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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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brainwane, to random
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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 weโ€™ve never been to and never heard of."

Lorenanicole, to random
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Sign up for Sat @ 08:00โšก๏ธ๐Ÿ—ฃ๏ธ is open! Come pitch an idea!

brainwane,
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@Lorenanicole On these lightning talk signup boards, is it possible to maybe add a handwritten note to say when selected speakers should expect the email? A first-time attendee the other day was antsy, as they didn't know that notifications are always at lunchtime until they happened to mention their unease to me, and I thought to check the website.

Thanks!

cc @cheukting_ho @pycon

brainwane, to random
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Great tips from @glyph on how to approach

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

juliaferraioli, to random
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At my first #PyConUS ever! Come to the #AWSOpen booth to say hi ๐Ÿ’œ

brainwane,
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@juliaferraioli Welcome!!!

brainwane,
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@juliaferraioli yes!

itamarst, to random
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Sadly I am not going to be able to make it to PyCon due to being sick ๐Ÿ˜ข Hope you all have fun!

#PyCon #PyConUS

brainwane,
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@itamarst Wishing you a quick and full recovery!

elplatt, to random
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Made it to !

brainwane,
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@elplatt Great! Hope to catch you while we're both here!

snacktraces, to random
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I am bummed that I am going to miss (in person) this year, and even with it right here at home.

I can provide local info and recommendations if anyone needs or wants.

brainwane,
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@SnoopJ I second this request! And my sympathies on you missing the in-person conference; I hope you can enjoy at least some of the online dimension. @snacktraces @bitprophet

davidism, (edited ) to random
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FlaskCon is Friday inside PyCon! Room 317, my opening "State of Pallets" talk starts at 11am, after the opening PyCon keynote. Then we have four talks, then office hours, as well as sprints starting Monday. Please come by to watch the talks and to talk with us about your projects and our projects! https://flaskcon.com

brainwane,
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@davidism If you re-post this with the word "Friday" or "today" instead of "tomorrow" I will happily boost it!

TheDJ, to mediawiki
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Since simon04 and jon replaced ooui with codex in โ€™s mediaviewer during , ive gotten involved a bit, and we are ripping this thing apart at moment.

Also doing a hard attack on the gigantic ticket graveyard that no one seems to have dared touch since the 2015 team dissolve.

brainwane,
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@TheDJ I have made perhaps a significant chunk of my career thanks to my willingness to dive into those kinds of backlogs. Wishing you well

sabogato, to random
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Is there a better way to refer to the class of people that are not cishetmen than nonmen?

My friends and I are trying to find a term to refer to ourselves that doesn't center cishetropatriarchy as the default.

brainwane,
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@sabogato good luck; I don't know of a good one that is brief as well as comprehensible upon first reading it

jimbob, to random
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Write code for my own purposes, put it on GitHub, more or less forget about it.

12 years later

Person comes up to me at conference, congratulates me on my code library they use in a multi-agency mission-critical live product every day.

brainwane,
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@jimbob This is simultaneously the way it's supposed to go and utterly bizarre. You know?!?!

s3thi, to random
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magical realism is just fantasy, rebranded for people who think fantasy is for children

science fiction is just fantasy, but magic is explained away as "technology"

horror is just fantasy with extra spicy monsters, and the protagonist goes mad at the end

brainwane,
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@s3thi To what extent are you serious in this assessment of genre?

BethanyBlack, to random
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Had to call paramedics and currently sat with them in our house is a weird experience, theyโ€™re like the most aggressively heterosexual people Iโ€™ve spent any time around for ages

brainwane,
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@BethanyBlack Wishing you and yours well

lawsononstage, to random
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Since we are talking about the article about the abusive audience member in New York City: In the ten years I worked front of house in New York City my favorite audience member was May.

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brainwane,
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@lawsononstage How lovely!

brainwane, to random
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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, to random
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If you are coming in person to 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, to random
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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,
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For reference:

"Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus" is an alternate history scifi novel by Orson Scott Card that asks: what could time travelers have done to prevent the colonization of the Americas? and .... it's like the letters Julia Sand wrote to Chester A. Arthur, getting him to live up to who he could be. Sort of.

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastwatch:_The_Redemption_of_Christopher_Columbus

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

brainwane,
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(It's Card, so, you know, I'm not offering an unqualified recommendation here! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orson_Scott_Card#Homosexuality for example.)

jmduke, to random
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Life update: having a kid in October. ๐Ÿฅฐ

(Let the record reflect that including Telemachus in this photo was not my idea, but he's quite excited too.)

brainwane,
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@jmduke CONGRATS and I hope all goes as smoothly as possible!

brainwane, to random
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@rbellinger AMAZING

brainwane,
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@rbellinger Sorry! Maybe a response to a post you made and then deleted?

gvwilson, to random
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Tan et al 2024: "How to Gain Commit Rights in Modern Top Open Source Communities?" https://arxiv.org/abs/2405.01803

brainwane,
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@gvwilson Oooh, thanks, I'll need to settle in and read this one closely!

wjt, to random
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Bloke next to me on the tube is listening to a podcast episode titled "Are we in a masculinity crisis?" and it has taken considerable strength not to lean over, say "no" and save him 45 minutes.

brainwane,
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@wjt Ha! But also, real question, you don't think we are? I feel like several people I know are grappling with it, not just on a personal level but also more broadly

brainwane,
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@wjt I am not about to instruct you that it's horribly unfair to judge the podcast ep by its title without listening!

In case you want to think about it a bit more and enjoy some folks' perspectives on navigating modern masculinity, https://maryannemohanraj.com/navigating-masculinity-a-roundtable/ has a lot of great lines, including "Maleness strikes me as a lovely little fandom, as long as folks donโ€™t get all rigid about how to do it right or whoโ€™s allowed to join up." by @ben_rosenbaum .

But "crisis" is a strong word.

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