mariatta

mariatta, 11 months ago to random

Managed to boot up my Raspberry Pi 4! It runs Python!
I didn't buy a display for it, so I hooked it up to my 49'' ultra wide monitor and managed to do a split display: one side of the monitor showing the Raspberry Pi, the other one for my MacBook pro.

#RapsberryPi

mariatta, 9 months ago to random

Uggh I just updated to MacOS Ventura 13.5 and now it doesn't seem to support the 5120x1440 resolution anymore for my Ultrawide Samsung Galaxy Odyssey G9 monitor. 😡

Heads up @kojoidrissa and @davidism maybe hold back updating your MacOS version.

mariatta, 11 months ago to Travel

Here's an interesting #travel problem.

You're going on a flight, it's 16 hours long (yes 16 hours non stop), and there are 5 people in your travelling party.
The seat configuration is 3x3x3: ABC DEG HJK

How would you seat your party?

I want to do C DEG H so we got 4 people with aisle access, means more mobility, you get to get up and walk and stretch your legs.

Husband wants to do EG HJK just so we could get one window seat.

🤷🏻‍♀️

mariatta, 5 months ago to random

Nobody: ....
Me: That article should have spelled it as PyPI instead of Pypi

mariatta, 1 month ago to random

Obvious things conference speakers should do:

• submit a talk proposal
• take a photo/selfie
• write up bio
• give the talk

Not obvious things conference speakers should do:

• update email filter so emails from conference organizers don't end up in spam
• when traveling, plan to arrive at Talk day - 2 days, in case of flight cancellations
• show up at least 30 minutes before the talk slot, not 5 minutes before
• use light mode presentation slides (light bg, dark text)

anything else?

mariatta, 8 months ago to random

Lenovo website.

I tried setting a password (generated using 1password) based on the specification. The password definitely has uppercase, lowercase, numbers, and special characters, but the website validator wouldn't let me proceed.

After feeling frustrated, trying for more than 10 minutes, and also involving my husband to try it, we finally figured out the problem.

Before I reveal the solution, does anyone wanna guess why the form validator didn't work?

🤕

mariatta, 5 months ago to TeslaMotors

🚗 First winter road trip with our EV!
🏡 Port Moody ➡️ Golden, BC 🏔️🇨🇦
🛣️ 700 kms
🔋 Left home with 100%.
🅿️ Stopped to charge at Hope, Merritt, Kamloops, Salmon Arm, and Revelstoke.
🪫 Arrived at Golden with 32% charge.
⌛ 12 hrs on the road!
🤔 Definitely took longer than I like. Maybe we could have skipped charging at Merritt and Salmon Arm. We decided to charge often because it's our first time and unsure about it all.
📸 Pictured is our Ioniq5 while charging in Kamloops.
#EV #Ioniq5 #RoadTrip

mariatta, 6 months ago to random

Tried to use the search engine to ask about "how to pronounce #"
but the search engine treated "#" as a comment and it tried to be "smart" and is telling me how to pronounce the word "to" instead.

I also tried "how to pronounce the # symbol", "the # sign", but it just tells me how to pronounce "symbol" or "sign"

🤕

mariatta, 6 months ago to random

In conversations with friends/professional colleagues, there's room for making mistakes. If I misspoke about something, I realized it the next day, I could correct myself and they'll accept that.

In job interviews, I find it there is no room for mistakes. If I misspoke, the interviewers take note of that and deduced: "she misspoke about this, she must not be prepared enough, great devs don't do that". I just never have the opportunity to correct myself after the interview.

Just me or normal?

mariatta, 5 months ago to random

I've always been bothered with the saying "code as if the next person maintaining your code is a violent psychopath who knows where you live".

Why are we instilling fear and promoting toxic behavior and workplace violence?

You should code so that you can take that beach vacation without having to be on call.
Code so that you have free time to be with your family.
Code (and document things) so that you can leave the project for something even bigger.

mariatta, 4 months ago to random

Just spent 40 minutes trying to help my mother in law with tech issue.

She needed to login to Microsoft Teams video call for her English language class. It's supposed to be in person today, but due to the snow, they moved to online class.

