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brainwane

@brainwane@social.coop

Indian-American gal who likes to make people laugh. #OpenSource entrepreneur, programmer, tech writer and encourager, stand-up comedian, advocate for transparency in government software and data.

New York City #NYC, Changeset Consulting, #RecurseCenter, #WisCon, #MetaFilter, #Python packaging, Geek Feminism, #Dreamwidth, harihareswara.net.

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chrisjrn, to random
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Needless to say, if I boost something into your timeline that contains something you disagree with, you should not be taking that as a licence to abuse the person who posted it.

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brainwane,
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@chrisjrn I seem to recall an admonition I read on Twitter which went something like "if you reply to someone I retweet, do not [intensifier profanity] embarrass me"

similarly, I would also prefer that those who follow my feed act with some decorum towards those I boost

brainwane,
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@glyph oh interesting, I had forgotten "and insist on including me in the reply" -- I think I feel the same dismay whether or not the respondent explicitly mentions me

@chrisjrn

Greg, to random
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God I hate the act of getting a conversation out of Slack. Even just a 2 person one.

What the fuck happened to respecting text?

brainwane,
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@Greg You have caused me to go revisit 'How to turn 🔒 Private Conversations into 🌳 Public Resources through 🤝 Community Consent' https://www.metafilter.com/197743/a-way-that-builds-more-trust-instead-of-tearing-it-down which is about the trust aspects of that sort of thing but not the copy-and-paste logistics

EWDurbin, to random
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as i roll back home from , i put the final touches on, and launched to prod, my minimalist amtrak tracker!

enjoy! its python/aiohttp with htmx! https://amtrak.live

brainwane,
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@geofft Yeah! I am looking forward to testing out this versus https://railrat.net/ which is a little slower (if it has ads, I am blocking/filtering/missing them)

Thank you Ee!

@EWDurbin

jmduke, to random
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As I get ramped up on ActivityPub stuff, I'm starting a very rough notes log with some thoughts — unfiltered chaff that will be helpful to some combination of "other people" and "future me". Here is that notes log!

https://jmduke.com/posts/microblog/activitypub/

brainwane,
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@jmduke I bet @elplatt and @leonardr will be interested in reading this

jacob, (edited ) to random
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If for no other reason*, I support a mask requirement at #PyConUS because the kind of person who doesn’t attend because they’re required to mask is the kind of person who I don’t want to hang out with anyway.

(* and there are lots of other good reasons too)

brainwane,
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@jacob Re: this year's PyCon US, https://pythonbytes.fm/episodes/transcript/384/force-push-lightly mentions acoustic problems on the expo floor.

And outside of PyCon, I've known people who deal with masking causing:

  • significant physical discomfort/pain when worn continuously for hours
  • inaudibility: the frequencies of this person's voice + mask muffling just make them inaudible to most people, in their experience

(People who don't know me: I wrote https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2023/my-current-covid-risk-approach/ & I kept my N95 on even while speaking onstage at PyCon US.)

offby1, to random
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It's the last day of for me, spent in semi-isolatiion because of a scratchy throat and a COVID exposure.

I've tested non-positive two consecutive days though, so I have hope it's not the bad one. Still, not the way I want to end a PyCon.

brainwane,
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@offby1 Wishing you luck and health!

iqbalabd, to python
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First thoughts coming back from : Do you know anyone who works hard but is unrecognized in your community? Nominate them for stuff at the @thepsf ! Don't know what or how? I've written a README here:
https://iqbalabdullah.net/en/posts/2024/05/nominating-pythonistas-at-the-psf/

brainwane,
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@iqbalabd Thank you for writing this!

https://www.python.org/community/awards/psf-awards/ doesn't have any awards after late 2022, and doesn't mention the 3 awards you pointed to in the March 2024 board meeting https://www.python.org/psf/records/board/minutes/2024-03-13/#new-business . So maybe those recipients haven't accepted their awards yet?

tylerdave, to random
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Left from about 33 hrs ago. Had a scratchy throat this morning w/ a negative test and just now have a positive test.

I went out with various groups, unmasked, throughout the weekend. This was a risk I was willing to take. Still, I'm glad I was wearing a mask in the convention center around folks who did not choose to take that same risk.

