Stephan Sokolow @ssokolow@qoto.org

PSA: Because of how Python's enum.Enum implements nominal typing and how Python imports work, it risks seemingly mundane refactorings causing var == FooEnum.Bar comparisons to start to mysteriously fail when PyQt and Qt Designer's "Promote..." feature are involved. If you don't need such strict nominal typing, using enum.IntEnum to relax the equality comparison will avoid that source of footguns.

#python #programming #pyqt #qt

I just noticed Inkscape's new context menus and I'm frustrated. How is it that GNOME devs continuously find new ways to make non-GNOME GTK applications with no viable replacements increasingly alien on non-GNOME desktops?

Put a pin in this for future sharing → https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mO46CNftRDs

"Actually, it's not asteroid bacteria... we discovered that bacteria managed to evolve to eat the cleaning products we use to sterilize clean rooms" is one of the most intuitive examples I've seen for why people shouldn't leap to assuming fantastic answers like UFOs or cryptids.

Tip: If you're using WinSCP's synchronize command in a script but you don't edit your script very often and your new exclusion pattern seems to be getting ignored, check if you're trying to name a directory without including the trailing slash.
#windows #winscp #scripting

Tip: If a recent Firefox update added smooth scrolling despite the checkbox still being unchecked and you don't like your scrolling being slow/laggy, try going into about:config and toggling the `general.smoothScroll.mouseWheel` pref to also be false.
#firefox