RE: https://mastodon.social/@glyph/117597004013987150
Folks often look at me weirdly when I say to them that I don’t really think AI changes the fundamental task. Something along the lines this thread is arguing is what I mean. It’s in the solving of the problem that we find out what it is, and code generation is (at best) neutral in that process.
Absolutely all over the shop today 🥳
🗺️ 11 November 2026
4/5 countries in 13/13 guesses
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https://whereabouts.earth/daily/
#Whereabouts
to reiterate: unsubscribed from all the former programming and tech industry newsletters that have pivoted to tulips and I am enjoying code again SO MUCH
we just got a new official Git tutorial for beginners merged! Thanks to all the test readers who tested it, everyone’s feedback made it so much better.
My dream was to be able to recommend “to learn Git, you can start with the project’s official tutorial” and we’re getting closer to that!
You can see a preview of it here: https://www.kernel.org/pub/software/scm/git/docs/gittutorial.html, and it’ll be at https://git-scm.com/docs (and at `git help tutorial`) after the next Git release.
branches are next :)
When you look at the numbers on the recent labor activism, you can see that the argument "well if you want cheap clothes, you end up having slaves" is just nonsense. If you want cheap clothes _and_ executives being compensated *millions of times* more than their average worker, sure. But even a modest redistribution would give people dignity, the current situation is not inherent to having a market https://www.business-standard.com/world-news/bangladesh-garment-unrest-shuts-529-factories-puts-export-orders-at-risk-126110200235_1.html
Strongly leaning towards adopting curl's new "no embargo for LOW or MEDIUM security issues" approach for OctoPrint.
Especially after another read of https://opensourcesecurity.io/2026/10-embargo/
Considering the high risk of introducing breaking behaviour with every fix I cannot do in the open and can only get reviews on by a *very* small group of people, and the fact I've now had to close several (genAI created) duplicates, an embargo simply doesn't make a lot of sense anymore for anything below HIGH.
Pretty pattern today 🎨
🗺️ 9 November 2026
5/5 countries in 9/13 guesses
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#Whereabouts
I've written a blog post with my thoughts about LLMs, open source and Django:
So, open thread: how much do you document on *your* projects, how much duplication is worth the continued upkeep as the ecosystem continues to evolve, how much effort do you put into that initial onboarding experience when it's not really under your control? Does it differ for contributors *to* your library vs. users *of* your library? I would love to make peace with *some* long-term criteria for where to draw this line.
A lot of this please.
Quick heads up that the pro unlock for @WorkingCopy (premier iOS git app) is discounted at the moment. Recommended if you’re on the platform.
🗺️ 7 November 2026
5/5 countries in 6/13 guesses
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#Whereabouts
The trillion dollar monsters are all focusing on *finding* issues at high speed in large volumes. Hardly any of them care about *fixing* these problems with any sense of quality.
Kicking off nicely. Soul Queen: Aretha Franklin on soundtrack 🎵
🎥 New on YouTube: “The Ultimate Question of Django Architecture”, my talk at the #DjangoCologne Meetup @ Beyonder on Sept 15.
We’re now recording and publishing our talks, a first for us in ages!
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iYRF4aND5Xg
Question for Django TV: would this be a fit if there’s room? And what does the DSF think? 🙂
Thanks to everyone who joined and listened! ❤️
Friday. Yes! 🙌
Quiet weekend planned. So looking forward to it ☺️
@carlton the end of your post hits hard.
"The thing I’d like us to avoid is sleep walking into undermining the trust that people put in us. Ultimately, If it becomes a slop fest, that trust is gone. We’ll all just vibe up our own."
This already happened in @plone. Senior developers focus now on "efficiency" and "productivity", while losing sight of the spirit of FOSS, specifically trust and community.
If the number of returning contributors declines, your community has an existential problem.
Do you use the Python `dmgbuild` library to construct macOS DMG disk images? If you do, I’d appreciate your help testing https://github.com/dmgbuild/dmgbuild/pull/303
macOS 27 has deprecated the `hdiutil` tool that forms the foundation of `dmgbuild`. This PR replaces `hdiutil` with `diskutil` - but that’s a big change, so I’d appreciate eyeballs so I can have some confidence I haven’t broken a real world use case I’m not aware of.
The latest Django Chat is out with @be_haki as our guest discussing Databases, Django APIs, and AI.
I really enjoyed this chat--mostly listening to Haki and @carlton go deep--and I think it will be helpful to anyone using the Django ORM, APIs, and looking for ideas around AI.
https://djangochat.com/episodes/databases-django-apis-and-ai-haki-benita