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Me respeita, que eu sou do tempo em que HD de PC era chamado de Winchester.

I get how uncomfortable it feels to disengage from the syntax, from the sequence, selection, and iteration of code, from the dopamine hit of getting a complicated function to execute properly. I get it. I've been coding for longer than most of you have been alive -- I get it. But the bar has been raised. And if I, someone who has been coding for more than six decades, can clear that bar, you should be able to clear it too. And fear not, I've found plenty of joy on the topside of that bar. It just take a leap...

BASIC launched on this day in 1964.

Imagine telling a surgeon: “Your 20 years of experience are impressive… but you couldn’t answer this riddle about scissors, so we’ll pass.” That’s software interviews.

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I am this old

In 1984, I got a Sinclair ZX-81 clone for Xmas, my first micro computer :-) My father and grand father were expecting I would give some rest to their calculators. It was a Brazilian clone called TK-85. Later on I got addicted to the Input magazine with lots of topics and software delivered every week… and adapted to Brazilian computer clones of Spectrum and Apple ][. They did a great translation job, but some images remained with the BBC micro and the commodore 64. The art was incredible. Now, 42 years later, I got my Commodore 64 last Saturday in Belgium. It is amazing how an old computer can bring joy and very good memories playing with friends. Due to Brazilian imports ban in the 80’s and early 90’s, I miss the Commodore 64 and later the Amiga. Moving from Apple ][e clones to Msx clones during high school and Ibm pc clones later on. What a time!

I got my c64 ultimate delivered today! Very nice product, old and new at the same time. Waiting for my joystick on Monday. The games are so simple. I’m wondering if rewriting them in Python would be fun.

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Software development has never been about writing code. This was obvious to many before, but now AI has made it crystal clear to everyone. Building software is 99% thinking, 1% writing code, and 1% fighting off-by-1 errors.

I've pushed Textual v6.3.0 which now supports Python 3.14 It also drops support for Python3.8 which reached its EOL just over a year ago. So long 3.8. 🫡 github.com/Textualize/textua…

Just pushed Rich v14.2.0 This is mainly a meta update, to support Python 3.14 github.com/Textualize/rich/r…

We are entering a new era, folks

Extremely nice qualify-of-life thing: Python 3.14 includes syntax highlighting in the REPL

Python REPL features you are probably not using: pythonmorsels.com/repl-featu…

Windows made me laugh today. Ok, it is the end of summer, Belgium used to be a "cold" country, but -273C is an exaggeration :-D But why -273C? They are probably working with Kelvin's degrees, where 0 °K is -273 °C. In some programs, zero can be used as a placeholder when a value is not present, or simply as the default value to initialize a variable. I think today the API they use failed, and the temperature was replaced by 0°K, translated to -273°C.

It is always about energy, its price and accessibility. We will work with AI building larger and larger systems at speeds and scales we can’t imagine yet.

AI will not replace you. A person using AI will.