Phildini, since young times

@phildini.net

I make @civic.band, the largest repository of civic meeting data for the US and Canada. I also run startups sometimes.

Given the number of changes Leo is making this week, this is starting to feel like that scene in the Godfather where Michael Corleone has coordinated retributive killing blow hits against the other families while he peacefully attends the baptism of his godchild.

I built a thing. It's a link feed for the #fediverse and #atmosphere, ranked by interactions with a transparent algorithm you can read. Open source, and I'm looking for beta testers! https://linkgno.me

SCOOP: So remember Dialog, Peter Thiel's private society that doesn't have a public website and no public list of members? I (along with a number of other journalists) have just been tipped off that embedded in the code of their closed off website there IS what seems to be a list of some members.

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Sometimes as an NYT books columnist you find yourself quoted in the Atlantic by Helen Lewis, who believes two odd things: 1. That nobody is reading Pratchett anymore (instead of all the time, as they should), and 2. That Pratchett’s politics are hard to pin down, and Reg Shoe is not a fucking hero.

Hello #PyConUS folks! There’s an unofficial signal group myself and some other familiar faces have put together. We have: - cool people - a code of conduct - a 4-week message retention policy - at least one doctor If you’re attending #PyCon and want to join, reply or DM me 🐍✨

I did a sidequest this week, inspired by @dascho.bsky.social to mitigate some of the namespace risks presented by #llms, #agentic coding, and #mcp servers. The result was SquatGuard, planting plastic flowers to protect the hive. You can read about it here: phildini.dev/slopsquattin...

Plastic Flowers to Protect the Hive - phildini.dev

Pre-register hallucinated package names. Fill them with guardrails. The devastating spell becomes homework.

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Discovered a Cool™ #npm bug today: If you try to publish a package from the CLI but you've done `npm adduser` for your account on a different machine, the error you get doesn't say anything about auth, you get a 404. Microsoft: "We didn't _just_ break #github!"

Over the weekend I released ✨`orbpondering` ✨ A #python library for #astrology and #tarot It uses JPL data to create a seed which it feeds into the draw. Usable as a CLI and a library for your own purposes, under BSD-3 github.com/phildini/orb... PRs welcome, boosts appreciated, CoC enforced 💫

GitHub - phildini/orbpondering: Python tools to help ponder the orbs

Python tools to help ponder the orbs. Contribute to phildini/orbpondering development by creating an account on GitHub.

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