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  • Yeah, I’m just saying that the benefit of using such a regex isn’t massive (unless you’re building a service which can’t send a mail).

    a@b is a syntactically correct e-mail address. Most combinations of letters, an @-symbol and more letters will be syntactically correct, which is what most typos will look like. The regex will only catch fringe cases, such as a user accidentally hitting the spacebar.

    And then, personally, I don’t feel like it’s worth pulling in one of those massive regexes (+ possibly a regex library) for most use-cases.



  • Well, and remember: If in doubt, send them an e-mail. You probably want to do that anyways to ensure they have access to that mailbox.

    You can try to use a regex as a basic sanity check, so they’ve not accidentally typed a completely different info into there, but the e-mail standard allows so many wild mail addresses, that your basic sanity check might as well be whether they’ve typed an @ into there.













  • Personally, I’ve found Poetry somewhat painful for developing medium-sized or larger applications (which I guess Python really isn’t made for to begin with, but yeah).

    Big problem is that its dependency resolution is probably a magnitude slower than it should be. Anytime we changed something about the dependencies, you’d wait for more than a minute on its verdict. Which is particularly painful, when you have to resolve version conflicts.

    Other big pain point is that it doesn’t support workspaces or multi-project builds or whatever you want to call them, so where you can have multiple related applications or libraries in the same repo and directly depending on each other, without needing to publish a version of the libraries each time you make a change.

    When we started our last big Python project, none of the Python tooling supported workspaces out of the box. Now, there’s Rye, which does so. But yeah, I don’t have experience yet, with how well it works.



  • Damn, I definitely won’t stop donating, if they’re this short on money, but that was basically my understanding of what they do, primarily advocacy.

    Is MDN and the webstandards work also part of the Foundation? It certainly feels like it’d be more non-profit-y work. I guess, they do hold ownership of the Corporation, so they could also just tell the Corporation to deliver that.

    But yeah, I’d like some increased messaging of what other work they do, or how much advocacy they can continue to do. Obviously, that’s not an insane number of employees left either way…