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mborus

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Paying my rent & having fun doing things with software. For ⛴️ ferry companies. Using 🐍 Python and MS Dynamics NAV. Mixed language 🇬🇧/🇩🇪 toots.

If you speak 🐍 #Python, please say hi!

When not doing computer stuff, I enjoy friendly board games 🎲, riding my bike 🚲, radio 📻📡, eurovision 🇪🇺📺, other languages 🇩🇰 🇪🇸, baking & cooking 🍕🍲 and having my current favorite song 🎶on repeat-1.

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glyph, to random
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I heard many folks at PyCon — including a few very prominent ones who shall remain nameless to protect the guilty! — claiming that “black text on a white background” is uniformly and obviously the superior accessibility choice for conference presentations, for various reasons. This is, at the very least, debatable, and I think it would not be too spicy of a take to say it is straightforwardly incorrect. Some evidence follows: 🧵

mborus,
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@luis_in_brief @matt

"The "They'd have more time to practice the talk"" argument?

That's indeed a hot take, because the best time to practice and fix a talk is the time in public transport (trains, planes) and the evening before in the hotel, when normal work distractions are fewer.

Requiring you to pre-submit the slides will lead to talks with a worse flow, more errors and unhappy speakers.

jacqueline, to random
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learning that it is actually very feasible to do (bad) speech synthesis on an esp32. very interesting…

mborus,
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@jacqueline We had SAM on the Commodore 64 do speech in the 80s… https://discordier.github.io/sam/ The esp32 specs should be better.

mborus, to random
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Back from #PyConIT yesterday.

I learned a lot about the FastAPI/pydantic/starlette/uvicorn world direct from the source as well as about OpenTelemetry:

I already fixed my current Pydantic v1->v2 problems today with hints from hallway & sponsor chatting and it's always amazing to talk to the people who write the software you're using.

Also finally played the CABO game, that @treyhunner's has been hyping forever. @mathsppblog brought it from PyConUS and taught it. It's really a lot of fun!

treyhunner, to random
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What tips do you have for folks thinking of trying out Mastodon during this year?

3 of my tips:

  1. Follow the hashtag (yes you can follow a hashtag just like following a profile!)
  2. If you post and realize you forgot the hashtag, don't delete your post. Just edit it!
  3. Consider following the hashtag also. Many folks use it without realizing that is the official one.

What tips do you have?

mborus,
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@treyhunner

Tips:

  • If you see someone mentioning a technology (or something else) you want to check out later, set a bookmark (Inside your client) in addition to boosting it, because it's hard to find what you boosted a few weeks later.

  • You are other people's algorithm. Make sure to boost interesting posts, otherwise they will not get visibility beyond an audience following the hashtag.

  • For those on iOS, have a look at , you can set in into a Twitter-like single column mode.

treyhunner, to instagramreality
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Not attending PyCon US and don't want to see all the social media posts about it? (I'll certainly be sharing some)

If you're on a Mastodon instance:

  1. look up the "filters" setting
  2. filter the phrase "PyCon" (no quotes)
  3. make sure not to check "whole word' (so and related phrases are filtered too)

https://docs.joinmastodon.org/user/moderating/#filters

mborus,
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@treyhunner this would filter out all those lovely posts about 🇮🇹PyConIT though ;)

hynek, (edited ) to random
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After resent-paying for while and after learning about another upcoming price hike, I’ve canceled my Netflix account after almost a decade. It doesn’t deliver even close to the value I’ve been paying and they were so happy with themselves on the latest earnings call, I just don’t want them to see another dollar from me. 😳

mborus,
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@hynek Just made the same decision a few days ago. This will be the last month of Netflix.

The final straw was that the monthly household cost from next month is higher than the 🇩🇪 public TV license fee. That's way too much.

