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EuanReid

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EuanReid··on Uv 0.12.0
Perhaps something requiring opt-in sooner, so project maintainers can - through config - say "we don't use the pip interface on this project"?
EuanReid··on Ask HN: What Are You Working On? (July 2026)
A web and mobile app for tracking cellar contents that doesn't feel dated or clunky, and with which I can make assorted dynamically-updating menus for different use cases. I'll probably do a Show HN once it's live.
EuanReid··on Separating signal from noise in coding evaluations
I've generally found DeepSWE[0] to be pretty true to reality.

[0]: https://deepswe.datacurve.ai/

EuanReid··on The Oxford Comma – Why and Why Not (2024)
There are so many times the Oxford comma prevents ambiguity. I have yet to see a counterexample. Commas separate list entries, don't change it for the last one.
EuanReid··on I asked Claude for 37,500 random names, and it can't stop saying Marcus
I suppose it appears a bunch in training data. Marcus Aurelius and Marcus Crassus get mentioned a lot through history.
EuanReid··on Osaka: Kansai Airport proud to have never lost single piece of luggage (2024)
Headline's a bit misleading. They've never permanently lost a bag, and well done to them for that, but they've certainly lost them for periods of time. Just eventually found them.
EuanReid··on 1 kilobyte is precisely 1000 bytes?
Upper-K is for Kelvin, so can't be mixed in as a prefix in case someone decides to commit physics crimes and talk about temperature-mass (Kkg).
EuanReid··on Ask HN: What tone to use in code review suggestions?
Obviously tone is hard in text, and it's worse in multilingual teams. What's been very effective for my current team is adding explicit context as a comment prefix with standardised terms: - Nit for "it doesn't actually matter" - Suggestion for "this approach might be better, what do you think?" - Question for "help me understand this" - Requested Change for "this is actually a blocker"

We include this expectation in our working agreement, stick to it rigorously for reviews where reviewer and reviewee haven't established a strong rapport yet, and use it as appropriate beyond that. So far we've had no confusion about tone in reviews.