OK, what's happened to cause all the Mastodon/Bluesky chatter? Is it the series A funding for Bluesky, or something else? There's been an uptick of followers for me (https://bsky.app/profile/snarky.ca) as well as general commenting about the two here.

@hynek @glyph @offby1 I had not realized the plushie thing was a negative to anyone. And I didn't know where Kelsey had been to begin with. Shows you how plugged in I am thanks to checking both here and Bluesky once a weekday. 😁

@hynek https://github.com/astral-sh/uv/releases/tag/0.4.27

I'm working on a new draft of my lock file PEP (751), and the one thing I hope that comes of it is @hynek takes advantage of PEP 735 and drops all of the development-related extras in `attrs`. 😉

Moderator tip: don't use the phrase "user harm" when talking about benign software. Very likely no one is being physically or psychologically harmed; they are at worst having a suboptimal time and being inconvenienced. So unless there is a doctor or therapist visit caused entirely because of some software, "harm" is a bit too strong of a term to use about someone's idea.

Any recommendations on web or Windows desktop clients for Mastodon? I realize one of the reasons I'm liking Bluesky is I'm liking the UI more.

With the increase in GitHub Sponsors funding, I'm thinking about getting better hosting and analytics for my sites. I use CloudFlare analytics for both snarky.ca and https://python-launcher.app and CloudFlare pages for the latter (my blog is hosted on Ghost(Pro)). I'm thinking @plausible makes the most sense for analytics.

But what about static file hosting for python-launcher.app (and any future sites, for which there is at least one planned)? Easy deployment from GitHub Actions is a must.

A quick thanks to @pawamoy , @traal , @ChristianHeinze , and Astral for their GitHub Sponsors support!

Ever find the parentheses around the exception classes unnecessary since we stopped worrying about Python 2? Yeah, Pablo and I agree, so we wrote PEP 758.

https://discuss.python.org/t/allow-except-and-except-expressions-without-parentheses/66453

I just had a thumb keycap on my https://dygma.com/pages/defy break w/ the stems stuck in the switch. Within 48 hours #Dygma requested everything they needed for the warranty -- which is 2 years -- and sent off a entire new set of thumb keycaps -- they have switched to a stronger material since my keyboard was made -- along with a couple new switches in case something else happens in the future.

I continue to be very happy with my Dygma Defy purchase! 😊

For anyone else annoyed by the xdg-open prompt caused by @Vivaldi on Linux, I replied at https://forum.vivaldi.net/post/779497 about what the cause is (Speed Dial using a custom `vivaldi` protocol for the URL).

And this is when I wished being sponsor of the project got me priority bug fixes or at least raised the visibility of this as it's unfortunate I have to leave Speed Dial off because of this bug.

If you are or have been an Exercism user, they could use some financial help: https://exercism.org/blog/september-2024-restructure .

I just donated $50 since I'm currently doing the Gleam track.

One thing I will give Bluesky is they make it very easy to add to your muted word list; the triple dot menu for every post has a menu item to pull up a quick entry widget to add to your list. Compare that to Mastodon where I have to go to my Settings -> Filters and then edit a filter list where the Add part is at the bottom of the word list. Not easy when your word list tries to filter out US news (i.e. not a short list).

https://bsky.app/profile/snarky.ca

I decided to join Bluesky to try it out and join the country of Brazil over there. 😉 If you happen to be over there, please let me know what your profile is over there.

I do appreciate I can use my own domain as my username to make it obvious that it's me w/o having to run my own infrastructure like I would for the same result on Mastodon. I'm also interested in their approach to moderation. Lastly, I appreciate it's a public benefit LLC.

The day @signalapp has Android tablet support I will start donating again (I stopped when I updated my credit card and they then charged me twice in the same month).

I'm seeing a bit of accidental FUD around `setup.py` in relation to `pyproject.toml` in Python packaging that I want to clear up.

The key point is `setup.py` isn't going anywhere! If you want to keep using it to configure setuptools, then keep doing it! All you do in `pyproject.toml` is specify setuptools are your build back-end.

The thing that HAS changed is setuptools deprecated calling `setup.py` DIRECTLY; e.g., don't do `python3 setup.py bdist_wheel` anymore, do `pipx run build` instead.

#Ruff has shipped their Black-compatible formatter to beta and declared it ready for production use: https://astral.sh/blog/the-ruff-formatter

I just announced my conditional acceptance of https://peps.python.org/pep-0723/ over at https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-722-723-decision/36763 . Hopefully this will make writing single-file scripts a much easier proposition for people when they want to reach for something not contained in the stdlib.

Does anyone set the `PYTHONHOME` environment variable? I'm trying to determine how important it is to support in an API.