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meejah

@meejah@mastodon.social

Professional freelance programmer (#python, #haskell, #c++, #linux)
https://meejah.ca
https://txtorcon.readthedocs.org
https://carml.readthedocs.org
#twisted #python #tor #infosec #privacy
I re-toot all reasonable replies
"rumoured to be Canadian"

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codinghorror, to random

When someone really loves you, they delete all that ridiculous querystring nonsense from the end of the hyperlink before sending it to you. ๐Ÿ’˜

meejah,
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@codinghorror Firefox does this now :)
("Copy without site tracking")

b0rk, to random
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what's your favourite third-party command line git tool? Mostly interested in tools that just do 1 thing (like git-absorb or delta or git-vee), not so much full git UIs like lazygit or magit. Also not looking for prompt tools like starship right now.

meejah,
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@b0rk This probably isn't exactly what you're looking for, but https://www.dulwich.io/ is a great Python library that I've used several times to make Git stuff happen that probably could have been accomplished with the correct bash incantations (e.g. "tell me the next version number") but for me counts as "time to use not-bash" complexity-wise.

meejah, to python
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Should I promote my tool "cuvner" more? https://cuvner.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Do you use it? What could be improved?

davidism, to python
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Flask-Mail 0.10 released, after a 10 year hiatus! Thanks to @wlach for picking it up at the sprint. This is part of my Pallets-Eco initiative to get old popular extensions maintained again. It's been unarchived and refreshed. I went through and closed out a lot of the issue backlog. We'll have to figure out what a 1.0 release will look like. https://github.com/pallets-eco/flask-mail/releases/tag/0.10.0

meejah,
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@wlach @davidism Similarly, it is far less likely that I'd be a contributor (and maintainer!) today if it wasn't for PyCon 2016 (where it was introduced, and I met Brian Warner for the first time).

Nice to see some old software gain a maintainer :)

meejah, to python
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If anyone is interested in getting into development of magic-wormhole or tahoe-lafs or txtorcon or carml I'd be happy to pair-program with you to set up a development environment and get going...

https://github.com/tahoe-lafs/tahoe-lafs/
https://github.com/magic-wormhole/magic-wormhole
https://github.com/meejah/txtorcon
https://github.com/meejah/carml

davidr, to python
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How much an insane dinosaur will I be if I ask my junior to use 2 space indents in vs the PEP-8 4 space waste-of-whitespace?

Actually, I think I might prefer 3, but I'm pretty sure everyone will hate me if I pick an odd prime...

meejah,
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@davidr @alecthegeek I greatly prefer 4 for legibility (and agree with the other comments of "use 100 characters").

I use like 22pt or bigger typeface and still have plenty of room for those occasional (or at least -- should be occasional!) longer lines.

Two-space indenting can be good for JSON or other deeply-nested structures with 'shallow' + delimited blocks, but 4 is "basically standard".
(I did once see a "3" codebase; it is now 4).

ghorwood, to random
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"using linux is difficult. i think it would be simpler for me, a lone consumer in a mid-sized city, to bend the corporate behemoth that is microsoft to my will" is an absolutely wild take.

meejah,
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@bamboombibbitybop @ghorwood The two I have personal experience with: System76 (for more budget-conscious) or Purism / Librem (if you'd be looking at a macbook air or similar).

Both come with Debian-derived custom OSes, and IME have a pretty good "first use" experience (especially the Librem, which has full-disk encryption out of the box).

meejah,
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@bamboombibbitybop @ghorwood I don't mean to exclude others, there are lots of options these days which is nice! (e.g. Framework looks interesting for "somewhat technical, but not Linux" people).

meejah,
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@bamboombibbitybop @ghorwood You of course can buy linux laptops (just not at Best Buy, which yes would be great).

This is what I recommend to (non-tech) people who ask me about getting into linux, and it has gone well for the two people who did actually do it.

meejah, to random
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My first C compiler...

meejah, to programming
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Integration experiment: "fow" command to better allow experimentation with Magic Wormhole "Dilation" channels without having to write code (integration is via local streams, tcp or unix or anything Twisted supports).

https://meejah.ca/blog/fow-wormhole-forward

-wormhole

meejah, to random
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Companies have normalized asking for a bunch of unpaid labour to prove how much you want a job (aka "take-home assignment").

