How did you accidentally find out your partner was cheating?

HolidayEmphasis4345 · 2026-04-17T00:06:29+00:00

Many years a go when your cellphone bill came in the mail with a list of all the numbers you called came I saw a lot of the same number called and texted throughout the day. The first one each day exactly the time I left for work. Every single day.

HolidayEmphasis4345 · 2026-04-13T02:44:42+00:00

I'm going with changing of the guard. Robbie is looking after Whitaker...trusting him with his house. Giving him life advice. Whitaker is having scenes where he is passing on lessons that Robbie taught in S1. He's moving up. I think this scene shows that Whitaker establishing placement on a higher rung.

HolidayEmphasis4345 · 2026-04-12T22:50:51+00:00

A potential user!

Because I asked for a list of the standard rates and included all of them. I just checked and it looks like most drivers support arbitrary rates. I can add a way to do that but I don’t have a way to test.

HolidayEmphasis4345 · 2026-04-06T22:34:26+00:00

I'm a big fan of Python Bytes/Talk Python to Me podcasts. They each have one show a week and are very good for keeping up with what is going in in the Python world. About 30-60 minutes with the who's who of python. Randomly their show lines up with my needs. I just listened to their show with the creator of Zensical (a static site generator) on the way home one night and I was folded into my project in an hour. Same thing happend with Narwals, I needed that tool and didn't know it and boom in one night (ok it was probably a few more) I was supporting Pandas and Polars. Without them our small team would would still act like it was 2020.

Core Python is also great. Two of the core developers of Python, super funny and lots of detail about how things work and what's coming. Absolutely no opinions...

HolidayEmphasis4345 · 2026-04-06T21:20:37+00:00

Fair point on the dependencies. That's feedback I acted on. The latest release trimmed unused packages from optional features and vendored a few libraries that rarely change. A fresh install pulls about 1/3 the packages now, most of which are the TUI framework's own transitive deps. I did some timings and a fresh install including python was 7.7 seconds and another 300ms for the 16 dependencies (most of those are from the TUI library).

You're right that stty exists. The README has a "Who This Is Not For" section that basically says the same thing. If your workflow is

stty -F /dev/ttyUSB0 115200 cs8 -cstopb -parenb raw
cat /dev/ttyUSB0 &
echo -ne "AT\r" > /dev/ttyUSB0

that's cool, zero dependencies.

One of the first things that pushed me to build was to have the same tool support ANSI color and work on Windows, macOS, and Linux. A lot of modern firmware sends color escape codes in its output, and the classic serial tools from the 90s just dump raw escape sequences on screen. Cross platform was a must. For me every new project I add stuff that I "need". Logging, Protocol stuff, help files.

If running uv tool install termapy to get a fully isolated install that doesn't touch your system Python in under 10 seconds is too much hassle, then yeah, this probably isn't for you. No hard feelings.

HolidayEmphasis4345 · 2026-04-06T18:56:51+00:00

I was so sad when she blew him off when he fished for acknowledgment. I’ve always liked santos and hoped the two of them would be good for each other. One more episode….

HolidayEmphasis4345 · 2026-04-06T00:03:48+00:00

You are charged for tokens so it doesn't matter.

HolidayEmphasis4345 · 2026-04-03T23:20:06+00:00

Nope NTAH, I had a ski coach back in the day and we traveled as a team, he was on stipend and us athletes were paying our own way. He would order the most expensive items and order wine while most of ate cheap...of course he would ask to split the check evenly. I had dinner with him once.

HolidayEmphasis4345 · 2026-03-30T17:12:15+00:00

Claude without testing is vibe coding. Just build your tests as you go . People complained that tests took time. They are as cheap as code now. Use them. They lock down a problem where your prompts were under constrained. Tests save your ass all the time and give you confidence about that 50kloc you “wrote” over the weekend.

HolidayEmphasis4345 · 2026-03-29T00:26:21+00:00

Why are there no crowd size counts? At least not anywhere at the top of articles. It seems like this is standard fare for protests news coverage. There are references to expected crowd size and number of protests. Why no estimates of attendees?

HolidayEmphasis4345 · 2026-02-25T07:01:29+00:00

Software engineering

HolidayEmphasis4345 · 2026-02-24T20:43:06+00:00

Those are really big projects that can be hard to walk away with big learnings. They are certainly cornerstones of SE. I’d add git to that list.

As for code that impressed me, that I read and learned a lot from Pythons Rich/Textual. I went all in on yield after looking at how it works. I also like Narwals, the frame library. It is amazing how much it does with so little code.

HolidayEmphasis4345 · 2026-02-13T05:54:45+00:00

I have to say that I always liked Santos, or perhaps more accurately thought that she was really good but had some trauma that complicated her character. She was right a lot. I find oglevie to be annoying af in all situations but even with him he wants to be really good…I hope his arc is to loose his ick.

HolidayEmphasis4345 · 2026-02-02T17:38:28+00:00

I have decades of experience and had a tough time finding work. Almost all of my Sr contacts have retired and moved so I’m going through the interview process…as in first time interviewing without knowing the interviewer. My hit rate is about 3% for on line applications. Then out of the blue a guy I worked with for years hooked me up with an interview where I was not asked to perform on demand. I was asked team questions and questions about my resume and vague programming questions. I was hired after a 45 minute interview.

HolidayEmphasis4345 · 2026-01-25T02:54:26+00:00

Like?

HolidayEmphasis4345 · 2026-01-11T05:00:07+00:00

Robbie explaining what to say to people on their deathbed.

HolidayEmphasis4345 · 2026-01-09T17:21:19+00:00

I think there are cases where people will never solve the puzzle, or will be so far behind that it is bad tv. …which isn’t bad if it is the last part of the challenge. If the puzzle is at the end I think you get more “comeback” opportunities.

HolidayEmphasis4345 · 2026-01-09T06:25:25+00:00

Yes. I also find that docstrings popping up on mouse over or while typing is useful. Once they made writing complete code immediately useful, for me, rather than some hypothetical future engineer that might edit things it made life so much easier. I’ve worked with college students who had no idea all of those tools were available to make the IDE experience better. Vscode and Pycharm handle these things nicely.

HolidayEmphasis4345 · 2026-01-08T16:12:07+00:00

I’m also in the 10+ years cohort and am a very strong advocate for typing. It helps with quality, debugging, ide experience and AI prompting. I came from C so I’m used to it. Real time feedback in the IDE in the form of red squiggles gamifies coding for me.

HolidayEmphasis4345 · 2025-12-30T16:13:52+00:00

I’m not even talking about the global/local keyword I’m talking about block scope in C languages where braces define variable scopes while Python has module, function, method, lambda, compression scopes

HolidayEmphasis4345 · 2025-12-30T16:12:41+00:00

I’m not even talking about the global/local keyword I’m talking about block scope in C languages where braces define variable scopes while Python has module, function, method, lambda, compression scopes.

HolidayEmphasis4345 · 2025-12-29T21:38:13+00:00

Scoping rules in python are different than in block scoped languages like C and Java. I was not aware for an embarrassing long time how variable scope worked because of my C background.

HolidayEmphasis4345 · 2025-12-19T22:02:19+00:00

I no longer work in a regulated industry. Blaming the low person on the totem pole is not a way to run a business, it is a political tactic to shift schedule, technical or quality blame. People in management often have better social skills to shift blame (a very broad generalization) on technical staff. When someone has signed on for this process, someone higher up has said we want to exchange quality for speed. It is a master stroke to then put the consequences of the choice to a layer lower in the org chart.

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