Gert Van Gool

Every parent whose career has to do with online safety also bans Roblox.

We released another solder kit, just in time for the Holidays! Happy soldering!

📣THREAD: It’s surprising to me that so many people were surprised to learn that Signal runs partly on AWS (something we can do because we use encryption to make sure no one but you–not AWS, not Signal, not anyone–can access your comms).

It’s also concerning. 1/

Servo 0.0.1 Release - Servo aims to empower developers with a lightweight, high-performance alternative for embedding web technologies in applications. A brief update on the goals and plans behind the new Servo releases on GitHub.

The Servo project is starting to publish releases, version 0.0.1 is out today! 🚀
You can learn more about the goals and plans behind these releases in our blog: servo.org/blog/2025/10...

Early 3.14.0 rc2 and extra rc3 FYI because of the bug fix requiring a magic number bump, I’ve decided to do rc2 this Thursday, and add an additional rc3 on 2025-09-16 (during the core sprint), which is about midway between rc2 and ...

Python 3.14:

We'll release rc2 early on Thursday, and add an rc3 on 2025-09-16.

We fixed a bug that required the ".pyc magic number" to be increased.

The ABI isn't changing, and wheels built for rc1 should still work.

More: discuss.python.org/t/early-3-14...

#Python #CPython #Python314 #release

It's not just one and only one. It's an odd number of True. print(True ^ False ^ True ^ True) returns True.
In my head it gets translated into: True ^ False ^ True ^ True => True ^ True ^ True => False ^ True => True

Worst. Episode. EVER.

screenshot of Rink in servoshell, with three queries: > now - #1970-01-01# -> digits s 1739761028.071 second > 1 / (20 mile/gallon) -> mm^2 approx. 0.1176072 millimeter^2 (area) > 400 pmol/L * molar_mass of oestradiol -> pg/mL approx. 108.9549 picogram / milliliter (density)

Rink, the calculator with unit conversions and dimensional analysis, works pretty much perfectly in Servo now that we have text input support!

rinkcalc.app

“Founder Mode” and the Art of Mythmaking I’ve never been good at “hot takes”. Anyone who knows anything about marketing can tell you that the best time to share your opinion about something is when everyone is all worked up about it. Hot …

I (finally) wrote up my thoughts on "Founder Mode" and the Brian Chesky morality tale about how he turned around Airbnb company culture.

This has made it into the Silicon Valley water table; it must be dealt with. There are some good nuggets within; let's dig them out.

charity.wtf/2024/12/17/f...

Screenshot of the Lectronz.com marketplace showing the Phyx solderkits being 20% discounted while stocks last

Black friday, Cyber Monday, whatever the occasion, perfect moment to offer shoppers some discount on our product over at @lectronz.com get your stocking stuffers now in time for the holiday craze! lectronz.com/stores/phyx (valid until I run out of stock)

I remember @b0rk.jvns.ca creating a tool where you can run DNS experiments: messwithdns.net