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Weeknotes 2025-02-10 Feb. 10, 2025, Jochen I'm tall. I have been asked innumerable times to help a stranger get something off a high shelf in a store. I've even offered to help once or tw...
Weeknotes 2025-02-03
Weeknotes 2025-02-03 Feb. 3, 2025, Jochen A - DNS record
AA - battery
AAA - battery
AAAA - DNS record
--Kevin P. Fleming
Made it to FOSDEM 2025 in Brussels this year. Great to see some ...
Weeknotes 2025-01-27
Weeknotes 2025-01-27 Jan. 27, 2025, Jochen You all died in 2016. And yes, this is Hell. --God
I went to a PyDDF meetup and had a great time! I also managed to get my video setup working...
Weeknotes 2025-01-20
Weeknotes 2025-01-20 Jan. 20, 2025, Jochen therapist: it’s normal for painful memories to soften over time
me: but what if they don’t? what if they only hurt more as i age?
therapist: do ...
Weeknotes 2025-01-13
Weeknotes 2025-01-13 Jan. 13, 2025, Jochen Come, let's take anti-inflammatory pain medicine together 🫴 --CatSalad
Just wrapped up my first work week of the year. While it was pretty rou...
Weeknotes 2025-01-06
Weeknotes 2025-01-06 Jan. 6, 2025, Jochen My New Year’s resolution? 3840 × 2160 --nixCraft
It's the first week of 2025 and the last week of my holiday break. I've mostly been lounging ...
Weeknotes 2024-12-30
Weeknotes 2024-12-30 Dec. 30, 2024, Jochen Days of the week no longer exist. There is only thinking of what to eat, eating, and dreaming of eating --Dave
During the final week of 2024, I...
Weeknotes 2024-12-23
Weeknotes 2024-12-23 Dec. 23, 2024, Jochen I have been asked to stop referring to LinkedIn as "Grindr for Business" --ncl
It's the final work week of the year. There were some exciting ...
Weeknotes 2024-12-16
Weeknotes 2024-12-16 Dec. 16, 2024, Jochen i still think my favourite thing that's ever happened to me on the internet is the time a guy said "people change their minds when you show them...
Weeknotes 2024-12-09
Weeknotes 2024-12-09 Dec. 9, 2024, Jochen The thing most people don't remember about Prometheus is that humans already had fire, but then Zeus locked it up behind a paywall, because Zeus ...
Why Your Laptop Might Be Faster Than a Cluster: Rethinking Big Data in 2025
Why Your Laptop Might Be Faster Than a Cluster: Rethinking Big Data in 2025 Dec. 7, 2024, Jochen Modern laptops are significantly more powerful than many realize, often capable of handlin...
How to Add Extra Data to a Python Package
How to Add Extra Data to a Python Package Dec. 3, 2024, Jochen Today, I learned how to include external files in a Python package using uv and the hatchling build backend. My goal was to ...
Weeknotes 2024-12-02
Weeknotes 2024-12-02 Dec. 2, 2024, Jochen When I die please mix my ashes with concrete, then turn me into a brick and throw me at an Amazon Warehouse --Erik Uden
Yep, it’s been a stress...
Weeknotes 2024-11-25
Weeknotes 2024-11-25 Nov. 25, 2024, Jochen Don't use a big word when a singularly unloquacious and diminutive linguistic expression will satisfactorily accomplish the contemporary necessi...
🎙️ Introducing podcast-transcript: Audio Transcription Made Simple
🎙️ Introducing podcast-transcript: Audio Transcription Made Simple Nov. 23, 2024, Jochen Hey folks! I recently built a little command-line tool called podcast-transcript that turns audio ...
Weeknotes 2024-11-18
Weeknotes 2024-11-18 Nov. 18, 2024, Jochen I learned all my HTML<br>From a code camp held yearly in hell<br>We started on `<s>`<br>Then striked through the rest<...
Weeknotes 2024-11-11
Weeknotes 2024-11-11 Nov. 11, 2024, Jochen AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAHHHHHHHH --Endless Screaming
This is fine 🔥.
In other news, I attended the PyDDF autumn sprint! After putting off the ...
Weeknotes 2024-11-04
Weeknotes 2024-11-04 Nov. 4, 2024, Jochen By age 35, your 500-foot burial pyramid should already be 80% complete. --batkaren
I’ve implemented some performance improvements on my podcast...
Podlove Web Player Performance Improvements
Podlove Web Player Performance Improvements Oct. 30, 2024, Jochen I recently attended the SUBSCRIBE 11 podcasting conference, where I had the opportunity to chat with the author of Pods-B...
Weeknotes 2024-10-28
Weeknotes 2024-10-28 Oct. 28, 2024, Jochen From Facebook .....
I just learned the professional way to say "I told you so":
"This was identified early on as a likely outcome." --Christos A...
Weeknotes 2024-10-21
Weeknotes 2024-10-21 Oct. 21, 2024, Jochen ACAB includes Paw Patrol. --Prof Kemi FG
I attended the local Django Meetup in Cologne and listened to an interesting talk about Hyperview, wh...
Weeknotes 2024-10-14
Weeknotes 2024-10-14 Oct. 14, 2024, Jochen "To whom it may concern"
- vague
- weak
- ignorable
"To whom it will concern"
- ominous
- strong
- alarming
--Aelfred the Great
Relea...
Weeknotes 2024-10-07
Weeknotes 2024-10-07 Oct. 7, 2024, Jochen hey sorry I missed your text, I am processing a non-stop 24/7 onslaught of information with a brain designed to eat berries in a cave --Janel Com...
Weeknotes 2024-09-30
Weeknotes 2024-09-30 Sept. 30, 2024, Jochen There’s nothing quite like tight kerning to make a design look dean and modem. --Chris Shiflett
I didn’t manage to accomplish much this week....
Weeknotes 2024-09-23
Weeknotes 2024-09-23 Sept. 23, 2024, Jochen This week, I released a new version of kptncook that includes a fix for Windows by setting the default encoding to UTF-8. I also attended a mee...
Type Annotations can Cause Unexpected Behavior in Python
Type Annotations can Cause Unexpected Behavior in Python Sept. 19, 2024, Jochen Today I learned that type annotations in Python, while being valid code, can sometimes lead to unexpected p...
Weeknotes 2024-09-16
Weeknotes 2024-09-16 Sept. 16, 2024, Jochen Be nice to us folks who wear glasses. We paid money to see you. --BobGolen
I just released a new version of kptncook because my wife's attempt...
Weeknotes 2024-09-09
Weeknotes 2024-09-09 Sept. 9, 2024, Jochen WHY WAS IT CALLED SINGLE-SIGN ON WHEN SIGN-ON 37 TIMES PER DAY WAS RIGHT THERE --Joe B
I'm rereading Every Layout and practicing some CSS on m...
Weeknotes 2024-09-02
Weeknotes 2024-09-02 Sept. 2, 2024, Jochen Much of the essence of building a program is in fact the debugging of the specification. — Fred Brooks
Lots of private appointments, didn't ha...
Weeknotes 2024-08-26
Weeknotes 2024-08-26 Aug. 26, 2024, Jochen I've never encountered your problem before, so it must be simple to solve. --Greg Wilson
Dealt with a few unexpected bureaucratic challenges,...