Just the other day I was trying to remember "this weird micropayment site I used to donate to What.CD" and could not describe it coherently to a friend. It's kinda cool it was around this long

Was looking for someone to mention that. I remember that I wrote parts of the wiki entry on how to donate through Flattr back then!

I think you’ve been my interviewer at what.cd, ~ 2011. Glad to see you here!

Yes, I remember your name (also from last.fm I believe!). Small world!

If you want to grab a cold or hot beverage in Berlin, I’m about to visit my wife in Berlin-Charlottenburg (she‘s there for a few months) soon

Let’s do it, I messaged you on Session!

Most apps on my phone were strong armed on me by trend-following (or outright data grabbing) businesses. 99% of them could've been just a website - but no, I can't reschedule my doctor appointment via website, because "our app is so much better and has so much more features!"

So fuck yeah, kill them all! And if they dare to start on their own, kill them more!

Similar in spirit, I made a reusable Makefile for my Python projects: https://github.com/sio/Makefile.venv

It's a shame that Python venv workflow is so opaque and unfriendly to new users that it requires extra automation tools.

__pypackages__ is gonna be so nice when it lands.

Hate to be the bearer of bad news but the PEP has been rejected https://peps.python.org/pep-0582/

Nooooooooooo it was the chosen one.

Its quite sad to see the rationale as making it too complicated when "upgrading to venvs" when it should kill them outright. Why using python depends at all on weird shell semantics is beyond me.

PEP 582 has been rejected, are there any new approach?

Makefile.venv takes care of creating, updating and invoking Python virtual environment that you can use in your Makefiles. It will allow you to reduce venv related routines to almost zero!