I'm gonna go rest now.

brainwane,
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@tylerdave Dave, I really appreciate you sharing this to help us all know more about our exposure and calibrate our choices accordingly. I have just taken an antigen test this evening (negative) and will test again a few times over the next few days, given the exposure.

I hope you have a full and quick recovery, and if you want some suggestions I may have some. Glad you are resting.

brainwane, to fantasy
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http://strangehorizons.com/fiction/the-spindle-of-necessity/

This new short fantasy story by @bpladek was so captivating. A compelling, closely-observed piece - I laughed aloud at:

'He tried to sound careless.... "Pretty sexist of me, too, right?"....

“Nah,” said Adrian, in the tone that meant, I hadn’t thought of it, but yes.'

I think this will resonate with a lot of readers who wrestle with questions about representation and OwnVoices in fiction.

aharoni, to random
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It's weird and cryptic, but I have to share: I see that some people do some mostly-good things, and I suspect that some mostly-bad people are making them do them.

Some day I'll probably write a book about it. Or at least a draft blog post that I'll never publish.

In the meantime, I think that I won't ask the people who are doing the mostly-good things too many questions about it.

brainwane,
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@aharoni I am, of course, incredibly curious.

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    brainwane,
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    @treyhunner Thanks! Received.

    brainwane,
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    @treyhunner @sumek @jonafato Yes, thanks!

    I'm going to delete my original post here just to err on the side of privacy but I appreciate y'all's help.

    brainwane, to random
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    Thanks for a lovely - wishing everyone a good year.

    shauna, to random
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    The people are definitely the best thing about but this delightful building with its gorgeous views is a close second

    brainwane,
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    @btskinn Missed you this year!

    seachanger, to random
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    I asked my small biz customers to pay by check or e-check and many actually have! I have to invoice them separately so it’s tedious but the real ones are down. well, the real ones plus the lady from Texas who told me she was happy to start getting in the habit of paying for things by check due to the 15 minute city people eventually using credit cards to shut down commerce from longer distances 🤗

    brainwane,
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    @seachanger I am interested in possibly buying some shelf-stable salmon - https://schoolhousefish.com/shop/tongass-wild-alder-smoked-coho is intriguing! Is the label shown there the only label on the package? Or is there an additional nutritional label with estimated calories etc.? That would help me decide on order size. Thanks!

    brass75, to random
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    Date is saved for 2025!

    brainwane,
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    @brass75 @mathsppblog PyCon US organizers shared these dates in a presentation toward the very very end of the closing session on Sunday.

    AlSweigart, to random
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    It's not a big problem if you missed talks at . They're all recorded and will be posted to https://pyvideo.org/ which also has over 18,000 recorded talks from other PyCons around the world.

    brainwane,
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    @glyph And I have already used this fact to run Whisper on my talk to get a draft transcript, and then corrected it, so that I can fairly soon publish a high-quality transcript alongside my slides and make sure @mchua can read it.
    @AlSweigart

    sethmlarson, to random
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    "Caring though infrastructure" @brainwane going to make me tear up with the opening slide 😭

    brainwane,
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    @sethmlarson 💙

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

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

    brainwane,
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    Glad so many people enjoyed my keynote sharing stories from several years working on packaging infrastructure.

    http://harihareswara.net/posts/2024/references-pycon-us-keynote/ has a bunch of links and other references, and I hope to post a fuller transcript with slides within the next few weeks. If there is anything you particularly want sooner than that - or anything you want to tell me you really liked! - please let me know.

    brainwane, to random
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    https://www.caringbridge.org/visit/melchua

    @mchua , a past presenter and participant, is coping with cancer.

    I wrote about Dr. Mel Chua last year https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2023/a-celebration-of-my-friend-dr-mel-chua/ and am thinking of their insight, generosity, wry humor, and ambition as I prepare for my keynote address.

    brainwane, to random
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    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.

    brainwane, to python
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    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 screen-scraping library Beautiful Soup by @leonardr .

    brainwane,
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    Today at we are holding an Open Space to celebrate the 20th anniversary of @leonardr's library Beautiful Soup!

    Join us in:
    Room 315
    1:45-2:30pm

    for the party, featuring zines and lightning talks, and say hi to Leonard!

    brainwane,
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    Beautiful Soup 20th anniversary celebration is starting now in Room 315

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