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Paul Tagliamonte
notes.pault.ag · Personal blog · on HN since 2013
Paul Tagliamonte, a Debian developer, writes about Debian, Python packaging, Go tooling, networking and a private LAN project.
What HN saysHN commenters cite his post on why pip shouldn't install globally alongside apt, and his manifesto urging people to build their own LAN.
16HN people shared it
6linked it in comments
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Most-shared posts
- 1The Promised LAN6 people · 13 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 2Musings about Debian and Python3 people · 108 points · first shared 2013 · 53 comments on HN
- 3It's all relative3 people · 3 points · first shared 2016 · discussion on HN
- 4Complex for Whom?2 people · 3 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 5Go Debian: Writing Debian tooling in Go1 people · 171 points · first shared 2016 · 18 comments on HN
- 6It's not always DNS1 people · 56 points · first shared 2025 · 39 comments on HN
- 7Hy: the survival guide to Lisp embedded on Python1 people · 2 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 8BOOT2KIER1 people · 2 points · first shared 2025 · discussion on HN
- 9Domo Arigato, Mr. Debugfs1 people · 2 points · first shared 2024 · discussion on HN
- 10Hacking a projector in Hy1 people · 1 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
qualeed · 2025-07-23
>As a result, membership will never be open, and we will never have enough connected LANs to deal with the technical and social problems that start to happen with scale. This is a feature, not a bug.
>This is a call for you to do the same. Build your own LAN. Connect it with friends’ homes. Remember what is missing from your life, and fill it in. Use software you know how to operate and get it running. Build slowly. Build your community. Do it with joy.
From https://notes.pault.ag/tpl/
archi42 · 2025-07-23
The page contains link to a manifesto/description: https://notes.pault.ag/tpl/
I think that's a more interesting read than the linked page.
brudgers · 2016-06-11
Generalizing the idea: https://notes.pault.ag/its-all-relative/
paultag · 2014-02-28
I wrote about why this was a bad idea at: http://notes.pault.ag/debian-python/
If you want a clear failure mode - if this installs requests globally, think about the chaos if you're on Debian stable, with 0.12.1, before the API break - after a pip install, you may end up with all the software on your system broken.
When this happens, please don't file bugs with Debian. Thanks.
babarock · 2013-10-22
Vaguely related, this wonderful article by Paul Tagliamonte on how pip coexists with distro package managers (in this case APT): http://notes.pault.ag/debian-python/
Nice reminder that pip is a dev tool and should be used as such. It makes sense to be included in Python.
8organicbits · 2026-03-17
Reminds me of https://notes.pault.ag/tpl/