Sad news: Fredrik Lundh ("Effbot") has passed away
jkn
jkn_gg at nicorp.f9.co.uk
Sun Dec 12 15:20:16 EST 2021
On Sunday, December 12, 2021 at 2:01:19 PM UTC, Skip Montanaro wrote:
> Like many others, I'm saddened to hear of Fredrik Lundh's passing. I
> vaguely recall meeting him just once, probably at a Python workshop,
> before they grew big enough to be called conferences. Effbot.org was
> my Tkinter, ElemenTree, and PIL reference and cheat sheet.
>
> My attention to Python development has waxed and waned over the years.
> Most of the time, the trip through the Python folder in my mail
> program was generally pretty quick, hitting the 'd' key far more often
> than I'd stop to read a message. There are only a few people whose
> messages I'd always read. Effbot was one. In my opinion, Fredrik ranks
> up there with Guido, Tim Peters and Barry Warsaw.
>
> I went to effbot.org and saw the "on hiatus" message. Searching
> through The Wayback Machine, it seems it went on hiatus in late
> November, 2020. The 11 November 2020 snapshot appears to be the last
> usable version:
>
> https://web.archive.org/web/20201111145627/http://effbot.org/
>
> Probably worth a bookmark in your browser.
>
> Rest easy /F ...
>
> Skip
I hadn't realised effbot.org was 'on hiatus'. Yes, definitely worth
bookmarking The Wayback Machine backup - or even (someone?)
making a separate archive?
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