Weeknotes 2024-01-22 Jan. 22, 2024, Jochen career Verb /kəˈri(ə)r/
> careers, plural;
> 1. Move swiftly and in an uncontrolled way in a specified direction
> - the car careered a...
Weeknotes 2024-01-29 Jan. 29, 2024, Jochen The Web is the set of digital networked technologies that work to increase user agency. --Robin Berjon
Busy work week in between projects. Di...
Weeknotes 2024-02-05 Feb. 5, 2024, Jochen A priest, a pastor, and a rabbit entered a clinic to donate blood.
The nurse asked the rabbit: "What's your blood type?"
"I'm probably a Type 0",...
Weeknotes 2024-02-12 Feb. 12, 2024, Jochen IT'S HARD TO BELIEVE I'VE ALREADY BEEN ON THE FEDIVERSE FOR A YEAR. ONLY 999 TO GO UNTIL MY DISTRESS SIGNAL REACHES OMICRON PERSEI 8. --LRRR
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Weeknotes 2024-02-19 Feb. 19, 2024, Jochen it's pretty messed up that the Beatles released a song called "Help!" and then an album called "Help!" and then a movie called "Help!" and nobod...
Weeknotes 2024-02-26 Feb. 26, 2024, Jochen
unmuting my mic Hey everybody, sorry about my camera, but you all insisted on making this a morning meeting and, y'know, that curse the fortune...
Workaround for Paying OpenAI via bunq Feb. 27, 2024, Jochen tldr: The chatGPT app on iOS allows you to pay openAI using Apple Pay
Last week openAI stopped working for me and I got an er...
Weeknotes 2024-03-04 March 4, 2024, Jochen At one point as a teenager I did arrange a physical swap of “hacking” software on floppy disks in a series of posts on a BBS using coded languag...
Weeknotes 2024-03-11 March 11, 2024, Jochen Dungeons and Dragons is a role-playing game that lets you live out such fantasies as:
- Having money
- Making close friends as an adult
- Trave...
Weeknotes 2024-03-18 March 18, 2024, Jochen Look, it's not our fault you people are made out of telemetry we can monetize --lcamtuf
Normal work week. Still catching up on my open source ...
Weeknotes 2024-03-25 March 25, 2024, Jochen Becoming an adult feels like slowly being pushed into a managerial position you didn't really want. --MostlyHarmless
Had some fun with unicod...
Weeknotes 2024-04-01 April 1, 2024, Jochen As a rule, software systems do not work well until they have been used, and have failed repeatedly, in real applications. — Dave Parnas
Last w...
Weeknotes 2024-04-08 April 8, 2024, Jochen Architecture is a property of a system, not a description of its intended design --Stefan Tilkov
Had a week off, yay! Spent most of the time v...
Weeknotes 2024-04-15 April 15, 2024, Jochen "Vendor lock-in"? They wish. All these vendors are locked in here with ME. --Forrest Brazeal
Still working on optimizing fetching stuff from ...
Weeknotes 2024-04-22 April 22, 2024, Jochen Einstein repeatedly argued that there must be simplified explanations of nature, because God is not capricious or arbitrary. No such faith comf...
Weeknotes 2024-04-29 April 29, 2024, Jochen Languages that try to disallow idiocy become themselves idiotic. — Rob Pike
For the first time I paid to have a work of art professionally fra...
Weeknotes 2024-05-06 May 6, 2024, Jochen Journalism is making the same mistake with AI that they made with bloggers. They jumped to the incorrect conclusion that we were trying to do what...
Weeknotes 2024-05-13 May 13, 2024, Jochen Everyone seems to be obsessed with passive income but I’m set on passive-aggressive income, so you should probably pay me back if you care even t...
Weeknotes 2024-05-20 May 20, 2024, Jochen
@beecycling Don't chase your dreams. Humans are persistence predators. Follow your dreams at a moderate pace until they become too exhausted to ...
Weeknotes 2024-05-27 May 27, 2024, Jochen OH: “Or, as Randall Munroe once said: «This quote is taken out of context»” --hukl
Normal work week, nothing to see here. Fixed a nasty bug in ...
Weeknotes 2024-06-03 June 3, 2024, Jochen A bad metaphor is like a wet carrot --donni saphire
Short work week. Didn't get anything done besides work because I was sick more than half of ...
Weeknotes 2024-06-10 June 10, 2024, Jochen If you want to do good, make sure the people who tell you you're doing good are actually good. --Chris McDonough
It was a busy work week, leavi...
Weeknotes 2024-06-17 June 17, 2024, Jochen oh: neurotypicals should really learn to mask better. I know you want to talk about the weather but please just pretend you have a favorite liza...
I frequently copy titles from websites to use as anchor texts for links. However, these titles are often in all caps, and I don’t want to seem like I’m shouting. Previously, I would paste the all-caps title into a Python REPL, convert it to lowercase, and then manually capitalize the necessary words to make it look like a proper title. But today, I discovered a much simpler built-in solution:
>>>print("THIS IS A LOUD TITLE".title())'This Is A Loud Title'
Weeknotes 2024-06-24 June 24, 2024, Jochen I really hate these new "Dyson Airblade" urinals --Souvlaki Space Station
Still battling this stomach bug. Managed to get some work done but d...
Unwrapping functools.wraps: How to Remove Decorators from a Python Function June 26, 2024, Jochen Sometimes, you need to call a Python function without its decorators. I encountered this ...
Weeknotes 2024-07-01 July 1, 2024, Jochen
ACARS Message From: C-FWJS/WS0456
Message: HI. I JUST ACCIDENTLY CLEARED AN ACARS MESSAGE BEFORE WE COULD READ IT. DO YOU KNOW WHAT IT WAS ABOUT...
Weeknotes 2024-07-08 July 8, 2024, Jochen ZIZEK: that AI will be the death of learning & so on; to this, I say NO! My student brings me their essay, which has been written by AI, &...
Weeknotes 2024-07-15 July 15, 2024, Jochen
somehow instead of saying “as a treat”, I’ve started using the phrase “for morale”, as if my body is a ship and its crew, and I (the captain) h...
Implementing Single Sign-On (SSO) with SAML for a Django Application July 19, 2024, Jochen Introduction
Adding SSO via SAML to a Django application can be a complex process. When I first ...
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