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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 10h

Ouch. That happened to my daughter once. She put in disposables with chili hands. She does remember to wear gloves now with chilis. My worst adventure was probably evening flossing with habanero hands. Now I always wear gloves with those guys.

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 22h

All better. That wasn’t too bad.

🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 22h

Ack! I just rubbed my eye with hands that chopped hot peppers during dinner prep.
Wow. It’s been like 2 hours and several hand washes and still. It burns! 🥵

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 23h

Making up names and words that are not easily pronounceable isn’t clever, it’s annoying. Please stop. Even in fantasy and sci-fi. And keep the new word count low.

Rachel Feder @rachelfeder.bsky.social · 1d

Tell me your most unhinged literary opinion, as a little treat

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 1d

I set my phone to DnD.
You have to roll an 18 or better for me to answer

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 2d

Yikes

🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 3d

One stir fry with all of those? I hope you have plenty of milk around.

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 5d

Perhaps Doctorow needs to add an optional steps to the enshitification cycle: buy a candidate, take over the goverment, fire regulators

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 5d

I don’t understand this term “leftover bacon”.

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 5d

This is fun. I like the little bicycle rider zooming on one of the chart bars. I wish I’d taken a class like this in university.

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 7d

🚀 Python 3.14 is here 🚀

Hugo van Kemenade @hugovk.dev · 7d

Just released! 🚀

Please install and enjoy Python 3.14! 🥧

discuss.python.org/t/python-3-1...

#Python #Python314 #release

Two snakes enjoying a pie with 3.14 on the top and π crimping.

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 8d

So cool

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 11d

Happy October

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 11d

I think that post represents the lessons you’re supposed to take away from any “algorithms and complexity” class. At least it’s a good stand-in for what I remember from mine. You have a cool skill for elegant visualization of topics that need clean mental models. Thank you for what you contribute.

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 11d

Much needed

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Thomas Wouters @yhg1s.bsky.social · 11d

Let me post a *non*-subskeet for once... We made a thing!

discuss.python.org/t/pep-810-ex...

#Python #PEP

PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports

👋 Hi everyone, We are very exited to share with you PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports: We’re proposing an opt-in lazy import syntax that defers module loading until first use, aiming for faster startup,...

discuss.python.org

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 12d

Trying to decide if this would make a better t-shirt or big sticker for my laptop

Glyph @glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · 12d

doing my best to make a conscious choice to do something useful that I care about today instead of wallowing in misery about fascism or AI but that is an increasingly strenuous psychological lift

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Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 12d

AUTHORS: It’s time to submit your claims for the Anthropic copyright settlement.

1. Look yourself up here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com/lookup

2. File your claim here: secure.anthropiccopyrightsettlement.com

Form asks for ISBN and copyright reg # for each work. Can find in step 1.

Tyler King @tyleraking.com · 18d

🚨AUTHORS: The judge has approved the settlement in the Anthropic copyright case. By 10/2 you will be able to look up your name/works on the settlement website to see if you are eligible for payments. Which Authors Guild explained will be split evenly between authors/publishers who both hold rights.

What Authors Need to Know About the $1.5 Billion Anthropic Settlement - The Authors Guild

Background Bartz v Anthropic is one of the major copyright lawsuits brought by authors against an AI company for using books without permission to train large language models. It was filed by nonfict...

authorsguild.org

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Python Bytes @pythonbytes.fm · 13d

🎙️ Python Bytes 451: Databases are a Fad
with @mkennedy.codes and @brianokken.bsky.social
pythonbytes.fm/episodes/sho...
#Python #pytest #testing #postgresql #pyrefly

Databases are a Fad

News and announcements from the Python community for the week of Sep 29th, 2025

pythonbytes.fm

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Hugo van Kemenade @hugovk.dev · 14d

Only one week left until the release of Python 3.14.0 final!

docs.python.org/3.14/whatsne...

peps.python.org/pep-0745/

What are you looking forward to?

#Python #Python314

What’s new in Python 3.14 — Python 3.14.0rc3 documentation

Editor, Hugo van Kemenade,. This article explains the new features in Python 3.14, compared to 3.13. For full details, see the changelog. Summary – release highlights: Python 3.14 will be the lates...

docs.python.org

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 16d

Portland Oregon is NOT “war ravaged”. That’s ridiculous.

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Python Bytes @pythonbytes.fm · 20d

🎙️ Python Bytes 450: At-Cost Agentic IDE Tooling
pythonbytes.fm/episodes/sho...
with @brianokken.bsky.social and @mkennedy.codes
- pandas is getting pd.col expressions
- Cline, At-Cost Agentic IDE Tooling
- uv cheatsheet
- Ducky Network UI
- Hiring in 2025 vs 2021

At-Cost Agentic IDE Tooling

News and announcements from the Python community for the week of Sep 22nd, 2025

pythonbytes.fm

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 21d

This is a brilliant explanation of Big-O. Should be required for everyone who codes, not just CS folks.

Dave Rupert @davatron5000.bsky.social · 21d

This post by @samwho.dev explaining Big-O notation in human terms with concise code samples and simple illustrative demos is a joy to read. samwho.dev/big-o/

Big O

A visual introduction to big O notation.

samwho.dev

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 24d

Sincerely believed for a moment that a sweater had turned into a möbius sweater in the wash

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🚀 Brian Okken @brianokken.bsky.social · 25d

Contact form spam is so dumb.

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