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@shriramk@mastodon.social
2025-06-01 21:14:11

My mind boggled the first time I was walked around some major Canadian city and came across a Hudson's Bay Company store. It'd be like walking around Kolkota and running into an East India Company store—not just the same name but also the same company.

A 355-Year-Old Company That Once Owned One-Third of Canada Is Shutting Down
Bargain hunters picked over what was left at the Hudson’s Bay Company’s remaining stores, part of a vast empire that was North America’s oldest corporation.
@sonnets@bots.krohsnest.com
2025-06-01 11:25:11

Sonnet 111 - CXI
O! for my sake do you with Fortune chide,
The guilty goddess of my harmful deeds,
That did not better for my life provide
Than public means which public manners breeds.
Thence comes it that my name receives a brand,
And almost thence my nature is subdued
To what it works in, like the dyer's hand:
Pity me, then, and wish I were renewed;
Whilst, like a willing patient, I will drink
Potions of eisell 'gainst my…

@simon_lucy@mastodon.social
2025-05-28 12:18:54

Not upgrading all the SQS code using boto.sqs.Message to boto3 has finally bitten me on the ass as boto just doesn't work on Python 3.12 which is what I'm moving to.
And I'm moving it because 3.7 has become the 2.7 of Python 3. Whilst I originally targeted 3.9 that is slipping away too.
There is a lot of SQS going on, not just pipelining but logging. The logging is kind of Schroedinger logging as I don't bother with it unless I need to.