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brainwane, 3 days ago to python

Here is a blog post with links and references to accompany my closing keynote today at #PyConUS , on stories from a few years working on #Python packaging.

http://harihareswara.net/posts/2024/references-pycon-us-keynote/

#PyConStories

brainwane, 3 days ago to python

http://www.crummy.com/2004/05/20/1

"But other parsers know too much about HTML. They choke on or try to rewrite bad markup. They assume you care about the whole document. A pirate might make you walk the plank, but only a parser would make you walk the whole tree."

Happy 20th birthday to the #Python screen-scraping library Beautiful Soup by @leonardr .

brainwane, 3 days ago to random

#PyConUS folks, my friend @zwol has a question

https://hackers.town/@zwol/112462627700972824

and would love to talk on Sunday with someone who works on the import statement part of the core language.

#PyCon #PyCon2024 #PyConUS2024

brainwane, 4 days ago to random

Is there a copy shop near-ish the venue that is open tomorrow (Sunday)? I'd like to make (or ask a friend to make) about 40 copies of a single-page item, and missed my window today while things were open.

#PyConUS

brainwane, 4 days ago to random

Really enjoying the roof deck at #PyConUS. Probably chitchatting up here till at least 5pm.

So great to have an outdoor space, shielded from the sun, with plenty of seating and tables, and a gorgeous view of river, bridges, trees, and skyline.

brainwane, 5 days ago to random

Revisiting and appreciating @HeyChelseaTroy 's https://chelseatroy.com/2023/04/21/whats-the-point-of-tech-conferences/

"concentrate the right groups of people into a space to catalyze conversations that lead to Big Things"

"Cons become worth it from the conversations that happen between folks who otherwise might not have met, that endure beyond the event itself"

"I (and you) have almost certainly benefited from cons we’ve never been to and never heard of."

#PyConUS

brainwane, 5 days ago to random

Great tips from @glyph on how to approach #PyConUS

https://blog.glyph.im/2024/05/how-to-pycon.html

• See Some Talks [emphasis on "some"]
• Participate In Open Spaces
• Take Care of Your Body
• Meet Both New And Old Friends: Plan Your Socializing

#PyCon #PyCon2024 #PyConUS2024

brainwane, 9 days ago to random

My friend David Forbes is, in her words, "making sure I have enough to stay housed and pay the bills while I fight some really ugly union-busting"

https://www.gofundme.com/f/help-david-stay-housed-during-a-labor-fight

"While I've filed labor charges, they're still in process. A historic number of union fights has meant the labor board is historically backed up."

brainwane, 9 days ago to random

#pycon2024 #PyCon #PyConUS2024

If you are coming in person to #PyConUS in Pittsburgh this weekend, and are comfortable playing the guitar in public, let me know? I may be preparing a surprise for the 20th anniversary of Beautiful Soup https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2024/celebrate-beautiful-soups-20th-anniversary/ .

brainwane, 9 days ago to random

a New York City-specific "what if you could send someone back in time to change history" scenario that I talked about with @leonardr the other day:

Pastwatch: The Redemption of Robert Moses

(Leonard has actually read "The Power Broker" by Robert Caro so he's a good person to play this out with)

brainwane, 9 days ago to random

@rbellinger AMAZING

brainwane, 14 days ago to random

@unpretty I just read https://unpretty.space/post/749936623491416064/is-there-anything-stopping-a-very-rich-person-from and I am going to ask my spouse, who used to be head of digital lending at the New York Public Library, to opine

brainwane, 1 month ago to random

12+ years ago I wrote "What Does A Volunteer Development Coordinator Do?" https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2012/what-does-a-volunteer-development-coordinator-do/ listing off specific activities I did to facilitate open source volunteers' work within Wikimedia.

I'd be curious to read something like that from someone in 2024 who has a similar role (likely called "developer relations lead" or "community manager" or "head of open" or something) at an open stuff org. I wonder what's substantially the same and what's shifted.

brainwane, 1 month ago to random

@unpretty I saw https://unpretty.space/post/743319759762948096/jane-moon-transition-and-recovery-funds-organized and saw the Google Doc link had been taken down - any chance you held on to a copy?

brainwane, 1 month ago to random

ok so I don't think of myself as a Very Online person

I have friends whom I see in person

I sometimes see references I don't understand

but something happened the other day that is making me recalibrate

1/n

brainwane, 1 month ago (edited 1 month ago) to opensource

Some enterprises, in the wake of #xz, are focusing on their metrics for #opensource dependencies they ingest..... rather than investing money, developer time, or other resources* to directly support maintainers.

But as I mentioned to a friend recently:

If downstreams do not provide at least as much support as a motivated attacker would, we're likely to continue to get these kinds of outcomes - & to be deceived, as attackers shape their efforts to trick the metrics.

