Phil Pennock

Keep an eye out for Cory Doctorow’s keynote speech from PyCon US 2025 being posted online. It’s well worth your time and attention to hear it.

Affects everyone who has to make a living in this world, uses apps, or otherwise doesn’t live in a cave in the wilderness.

Cancelled 10 ebook pre-orders on Amazon. Since that company has opted to remove the ability to download purchases, leaving customers reliant upon the vendor’s continued good graces to not close accounts or retract purchases, I now need to find a new store to feed my book habit.

I am amused that when I use the palette to save an SVG screenshot, the "window" is decorated with macOS controls. I can see using this to confuse some of my colleagues who know I'm not on macOS. :)

Folks don't appreciate how much of the effort to build international trade (post-WW2 to today) was not about profit but about peace.

$44 billion for Twitter. What a waste. think about how many supreme court justices that money could have bought

Ordered from new-to-us place for home-delivery dinner. Our appetizer is a work of insane inspired genius. It works. It just ... works.

Reuben Egg Rolls.

Corned beef, sauerkraut, swiss-ish cheese, in an egg roll. 1000 island dressing.

11/10.

Welcome to the Sultan of Scale, @liquidgecka.bsky.social 👋 Hi Brady.

Well okay, I can copy post text. That’s something.

When I see social media screenshots of text messages being shared, I feel like I’m dealing with my father emailing an msword doc which contains one jpeg. Except of course at least screenshots are stable and don’t get deleted at source.

Harder to promote Bluesky to people when links don’t work unless signed in, so can’t unfurl, so the only sharing option is janky screenshots.

Breaking: Justice Thomas and his wife Ginni have also been using Harlan Crow’s Netflix password for years.

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