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John Paton @johnpaton.net · 22/01/2025

I feel personally attacked

Meredith Whittaker @meredithmeredith.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

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Not lost on me that it's nonprofit tech, app.watchduty.org, showing up & actually working in the midst of the LA fires (donate to them!) Meanwhile platforms fail to surface key news, vital info is paywalled... As I've been saying, we need a new tech paradigm, yesterday!

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Watch Duty - Wildfire Maps & Alerts

Real-time information about wildfire and firefighting efforts nearby

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why would you do this to me

Actually one of them is already gone I think

I don’t think you can force them to unfollow but I’ve been seeing these accounts getting taken down pretty quickly so probably the best thing to do is just to report

Yeah I DM’d them your @, must have mistaken the intention behind your initial enthusiasm Nah for real they probably work like web crawlers and work their way through the following graph.

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Nah look at that uninspiring lack of originality This is a JavaScript job for sure

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John Paton @johnpaton.net · 01/01/2025

Welcome new followers I hope you enjoy #pythonprogramming as much as I do

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I type so that other people don’t have to click

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John Paton @johnpaton.net · 01/01/2025

If you found a box of individually wrapped, still mostly frozen ice creams on the tram, would you? Pic unrelated

John Paton @johnpaton.net · 01/01/2025

Will this be the year that sleep levels recover enough to start doing fun tech stuff again?

John Paton @johnpaton.net · 30/12/2024

Default values are pretty handy. For everything else there’s ~~Mastercard~~ if statements

John Paton @johnpaton.net · 29/12/2024

I tweaked mine a little, it the creation part looks like if [[ -z $VIRTUAL_ENV || ! -d $VIRTUAL_ENV ]]; then uv venv --seed if [[ -f "uv.lock" ]]; then log_status "Syncing dependencies from uv.lock with \`uv sync\`." uv sync fi fi

John Paton @johnpaton.net · 29/12/2024

Nice! I’m also not sure if it’s idiomatic™️ but it works and it’s not too much trouble. Mind you do need the central direnv config for the uv layout as well github.com/direnv/diren...

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unclutter your .profile. Contribute to direnv/direnv development by creating an account on GitHub.

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John Paton @johnpaton.net · 22/12/2024

Would like to start blogging a bit again after like 4 years (kids will do that), I have a few ideas but it turns out getting them down on paper is a skill that atrophies away

John Paton @johnpaton.net · 19/12/2024

Figuring out whether a "breaking change" is breaking _for me_

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John Paton @johnpaton.net · 18/12/2024

… did AWS rebrand SageMaker to “SageMaker AI” without making any other changes?

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John Paton @johnpaton.net · 15/12/2024

Yeah conda is another beast, my old pyenv+virtualenvmanager setup was pretty pain free to covert which is lucky. Just recreated all my venvs inside the target directory

John Paton @johnpaton.net · 15/12/2024

But that’s not as elegant as the rest, I admit

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John Paton @johnpaton.net · 15/12/2024

You can still source ~/.venv/bin/activate from anywhere in a pinch

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John Paton @johnpaton.net · 09/12/2024

I guess this was easier than the Dependabot update

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John Paton @johnpaton.net · 09/12/2024

I devoured the sci-fi Remnants series by Katherine Applegate around that age. Might be a bit too much for the 11 y.o. There are loads of them so enough to keep them going for a while. www.goodreads.com/series/41871...

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Remnants Series by Katherine Applegate

The Mayflower Project (Remnants, #1), Destination Unknown (Remnants, #2), Them (Remnants, #3), Nowhere Land (Remnants, #4), Mutation (Remnants, #5), Bre...

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John Paton @johnpaton.net · 08/12/2024

I’ve seen one in Halifax and it looked like something escaped a video game into real life (but not in a good way)

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John Paton @johnpaton.net · 07/12/2024

I don’t have much of a use for uvx beyond quickly trying things tbh. It’s nice, but uv tool install is my daily driver for CLIs

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John Paton @johnpaton.net · 07/12/2024

Really enjoying the state of Python tooling these days, with one glaring exception: static type checking still feels so janky

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My biggest feedback is that the documentation is split over the website and the wiki. It would have been easier for me to figure out how to install it and how to configure uv if the docs were all in one place and cross linked.

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While I have your attention :D I would love for uv to have a simple(r) way to launch a python interpreter in a fresh venv, just to quickly try something. uv run --with python3.x python is a bit wordy and depends on the current env. Maybe a special case in uvx? uvx --with requests python3.13t

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If you’re using uv sync to install locked dependencies in your CI, make sure to use —frozen or set UV_FROZEN. Otherwise it may update the lockfile. If you’re using dynamic versioning, this will create a dirty state and even tags will be built with dev versions. #pythonprogramming

Tbh the default config is already pretty good. My only real config is to get all my git status info up front and in the colours I want, make an indicator if I’m connected to a shell over ssh, and customizing the kubernetes bit so I could see which cluster my kubectl context is currently aiming at

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I haven’t heard of aqua, looks nice @purpcheck.bsky.social !

If it’s a uv-managed repo anyway (I don’t touch on dependency management or anything here) then uv will create the venv anyway. Otherwise other tools like poetry or pdm also usually handle this

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No its all local. In my setup, direnv only handles the mechanics of creating and activating venvs. Everything works without it, it’s just for convenience. I don’t develop on very many different machines so a one-time echo ‘layout uv’ > .envrc && direnv allow Isn’t really much of a burden.

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This was me like 2 months ago. Made the full switch and have absolutely not looked back. With direnv, you basically put a .envrc file in every dir that should have a venv, and direnv will activate it for you when you go there (check the wiki link). Put .envrc in your global gitignore!

The low-level computational libraries are all C++ and Fortran. Python is only the high level interface that makes things more accessible.

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It’s the main way I navigate between projects, deeply in my muscle memory

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Big shoutout to @agkozak.com @crmarsh.com @zimbatm.bsky.social for these tools that make my hectic life smoother 🙏

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6. Try out new or one-off tools using uvx. This way you don’t need to remember to uninstall them.

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5. Install tools that you might generally need during the day (ruff, jupyter, pre-commit, …) using uv tool install. They will be installed in isolated environments so their dependencies can’t conflict, and you can call them directly (no need for uv run).

4. Have a base venv that’s activated in your home directory (direnv walks up the filetree looking for .envrc files). That way you shouldn’t accidentally use your system Python and it’s very easy to switch Python versions.

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2. Use direnv to automatically create and activate uv-managed virtual environments as I move between projects. Create venvs with —seed to install pip, so that your muscle memory still works for on-the-fly Python package installation github.com/direnv/diren...

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John Paton @johnpaton.net · 04/12/2024

How I use Astral’s uv to manage my local development environments: 1. Install uv through homebrew, install Python versions through uv. Upgrade uv version to get access to new Python builds, do this frequently #pythonprogramming

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Ahhh you subscribe to them! Time to go exploring. Thanks!