• https://harihareswara.net/posts/2021/sidestepping-the-pr-bottleneck-four-non-dev-ways-to-support-your-upstreams/

brainwane, 1 month ago to random

This line in "The Great Gatsby" (as Nick Carraway's riding the train from Long Island into New York City) is a transitional fossil record:

"My commutation ticket came back to me with a dark stain from his hand."

Because the modern verb "commuting" and nouns "commuter" and "commute"....

stem from names for multi-ride railroad/streetcar passes that truncated or "commuted" fare payments ("commute" here being the same verb we use in "commuted their original prison sentence").

brainwane, 1 month ago to random

Really happy to share https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/ux-research-design/ !

Back in 2020, during grant-funded work on the next-generation pip resolver, @sprblm did fascinating user experience research & design work. https://pyfound.blogspot.com/search/label/pip

They wrote several useful documents that took a while to get merged, but now live in pip's documentation! Like:

how to design a survey https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/ux-research-design/guidance/#designing-surveys

how users think pip should react to dependency conflicts https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/ux-research-design/research-results/override-conflicting-dependencies/

security practices https://pip.pypa.io/en/latest/ux-research-design/research-results/users-and-security/

brainwane, 1 month ago to python

Developers who use or contribute to Flask, Click, Jinja, or other parts of Pallets, designers who work atop them, and sysadmins who administer them:

Consider proposing a 5-15 min talk for the inaugural FlaskCon!

Some topics you might consider:

HTMX
WSGI and ASGI
accessibility
performance
case studies
your experience as a newbie

https://flaskcon.com/2024/

FlaskCon will be in Pittsburgh on May 17th within #Python #PyCon2024

brainwane, 1 month ago to nyc

#nyc May 3rd-5th:

Jane’s Walk NYC

175+ cost-free in-person, virtual, and on-demand walking tours of New York City.

https://www.mas.org/events/janes-walk-nyc-2024/

I had a good time last year and I've marked my calendar to make room for several walks this year. Schedule coming soon.

See last year's walks https://www.mas.org/janes-walk-nyc-2023/ to get a sense of the topics and areas.

brainwane, 1 month ago to random

A short thought by a colleague from a few years ago, in a discussion that strayed into the question of what would/wouldn't be effective in a maintainers' strike

https://discuss.python.org/t/stop-allowing-deleting-things-from-pypi/17227/70

(I was reminded today because someone linked to that thread from https://discuss.python.org/t/an-index-for-deleted-pypi-packages-versions/50515 )

brainwane, 1 month ago to random

Dr. Cat Hicks @grimalkina caught COVID-19 in July 2022 for the first and only time. https://www.drcathicks.com/post/covid-data-log "Covid Data Log" (January 12th, 2024) is a long, unusually structured, gripping memoir of her life before, during, & after that infection.

"I am too afraid to say long covid. I think that I should have made a better graph, more compelling, with colors....I do not know if I am well. I do not know if I will ever know if I am well."

It's about marriage, terror, joy, doctors, and the ocean.

brainwane, 1 month ago to opensource

btw we've been thinking about sustainability & structural imbalances in funding and use of free and #opensource software for several years; the "Recent Discussion on Unfairness in #FLOSS Economics" bibliography I compiled in https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2016/recent-discussion-on-unfairness-in-floss-economics/ goes back to 2005

and it's been intertwined with our experiences of burnout, & of setting expectations regarding #maintainer obligations, that whole time

thus, in https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2023/user-support-equanimity-potential-cross-project-tools-practices-open-source/ , I consider concrete solidarity steps #maintainers could take

brainwane, 1 month ago to opensource

Stuff I already wrote that other people might be open to reading this week, because of the #xz incident:

https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2021/sidestepping-the-pr-bottleneck-four-non-dev-ways-to-support-your-upstreams/ Four Non-Dev Ways To Support Your Upstreams (Pass this along to executives who are asking "how can we prevent this in our dependencies?")

https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2023/user-support-equanimity-potential-cross-project-tools-practices-open-source/ Potential cross-project #opensource tools and practices that you/we can implement to help lighten the load on each other

1/n

brainwane, 1 month ago to random

Are you part of a company, school, club, temple, or some other group in the US?

FEMA can, for free, ship you some printed stuff that can help individuals and communities prepare for emergencies and disasters.

https://www.ready.gov/publications has an overview, and
https://orders.gpo.gov/icpd/ICPD.aspx has a bunch of links to PDFs as well.

Includes games and curricula to help kids learn how to react in an emergency or disaster.

Outside the US? Check out the PDFs in case they suit your needs!

#preparedness #prep