Lets normalize the approximate inverse: show me the code I'll be working on with one of your developers. A good first question is "show me something you're proud of in here" and a great followup is "show me something that needs a lot more refactoring / work".

I've only done this twice with somewhat mixed results but it at least gives you some picture.

meejah, to pixelart
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What if instead of user-stories, the UI was a story ...

... can't stop thinking about a pixel-art themed, "point-and-click adventure" style UI (think "Sierra Online" but fast) that teaches you about the protocol slowly, as you go ... adding more options / features as you explore

Maybe not completely thought through yet, but would you use a "serious" application that had a "fun" interface (assuming it was still fast / small enough to get stuff done)?

meejah, to random
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https://www.takahe.org.nz/heat-death-of-the-internet/

mkennedy, to random
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had 2,551 in-person attendees and was "sold outโ€

had 3,393 (Checked-in people).

Anyone know why the tickets were restricted to 1,234 fewer in 2024? The venue seemed massive so should have had room.

I'm genuinely curious what the difference was. 48% more seats in 2019 is a big difference.

Ref [location history]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_Conference

meejah,
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@glyph @mkennedy @jacob Everything changed.

A middle-school or high-school, for example, has 3 different grades. Covid wiped out two of those for many sports. So now you have zero "experienced" players, no teachers who are "used" to organizing, etc.

I mention youth here because it "trickles up" in everything. I also mentor a FIRST FTC team -- same dynamic. Adult Ultimate: same. Local meetups: just beginning now. Organizers are starting from "approximately nothing" in a lot of these areas...

meejah, to random
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I want a "zooming" interface for photos, where I can sort them "somehow" (e.g. by exif-date) and then zoom way out (and see like thousands at once) and then zoom in on regions (to see a few, down to "one" at a time).
Does this exist?
(FOSS-only suggestions please).

meejah,
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@mfenniak Rad, thanks!

glyph, to random
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Does anyone happen to know if it is possible to get a projector for an open space at ? I have some ideas that involve discussions of code where it would be useful if a participant could share their screen with a larger group.

meejah,
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@glyph note this is "terminal sharing" not "screen sharing" though ;)

meejah,
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@glyph tty-share is nice (and you can combine it with https://github.com/meejah/fowl for easy-to-set-up probably-local networking between a tty-share server and client, to avoid using the public server)

meejah,
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@encthenet Also there's PyPy, which in my experience can be a lot faster at running Twisted code ... 10x doesn't quite take 10MB to 1Gb, but close?

meejah,
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@encthenet Happy to pair-program to get a dev environment up and running (or whatever else)....

meejah,
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@encthenet I'll re-check, but I'm 99% sure there's already a C dependency in magic-wormhole (definitely Rust, because "cryptography") so as long as there's Python bindings, could work?

(It does use Twisted though so that might make it harder, depending on whether "the C library" does I/O itself or not)

picklejr, to StarTrek
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anybody know of some novels or series with themes including the good side of humanity? I really like for that, where the human heart is challenged yet prevails.

Not necessarily looking for Sci-Fi but not excluding it either. Maybe something historical or steampunky would be cool. ๐Ÿ˜…

@books @books @bookstodon

meejah,
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@picklejr @books @books @bookstodon Ursula Le Guin

meejah, to ai
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Anyone have any success (or failure!) at using "post-prompts" in resumes?

meejah,
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@itamarst Yeah, that's basically what I'm interested in.

I find it interesting that page contextualizes it as "recruiters probably wonโ€™t notice you are cheating the system"

I would absolutely not call this "cheating" -- quite the opposite, it's one tiny way to maybe reject some of the bad uses of "AI".

meejah,
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@mistersql If it's very small (or white-on-white) would a human actually notice? Are pre-scanning systems smart enough to look at the meta like "text colour"?

(Have you tried, and had HR notice?)

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