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I am wondering why python development experience is a major bullet point. Does LWN have a lot of in-house code?

I am just idly wondering as I imagine a gilded life of tech journalism (which will be a million miles from the reality of deadline driven millstone)

But good luck to them - LWN always has the clearest explanation of "this is what the mile long thread on the mailing list means"

If ever a job seems deadline-driven, I'd have gone with journalism.

yes they have mentioned it multiple times in some of their articles, the website is in python...

I couldn't have guessed with the way the website looks /s

You can tell they are optimizing (and do a very good job at it) for quality, brevity and importance.

They don't need, and should not, optimize for other things.

I call it FOSScore.

It's almost a badge of honor to have your website be as minimal and stripped down as possible.

The undefeated champion of this of course is Dan Luu https://danluu.com/