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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 01/10/2026

a good day to advertise kapeli.com/dash ;) #hugOps (I noticed because my monthly update builds failed due to intersphinx 😬)

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 26/09/2026

ich habe gesehen, du hast in Albanien sogar einen Bunker reserviert

spoon-based bunker art at https://www.mrizizanave.al/

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 25/09/2026

Happy Negroni week to everyone who celebrates!

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 16/08/2026

between weird LinkedIn influencers urging to delete tests that never failed and Richard’s learnings I know on what team I want to be and whose software I want to use

a slide from Richard Hipp’s “Reliability Lessons From SQLite” talk enumerating:

What Richard Has Learned

• Testability must be a design objective
• 100% MC/DC testing works
• sizeof(tests_cases) >= 10*sizeof(code)
• Approx 10-20% of code used only for testing
• Clear, concise documentation
• Expect to spend most of your time testing
• Good version control - situational awareness

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 25/07/2026

still the only good Opus 5

a photo of the installation CD for Directory Opus 5 Magellan for the Amiga

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 14/06/2026

me walking around Copenhagen minding my own business

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 13/06/2026

Looks like fear-mongering ain’t a viable long-term marketing strategy

The Claude app with Fable 5 marked as unavailable

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 09/06/2026

WhatsApp for macOS had a broken reaction icon for several releases now and I wonder how much slop is piled on itself so they can't fix such an obvious visual glitch

screenshot of macOS WhatsApp with the outer circle being too big and the inner icon misaligned in the lower left

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 05/06/2026

cursed TIL of the day: posix_spawn is a fork() and exec() in a trenchcoat1️⃣ 1️⃣ on Linux lwn.net/SubscriberLi...

from the posix_spawn man page at https://man7.org/linux/man-pages/man3/posix_spawn.3.html:

fork() step
Since glibc 2.24, the posix_spawn() function commences by calling
clone(2) with CLONE_VM and CLONE_VFORK flags. Older
implementations use fork(2), or possibly vfork(2) [...]

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 15/05/2026

Since @anthonypjshaw.bsky.social abandoned us 💔, it took us much longer to plan but thanks to David Lord it’s happening: The annual #PyConUS 5K will take place tomorrow (5/16) 7am in front of the Hyatt Regency. us.pycon.org/2026/schedul...

Apple maps screenshot showing the route from the Hyatt to the "Puff of Wind" sculpture in a park, 2.5km to the East.

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 29/04/2026

i would have a lot more sympathy for this graph if 99% of github's blog posts weren't boosting the very thing that causes it

three graphs showing exponential growth in pull requests, commits, and new repos per month

https://github.blog/news-insights/company-news/an-update-on-github-availability/

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 17/04/2026

I knew everything is bigger in Texas, but I didn't expect to be served a five-shot flat white. Pretty sure that classifies as a weapon in some states. "This should get you thru the day." #jetLag

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 05/04/2026

*me working for a year on a stupid docker video*

Hayao Miyazaki saying “I want to make a film that won’t shame me.”

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 03/04/2026

Watching crime happening in real time

Emails apparently from from Ali Abdaal. Three of them urging me to click a link to get free tokens, one urging me to delete an email urging me to click a link.

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 10/12/2025

I think my body is telling me to get back to Hawaii

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 07/12/2025

It did get even better!

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 03/12/2025

Hawaiʻi is paradise but coming back to Lahaina after 9 years is heart-breaking. What used to be a cute city is still a flat construction site with a few new houses, a few shell constructions, & lots of trailers & containers. I remember the pain seeing the 🔥 on TV & it hits again. #lahainaStrong

A Maui-shaped sticker with the Hawaiian flag on it and saying Lahaina Strong

An empty space that used to be Lahaina with some building sites

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 01/12/2025

Who's ready for Xmas!? (He said after working off the 1st-of-month dependabot/pre-commit GitHub PR queue.)

Me at a Luau fiercely sucking at a Mai Tai.

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 30/11/2025

Paddling into the 1st Advent

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 29/11/2025

So I'm watching the lies, the denial, the wishful thinking, the culture war, and the economic illiteracy with fascination since I'm along for the ride either way – and I've got a family history of high blood pressure to watch out for. 3/3

Margot Robbie explaining Econ 101 in The Big Short.

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 28/11/2025

Turns out you can end up at Denny's even on thanksgiving (because you failed to make reservations in time)!

Me and Nils picking up a turkey dinner at Denny’s on thanksgiving.

Denny’s pickup receipt for a turkey family dinner.

