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I think a freestyling doc bot undermines the effort and care of the folks at Shopify taking the time to write documentation that is thorough and accurate. ā€” Robin Sloan

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šŸ’Æ RAG LLMs arenā€™t a shortcut around creating great docs, and when they are deployed you better validate them thoroughly.

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Cotton Blog via Pycoders points out the easiest way to run a script under uvx:

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Note the shebang line: #!/usr/bin/env -S uv run ā€“script. It is important to specify uv run with the ā€“script flag when used on the shebang line.

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PetaPixelā€™s ā€œhands-onā€ with Rubin Observatory is my favourite piece from yesterdays First Look event. They nailed the excitement, culture, and technical ambition. And they got some beautiful shots, composed and candid, of the observatory.

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The Vera C. Rubin Observatory First Look event is live now.

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First images from the NSF-DOE @VRubinObs@astrodon.social are out today! You can find them in the New York Times.

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Here are the details for catching the Rubin First Look on June 23rd.

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Hereā€™s a NYT profile of Rubin Observatory on the eve of our first light press release next Monday. A decade in the making for me (and more, for others!), itā€™s exciting to share our story with the world.

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Bringing macOS-like windowing and a menu bar to iPadOS?! Yes please.

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freezegun is a nifty Python package that takes the pain out of mocking things like datetime.now in tests. I just gave it a go yesterday and it seems to work well.

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Iā€™m saddened to hear of Marc Garneauā€™s passing. As Canadaā€™s first astronaut, he inspired my interest in space.

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This Sky thing for Mac looks pretty neat. It could create a whole new platform for Mac automation without all the fiddly bits of Shortcuts and the like.

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@usetrmnl.com absolutely! I appreciate the approach you folks are taking. Itā€™s a once revolutionary, and also the way I wish every IoT device was designed.

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@ChrisWalter cool! Did you build it yourself? Iā€™d love to work on some plugins for @VRubinObs ā€” like a summary of last nightā€™s observations.

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I really appreciate that TRMNL allows you to bring your own server if you need or want to. I once had an air filter that bricked because the brand lost interest and turned off their server. What a waste of hardware!

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Just set up my first TRMNL e-ink display. Weā€™re using it to show a family calendar on the wall, but Iā€™ll admit Iā€™ve been snooping in the custom plugin APIs.

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I finished reading: The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt, David Thomas šŸ“šI finished the 2nd ed audiobook over the course of a long weekend of yard work. Definitely worthwhile for a holistic approach to the craft. Iā€™ll be going back to study the text again on some of the finer points.

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There are two ways in which one can own a book. The first is the property right you establish by paying for it, just as you pay for clothes and furniture. But this act of purchase is only the prelude to possession. Full ownership comes only when you have made it a part of yourself, and the best way to make yourself a part of it is by writing in it.

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ā€” Mortimer Adler

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I need to get better at having the courage to mark up my books!

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I started reading: The Pragmatic Programmer by Andrew Hunt, David Thomas šŸ“š The new second editionā€”Iā€™d never read the first from 20 years ago.

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Finished reading: Abundance by Ezra Klein, Derek Thompson šŸ“šIt was useful for showing how the same rules liberals introduced in the mid-century to solve climate change are now the getting in the way of building our way out of the climate crisis. Relevant to Canada too.

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This gave me a chuckle:

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Bloc QuĆ©bĆ©cois Leader Yves-FranƧois Blanchet, asked by reporters if he had any tips for Alberta separatists, said for a nation to define itself, it requires its own culture. ā€œI am not certain that oil and gas qualify to define a culture,ā€ he said. ā€œBut itā€™s theirs to decide if they want to vindicate the right to self-determination.ā€

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1Password in the shell: jonathansick.blog

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Iā€™m not a vibe coder, but LLMs absolutely have changed my work for the better. Like yesterday I pointed Copilot/Claude 3.7 at my appā€™s SQLAlchemy models and asked for a Mermaid.js diagram I could drop into my technote. Absolute magic.

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Yesterday a red Coast Guard helicopter was flying low over Georgian Bay and even landed to talk to some folks ice fishing near Beausoleil. I couldnā€™t quite understand it until a couple hours later I saw a Coast Guard icebreaker was making its way out of Midland harbour.

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TIL you can concatenate highlights with Readwise.. What a clever feature for capturing the heart of a paragraph or two.

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Todayā€™s playlist brought to me by The Shins, The Constantines, The Weakerthans, John K. Sampson, Controller.Controller, and The Stills. The oughts. What a time for music.

