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Show HN: Tsofa – The Simple, Offline Flashcard App(inventwithpython.com)
2 points by AlSweigart 10mo ago|0 comments
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by AlSweigart 10mo ago
> Applying to Zapier? Here's why you might meet an AI recruiter Because it's cheaper for Zapier.
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"Slippery Zips and Sticky Tar-Pits" from Python's Security Dev Seth Larson [pdf](alpha-omega.dev)
2 points by AlSweigart 10mo ago|1 comments
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by AlSweigart 10mo ago
The Python Software Foundation Security Developer-in-Residence, Seth Larson, published a new white paper with Alpha-Omega titled "Slippery ZIPs and Sticky tar-pits: Security & Archives" about work to remediate 10 vulnerabiliti
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by AlSweigart 10mo ago
This is why most organizations take a blind eye when popular people in their community behave badly; if they even so much as give them a three-month ban from the forum, people will keep bringing it up years later.
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by AlSweigart 11mo ago
> If we accepted and spent the money despite this term, there was a very real risk that the money could be clawed back later. That represents an existential risk for the foundation since we would have already spent the money! > I was
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by AlSweigart 11mo ago
I mean, it's also just the plain common sense move: accepting that money would just be putting a noose around their neck and handing the other end to the Trump administration. (And there is a 100.0% chance they'll just claw it bac
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by AlSweigart 11mo ago
Who, in 2025, is still giving the Trump administration the benefit of the doubt when it comes to the rule of law?
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Python Foundation goes ride or DEI, rejects strings-attached government grant(theregister.com)
10 points by AlSweigart 11mo ago|1 comments
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by AlSweigart 11mo ago
Agreed. And it is... quite revealing that many people in these comments are so insistent to view the text in isolation.
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by AlSweigart 11mo ago
I am going add more on top of that: we should automatically assume bad faith of anyone still willing, in 2025, to give the Trump administration the benefit of the doubt.
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Python Violates PEP 8(inventwithpython.com)
2 points by AlSweigart 1y ago|0 comments
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by AlSweigart 1y ago
LLMs are really not good at following specific processes like math. They operate off vibes. Ask Claude to multiply two ten-digit numbers. It gets the first one or two digits correct, and then makes up the rest. ChatGPT used to have the sa
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Recursive Functions to Piss Off Your CS Professor(inventwithpython.com)
3 points by AlSweigart 1y ago|0 comments
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by AlSweigart 1y ago
I know I've been saying this for years, but I seriously will get around to updating the videos in the Udemy course this year.
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by AlSweigart 1y ago
Page count. Automate the Boring Stuff with Python is supposed to be a beginner book for people with no coding experience, but it's almost 600 pages. The biggest hurdle to coding isn't being "smart" enough, but rather get
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by AlSweigart 1y ago
Hello, this is Al. Ha ha, I'm always surprised when people spot my name in supporter credits. Here's a (very out of date) web page of other folks I support: https://alsweigart.com/patreon.html
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by AlSweigart 1y ago
Oh, thanks for pointing this out. This was an early unpublished draft. I later changed to `playsound3` which is a modern fork of `playsound`. I've updated the web page.
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Lost Chapter of Automate the Boring Stuff: Audio, Video, and Webcams in Python(inventwithpython.com)
217 points by AlSweigart 1y ago|23 comments
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by AlSweigart 1y ago
The primary use case of LLMs is producing undetectable spam.
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by AlSweigart 2y ago
I'm guessing that the text interface is nicer if your use case is reading mostly text-based emails from newsletters or forums. But yeah, for general email use I don't see this as a plus unless you really like TUIs.
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by AlSweigart 2y ago
"Scroll art" is procedural generated ASCII art that fills the terminal and causes the text to move up, producing an animated effect. Once text is printed, it can't be erased. The window can only scroll up. I made these as a s
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Scrolling ASCII Art Music Video(youtube.com)
2 points by AlSweigart 2y ago|1 comments
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by AlSweigart 6y ago
It's funny that this got posted right now. I'm working on exactly this project. You can find a collection of text-based Python programs written in the style of the games in Basic Computer Games here: https://github.co
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by AlSweigart 9y ago
Teaching. All education politics aside, in my experience teaching is hard because you have to juggle and be responsive to so many people at the same time. Teaching is hard to scale. Everyone complains that schools are so regimented and conf
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Save time switching branches with this Git trick(michaelbrooks.co.uk)
2 points by AlSweigart 9y ago|0 comments
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Optimizing React Rendering(flexport.engineering)
3 points by AlSweigart 9y ago|0 comments
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by AlSweigart 10y ago
Those who have worked with Jake won't be surprised at all by this. These are accusations coming from multiple people in the tech/privacy/infosec crowd, not from the government. For those thinking these are government-sponsore
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APIs, not apps: What the future will be like when everyone can code(opensource.com)
3 points by AlSweigart 11y ago|0 comments
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by AlSweigart 11y ago
We're looking at it from modern eyes though. Compare BASIC to the other programming languages of the 70s and 80s: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_programming_languag... * Pascal * Prolog * C/C++ * Ad

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