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Bonjour,

I’m interrupting my vacation to let y’all know that I’ll be giving a talk at a Python conference in the Zoo of Amersfoort (close to Utrecht) that Ordina is organizing to celebrate the release of Python 3.10:

Hello friend,

this is gonna be a quick one, because what I’m announcing already has a navel-gazing nature.

Over the years the bar that I perceive about posting on my blog has only gone up. My latest post on subclassing (that despite its length and topic was very well-received – thank you for sharing!) and this newsletter made the problem even more pronounced.

Therefore, to be able to share stuff with less friction, I’ve just announced a “Today I Learned” section on my blog:

Greetings friends!

I’m super excited that despite the fact that the last post was rather niche, y’all keep subscrib[ed|ing]!

Now if my SemVer post was flamebait, this one Death-Star-bait. And it’s also very long. It started when I just wanted to properly type out a I’ve done some months ago and then is somewhat escalated.

Greetings, friend!

Thank you so much for subscribing! Unless half of you unsubscribe the moment they realize that I don’t only rant about versioning schemes, I think I consider this whole experiment a success and will keep it going for now. I have a huge backlog of topics I’d like to blog about and this is somewhat helping me to try to go for a ~monthly cadence (narrator: lol).

A Brief Look Back

Speaking of versioning schemes. Now that the dust and emotions have settled, it’s interesting to look back at the reactions to my . To be clear, the overwhelming majority was positive. But as we humans do, one focuses mainly on the few negative ones.

Hello friend!

Welcome to the first issue of Hynek Did Something and thank you so much for participating in my little experiment! ❤️ The perspective of being able to send out the first issue may or may not have helped to motivate me to finish the draft. 😇

And this draft is both about a pet peeve of mine, goes back! Almost a year ago on April 25th 2020 (or how I like to call it: March 56th 2020) I let myself rope into giving a talk at and I used it to explain why I think that is not a good fit for most projects. They haven’t published the videos yet, so there’s not talk page about it. But I’ve always considered to write it down as a blog post.