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rivepicaon Static sites with Python, uv, Caddy, and Docker

Imagine Caddy had a built-in feature to manage redirects with a very simple syntax. Maybe it could be called redir? That'd help removing the whole "run python to compile a bunch of HTML files" part of this.

Oh wait …

rivepicaon The Windows installer of ImageMagick will no longer be signed

The issue here is the high financial burden to have a secure/signed release, not the security itself.

rivepicaon Spasmlang: Simple Python Assembly Language

What a tasteless joke of a project name.

rivepicaon DotDict: A simple Python library to make chained attributes possible

100%. I don’t understand the obsession with bending dicts into something they are inherently bad at when actual alternatives in dataclasses and Pydantic models right there.

rivepicaon Sam Gross may “be unable to pursue PEP 703 (No GIL Python) further”

Should be titled "Python Steering Committee unable/unwilling to provide clear acceptance criteria or timeline for PEP 703".