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We installed the LSST Camera on the Simonyi Survey Telescope of @VRubinObs@astrodon.social last week! I joined this project in 2015 and I canā€™t believe that our survey start is just around the corner. Ok, back to work!

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Severance S2E8: turns out we ate at that diner! Itā€™s called Neilā€™s Yard in Bonavista Newfoundland! Lovely soup. (Photo from June 2016.)

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@numericcitizen šŸ’ÆIā€™ve had to set up mail forwarding rules to put Substack articles for high quality writers in my Readwise feed, and that works but definitely prevents me from wanting to subscribe to more authors just-in-case. Same problem for Patreon.

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@troykitch Very nice! I always get hand cramps holding my jack on the shooting board. That set up looks so appealing.

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@rerutled.bsky.social Great question. I honestly donā€™t know. But I am looking to avoid plastics where I can because the pervasiveness of microplastic debris is always startling when I do read about it.

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@jonathansick Values(s) is an especially interesting read in this the new US era. Many of the initiatives Carney wrote about in 2022 are now being rolled back. But I also get the sense that sustainability is inevitable ā€” that America is now playing the wrong game and risks being left behind.

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@Mtt Unread is my favourite. The swipe gestures are really well done on the phone.

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@BenSouthwood me too!

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@jarrod Thanks Iā€™ll try that! Iā€™ve been meaning to branch out.

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@manton I just wanted to reach out and say thanks for building Micro.blog. I came in with the original Kickstarter, and although Iā€™ve been slow to settle in, Iā€™m really enjoying seeing how the platform has developed and I now consider it an important part of my online voice going forwards. Cheers.

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@nsbruce Thanks! Iā€™ll check out the DRAO docs; I love comparing notes on making docs. šŸ‘‹

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@manton Iā€™ve got a 2008 Element too and itā€™s still going strong. When I have to move on to an electric car in the hopefully far future itā€™ll be very bittersweet.

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@V_ Thanks! Itā€™s our new deck, build last October. So thatā€™s weathering from one winter. I love the look of the western red cedar in the rain. It glows golden. The Osmo decking oil Iā€™m putting on changes the look a bit for better or worse.

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@pimoore Look out for Kirk! :)

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@ebellm definitely šŸ˜†

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@vincent I just signed up and onboarded my blog in no time at all. This is fantastic. šŸ‘

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@BenSouthwood Iā€™ve been thinking about this too. Now that social isnā€™t about likes and followers, that addiction component to using social media is gone. So now weā€™re freed up to think about what we really want to get out of this.

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@tjenness I definitely donā€™t do as much compilation and generally donā€™t use x-dist for pytest, so I do wonder if CA$1,400 more makes sense for the Ultra in my case? At least itā€™s a business expense. šŸ¤·ā€ā™‚ļø

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@BenSouthwood Not at all! I was really hoping someone would know more because it seemed so shocking, disappointing and weird honestly. Itā€™s jolted me into thinking about how Iā€™ve been using Ulysses and Iā€™m still not sure Ulysses is the best fit for me anymore. Most of my writing happens on GitHub and Iā€™m remembering to try Mars Edit for when I do write elsewhere on the webā€¦ so maybe Ulysses was always more an aspirational power tool for me than anything. Cheers.

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@BenSouthwood Thatā€™s reassuring, thanks. :)

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@Denny Thatā€™s pretty cool, thanks! I need to remember to try multitouch operations. If Iā€™m not using the pencil, then 99% of the time Iā€™m using the trackpad+keyboard and I forget that I can still touch the screen.

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@macsparky re David Pye, have you been following along with Mortise & Tenon magazines ā€œbook clubā€ series? They also got me wanting to read his book. overcast.fm/+K1_5VjGLā€¦

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@heyscottyj and @rosemaryorchard ā€” I just wanted to say thank you for (Un)nested Folders. Your podcast was astonishingly insightful and honest and real. Iā€™ll be going back to the episodes for some time to come for ideas and help. All the best!

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@Denny I wonder if part of it is that the Apple ecosystem is so expansive that itā€™s almost impossible to cover so the general ā€œindieā€ news sites and podcasts end up covering the slice of the Apple universe theyā€™re personally invested in. So we end up hearing a lot about general geek stuff and things that tech writers and podcasters use, as opposed to what designers, scientists, architects, engineers, etc etc are using.

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@ekcragg Yeah, the ending was a good one. Have you tried the follow-on podcast drama? Thatā€™s next for me. I also hear that AMC is doing a spin off this year.

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