Culled Posts

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This page archives former "blog" posts that have been deemed unworthy of the main page's limited space, but relevant enough for a second life here. Items appear grouped by category, and in roughly ascending-date order.

Recent Culls

Python

• Tk 8.6 finally comes to Mac OS Python... and promptly crashes
• New on the Python Changes page: 3.6's Windows launcher hokey pokey
• The Python 3.6 string-interpolation story just grew comical

Programs

• User guides of major apps here get a mobile-friendly makeover
• Photo-app upgrades: thumbspage galleries, PyPhoto GUI, tagpix organizer
• Get ziptools—the extra features you miss most in Python's zipfile module
• New in programs: the PyGadgets toy box, a new tagpix, and a support page
• A new Frigcal has "dropped," with text colors, Unicode tweaks, and more

Books

• O'Reilly's "lifetime access" ebook libraries may also be nuked in early 2020
• Beware publishers bearing infringing titles...

Etcetera

• RIP, rmi.net/~lutz: EarthLink pulls the plug after 24 years
• iOS 13 works around Safari's two-tap troubles (sort of)
• This site is now much faster, after moving and shrinking
• Engineers who ignore history... are doomed to repeat zeros?
• Google brands this site a privacy risk; no, really
• Mac OS Sierra hides its cruft (and High Sierra criminalizes FTP)
• Windows 10 turns up the advertising to 11 (and 10 S is worse): kill your PC here
• I've finally ended my 20-year training business—announcement, discussion
• Now public in honor of the prior bullet: training materials, workbook, photos
• A postpourri: Windows zipfiles, training notes, author photo
• Your US tax dollars at work—advertising YouTube

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