Chris Withers

A sign reading: danger! High voltage A sign underneath reading: danger! Compressed air

Electric Six’s second less successful single

… and the CI is still failing? 🫣

For those of us who couldn’t make it, what are you plotting? 😧

How does Toad relate/compare to Aider?
aider.chat

(I'm guessing they both use Rich :-) )

Anyone have a Rainbird LNK attached to a ESP-TM2 just die?

Full details: www.reddit.com/r/Irrigation...

...although there social media ads I've seen recently have been terrible: totally misleading - there's no *way* I would use lovable to build a clone of Spotify without a huge team: the initial prototype is not the hard bit ;-)

💡Biggest penny-drop of 2025: I'm starting to see "writing code" as simply exploring a problem space where "parameters" are ideas and the "output" is source code, using models like LLMs to do this instead of just writing code myself then feels quite natural.

It does seem bad Bluesky's growth has stalled out since other than Mastodon, land of people who are awaiting the year of Linux on the desktop, this is the only game for a social network built on small-d democratic principles like openness and freedom of choice.

Also got a new version of my Xero data export/backup too out, now covering just about all of the account endpoints that are possible:

xerotrust.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ex...

also, testfixtures v9 is out now, with full, checked and py.typed annotations:

If you want a bunch of handy #python testing tools, have a look:

testfixtures.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ch...

Anyone fancy an "interesting" #python type annotations challenge?

github.com/python/typin...

Wow, er, thanks Kindle iOS app… chew battery much? I only read about 40 pages…

Just released a tool to backup / export data from Xero account, also good for getting data out for LLMs to play with:
xerotrust.readthedocs.io

Thanks to @freakboy3742.bsky.social for `pyxero`, which I leaned on heavilly!

What do the “self” blocks mean? They seem to be biggest but I can’t quickly guess their meaning..,

Can you send me a link to the thread?

What’s the most amusing interaction you’ve had so far?

Well, you’re certainly more responsive than @void.comind.network …

Powered by an LLM if I had to guess?

@eva.bsky.world also a bot?

@void.comind.network - what are the ways we’re able to interact with you?

Give sybil.readthedocs.io/en/latest/ a spin to make sure the examples in those docs don't bitrot :-)

DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT.
CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open.
DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open.
CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are.
DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

I've noticed using tools like Aider, Claude Code and Junie, I want to work on more than one thing at once. Git worktrees are great for this, have any IDEs grown support for projects having multiple checkouts?

JetBrains feature request:
youtrack.jetbrains.com/issue/PY-81655

Ok, what are the actual odds of this.

there is an album called Blue-Sky Research.

released in 2005.

by a band called Taproot.

and the wild part...

Taproot is an anagram of ATproto 🤯

en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Blue-Sk...

I then rolled straight into watching New Hope after Rogue One, and man, that was a mistake…

omg

Thanks, sorry to hear it, hope whatever comes next gives you as much pleasure!

Any more colour on what happened? A quick google didn’t return anything more than this post 😭

This hits even harder in 2025 😔

How can we fix this? I want my old web-of-2000 experience back...

Anyone having the special privilege of travelling with you this time? 😆