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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 6h

Granted, the/a “real” solution here could also be to run the release tasks in CI, but I never got around to trusting CI with my PyPI credentials. And nowadays doing that safely seems like even more work 🤣 A midpoint workaround is probably gonna be flip-flopping back to doing all my […]

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 6h

Another not-even-code-related breakage that wasted my time today: macOS + uv-installed Python + stdlib venv module = big kaplooey (it plunks down a venv that’s missing a lot of important shit like the libpython dynlib, AFAICT, and then any attempt to run its interpreter binary SIGABRTs) Kind of […]

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 6h

I also need to figure out why my changelog tool, Releases, remains very excited about some ‘major bugfixes’ that came out in Paramiko 3.1, as if they were still pending… There’s a part of me that’s all “ugh, just throw that thing in the trash, you don’t have time for keeping 2-3 release lines […]

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 6h

Relatedly: fam, I am /so tired/ of everything breaking in a hundred little ways every time I re-engage with my OSS. Really reinforces my priors re: “it’s never just popping out a quick change”. Even worse when some of the breakage is in my own downstream projects (albeit in those cases, those […]

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 6h

@amethyst somewhat ironically, I’ve been doing more coding at dayjob and personal stuff than OSS the last few years and fell way out of the habit of “lemme make sure this isn’t going to nuke the bottom few cells of my CI matrix”. Blessedly, I still don’t really use a lot of features newer than […]

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 6h

Paramiko 5.0.1 and 5.1.0 are out! A few bugs squashed in the former, and our first post-quantum update (a key exchange algorithm) in the latter. Thanks to all the folks who contributed/reported/etc! www.paramiko.org/changelog.html

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Changelog — Paramiko documentation

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 8h

Folks seeing this kind of thing out of ACARS Drama and having big “WTF” question marks over their heads: clearly have never had to spend much time in public-facing jobs. People, in aggregate, /suck/.

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Itamar Turner-Trauring @itamarst.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 11h

I find the notion that LLMs writing your code for you are just like having interns or junior engineers to be rather offensive. Interns aren't there to do your menial work, they're there to learn new skills. Junior engineers are hired with the idea that they will become senior engineers, which […]

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11h

*crying softly in why-did-#1Password-have-to-fucking-self-own* *also crying softly in #BitWarden not yet cribbing 1P’s ‘indicate to the user they said they use some integration for sign-in, not user/pass’ feature*

Screenshot of BitWarden showing an entry for circleci.com with a “username” field value of “USE GITHUB”

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11h

Having persistent undo actually functional in my vim setup is so dang nice. No more “ack, fuck, I closed that buffer/file/session and now I’ve lost the thing I typed out and then deleted before doing any version control”!

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 11h

The joys of trying to extend a 22-year-old test suite.

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Scary "Grampus" Jerry 👻 @jerry.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17h

There are major account take-over problems happening right now on mastodon instances - all appearances are that the actor is using stolen passwords, probably from malware running on desktops. I've suspended hundreds of compromised accounts over the past 48 hours, but only two on mine. If you […]

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12h

One more small mental papercut of our current world: when I post “so I don’t have the time to do <big fix> but I’ll do <nearly as good small fix>” I can presumably expect folks to either go “why don’t you LLM it” or “here I LLM’d it for you” 🫠 yes, moro“, the problem was definitely the time _to […]

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 12h

Realizing I can actually just fucking use the Python walrus operator in my OSS now; my mind may be stuck in the 2010s, but thankfully everything else has moved on! My current MSPV of 3.9 is >= 3.8 which is when the walrus landed 💪🏻 (Yes, specific handful of friends, I see you sadly shaking your […]

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14h

It’s officially the cold half of the year: winterized the hose bibbs and brought the hose into the basement. #JustHomeOwnerThings

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15h

On a roll today apparently. (Unlike Whereabouts, Catfishing is nearly impossible to 100% on any given day…) catfishing.net #846 - 8/10 🎉 🐈🐈🐈🐈🐈 🐟🐟🐈🐈🐈

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Thomas Wouters @yhg1s.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 14/10/2026

Well, today was my last day working at Meta. (I'll be on garden leave for the next few months.) Meta consolidating outside the Netherlands and me being unwilling to move means we're parting ways. I'm sad to go because the Python folks at Meta are stellar, and the work on Free-threaded Python […]

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 23h

It's possible to deliver quality code with genAI just like it's possible to be on a diet in a candy shop.

