David Vo

TIL Remove Your Media LLC sent the @bleachbit.bsky.social maintainer a DMCA takedown notice in April, claiming it's related to Bleach (the anime) somehow. lol. lmao even. The response is actually hilarious too. www.bleachbit.org/anime

oh no why did YouTube pick me to be the thumbnail /hj

This was the talk from #PyConAU that made me go "this is my takeaway talk for the entire conference that I'm sending to all my on-call friends". Who knew you could draw so many parallels between on-call and training ponies?

Just saw this in @github.com's Slack app docs (docs.github.com/en/integrati...): > If you have multiple Slack workspaces where you use the GitHub app, mentions will only work in the workspace where you logged in to your GitHub app most recently. This is annoying for people in multiple orgs…

Looking forward to @cameronwilson.bsky.social's #pyconau keynote this morning!

How on earth does one accidentally ship injecting a code syntax highlighter into pages (causing existing syntax highlighting to break) in a password manager browser extension? www.1password.community/discussions/...

Android implementing AirDrop? Is this a dream? blog.google/products/and...

Edinburgh castle failing to render, likely thanks to the AWS outage

#pyconau Lightning Talks (Saturday) - http://youtu.be/j1e9kF8uaNY

So much of the open source community were fearing the day GitHub Actions were going to discontinue support for macOS 13, the last version they were supporting Intel on. Fear no longer, there's options now! github.blog/changelog/20...

mfw someone presenting at a meetup is on-call for a bank and gets paged

GitHub Actions finally supports YAML anchors? 🎉 github.com/actions/runn...

Argon ONE Up Laptop Runs on a Raspberry Pi CM5 www.omgubuntu.co.uk/2025/07/argo... Could these folks make a CM5 carrier board I can stick in a Framework laptop chassis too please

This is interesting. Cetirizine (Zyrtec) is my typical antihistamine (allergy medication). I guess luckily I haven't taken it daily? youtube.com/shorts/bh9ak...

I received transphobic Matrix room invites overnight, from what I can tell? (i.e. the room invite itself contained transphobic material) I'm a bit confused; I don't hang out in trans communities…

No democracy sausage at my local polling place this election 😔

A few handy election links Websites to plan your vote, your feed, election viewing and vote tallying READ: https://thesizzle.com.au/p/a-few-handy-election-links

In case anyone wants to watch me build a Framework laptop for some reason: twitch.tv/auscompgeek

We're getting the gang back together again! ​The first #Sydney Python #Meetup of 2025, (a monthly gathering all about #Python 🧑‍💻 ) will be at a venue near Wynyard. If you love Python and want to hear what we've planned so far come along: lu.ma/ffmm65w2

It's weird to think about the fact that a project I'm tangentially involved with became part of CPython's supply chain. (I wasn't a maintainer of this repo, but I am a member of the org it was in.) github.com/sphinx-doc/s...

This is how my views compare with the election candidates in the upcoming Australian election according to ABC's Vote Compass. Try it for yourself! #AusPol #AusVotes share.votecompass.com/ioapnWxuDWES...

The airport bathrooms at MEL are really snazzy! Part of me can't help but think the UX might be better if the soap dispenser wasn't between the tap and the dryer though.

About to take off to Melbourne for PyCon AU ✈️👋

Came across github.com/johnsoncodeh... via the most recent PodRocket episode with @evanyou.me. Gonna have to bookmark this for later!

#PEP 639 is now supported by #PyPI! discuss.python.org/t/pep-639-ro... This is the PEP that lets you specify the license for your code using SPDX expressions and easily include all your licenses with your code. (Disclaimer: I was PEP delegate for this.)

nooooooo I forgot to charge my headphones, and they refuse to play any audio whilst charging what do I do for my 1h commute

Bluesky now has over 10 million users, and I was #663,152! I somehow missed the 1 million milestone lol

Just gonna leave this here from my 2018 kiwicon talk

Apparently Bitbucket's PR review interface is as usable as GitHub's is now? Admittedly that's a very low bar though. bitbucket.org/blog/new-pul...

Protip to recruiters on LinkedIn: if you're going to mail merge, at least have the decency to not keep a "[Company Name]" placeholder in your message

Wow, during the last half hour of me reading up about the xz backdoor, the GitHub repo has disappeared. It looks like the git repo was mirrored in a few places though; I see repo.or.cz/w/xz.git appears to be a valid mirror.

"My dog ate my Yubikey nano" has to be the funniest thing I've read at work this week

"Those were the instructions I tried to follow. I didn't follow the instructions." — users in 2024

TIL these two queries are *not* equivalent in MySQL: SELECT MIN(enum_column) FROM table; SELECT enum_column FROM table ORDER BY enum_column LIMIT 1;

Heads up! On October 11 we ship curl 8.4.0. We cut the release cycle short for this "emergency release" with a fix for a severity HIGH CVE (and one LOW). Buckle up. And my apologies for this inconvenience.

TIL the <q> element exists for inline quotations. The default styling surrounds it with quotes. Basically the inline version of <blockquote>. developer.mozilla.org/en-US/docs/W...

New favourite example of structural ambiguity

I don’t think it can be emphasized enough that large language models were never intended to do math or know facts; literally all they do is attempt to sound like the text they’re given, which may or may not include math or facts. They don’t do logic or fact checking — they’re just not built for that

I'm now back in a non-fractional time zone!