Pietro Peterlongo

In an era filled with tech dipshits who never developed emotionally past the age of 13 & use their wealth to become odious monsters ...

... listen to Steve Wozniak.

On Programming Languages as Languages | Programming Zen When you look up the word “Language” in the dictionary, you’ll find a few variations of similar definitions. My trusty Google Dictionary extension in Chrome, offers up a first definition that is…

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Hello, friends! After 10(!) years of #AdventOfCode, I've made some changes to preserve my sanity: there will be 12 days of puzzles each December (still starting Dec 1) and there is no longer a global leaderboard. Read more:
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“Perhaps only the foolish.” 3/3

“Luxury is a necessity for many people who want to feel a sense of dominance over others. But others—if they are civilized people—know that luxury is pretense. If they are ignorant, they will admire and perhaps envy those who live in luxury. But who cares for the admiration of the ignorant?” 2/3

“Luxury is the manifestation of uncivilized wealth that wants to impress those who have remained poor.
It reveals giving importance to appearances and a lack of interest in everything that represents cultural elevation. It is the triumph of appearance over substance.”
1/3

Luxury is not a design problem. From an industrial design methodology book. Very interesting book (besides the luxury quote) that seems relevant also for data projects (and now I am wondering what is luxury in that context)

life is too short to keep signing in the same apps day after day

Conversazione al bar, sento parlare di Emacs 👀. Poi ascolto il resto della conversazione e capisco parlavano di IMAX (Cinema) 🙄 #disambiguation #emacs #IMAX

it comes also with roadmap announcements

In 5 minutes the Python Documentary goes live and the live chat looks lively youtu.be/GfH4QL4VqJ0?...

thinking of calling this "The Illusion Illusion"

(more examples below)

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I think I will stop commenting or submitting :D

Relevant to anyone building communities

Recent rabbit hole: manually crafted logic puzzles beyond sudoku. Awesome website: www.gmpuzzles.com/blog/ (among my favorites are slitherlink, fillomino, nurikabe). Happy holidays!

Nice two weeks of remote work in #Catania are coming to an end. Productive work, enjoyed time with local colleagues, and managed also to put in a weekend in Lipari and a very nice conference on Vulcanology by @borisetneo.bsky.social. But nothing beats having a swim and granita before work ;) 🌊 🌋 🐘

Screenshot of Hacker News were someone shared (6 points 16 days ago) my repo Nim for Pythonistas)

Happened a few days ago and barely made a blip but I guess it is the first time something I did gets shared on HN

Picture of a touristic place in Milan (Colonne dj San Lorenzo) where someone is taking a photo of 4 people peeking out of the Roman columns

I like meta pics

Dana Aubakirova from @hf.co in Pavia for Py4AI finally talking about what we all want AI do for us, the laundry! 🤩👚🫧🦾

Glad to discover you are a cycling fan! Hope you are able to enjoy your Roubaix, despite the non optimal timing (similar struggles of European based NBA fans…)! 🪨 🚴

YouTube video by FloBikes Sonny Colbrelli Beats Mathieu van der Poel In Epic Paris-Roubaix Battle

For those who celebrate, happy Roubaix weekend! 🚲 🪨 For those who don’t and do not care, you might enjoy watching a video of a joy and tears, here is Colbrelli’s victory from 2021. I watch it at least once a year and cry smiling 😭 🤩 with him! youtu.be/JtScP6nTTNE?... (wait for 1:35)

📝 "My Guide to Berlin"

👤 Ines Montani

📖 Berlin insider tips! 13 years of local knowledge.

🔗 https://ines.io/blog/berlin-guide

#pyladies #python

🚀 #1 on Hacker News! 🚀 The open source and collaborative document editor we're building with the French and German governments just hit the top of HN. Proud to be part of this with BlockNote (www.blocknotejs.org)!

Great short talk by @felienne.bsky.social Feminism is naturally geared towards understanding "why things are the way they are" and biased against unfairness and inequality. And "making things easy" is powerful and under appreciated www.hytradboi.com/2025/419859c...

Jake and I were chatting a couple months back about how this week would go and he said, basically verbatim, "There will be a little drama and then Steve Klabnik will put out a thoughtful and nuanced blog post a day or two later" ❤️

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We are live with @pydata-milan.bsky.social with our local meetup with first speaker Alexander Fischer that will tell us all about Linear Regression with Big Data

speaking of which, I have been actively working on v2 of my tutorial.

here's v1: steveklabnik.github.io/jujutsu-tuto...

if you'd like to give me any and all feedback on v1 so I can use it to help guide me writing v2, please do so: github.com/steveklabnik...

thanks!