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 26/11/2025

Nooo it’s beautiful! My partner who didn’t want to join me on Mauna Kea went there right away after I learned it finally erupted from the Maine Kea rangers. The whole island was anticipating it! Now she’s sending me cool lava pictures while I had to look at boring telescopes 😭

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 26/11/2025

The floor is literally lava over there

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 26/11/2025

TFW a volcano on your island erupts but you're stuck at 4,200m (13,800 ft) on another volcano full of space nerds. :(

Live feed at the Mauna Kea information center

Proof of elevation at the accessible Mauna Kea peak

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 24/11/2025

meine brand iz vorking 🥺

A YouTube comment on one my videos: “Was just another developer video, then the host started insulting me in a heavy german accent... suscribed and liked”

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 23/11/2025

whoever is waging war on Xmas is getting their ass whipped

Me eating poke in front of festive decoration – in sunny November

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 22/11/2025

your bug report is very important to me; please stand by

Me with a surfboard I didn’t ride because it’s too short at Waikiki beach in front of a massive tree

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 19/11/2025

2025 was a wild ride for me. It was absolutely amazing & I'm not sure I'll be able to top my non-YT (sorry 🙈) output but I was also permanently stressed out as fuck. So now, after giving one of my most important speeches for some of the most important people in my life, I'm collapsing to human goo.

Me, officially a bridesmaid, giving a wedding toast for Lynn Root & Peter Sobot. Photo by David Wolever.

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 11/11/2025

discord finally got their shit together 🥲

TahoeElectronDetector finally showing that Discord is safe now. Unlike Mullvad and Shure’s MOTIV Mix

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 02/11/2025

A day's worth of work 💪

All my cables sorted into labeled airline amenities bags.

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 30/10/2025

lol so in order to add any kind of 2FA to a Twitch account, I have to give them my phone number and agree to "Twitch may use your phone number to call or send text messages for informational purposes." How much 2FA goodwill have thirsty companies like this destroyed?

Twitch 2FA setup screen asking for my phone number.

"""
Two-Factor Authentication
Enter the mobile number for a device you trust. We will text you a 7-digit security code to verify your phone.

This phone number will be linked to your account. Twitch may use your phone number to call or send text messages for informational purposes.
“””

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 20/10/2025

nice, looks like Docker is cooked

Docker status page showing a completely red system status

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 19/10/2025

However: bookmark sync is unreliable and relatedly reading list is so janky too that I switched to GoodLinks. And somehow the UI gets increasingly sluggish until I restart it like an old Windows system. I guess it's time for an experiment. 2/3

macOS system setting showing Helium as default browser

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 06/10/2025

since I needed to occupy my brain with something silly that won't cause an avalanche of open issues, I've created the best-possible social card for nohttps.lol

a yellow social card saying “SSL removed here” with an oddly familiar smiley

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 01/10/2025

one more month until we can start supporting only double-digit Python versions 😍

End of life table made with `uvx norvegianblue python`. The EOL for Python 3.9 is on 2025-10-31.

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 24/09/2025

me: I can't see British breakfast anymore; I'll skip breakfast in the hotel and eat something nice in the lounge! the lounge:

A lounge buffet consisting exclusively of beans, tots, bacon, and fake factory scrambled eggs

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 19/09/2025

the perfect sticker does not exis…

PyCon UK badge with a “djagno” sticker that I haven’t made I swear

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 18/09/2025

Leaving rainy Berin for rainy Manchester! #PyconUK

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 12/09/2025

There is something beautiful about taking notes about my first real keynote on the notebook from my first conference. 🥲

An old notebook saying:

EUROPYTHON 2011
Firenze – June 20 / 26

And “PyCharm by JetBrains” and “OpenERP Italian Community” at the bottom

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 12/09/2025

look i really don't want to be grandpa yelling at the cloud but i just don't understand how this can happen while scrolling thru a blog post

all i can see in a browser window: “Application error: a client-side exception has occurred while loading supabase.com (see the browser console for more information).”

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 02/09/2025

always good to receive a monthly reminder of all the wrong turns i've taken in my life

GitHub email inbox indicating 51 unread emails. Thanks dependabot.

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 31/08/2025

Now that the first draft of my PyCon UK keynote is done and my nerves are settling down a bit, why don't I check on the issues and PRs the accumulated on my FOSS projects…

Community meme of Troy bringing pizza to a chaotic burning room

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Hynek Schlawack @hynek.me · 28/08/2025

wow cool did Sentry just fucking HALF the spans included in our plan!? gotta love when a company introduces a feature you never asked for and doubles the price on a feature you care about cool cool cool, no action required indeed

You will continue to have access to 10M spans for the remainder of your current annual contract and span quota will change to 5M at the start of your next annual billing cycle. To make sure you have time to adjust, we’ll be providing an additional 5M spans to your account for 6 monthly cycles following your annual renewal.

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