Here's what happened.

The setting: She uses iPad, the language is set to Chinese.
I understand some spoken Chinese, but I don't read Chinese characters (I know a few basic letters, maybe preschool/kindergarten-level letters 😥).
I'm an Android user.

mariatta, 3 months ago to random

#PyConUS 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?

mariatta, 3 months ago to random

I only want to eat broccoli if it's in the form of cream of broccoli soup 🥦🥣

mariatta, 1 month ago to random

Dear event organizers, thanks for putting it all together, but please also state:

• your time zone (and be explicit about "UTC+-???", instead of just "EST")

• your event hashtag (is it # EventName?, or # EventNameWithYear?)

mariatta, 6 months ago to random

The badge from GitHub Universe is super fancy! It's a custom micro controller!

Are they really letting me keep this? 🤩

#GitHubUniverse #conference

Video showing Mariatta 's badge from GitHub Universe 2023. It is a two part badge. The bottom part is a vinyl badge, the top part is a custom micro-controller with display module. On the badge: Mariatta Wijaya Python core developer, PyLadies She/her @mariatta Python software foundation Dark mode All access

mariatta, 1 year ago to random

I didn't actually give a "talk" during #PyConUS 2023, but I did get onstage multiple times and faced like 2,000 people live 😱 (and maybe 700 online viewers) and told them about things. I don't know what that's called 🙃
Anyway, the slides are here:
https://speakerdeck.com/mariatta/collections/pycon-us-2023

mariatta, 6 months ago to random

Speaker said "I don't check this email address as frequently" as the reason for not responding to us on time.

But why... 🥲 Why didn't you not give the conference organizers the email address that you check more frequently?

mariatta, 4 months ago to random

Life hack that I learned from one of my professors long time ago. 20 years later, I still follow the advice.

When sending a file attachment to someone else, include your name in the file, and additional info too.

e.g. Instead of assignment1.txt do: mariatta_assignment1_cmpt123.txt

This helps them when the recipient needs to download similar file from various people.

I do this now when I upload files too, eg

Mariatta_Resume_for_CompanyX.pdf
mariatta_personalized_pricelist_for_you.pdf
etc

mariatta, 4 months ago to random

Working with other volunteer parents for our school hot lunch program.

I keep asking them to upload things to the Google Drive, but the only thing they wanna upload is the receipts.

Everything else, they just want to share "pictures".

Like I'm getting data, that are meant to be in spreadsheets, in the form of screenshots.

One other parent took a photo of their computer screen using their phone and texted it to me.

🥹

Is this how everybody else operate? Am I the techy-weirdo-nerd-mom? 😵‍💫

mariatta, 4 months ago to python

💁🏻‍♀️ Know of a PyLady that should be recognized for all their work for Python and the community? Nominate them (or yourself) for the newly established Outstanding PyLady Award! 🏆
Nominate before Feb 4, 2024.
Awards will be presented at this year's PyCon US!!

https://pyladies.com/blog/Announcing-The-Outstanding-PyLady-Award/outstanding-award/

#PyLadies #Python #ThePSF #Community #PyConUS

mariatta, 3 months ago to random

Introducing myself when I travel:
"I live in Vancouver"

Introducing myself to Vancouver people:
"Actually, I live in Port Moody"

mariatta, 6 months ago to random

What restaurants think kids like to eat

• mini burgers
• Mac and cheese
• Chicken fingers
• fries

What my kids really like to eat:

• Pho
• Sushi
• Roti Canai
• Butter chicken
• Ramen
• Steak (Medium rare)

mariatta, 1 month ago to random

After telling you all to sign up for PyCon US activities before they sell out I, Mariatta, PyCon US 2024 conference chair, also forgot to sign up for PyLadies Luncheon and now they're sold out 😭😭😭😭
#PyConUS #PyLadies

mariatta, 6 months ago to random

#GitHubUniverse Keynote
"Developer happiness and productivity are deeply embedded with their experience using developer tools."

mariatta, 12 days ago to opensource

We don't say "congratulations" when someone becomes an open source maintainer.

Instead we say, "Congratulations, thank you, and sorry"

#OpenSource #meme