The thing most people don't remember about Prometheus is that humans already had fire, but then Zeus locked it up behind a paywall, because Zeus was a petty little bitch. Prometheus stole it *back*. In this essay about DRM I will --jwz

I was just going through my weeknotes from last year and decided to take it a bit easier on myself with the weekly updates 😇. Not much else has changed though - I'm still juggling too many things at once. Despite being busy, I did manage to write a TIL post about including extra data in Python packages, and I published a quick hot take on why I think Big Data might be on its way out (which actually started as a comment in a discussion that I had Claude help me reshape into a blog post). Still working on the latest podcast episode, but on a brighter note, we got to take a lovely trip to Maastricht.

Stuff

• Constraints are Good: Python's Metadata Dilemma | Yep, but at least uv seems to be a step in the right direction
• Web apps have client and server state (plus realtime and LiveView) | Maybe you can skip those complexities by skipping realtime and complex client state for most use cases? 😇
• dear santa, I'm writing to tell you I've been naughty and it was worth it. | webcomic
• Python 3.13.1 Release
• Subclassing, Composition, Python, and You — Hynek Schlawack | Very good talk

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