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A doodler and computerer. I like permissive/permissionless open source, smart contracts, p2p systems, room-scale VR, and NixOS. 🇨🇦 Also on: https://shazow.net https://github.com/shazow https://farcaster.id/shazow.eth
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urllib3 gets *over* a billion downloads per month. very demure and mindful number, very cutesy.

submitted 13 days ago • 0 comments

I got to share my urllib3 origin story on opensource dot org: opensource.org/maintainers/...

submitted 16 days ago • 0 comments

How can open social protocols fail us? I put together an analysis comparing several specific failure modes between Farcaster, Bluesky, and Mastodon. Please let me know if any of the protocol descriptions could be presented more fairly! shazow.net/posts/open-s...

submitted 21 days ago • 5 comments

urllib3 gets almost a BILLION downloads PER MONTH (a project I authored in 2008 and co-maintain) I often think about our inefficient/wasteful global digital infrastructure: this is probably a few million monthly primary consumers, plus all the ci instances spamming downloads/installs repeatedly.

submitted 44 days ago • 4 comments