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Artemis @artemis201.mstdn.social.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Guess who's back Back again Beans is back Tell your friends #BakedBeansOwl #owl #owls #screechowl #screechowls #animals #animal #zoo #Owltober

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SpookJ 👻 @snoopj.hachyderm.io.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

why call it perpetual stew when "soup of theseus" is right there

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Chilly :donor: 🛡️ :gayint: :ifin: @chillybot.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Awesome first #JawnCon. Got to see @mttaggart present @ifin's first conference talk! Its a fantastic presentation and I highly recommend a watch :) www.youtube.com/watch?v=CK-7M5YDf_Y… Seeing @TindrasGrove's talk tomorrow!

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Amethyst 🌸 @toots.amethyst.cat · 17/10/2026

@bitprophet new number won’t save you when they literally canvas every possible number in your area code. And *who knows* what madness the previous owner of that number had done before it ended up in your hands.

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 17/10/2026

Stupid headache won’t go away 😖

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CMPRRSN RTFCT @joshuaacnewman.xeno.glyphpress.com.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

That’s probably a 20-30 minute drive.

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Next couple weeks (leading into US general election) really going to make me /strongly/ consider getting a new phone number. I am getting a good dozen politico-spam text messages a day already. OTOH I hear iOS 27 lets you actually, finally, automatically delete text messages via Shortcuts […]

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Challenging one today, but I think I did ok. catfishing.net #845 - 6/10 🐟🐟🐈🐈🐈 🐈🐟🐟🐈🐈

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abadidea @0xabad1dea.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I heard a young man in a poorly lit back alley ask a young woman “do you want to feed ducks for two weeks, and get paid for it?” This is the first time a young man’s proposition has ever caught my attention.

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Jay 🆘 @ap.jay.xyz · 16/10/2026

A game playtesting application form from @panic. It’s things like this tiny joke that have endeared them to me for so many years. Everything they do is colored by their personality and sense of humor, and it makes you want to follow them anywhere.

A list of checkboxes with the label “I own the following Apple products:” The options are:
- Mac
- iPhone
- iPad
- Apple Vision Pro
- Apple TV
- Apple Polishing Cloth

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

@jonathankoren I got lucky today, it was one of the more memorable countries

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

Tyop of the day: “kebabe-case”. When you need to modify a string to change its capitalization/formatting, /and/ make it more attractive? (joke’s on them - kebab-case is already the most attractive…)

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 16/10/2026

I gotta start learning beforehand which #Discworld books are Shakespearean send-ups so I can either skip them or actually read the reference material (I'm extremely non-Shakespeare'd for whatever reason). I'm at least 0 for 2 re: finding out afterwards that Pterry presumably snuck in a billion […]

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Scott Francis @darkuncle.infosec.exchange.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Use an ad blocker. I cannot stress this enough.

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

I now have so many opinions which make people look at me as if I’ve got two heads, that I guess now I look like some sort of cursed beholder? don’t catch the brain-fucking-up disease (whaaaaa) don’t normalize fascism (wow /really/????) don’t rent your […] [Original post on social.coop]

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

My unwillingness to compromise on things that I believe should not /be/ compromised? It’s probably going to kill me.

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Glyph @glyph.im · 15/10/2026

Read the _entire_ thread, please: cosocial.ca/@mhoye/1174395318649462… Linux is lost. In the meanwhile, we'll be stuck with it for a decade at least, but it's gone. I have no hope that anyone involved is capable of learning or course-correcting any more, and it was badly off-course […]

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

my favorite Python 3.15 feature is flattening using `[*ls for ls in [[1], [2]]]` because the old syntax is impossible to remember and no amount of reply-guying “you just have to imagine two for loops bro" has ever changed anything about it: I always added a `flatten()` helper. I can remember the […]

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Melville realizes writing pays shit wages, heads to medical school to become an optometrist.

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Jeff Forcier @bitprophet.social.coop.ap.brid.gy · 15/10/2026

Phew, ok. That was exactly enough OUTSIDE !!! (1.5mi 30min walk, 62°F, low-moderate humidity, brilliantly sunny, accidentally brought home a couple egg scrambles thus completely negating the exercise…)

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