⁦Benjamin Peterson⁩ expressing his and my feelings about Python 2 at #open_conf towards the end of his talk on#python governance.

Nit: "Unicode character" is not the opposite "ASCII character".

CPython 2.7 has transitioned from not-supported-but-we're-nice-people to not supported.

I just realized the social distancing length is 1 fathom.

I'm washing my hands, scrubbing hard, of Python 2. mail.python.org/archives/list/…

It's a good time for a reminder: Volunteers provide (security) fixes and release CPython. locrian.net/writing/open-s… Has your company been upgrading Python the last few days? python.org/psf/sponsorshi…

Copyleft creating good incentives: git.ffmpeg.org/gitweb/ffmpeg.…

Superfish... more like Superphish

It's 2015, and we share snippets of text by pasting images of it into a medium that is arbitrarily limited to 140 characters.

In her keynote, Coleman calls something "Stallman-esque", which live caption interprets as "Stalin-esque". #pycon #pycon2015

Why doesn't datetime.datetime have a is_dst flag? Pickling and Zope2 ☠ mail.python.org/pipermail/pyth…

Rest parameters and defaults - the latest post on the latest JavaScript / ES6 In Depth goodness by Benjamin Peterson mzl.la/1PzjasT #ES6

interesting exhibit and website about altered news and documentary photography alteredimagesbdc.org

Why is kill(-1, sig) even a thing?

TIL VMWare uses 3 space indentation for all their code.

Rogaway takes "academic" cryptographers to task in "The Moral Character of Cryptographic Work" web.cs.ucdavis.edu/~rogaway/paper…

Dealing with security issues is my least favorite part of open source benjamin.pe/writing/open-s…

How to get Python in 1991:

On python-dev, the only issue we can agree on is wanting the discussion end already.

I've been a CPython core developer for 10 years now. That's 3 version control systems and 8 major releases.