I have a huge backlog in recordings from those TV services as well as a large Bluray collection, so I'll probably do very fine no longer having it. I'm not going to miss the annoying "skip intro" buttons and the fights to keep the end credits running...

deshipu, to random
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    mborus,
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    @deshipu if at home, sure. I have to leave the hotel room by noon, so I can’t…

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    mborus,
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    @deshipu for me the two finger tap undo is a plus, but the feeling of a digital pen on glass is less fun and the lag between movement and drawing and the reduced accuracy make it a lot less fun than paper. I don’t think we went wrong, it’s feels more like “we’re not there yet” for a while.

    jugmac00, to berlin
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    I am preparing for my trip to in where I will speak about "How to Improve the Python Development Experience for Millions of Ubuntu Users". I would love to start a discussion on how make the best development environment it can be!

    Have you experienced papercuts or do you have ideas to improve the experience?

    Join me in Berlin or via
    https://discourse.ubuntu.com/t/improving-the-developer-experience-for-python-on-ubuntu/44318

    mborus,
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    @jugmac00 This will be interesting. A few years ago I managed to complete break Ubuntu's update process by trying to update Python on my dual boot laptop and that remained unfixed because I couldn't risk losing Windows in a re-install attempt.

    While I'm writing this, I'm setting up a spare laptop with 2024.04 LTS beta to bring to . I'll see if working with PyCharm and Jupyter is OK for me.

    Already preparing for Win10 EOL 2025, which will force me on Linux for most of my hardware.

    judy2k, to random
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    One of the joys of working on a personal project is choosing whatever commit messages I damn well like.

    mborus,
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    @judy2k I can recommend my personal favorite message „round up“ which refers to herding code changes for commit like cowboys would herd their lost cattle.

    kaffeeringe, to random German
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    Hallo, ich verdiene mein Geld mit Thema X. Frage Sie mich gerne, ob das Thema X sinnvoll oder gehypt ist, wenn Sie keine überraschende Antwort haben wollen.

    mborus,
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    @kaffeeringe Ich verdiene mein Geld Thema „P“, wenn man mich fragt, geb ich ehrliche Antworten. Liegt vielleicht dran, dass ich langfristige Beziehungen bevorzuge…

    scy, to webdev
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    I've spent a few days playing around with , and I'd like some insights from people who are using it in production. Doesn't need to be a paid project, but more than just "my pet experiment".

    What are you using it for?

    Like, to me it feels as if either the backend needs to be really tailored to HTMX, with HTML fragments and custom headers and stuff, or you need to start writing non-trivial amounts of JS in the frontend for anything but the most basic tasks.

    mborus,
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    @smartsammler @scy I’m using it in production for ticket sale machines and internal web pages. In development for a mobile phone app, too, but that’s a prototype at the moment.

    As a Python dev my JavaScript skills are really basic, there’s almost no JavaScript other than timeout handling (so that the machines go down if the connection to the server breaks)

    treyhunner, to random
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    Need to test a static website locally? Python's http.server module can be run as a script to do this!

    Just run this:
    python -m http.server

    That hosts a webserver on port 8000 that serves up files in the current directory. 🤖✨

    No more manually changing /some-path/ to /some-path/index.html!

    I use this all the time to check my Sphinx docs locally (works especially great when using Sphinx's "dirhtml" option over "html").

    https://youtu.be/NhUUzzzeedY

    mborus,
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    @treyhunner It’s also a very convenient way to move files off a machine (or VM) to another on the same network, even gigabyte sized zip archives.

    treyhunner, to python
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    Scenario: a self-taught programmer with a few years of experience is trying to land their first tech job as a web dev. 🎓💰

    They're really struggling with data structures & algorithms. 🔗

    They're following some courses online and attempting Leetcode exercises on DSA-related topics and finding the whole topic very difficult.

    What advice would give? 🤔

    (Asking for an Internet acquaintance)

    mborus, (edited )
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    @treyhunner My first paid python job was receiving data from a gate with licence plate scanners and pushing this to a web service. The maker of the gate wasn't able to do that themselves. No data structure or algorithms needed.

