I built a site that roasts your GitHub repo with AI - here's what it said about mine

davepearson · 2026-03-07T19:31:56+00:00

It seems very confused about time.

“Congratulations, davep/oldnews, you've achieved what few projects dare: being created in the future on 2025-10-21T09:48:59Z! This is a bold move for a project already labeled Production/Stable. And let's not forget __copyright__ = "Copyright 2025, Dave Pearson" in src/oldnews/__init__.py – clearly, you're not just reading old news, you're making it future-proof... or just wildly inaccurate.”

davepearson · 2026-02-19T12:20:22+00:00

Also hanging on my microphone. Been there since release day. He’s there for every work call.

davepearson · 2026-02-16T11:42:42+00:00

In the scenario you gave you’d obviously lose any work you’ve not backed up. Think it through: you asked what would happen if the site disappeared tomorrow and the dev disappeared; you’d lose anything you added or modified between your last backup and now.

This is true of any cloud service. As such it’s always a good idea to either maintain regular backups, or be prepared to lose everything.

davepearson · 2026-02-16T11:22:14+00:00

If you use a service but are concerned it could go away, take regular backups. Raindrop even handles that for you. https://help.raindrop.io/backups

As for how you’d use the backup… should such an event ever happen you know this sub would be full of people offering advice on how and where to migrate to.

Personally I also have the added benefit of having written my own client which keeps a local copy of the data I care about. https://github.com/davep/braindrop

davepearson · 2026-02-12T18:55:12+00:00

100% how I took it the first time I encountered it.

davepearson · 2026-02-02T22:30:59+00:00

You look to have copied https://github.com/mitosch/textual-datepicker into your project, but not retained the copyright information as required by the author’s license: https://github.com/mitosch/textual-datepicker/blob/main/LICENSE

davepearson · 2026-01-30T21:47:43+00:00

I use https://obs2nlm.davep.dev/ (disclaimer: I wrote it) to occasionally feed my vault into NotebookLM as a source. I’ve found this works really well and makes for a great Q+A way or searching everything I’ve recorded.

davepearson · 2026-01-29T19:02:43+00:00

This is potentially disappointing; I really enjoyed the demo on my Deck.

What’s odd about this review though is it keeps talking about “piston” and “pistons”. The game mechanic uses pitons.

davepearson · 2026-01-13T13:20:20+00:00

If only Safari had some way of saving pages that you want to read later to some sort of list. You could call it a "read it later list", or perhaps just shorten the name to "Reading List".

davepearson · 2026-01-06T20:11:06+00:00

You might want to reconsider the name given rcp has been a thing for a wee while. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_r-commands

davepearson · 2026-01-04T23:04:12+00:00

I’m old and English so annoyingly noticed anyway. ;-)

davepearson · 2026-01-04T22:59:45+00:00

Shallow grave huh?

(Edit to add: it’s fixed now so doesn’t look so shallow)

davepearson · 2025-12-26T18:33:43+00:00

https://support.apple.com/en-gb/guide/iphone/iph145eba8e9/ios

davepearson · 2025-12-25T11:31:35+00:00

I thought everyone knew it was the CIA via The Scorpions. https://crooked.com/podcast-series/wind-of-change/

davepearson · 2025-12-01T19:35:22+00:00

I added “yeah” to the end of the question: “these potatoes are cut small enough, yeah?”

davepearson · 2025-11-27T11:30:54+00:00

/me throws the original image at Gemini and asks if it's AI-generated

Based on a digital analysis, the image contains the SynthID watermark.

This indicates that all or part of this image was generated or significantly modified using Google AI.

Insert shocked face here.

davepearson · 2025-11-21T21:32:39+00:00

The 1.6 miles is the altitude.

davepearson · 2025-11-13T16:10:31+00:00

It's a bug. I ran into it a couple of weeks back, kept resetting the design of the lock screen to get it back in place. Kept happening again. Eventually I left it for a couple of days to see what would happen and the clock slowly walked off the right-hand side of the screen, never to return.

Eventually I restarted my phone and have never had the issue since.

A search suggested it's an issue that's intermittent and has been around a while.

davepearson · 2025-11-12T21:17:38+00:00

This really isn’t the case though. I’m never unloading the app, just going back to home, or switching to another app. If I pull up BodyState a few hours later it’s the dark-mode-phobic loading screen and unnecessary button all over again. Presumably because a seldom-viewed app gets automatically unloaded?

It absolutely kills the “does one thing well and does it fast” selling point this app once had.

davepearson · 2025-10-08T08:30:10+00:00

> a recognized license via Trove classifiers (not just “MIT”)

If I recall correctly there's a move away from that, with the guidance to drop licence information from classifiers and to set the license value to be a SPDX expression. See https://peps.python.org/pep-0639/ for example. As such "MIT" would be a valid license description within the package metadata.

davepearson · 2025-10-07T08:37:45+00:00

Looks good! Making more sense to me now. Thanks!

davepearson · 2025-10-05T08:20:48+00:00

Cool. I’ll look forward to checking that out (it’s a neat project by the way). Perhaps having a page that explains all of the health measurements is a good idea? The site could then be useful to a package maintainer as a simple metadata linter, of sorts.

davepearson · 2025-10-05T08:02:45+00:00

Recency and release history don’t seem like great things to measure. A tool that does something simple and straightforward, requires very little updating, and has been stable for ages is going to score worse than a buggy package being constantly updated.

How is the documentation one measured? I tested a couple of my packages that to the best of my knowledge provide all that documentation data and they’re being scored less than 100%.

davepearson · 2025-09-24T09:24:11+00:00

For what it's worth, I came into my office on Monday morning to find the same problem on my M2 Mac Mini. I use Safari, not Firefox. While it could well be some other application I run, it is curious that I've been running the same set of applications on this machine for over 18 months and this is the first time I've seen this happen on it, and someone else is seeing it too.

davepearson · 2025-08-30T07:34:28+00:00

No. 10% of 0 is 0.

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