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bengerman

@bengerman@hachyderm.io

Conference Chair @ Pycascades 2023 & 2024 Volunteer Chair @ Pycascades 2022
platform engineer @ cloud.gov
former platform engineer @ brandfolder, devops engineer @ Allen Institute, Blue Nile, and Intermedia

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glyph, to random
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Hello UI designers. Please stop putting present-relative dates on things. It’s bad. If you put “1 second ago” on some data and I leave the tab open, I will be dismayed when I look at it 3 hours later and the thing that I thought should have happened 3 hours ago happened 1 second ago. Before you say you are going to keep things up to date with javascript or websockets: no you aren’t. You’re going to fuck it up. Correction: you already fucked it up. 1 second ago.

bengerman,
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@glyph
this is also a pain sometimes when collecting evidence for compliance purposes, where a lot of audits run on screenshots

Lorenanicole, to legal
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How can YOU help @blackpythondevs? 👇🏼

  1. 💸 via https://blackpythondevs.com/#support
  2. 👩🏿‍🏫🧑🏻‍🏫👨🏽‍🏫 checkout https://github.com/BlackPythonDevs
  3. 🗣️🎙️ via X, @blackpythondevs LinkedIn group
  4. Open doors, listen, learn

At ? @blackpythondevs will be at @ThePSF booth today @ 16:00

bengerman,
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@lorenipsum @colindean @pythonbynight @Lorenanicole @blackpythondevs keep it up!
https://blackpythondevs.com/#support

bengerman, to random
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"infrastructure [is] by definition something that people depend on without knowing they depend on it" @brainwane at

bengerman,
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@brainwane "this is a blank slide partly so I don't name names"

bengerman,
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@brainwane "I drink water, but i'm not a 'water user' i'm not going to the water discord, catching up on the latest water release notes"

bengerman,
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@brainwane "the best thing for packaging right now is a long-term view. More companies sponsoring [...] so we can pay employees"

bengerman,
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@brainwane <a round of Solidarity Forever>

bengerman,
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@brainwane "there are infrastructures in your world that you can engage with [...] and you can make a difference that maybe nobody else notices needs to be made"

bengerman,
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@brainwane

bengerman,
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@brainwane "if the 'free' bit of 'free software' means anything, it should mean that you can leave"

bengerman,
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@brainwane "you can spend six days making something then spend six years trying to find someone to hand it off to"

bengerman,
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@brainwane "we really want your feedback, and when you give it to us please treat us like people. because we are."

mariatta, to random
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Pro Tips:

  • stay near the conference venue, within walking distance (15 minutes max)
  • watch the talks and keynotes
  • but you don't have to watch ALL the talks. Take breaks
  • meet new people at hallway track, join new table at breakfast/lunch, introduce yourself
  • prepare an"elevator pitch" about yourself
  • don't need to pack too many shirts. Get t-shirt swag at sponsor booths at the expo hall (and socks)
  • sprint
  • volunteer
  • tell everyone you know to come!

Any other tips?

bengerman,
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@mariatta I can't recall who I heard this from, but:
meet one new person for each year you've been attending PyCon.

AlSweigart, to random
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Man, every since my visit to Pittsburgh I've been low key into funiculars, these twin cable cars on hill sides where one is the counterweight for the other.

I never thought of myself as a "guy on the spectrum who is into trains" but I guess I never found the right kind of train.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Funicular

bengerman,
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@AlSweigart Al I am giving you explicit permission to tell me about the Alameda-Weehawken Burrito Tunnel

bengerman, to random
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"I call this 'python 2 to python 3'"

leahawasser, to random
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what were your favorite Moments from today?! Share in words or pictures!

bengerman,
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@leahawasser top three things:

  • I met 4 people in-person who I'd known online, some for years - all of these were randomly bumping into them, not wither of us looking for each other
  • Liz Acosta's testing alignment chart (https://hachyderm.io/@bengerman/112457054242964145)
  • Al Sweigart's musical lightning talk
bengerman, to random
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I heard we're tooting about going to ?
🏡🚌🚊🛫🛬🛫🛬🚍🏨

bengerman,
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@ucodery I am!

bengerman, to random
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you might be able to boat to , but the weather definitely wouldn't be as nice https://social.northbaypython.org/@NorthBayPython/112202692442384706

bengerman, to random
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new favorite logo spotted at

bengerman, to random
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"I'm going to roll a new character, her name will be Leeloo Dallas and she's going to dabble in all the specialties.
"she'll be Leeloo Dallas - multiclass"

bengerman, to random
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is Monongahela or Duquesne incline better?

bengerman,
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@bitprophet this is perfect intel - thanks!

bengerman, to random
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never heard so much applause for "paste"

bengerman, to random
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"It's not written in Python, but otherwise it's good"

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