I want a mobile OS where apps are nothing more than PWAs or WebAssembly with worlds standardized by the Bytecode Alliance.

I wrote a blog post unravelling t-strings to help explain what they are doing -- providing syntactic access to the f-string parser -- while we wait on the official docs.

https://snarky.ca/unravelling-t-strings/

/cc @pauleveritt @lysnikolaou

Would having a short domain act as a link tree and URL shortener for myself be worth it in this day and age? Is having some domain.tld/github redirect to my GitHub profile as a URL to verbally tell people, have on slides, etc. worth it?

(I know asking to be talked out getting yet another domain and setting up yet another website is probably the wrong ask of the type of people who follow me, but maybe I'll be surprised by the responses. 😉)

My review of @feedbin after my 1 month free evaluation: it's good and I would consider leaving @Inoreader for it if (1) it has a "mark as you scroll past" feature, and (2) I got a reply to my emails sent to their support address. Otherwise it has a clean web UI on both desktop and mobile and the price is good compared to Inoreader for the features I want (which isn't much).

/cc @hynek

t-strings are coming!

https://peps.python.org/pep-0750/

https://discuss.python.org/t/pep750-template-strings-new-updates/71594/130

Because PEP 751 was accepted as-is, @hynek gets out of having to produce a video on the subject (unless he wants to).

PEP 751 has been accepted! https://peps.python.org/pep-0751/

This means #Python now has a lock file standard that can act as an export target for all tools that can create some sort of lock file. And for some tools the format can act as their primary lock file format as well instead of some proprietary format.

Also, happy National Indigenous Languages Day in Canada! https://www.canada.ca/en/prairies-economic-development/services/indigenous/national-indigenous-languages-day.html

@blaise I live in BC and not Saskatchewan (for potash) or Ontario (for power). But we are already avoiding US products where possible.

Due to the actions of the US government towards Canada, I will not be attending #PyCon US this year.

https://snarky.ca/why-i-wont-be-attending-pycon-us-this-year/

I updated the lock file example in PEP 751 after updating my PoC: https://peps.python.org/pep-0751/#example

The most exciting thing is the `[[packages.attestation-identities]]` table thanks to attrs (and so thanks to @hynek for using Trusted Publishers). Hopefully @yossarian and the other PEP 740 co-authors are happy with the outcome. 😊

And with that, PEP 751 is feature-complete! Going to give it until no later than March 17 to submit it for folks to find errors or things that need clarification.

I feel like the people getting mad at map apps for changing the name of the Gulf of Mexico for them are getting mad at the wrong thing. It's like when people would get mad at me about Python 3 during the 2->3 transition. It was actually never about me or Python 3, but about the person's manager not letting them migrate.

I get why people are mad about the rename, but get mad at the person who made the rename official for America geography and not the people following the US standard.

For those of you on both Bluesky and Mastodon, where do you prefer to be followed? ("don't care" is not an option unless you don't want me following you at all.)

I assume I can trust https://molly.im and F-Droid, but I thought I would double-check with you all before I install it on my tablet so I can have what Signal users on iPadOS have by tethering to their phone.

If the Python Launcher starts to run code like `hatch run`, `uv run`, etc. does, should it still be called the Python Launcher?

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.