanted a similar thing, I used this: https://github.com/hartator/wayback-machine-downloader

I doubt they'll have something easy to import into WordPress straight out of the box (though I haven't used WordPress in 15 years, so maybe it's easier now?), but at least you'd have the text, and you can do some cleanup on that.

@y2mango You have jinxed it. Now you are going to get a report tomorrow that says, "Cannot report bugs on Feb 29" 😛

Also it turns out I set up release automation for `dateutil` over 3 years ago and completely forgot about it and only ever used it once. Thanks, past me!

Cutting this release has made me nostalgic for the days when I was a conscientious, responsive and organized maintainer 😛

Oops, someone made it so that you could lazy-load `dateutil` submodules over 4 years ago and I never cut a release including that.

That has now been rectified in `python-dateutil` version 2.9.0. Enjoy: https://pypi.org/project/python-dateutil/

#python

@jerub This is an interesting one. Why is it doing that?

I'll be speaking at this, so if you are in the Western Mass area and are interested to hear about the app I built to teach my kids to have perfect pitch, stop on in. 😀

@durin42 If I were to put all of youtube on VHS tapes, how many Olympic Swimming pools would it fill?

Found the issue here — after `libuim.so` showed up in some stack traces for other things that were crashing (e.g. Element), I installed `ibus` and uninstalled `uim`, and now everything works again. 🎉.

And apparently in some contexts I am now able to do the Super + . shortcut to pull up an emoji picker!

#ibus #uim #firefox

I feel like I've been lucky that when I saw the [Keep a Changelog](https://keepachangelog.com/en/1.0.0/) page, I thought, "Hm, weird that people need to be told that — all the (public-facing) software I know and work on maintains changelogs.

I am guessing that this is... not as common in some other software ecosystems.