    Maybe look for jobs where they just need to pass or convert data.

    khalidabuhakmeh, to random
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    If you have to generate AI images of people enjoying your product, what does that say about the enjoyability of your product? 🤔

    mborus,
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    @khalidabuhakmeh probably the same as advertising for your product using actors, just that it’s cheaper (so you may not have a budget) - If people would actually enjoy your product so much that they’d tell others, you wouldn’t need to advertise at all.

    mborus, to python
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    CfP voting is live.

    https://ep2024.europython.eu/voting

    It's one week, so maybe start voting early.

    Even if you're not coming this year, by voting you get to see what's currently hot on (and what you get to see on youtube later)

    mborus, to random
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    What's the first computer you worked on and what was the language?

    I don't remember what we had in our fancy school computer lab (late 70s, all terminals shared 32 kB of memory, if I'm not mistaken) - but the language was some basic dialect. My Blackjack implementation would only run of the other places were vacant...

    By the time I got old enough for proper classes, the school had switched to Apple IIs...

    ayo, to python
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    any devs here? which accounts would you recommend I follow?

    mborus,
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    @ayo There's @pythonbytes and @talkpython

    And you could skim a few profiles of people (like me) interested in Python to see who they are following. That'll help you quickly find a lot of other interesting accounts.

    mborus, to random German
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    Die reguläre Benutzung der Stadtbücherei in wird ab April kostenlos. Finde ich gut, weil die Jahresgebühr sich für Leser, die nur 1-2 Bücher im Jahr leihen, nicht lohnt. Und es so wenig Anreiz gab, das Angebot auszuprobieren.

    https://www.shz.de/lokales/flensburg/artikel/nutzung-der-stadtbibliothek-flensburg-ab-april-2024-kostenlos-46541580

    (Link ist hinter Paywall, ohne Abo funktioniert die Hörfassung)

    mborus, to til
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    I learned that on terminal the

    cd -

    command will get me to the previous folder.

    If I constantly have to switch between 2 folders, this is a good time saver.

    I also learned about the "pushd" command that will move me into a new directory and remember where I was. It lets me return with "popd"

    mborus,
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    @awoodsnet Thanks. this is a good solution for your own machine.

    I'm currently focusing on tricks that do not require me to install scripts or configure anything, but work out of the box on any Linux machine I'll encounter.

    owa, to random
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    5 DAYS left until Apple breaks all Web Apps on iOS in the EU.

    📰 Contact/Talk to media
    ⚠️ Raise the alarm
    📢 Spread the word

    Don't let Apple kill mobile web apps all for the sake of profit

    ✍️ Sign the open letter:
    https://letter.open-web-advocacy.org/

    mborus,
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    @owa Signed. As an iPhone mini user I’m hurt by this a lot (really need full screen web pages because the screen is small).

    Anyone recommend a high quality Android phone sub 6 inch screen size if Apple doesn’t track back?

    mariatta, to random
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    I only want to eat broccoli if it's in the form of cream of broccoli soup 🥦🥣

    mborus,
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    @mariatta Would you consider broccoli pizza? I just made broccoli salami cheese pizza today and it is very tasty...

    mborus, to python
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    Friendly 🍕 reminder:
    @pythonpizza from Prague is live today. It started at 10:00 CET and goes on until almost 18:00 CET.

    You can still grab a free remote ticket at https://prague.python.pizza/ and join the (rewindable) live stream.

    jacqueline, to random
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    hey check this out https://www.crowdsupply.com/cool-tech-zone/tangara

    mborus,
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    @jacqueline

    I bite. (With only 14 hours left the was too big to not get one.)

    Looks like I have a reason to learn some Lua in September, then...

    I'm still a heavy user, but the my old ipods players are dying, don't support bluetooth and the 8GB max storage on those Nanos isn't that great, either...

    Happy to be part of this journey.

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