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... 😛

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.

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

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. 😀

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.

My workflow is such that I like to keep manual profiles to isolate different use cases for the browser, but firefox profiles are too cumbersome to switch between, and Multi-Account containers just don't work well for me, so I end up with Firefox as my "open any link" browser, and Chrome as my "different profile for each different service" browser (e.g. twitter has one profile, github has another, and LinkedIn is always in incognito windows on a dedicated "clear everything" profile — and even then I think to myself I should probably only be accessing that website via Qubes OS or something).

I can't tell if this is a good time for this to happen or a bad time for it to happen, because I just found this: https://github.com/null-dev/firefox-profile-switcher

Which, if I can get FF working again, could make it possible for me to give up Chrome entirely.