Amethyst 🌸

I am actually getting really upset when I read folks say this design is somehow acceptable “because it's legible enough,” or “because you can just scroll a little bit to move the background out of the way,” or even “because you can just turn on Reduce Transparency in the Accessibility settings.” […]

Positive covid test

That "summer cold" you have? It's COVID. You've got COVID. It's a fact and it's still ripping through the world completely unrestrained.

Photo of a 3-in-1 COVID & Flu rapid test, showing that I’ve tested positive for COVID

Well fuck
https://bsky.brid.gy/r/https://bsky.app/profile/did:plc:5fq3w4od76bp3nqowdgiboki/post/3lvlqlzbjy22v

Well, it's official: Meta has discontinued my employment, effective this morning. 😔

So I guess this is as good a time as any to say that I've accepted an offer from Astral, and I will be starting there on August 25th. I'm excited and appreciative of the opportunity to continue working with some […]

Maybe an obvious take, but I think the most underrated way to learn about Python internals is by actually reading PEPs.

Not AI summarization, but actually reading them.

You might end up reading them a couple times and going down a rabbit hole but it’s always worth it in my experience.

You finish projects⁉️

Of all the emails to get incorrectly filtered into the spam folder, of course it's the F1TV legal settlement. Get your $17 check #F1 fans!

Now do Dvorak
https://mastodon.social/@mcc/114903173414374060

I'm just having a day where I feel I have to say that I'm heartbroken by the genocide in Gaza and I'm ashamed to be part of a country enabling it. The children and all the people of Gaza deserve life.

Guardrails: An Alternative View of Safely Working in Python—PyCon AU 2025

related: come see me at #PyConAU in September (or #PyOhio this weekend, or #PyBay in October) and see me talk about the 56 year-old brainworms that we should be finally ridding ourselves of!

https://2025.pycon.org.au/program/FBY7ZR

new Date("wtf") How well do you know JavaScript's Date class?

Oh, and if you enjoy laughing/crying at how terrible Javascript can be, the "inspiration" for this is a cavalcade of tragedy:

https://jsdate.wtf/

fstrings.wtf - Python F-String Quiz Test your knowledge of Python's f-string formatting with this interactive quiz. How well do you know Python's string formatting quirks?

A bit of Python amusement to start the week: a quiz on how well you know f-strings. I did not get a perfect score, but I came pretty darn close. 😮‍💨

https://fstrings.wtf/

#Python #Quiz

“In a functioning democracy with actual rule of law, the best products have the opportunity to win. In an authoritarian system, the company that makes the dictator happy wins—and that’s it.” https://www.techdirt.com/2025/07/17/fascism-for-first-time-founders/

My personal brand of #ADHD is feeling a tangle in my hair, going back to the bathroom to get my brush, deciding to clean my teeth first, standing there for 10 or 15 seconds afterwards thinking there was something else I needed to do, changing my shirt, walking back out to the living room, and […]

Also my entire home internet is down through all of this because *of course* the doorbell is on the same circuit as the kitchen, the bathrooms, and the guest bedroom closet

Who could have ever foreseen that buying a smart doorbell would turn into the yak shave from Malcom in the Middle

Bill Nye the Science Guy

A grey and white tabby cat napping under a blanket, with his head, ears, and hind feet poking out of the side of the blanket.

Nap time.

#cats

the core idea that can radicalize people is so simple:

there is enough.

there is enough food to feed everyone. enough resources to house everyone. money and technology and medicine to stop the suffering of people around the globe.

once you accept that there's only one question:

why don't we?

Are you still on #Spotify?

Spotify’s CEO Daniel Ek has raised €600M for his new startup, which is developing AI TECH FOR WAR. Ek still owns 9% of Spotify, but has 37% voting control. His net worth went from $2.5B to $10B in the last two years alone, on the back of paying musicians a pittance in […]

Screenshot of a network speed test. “Your internet speed is 1.6 Gbps”, latency of 20ms, and upload speed of 360Mbps.

Celebrating this stupid country by rolling out 2.5GbE switches to go with my recent modem upgrade. UniFi gear is the best, and PoE+ is the greatest networking invention of all time.

a screenshot from fire emblem with inserted text dialogue: “I do not love my country. I love the people in it and want their needs met.”

sincerely, medicaid has kept me alive the past 4 years and this legislation will be fucking catastrophic for millions of people.

they want us to die.

if i lose my medicaid, i’ll lose coverage for the medication that prevents me from emitting 3000 gamma-ray bursts, the power of 100s of dying suns, from all of my pores at 10pm every night.

and also my antidepressants

“Genuinely good new tools don’t tend to need coercion to fuel their adoption only a few years into their existence, right? What the fuck is going on here?”

https://eev.ee/blog/2025/07/03/the-rise-of-whatever/

The monkey paw heard everyone’s wish for cellular MacBooks… https://mastodon.social/@macrumors/114771815707278001

GitHub - amyreese/bluepost: bluesky bot: repost everything another account posts/reposts bluesky bot: repost everything another account posts/reposts - amyreese/bluepost

Alternately, if you also use Bridgy Fed like me, I made “bluepost” to automatically repost bridged account posts to my main Bluesky account. github.com/amyreese/blu...

Croissant App

If you are on iOS, Croissant is an excellent cross posting app that handles much of that correctly for a relatively small fee. croissantapp.com

Seeing the latest news that Meta is now asking users for permission to mine their unpublished photos, I'm re-upping on this: are you still on Instagram, Facebook, or WhatsApp?

I've had friends say that me leaving FB made their feeds noticeably less interesting, and they were spending less time […]