Readit Newstomwphillips commented on PYX: The next step in Python packaging astral.sh/blog/introducin... · Posted by u/the_mitsuhiko
I've been limiting myself to whatever is available on debian and it's been fine for me since several years.
I don't understand why people who don't do weird AI stuff would use any of that instead of sticking to distribution packages and having the occasional 1 or 2 external modules that aren't packaged.
Indeed, to expand on my remark: I wrote Python in academia for ~6 years and then professionally for nearly a decade in data science, data engineering and backend web apps. Virtualenv was fine. Pipenv had a nicer CLI and easier to use dependency pinning. But fundamentally all this stuff worked fine.
tomwphillips commented on PYX: The next step in Python packaging astral.sh/blog/introducin... · Posted by u/the_mitsuhiko
>Modern
I'll pass. I'd rather have the battle-tested old thing, thanks.
tomwphillips commented on Linear sent me down a local-first rabbit hole bytemash.net/posts/i-went... · Posted by u/jcusch
> For the uninitiated, Linear is a project management tool that feels impossibly fast. Click an issue, it opens instantly. Update a status and watch in a second browser, it updates almost as fast as the source. No loading states, no page refreshes - just instant, interactions.
How garbage the web has become for a low-latency click action being qualified as "impossibly fast". This is ridiculous.
Indeed. I have been using it for 5-6 months in a new job and I didn't notice it being faster than the typical web app.
If anything it is slow because it is a pain to navigate. I have browser bookmarks for my most frequented pages.
From Anthropic’s Reddit account:
One user consumed tens of thousands in model usage on a $200 plan. Though we're developing solutions for these advanced use cases, our new rate limits will ensure a more equitable experience for all users while also preventing policy violations like account sharing and reselling access.
This is why we can’t have nice things.
I think it might actually be because they're selling services at a loss.
tomwphillips commented on Coding with LLMs in the summer of 2025 – an update antirez.com/news/154... · Posted by u/antirez
I'm surprised IDE integration is written off. I've been pleased with Junie's agent mode in IntelliJ. Works well.
>You give Mozilla all rights necessary to operate Firefox, including processing data as we describe in the Firefox Privacy Notice, as well as acting on your behalf to help you navigate the internet. When you upload or input information through Firefox, you hereby grant us a nonexclusive, royalty-free, worldwide license to use that information to help you navigate, experience, and interact with online content as you indicate with your use of Firefox.
Emphasis added.
I regret immensely not having turned ADP before... Now I'm feeling really angry at this whole thing.
The article reports that it will be disabled for existing users at a later date.
Step 1: Some upstarts create a new way of doing something. It’s clunky and unrefined.
Step 2: "Experts" and senior folks in the field dismiss it as a "toy." It doesn't follow their established rules or best practices and seems amateurish. They wouldn't recommend it to anyone serious.
Step 3: The "toy" gets adopted by a small group of outsiders or newcomers who aren't burdened by the "right way" of doing things. They play with it, improve it, and find new applications for it.
Step 4: The "toy" becomes so effective and widespread that it becomes the new standard. The original experts are left looking out of touch, their deep knowledge now irrelevant to the new way of doing things.
We're at step 2, bordering on 3.
* Executives at Nokia and BlackBerry saw the first iPhone, with its lack of a physical keyboard, as an impractical toy for media consumption, not a serious work device.
* Professional photographers viewed the first low-resolution digital cameras as flimsy gadgets, only for them to completely decimate the film industry.
Considering how many developers still don't write tests, pair program, or do CI and CD (shipping multiple times a day) – all things Dave argues for – I don't think it is fair to dismiss him as the establishment or incumbent.