Kurt Schwehr

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Python 3.14 is out. Now I have to wait as the tree of dependencies get their releases out for 3.14 before I can enable it for my packages. It's always something 🤷🏻‍♂️

Sitting around waiting for the official release of Python 3.14. That is today, yes? ................ 😁

Tuning a base guitar when you don't know what you are doing is pretty intuitive with the Fender app

Railroad ties for our backyard improvement project. These will become stairs for our step hill that drops off behind our house.

Four Walls Falling was an American hardcore punk band from Richmond, Virginia, active between 1987 and 1995. Their most successful release was Culture Shock in 1991. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Four_Walls_Falling

Toxic culture for sure. It's totally possible to create the kinds of connections and learning for remote people that Schmidt thinks require being in person.

“Fish” can refer to a single individual, or multiple individuals from the same species.

“Fishes” refers to multiple species.

🐠 Fish
🐠🐠🐠 Fish
🐠🐟🐡 Fishes

Just got some thunder and lightnight about 10 minutes ago in Santa Cruz

See great circles...

YouTube video by You Suck at Programming Heredocs in Bash! Understanding how they work and a few gotchas. You Suck at Programming #069

A nice "heredoc" tutorial for bash. And these...

bat - cat(1) clone with syntax highlighting and git integration
nl - number lines of files

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They’re just saying it out loud

This is pretty cool! community.wmo.int/en/activity-...

They just tear-gassed us. They tried to run us over in a van holding a peaceful protester. They shot us with pepper balls. They dragged another protester into the facility.

I'm not sure how the updates are driven on the sponsor page, but it may be a bit before Google appears here:

gdal.org/en/stable/sp...

As of just now, Google is again a Silver Sponsor of GDAL. Thanks to all the people in GDAL, NumFocus, and Google who helped to make it through the process. Big company processes can be challenging to navigate.

And a thanks to all the other sponsors! You rock!

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The sun struggling to get through the fog that rolled in about an hour ago and a palm tree.

Tonight's sunset in Santa Cruz, CA.

The demon cat from KPop Demon Hunter.

Then she did this one from memory...

Pencil drawing from KPop Demon Hunter

Did a KPop Demon Hunter draw along with my daughter.

1 day and 1 hour till I can listen to The Shattering Peace by Scalzi

Tick tock... I'm just sitting here waiting for @scalzi.com 's latest book, the Shattering Peace. As my kids would say, "I'm bored!"

Another Santa Cruz, CA sunset.

@globalfishingwatch.org Have any suggestions for a title that pops?

A "doIt" method with 200+ parameters named param1, param2... I ran into this pattern yet again very recent. Don't do it!

Ahhhhh. Foo(param1, param2, param3...) from "Standout BAD HABITS Even Senior Programmers Have"

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My spouse was having a hard time finding the correct URL for a particular open license. I just got to introduce her to spdx.org/licenses/ and that immediately solved her issue. Thank you to who ever is behind that list. You rock!

A bush with spider webs and little red flowers.

The spiders are sensing that Halloween is not far away.

Saja the kitten posing heroically next to a copy of The Shattering Peace

JUST A SINGLE WEEK exists between today and the official release of The Shattering Peace! You can still pre-order from your favorite bookseller, or come see me on my US tour! Dates and ticket information are at the link!

us.macmillan.com/tours/john-s...

The software supply chain is like a meat processing plant full of rats. At least that is the best analogy I can come up with at the moment

Rework the cmake setup to be a complete C++ solution · Issue #259 · schwehr/libais Resources: https://github.com/cpp-best-practices/cmake_template How to Avoid Headaches with Simple CMake - Bret Brown - C++Now 2025 Post-Modern Cmake - From 3.0 to 4.0 - Vito Gamberini - C++Now 202...

Trying to better understand cmake... github.com/schwehr/liba...

In general, Alice isn't a lap cat, but sometimes she demands a human to lay on. #caturday

Marine layer