Tin Tvrtković

@tinche.bsky.social

Sleep when the baby sleeps; cry when the baby cries.

Played a little Death Rally (classic) last night. One of my favorite games from ~30 years ago. It holds up, still a fun game. Although the experience is a little different playing it on a 38" widescreen vs a 14" Adi ProVista 😬

Reading the latest extended incident report from Honeycomb makes me want to never run Kafka in production. Which is an approach that's served me fine up to this point in my career, why not in the future as well? 🤞

The Steering Council has formally accepted the TypeForm PEP. This is big news for cattrs but I'll hold off on implementing it until Mypy enables support for it without a flag.

Apparently on Linux uv defaults to hardlinking files from its cache when installing stuff into a virtualenv. That kind of sucks for people who sometimes edit third-party libraries to stick prints or breakpoints in there, like me.

You find a project you like, but you can't use it due to the license (maybe it's GPL or AGPL). What's stopping you feeding it to an agent and having it port it to another language, and then potentially back again? Bam, no more copyright. This is what AI companies are doing in the first place, yes?

Back in the olden days™️ it used to be the case that if a person went to the trouble of publishing an open source project - setting up the repo, tests, CI, documentation) - you could at least assume said person spent a modicum of time validating their idea first, by doing a little research.

Turns out J. Michael Straczynski (of Babylon 5 fame) worked on both the original He-man cartoon and the Captain Power and the Soldiers of the Future show. I haven't seen Babylon 5 but this dude had a large influence on my childhood. Maybe I should just watch it 😅

I like `just` a lot. I switched all my open source stuff to it (from make) and we're in the process of adopting it as standard at $DAYJOB. Would not go back to make for my needs. But I have this niggling suspicion a task runner based on Python would be better.