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So over on dice camp I mentioned the other day that I'd noticed there is now on the market from a few sources a d16. To which my thought was then, "That's nice, but if it's a d16 it should be available numbered 1 through F to roll hexadecimal values for games like Traveler." Friends, I should not have doubted the dice makers. I only see one offering it, but you can get hexadecimal dice. My inner dice dragon is demanding I get some for its dice hoard.

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Three days until November!

If you were planning on doing #NaNoWriMo or have in the past, you may have just recently found out that the organization officially closed down earlier this year.

With amazingly good timing, I actually launched my own alternative site a year ago, #WritingMonth:

https://writingmonth.org

Writing Month allows you to set your own goal with various types and tracking method and work in any month while placing a strong emphasis on community and writing with your buddies. Feature development is a little slow as I'm currently finishing up my senior year of uni (🤞) but y'all's community support has been fantastic and I know things will only get better from here.

If you'd like to write a bit with us this November—with whatever goal you find feasible—I'd encourage you to give it a try! Feel free to send me a buddy request: https://writingmonth.org/~amin/

(Boosts are very welcome.)

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Huge kudos to the PSF for standing on principle and making a difficult decision.

> "Ultimately, however, the value of the work and the size of the grant were not more important than practicing our values and retaining the freedom to support every part of our community. The PSF Board voted unanimously to withdraw our application."

With so many orgs going "no politics" or straight up obsequiousness to those in power, #Python stewards and community continue to impress.

https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/NSF-funding-statement.html

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I was just looking at my webserver logs while sipping coffee (as one does) and I noticed that one of my websites was receiving requests for a js file which I had prototyped but never actually deployed.

The script tag is present in the page, but it's commented out. I investigated, and it seems that scrapers see that tag and are trying to grab it even though it's completely non-functional. I guess they just want every bit of code they can find to help train an LLM.

This seems like a promising pattern for catching scrapers that pretend to be normal browsers.

EDIT: I wrote a blog post about it: https://cryptography.dog/blog/AI-scrapers-request-commented-scripts/