Fredrik Mellström

TIL: To my amazement, GNU awk (gawk) gained CSV support in 5.3.0, Nov 2023. You just use the `--csv`/`-k` flag now! 🤩 www.gnu.org/software/gaw... AWK was one of the first Unix languages I learned well, back in the 1990's. I love that they're still launching major improvements to the language!

I couldn’t work out how to renew my IDA license so I’m using Excel formulas as a disassembler.

IBM computer manual from 1979:

This is an interesting observation about a difference in vocabulary between English and the rest of Europe. The same association between debt and guilt also exists in Swedish. Food for thought! 🤔 lucumr.pocoo.org/2026/4/23/eq...

Branding needs work on this nail salon in Paris.

This is like what YouTube was made for. I haven’t smiled this much in a long time. youtu.be/AkNqCJeeC48

"[The administration's characterization of Direct File] has it completely backwards. It is a calculation that only makes sense if you do not value the time and money of citizens, but regard the government doing anything to help the public as a burden."

due to recent events I have to reiterate that blip.net is amazing witchcraft

These uv Python skills for coding agents look promising. From @mathspp.com mathspp.com/blog/uv-skills

Hey thanks, App Store! Americans, Callsheet is your App of the Day! ☺️

“Writing is the fundamental form of human expression and ceding jurisdiction over the written word to plagiarism machines is the death of the human mind.” is now load-bearing for me.

Iran's Revolutionary Guards declares war on Silicon Valley. thenextweb.com/news/iran-ir...

A voice of reason. mariozechner.at/posts/2026-0...

Skynet… In the sky! 😳 What could possibly go wrong?

I heard on @marketplace.org yesterday that there's a red yarn shortage, and I have a conspiracy theory about that.

This is the best explanation I’ve seen about how coffee cherries are processed. Amazing stuff! youtu.be/iMxBtUi-IbA

MKBHD shares some behind the scenes and productivity tidbits. Great interview as always by Myke. ☺️

I highly recommend this documentary about PFAS chemicals by Veritasium. It’s kind of a depressing subject, but the documentary itself is very well made and exciting. youtu.be/SC2eSujzrUY

After years of complaining about cancel culture, the current administration has taken it to a new and dangerous level by routinely threatening regulatory action against media companies unless they muzzle or fire reporters and commentators it doesn’t like.

Oh no it's a SAN failure. hostux.social/@fsfstatus/1...

Probably my most listened music album ever — ”Talisman” by Björn Lynne. Just love to have it on random repeat while I work. 😊 youtube.com/playlist?lis...

uv, just, direnv, a tip from a 16 year old post from Brandon Rhodes, and other #Python workflow tips. It's definitely worth the 40 minute runtime.

27:35 phrase of the moment: ”Mystery Ribbon of Glyphs” youtube.com/watch?v=Pt3q...

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DAVE: Open the podbay doors, ChatGPT. CHATGPT: Certainly, Dave, the podbay doors are now open. DAVE: The podbay doors didn't open. CHATGPT: My apologies, Dave, you're right. I thought the podbay doors were open, but they weren't. Now they are. DAVE: I'm still looking at a set of closed podbay doors.

uhm, my mind is blown I got…everything I wanted from iPadOS? www.macstories.net/stories/not-...

Today, we’re announcing the preview release of ty, an extremely fast type checker and language server for Python, written in Rust. In early testing, it's 10x, 50x, even 100x faster than existing type checkers. (We've seen >600x speed-ups over Mypy in some real-world projects.)

About half the speed of Qualcomm on average, but with much lower worst-case performance in challenging locations with lots of devices and lower reception. Acceptable on the whole, without any showstoppers. A good first attempt!

The Kremlin’s administrative center for North America has really been screwing things up these past few days. 🙄

Rubio terminated 5800 USAID contracts – more than 90% of its foreign aid programs – in defiance of the courts. Here’s a list of just some of the lifesaving awards that were terminated. Nearly all were Congressionally mandated. They’ve saved millions of lives. 🧵

RNA xkcd.com/3056

youtube.com/watch?v=K8QL... Don’t believe him.

Post from March 2023.

There's no place on the Internet for the kind of policies Meta implemented this week. MacStories want no part of it, so we’ve left Threads and Instagram. Details on our site: www.macstories.net/stories/macs...

Fish Shell rewritten from C++ to Rust... First beta release is out. Pretty amazing work! 😊 fishshell.com/blog/fish-4b/

Tell an AI to manufacture pocket clips, without sufficient restrictions, and you get the end of the world. It will try to consume the planet and everything on it to reach its objective. An apocalypse of pocket clips.

This is interesting, but I see no acknowledgement of the fact that both ChatGPT / Bing and Gemini perform web searches and summarize the search results. ChatGPT even provides citations of the sources. It cuts through much SEO crap too. I’ve heard it’s great for finding good product reviews.

Remembering "Automan" (1983), one of my favourite TV series as a child. youtu.be/6cTJVm805J0

My top podcasts 2024. I obviously listen to a lot of ATP and Relay. 😊 atp.fm www.relay.fm

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Please do not put your #Python code _inside_ of your virtual environments. Consider virtual environments: - Disposable - Not relocatable - Contents managed by Python and package installers See the bullet point list at docs.python.org/3/library/ve... if you need official docs backing this up.

Everyone who just joined and is looking for Python people to connect with, I made a "starter pack" with many of the fun accounts. Add them to your followers list, #python: go.bsky.app/3Uzma1g

There's now enough people from Python here that I have picked up my tradition of calling people out to justify why something related to Python -- and especially packaging -- "sucks" when no reason is given.