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Seth Michael Larson @sethmlarson.dev · 1d

Loving the energy from @hankgreen.bsky.social this fine #pizzamas

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Give me a single reason why Sora2 should exist.

YouTube video by Hank Green

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Seth Michael Larson @sethmlarson.dev · 1d

The “Nintendo Classics” collection has hundreds of retro games from Nintendo and Sega consoles from NES to GameCube. I created a dataset about these games and mapped them to real-life physical prices, with graphs and tables.

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Graph showing the total values of each platform available on Nintendo Classics over time.

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Hugo van Kemenade @hugovk.dev · 1d

Just released! 🚀

Please install and enjoy Python 3.14! 🥧

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#Python #Python314 #release

Two snakes enjoying a pie with 3.14 on the top and π crimping.

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Seth Michael Larson @sethmlarson.dev · 2d

Thanks for sharing!

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Seven Years in Quebec @dfeldman.org · 2d

I think the future of ‘social’ media is probably small closed networks with just you and your friends, like Discord or WhatsApp groups

It was already going that way, but the onslaught of AI bots and algorithm manipulation on open platforms has made it inevitable

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Seth Michael Larson @sethmlarson.dev · 2d

Published a pre-PEP for defining the Python Security Response Team (PSRT) membership and operations, if you're a part of the #Python core team and are interested in vulnerability triage please take a look and weigh in:

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Pre-PEP: Python Security Response Team Membership and Operations

Hello all, I’m starting the process of defining the Python Security Response Team (PSRT) membership and operations in such a way that allows for more, rather than fewer, core team members to particip...

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Seth Michael Larson @sethmlarson.dev · 3d

Done with both the PAL and US regions of #Pikmin 2, only finishing JP Dream Den and the final boss remains... just over 4 months later we're reaching the end of this project :)

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Pikmin 2 International Treasure Hoard

Pikmin 2 is a game about collecting "treasure" from Earth in the form of mostly human-made products and items. One of the distinguishing features of the game is that the treasures sometimes mode...

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Chris Steller @chrissteller.bsky.social · 4d

Minnesota Achievements In Computer Stuff
- The Gopher protocol
- Control Data
- Tinyurl
- Oregon Trail
- ???

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Seth Michael Larson @sethmlarson.dev · 4d

Just upgraded to iOS 26 and realized that Liquid Glass looks similar to #Pikmin UI...

I kinda love it haha 🫧

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Seth Michael Larson @sethmlarson.dev · 7d

Building a dataset about #Nintendo #Switch Online "Classics" collection, and now have approximate prices for each game in each collection. The #SNES collection alone is a wildly good deal.

What sorts of questions would you like me to answer about this collection?

Table showing columns for Platform, Total ($), number of Games, and price per game. Table data is:

| NES | $1,980 | 91 | $21 |
| SNES | $3,600 | 83 | $43 |
| Game Boy (& GBC) | $1,615 | 41 | $39 |
| Nintendo 64 | $1,130 | 42 | $26 |
| Sega Genesis | $2,910 | 51 | $57 |
| Game Boy Advance | $930 | 30 | $31 |
| GameCube | $640 | 9 | $71 |
| Virtual Boy | $2,580 | 14 | $184 |

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Merriam-Webster @merriam-webster.com · 7d

We are thrilled to announce that our NEW Large Language Model will be released on 11.18.25.

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Rep. Ilhan Omar @repilhan.bsky.social · 7d

My statement on the GOP shutdown.

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Seth Michael Larson @sethmlarson.dev · 8d

This post was 5 years in the making, @shazow.net and I made a bet about whether "six", the Python 2/3 compatibility shim, would still be a popular package in 2025:

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Winning a bet about “six”, the Python 2 compatibility shim

Exactly five years ago today Andrey Petrov and I made a bet about whether “six”, the compatibility shim for Python 2 and 3 APIs, would still be in the top 20 daily downloads on PyPI. I said it woul...

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retrodotcards.com @retrodotcards.com · 8d

My e-Reader Picross engine is done! It plays virtually identical to Picross on the Game Boy. I still have over 300 bytes of space, so I'll add even more polish and maybe another feature.

#gamedev #indiedev

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Jeremy Carbaugh @jcarbaugh.com · 8d

I believe it’s a fairly new part of the spec so it is likely to be spotty across platforms for some time, but support for import/export is coming to Apple platforms later this year 9to5mac.com/2025/06/13/i...

iOS 26: Apple solved one of the biggest passkey headaches - 9to5Mac

Apple’s next round of OS updates will introduce a seamless, secure way to export and import passkeys across platforms and apps.

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Seth Michael Larson @sethmlarson.dev · 8d

This is good news to see, thank you for sharing. Glad that this problem is being worked on, I know it was a major concern for me back when they first got introduced and didn't seem like it had made progress (from my limited perspective).

Seth Michael Larson @sethmlarson.dev · 8d

So if you want to move from an iPhone to Android and you have passkeys associated with your keyring there's no way to move those passkeys to your new phone, you'd be regenerating them all for every service. Is this still the case in 2025, or has progress been made on this front?

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Seth Michael Larson @sethmlarson.dev · 8d

I am interested in learning more about #passkeys (aka #passwordless). I've read a few older articles about how, due to the requirement of never allowing a "decrypted", passkeys are not portable across "providers".

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Jof @jofamo.bsky.social · Jan 21

During the creation of my book, 'POCA!', I learned a lot about the Pocket Camera. Stuff that I couldn't find documented anywhere on the internet.

So, in the interests of documentation and preservation, I wrote a new blog post talking all about the secrets I found!

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Secrets of the Pocket Camera — Jofamo.com

In these blogs, I’d like to take some time to share a few of some of the most interesting things I’ve learned about the Pocket Camera, with a focus on some rarely documented secrets and trivia. I’m c...

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julia ferraioli @juliaferraioli.com · 13d

Y'all pluralizing SBOM as SBOMs when you know full well that it's SBsOM

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Seth Michael Larson @sethmlarson.dev · 12d

Did you know that #gzip streams may contain filenames?

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GZipped files and streams may contain names

It's just another day, you're sending a bunch of files to a friend. For no particular reason you decide to name the archive with your controversial movie opinions: $ tar -cf i-did-not-care-for-th...

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Seth Michael Larson @sethmlarson.dev · 12d

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Seth Michael Larson @sethmlarson.dev · 12d

Instant follow, excited for more! :)

Seth Michael Larson @sethmlarson.dev · 12d

"Security Developer and fellow #Pikmin enthusiast" 😆🌱

Christopher Trudeau @trudeau.dev · 12d

On this week's episode, @digiglean.bsky.social and I talk about benchmarking micropython, networks, the scream cipher and more.

With content from: @djangoproject.com @miguelgrinberg.com @sethmlarson.dev and others not on the 🦋

Episode #267: Managing Feature Flags & Comparing Python Visualization Libraries – The Real Python Podcast

What's a good way to enable or disable code paths without redeploying the software? How can you use feature flags to toggle functionality for specific users of your application? Christopher Trudeau…

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Stop Skeletons From Fighting | SSFF @stopskeletons.bsky.social · 14d

NEW VIDEO!

You do not need to buy $80 games

Reject FOMO, forget about tariffs, who needs economics when there have always been games that cared about your wallet. It’s me Derek and I’m here to talk recent & old examples of games that were a bargain on day-one!

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Games That Don’t Kill Your Wallet
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