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glyph

@glyph@mastodon.social

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You probably heard about me because I am the founder of the Twisted python networking engine open source project. But I’m also the author and maintainer of several other smaller projects, a writer and public speaker about software and the things software affects (i.e.: everything), and a productivity nerd due to my ADHD. I also post a lot about politics; I’d personally prefer to be apolitical but unfortunately the global rising tide of revanchist fascism is kind of dangerous to ignore.

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tilton, to random
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splorp, to apple
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Hey, Mastodon … I’m trying to track down an developer named Stephen A. Cronin.

He worked at and operated a software company called TapTech based out of Austin, Texas in the late 90s. I’ve managed to contact his former software partner, Francis Preve … but Francis lost touch with Stephen years ago.

Together they released a sequencer program for called NR404 and I’m hoping the source code still exists somewhere.

Boosts appreciated.

futurebird, to random
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I have a soft spot for Libertarians even though I shouldn't and they don't deserve it. When I was a kid I had a weird neighbor who was always giving me Libertarian books... I wish I still had some of them they were WILD. He was a thorn in the side of the local, school board as well insisting that if they had an event at the school that involved politics Libertarians had to be included.

And in defense of the guy, he was about as likable and earnest as a Libertarian could be.

1/

futurebird,
@futurebird@sauropods.win avatar

@angst_ridden

This whole "voting for Biden is approving genocide" line is insidious since many Americans don't pay enough attention for foreign policy. They feel insecure about how little they know, if they are conscientious people willing to (rightly) question US military policy. They think: "Maybe the right move is to not be a part of it."

It would feel better to not be a part of it. But, that is all. It feels better.

Use every lever of power you can reach. Abdicate nothing.

textfiles, to random
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Every time the Internet Archive goes down, a rash of tweets talk about how "they" got to it, and in doing so, demonstrate the need for a functioning Internet Archive

zzzeek, to random
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I'm drinking this pretty decent cotes du rhone for the past few hours and let me just say it's made my one off opinions and social media takes of things totally awesome

hynek, to python
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While frantically preparing for my vacation after just coming back from PyCon (don’t ask), I’ve pushed out https://github.com/hynek/build-and-inspect-python-package/releases/tag/v2.6.0 that adds support for the new ubuntu-24.04 builders and the name of the uploaded artifact as a new output.

filippo, to random
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You might know I am a recurse.com alum.

I love that community. Full of smart, kind, passionate folks.

For the first time this year I was on the hiring side of their recruiting services, and it still beat my expectations.

The RC-sourced applicant pool was amazing.

I moved forward 57% of RC applications (and even the ones I rejected were great, just not good fits), versus 18% of non-RC appls.

Way more diverse pool, too.

tl;dr: if you need to hire nice, smart folks quick, reach out to RC.

grimalkina, to random
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The answer to "how can we make more technology work better and more for everyone" PROBABLY can't hinge on "individual software developers are responsible for knowing internalizing and perfectly executing every single thing in the world and perfectly understanding the needs of billions of people" eh?

grimalkina,
@grimalkina@mastodon.social avatar

Like do improvements need to be made in this general field's understanding, yes, but is it SO useful to say "if only THESE people took MY freshman seminar in [humanities/psych/ethics/sociology/whatever] and then perfectly executed on [my idealistic memory or fantasy about a disciplinary field that isn't even really real and which has not thus far actually succeeded in proposing total solutions to world crises], all would be well"? eh

grimalkina,
@grimalkina@mastodon.social avatar

by "isn't even really real" I mean "the conception of the fantasy solutions I think this field would provide in a future application of it that I'm specifically saying isn't happening" not the field itself!

taylorlorenz, to random
@taylorlorenz@mastodon.social avatar

“We know that it’s up, & it’s up earlier”

“The more times you get COVID, the more likely Long Covid will develop," Hudson said. And ‘it does seem like people in their 30s & 40s are the ones who are more likely to get Long Covid" https://www.latimes.com/california/story/2024-05-25/early-signs-of-rising-covid-in-california-as-new-flirt-subvariants-dominate

wxcafe, to random
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lmao this makes me want to die

geofft, to random
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I was at last Friday to this Thursday. I tested Thursday night and again today: both negative, and no symptoms.

I actually think it's cool from a systems perspective that someone tested positive (from a human perspective I'm sympathetic and I hope they get well soon :) ) and others didn't—it means the measures of masks and ventilation actually worked, and it wasn't just that no virus was around. It means people who need to take more precautions can participate.

A negative rapid covid test on a closed Kindle.

AlSweigart, to random
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I just did my post- covid test and it came up negative. Sharing a sold-out conference with 2,500 people and not coming home with some bug is no small feat, and I'm glad that PyCon has a sensible mask policy (mask indoors, but not at meals or when speaking or taking photos).

We keep each other safe.

bitprophet, to random
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Finally done with precautionary post- isolation. Tested negative✌🏻

rmondello, to random
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PSA: The reason people say “nice” in response to “69” is because 69 is evenly divisible by 3.

erictopol, to random
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A systematic review of airplane flights and Covid infections: duration of flight correlated with infection risk, long flights> 6 hours markedly increased risk (25X) and mask use blocked them
https://mdpi.com/1660-4601/21/6/654

AlSweigart, to random
@AlSweigart@mastodon.social avatar

I'm filling out the attendee survey and they asked what the highlight of the conference was for me.

Finding out 1) what funiculars are 2) riding a funicular and 3) finding out that "Funiculi, Funicula" opera that Pavarotti sang is about funiculars are in the top 10.

chrisjrn, (edited )
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@AlSweigart
It wasn't an opera, it was a commission pop song for the opening reception for the funicular on Mt Vesuvius! Literally a 19th century advertising jingle.

(Being on Mt Vesuvius, the funicular naturally did not last.)

((Edit: corrected facts))

kjaymiller, to random
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My List of things that I took (and wish I took)to PyCon US for the Black Python Devs Booth: https://kjaymiller.com/blog/my-list-of-things-that-i-took-and-wish-i-took-to-pycon-us-for-the-black-python-devs-booth.html

nedbat, to random
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Small fix to watchgha: don't truncate lists at 30 items (oops!)
WatchGHA reports on GitHub Action progress in a terminal UI.

https://pypi.org/project/watchgha/

seawall, to random
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The existence of the term "con crud" really should have been a greater indicator of how spaces are constructed and managed to exacerbate or mitigate the spread of illness.

I'm glad @kiwipycon and #PyConUS have been #COVIDcautious and doing things about it, but what other #conventions organisers are?

nedbat, to python
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The joy of trying to be on the cutting edge of :

HTTPError: 400 Bad Request from https://upload.pypi.org/legacy/
'Programming Language :: Python :: 3.14' is not a valid classifier.

AlSweigart, (edited ) to random
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Hey Pythonistas, take a look at this documentation for the split() method:

split(self, /, sep=None, maxsplit=-1)

Without looking it up, do you know what the / means?

ptmcg, to python
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I just published 0.9.0 version of logmerger, compatible with Python 3.13. Here is an example merge of a client and server log, plus PCAP packet capture file showing TCP send/receive traffic. Uses textual TUI framework for cursor and mouse interaction in a terminal session. https://pypi.org/project/logmerger

mpirnat, to random
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Please do me the honor of making my job as program chair as daunting as possible. Inundate me with your talk proposals while you still can!
https://fosstodon.org/@pyohio/112497649105690385

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