Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

Me on a diet:

Bearded man in a Firefox t-shirt wearing latex gloves and eating ice cream: “Wow, how’d it get that name?”
Naturalist: 😐

Foxglove beardtongue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penstemon_digitalis

Weirdly, there’s no “etymology” section where it explains that it got its name from someone desperately looking around the room and naming random objects that came into their vision.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bucket_of_Blood_Street

I really need a way to find podcasts that are not put together for the purpose of building and maintaining an audience. Mostly this is amateur stuff, but professionally produced podcasts from universities and some non-profits also often fit the bill as well.

There was a podcast ages ago called “Life of a Law Student” that doesn’t seem to be archived anywhere. It was just a dude who would say all the stuff he learned in each of his law school classes (eventually other people got on board). Low quality audio but fantastic content.

I miss the days when podcasts were all unmonetizable works of art (like the “old web”).

As much as I like the improvements to production values, along with professionalization has come a sort of optimization for audience acquisition that drives all the worst parts of journalism.

The new, highly produced podcasts with engaging narratives of dubious truth value are so popular that they drown out (or worse crowd out) the niche mostly amateur content. Even if it’s all still there, I don’t know where to find it. ☹

Not that there’s much action you can take as an end user of pandas other than getting your deployment pipeline in good enough shape that you can deploy the latest version of pandas on short notice.

If the underlying problem isn’t fixed, the real problem is going to be when pytz transitions to using zoneinfo under the hood: https://github.com/stub42/pytz/issues/48#issuecomment-720235305

Exacerbated by the fact that pytz bundles in the time zone data, so you may be stuck on old tzdata if you pin pytz!

Today’s entirely foreseeable headache in the offing: https://github.com/pandas-dev/pandas/issues/37654#issuecomment-845063168

I’m fairly sure that forthcoming changes to dateutil will break any pandas code using dateutil zones relatively soon.

Even if it gets fixed in pandas today I’m sure it will be annoying.

lolwut: https://github.com/docker/hub-feedback/issues/1925

Apparently docker pull shows you a digest of something completely different than what is displayed on DockerHub.

I don’t see any reliable way to get either UI to display a digest of the same thing… Why are these even displayed?

Ouaip, je préfère l’Anglais…

“What should we name our store?”
“Just be descriptive of what you sell.”

Last night I was thinking, “Man, you shouldn’t read packaging discussions before bed, it’s too upsetting”, but then I realized that I didn’t stop early enough and it should be amended to, “Man, you shouldn’t read packaging discussions.”