meejah

mkennedy, 4 days ago to random

#PyCon2024 had 2,551 in-person attendees and was "sold out”

#PyCon2019 had 3,393 (Checked-in people).

Anyone know why the tickets were restricted to 1,234 fewer in 2024? The venue seemed massive so should have had room.

I'm genuinely curious what the difference was. 48% more seats in 2019 is a big difference.

Ref [location history]: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Python_Conference

ifixcoinops, 6 days ago to random

Ooooh should Pinball Dad stick his toe in the Linux Discourse

I've been on it since 2010, I guess I should maybe?

How about I stick my whole entire foot in, maybe if I poison it with my footstink then it'll die down a bit

Alexlee, 4 days ago to academicchatter

Nobody told me about the snakes! #phdlife #phd @academicchatter

meejah, 4 months ago (edited 4 months ago) to random

I'm producing JSON messages for consumption by other programs running this one as a subprocess. How should timestamps be communicated?

Aside: do non-browser JS runtimes also suffer from dumb limits (2**53)?

meejah, 3 months ago to python

Hey #python what other information would you like to see in a CLI coverage tool?
(This shown inside a github action log)

meejah, 12 days ago to random

I want a "zooming" interface for photos, where I can sort them "somehow" (e.g. by exif-date) and then zoom way out (and see like thousands at once) and then zoom in on regions (to see a few, down to "one" at a time).
Does this exist?
(FOSS-only suggestions please).

robsonfletcher, 4 days ago to microsoft

So ... any suggestions on getting started with a Linux machine?

https://www.pcgamer.com/software/windows/windows-ai-feature-takes-screenshots-of-your-desktop-every-few-seconds-and-i-cant-imagine-wanting-that/

#microsoft #ai #privacy

meejah, 9 months ago (edited 9 months ago) to python

magic-wormhole 0.13.0 is released!
https://meejah.ca/blog/magic-womrhole-0.13.0

#python #filetransfer #infosec

meejah, 5 days ago to ai

Anyone have any success (or failure!) at using #AI "post-prompts" in resumes?

meejah, 2 years ago to opensource

I guess my #introduction post has vanished in the mists of time.
I am a professional Python developer, working almost exclusively on #opensource and #freesoftware of the #privacy genre. I sometimes do #tor volunteer work.
Outside of that I #run, #cycle, and #ski and currently trying to become a #unicyclist

meejah, 1 year ago to random

My theory that "nobody will steal a unicycle from my front porch, because hard to ride" has been proved incorrect :(

meejah, 3 months ago to random

Is your child using LLMs? Learn the signs...

meejah, 10 months ago to cycling

Since there is e-mail and snail-mail, the existence of e-bikes must mean the other kind are snail-bikes right?
#cycling

meejah, 28 days ago to random

I have this diagram that I want to "deep zoom" into for more detail. It's not that complex or "deep" (yet?) but already showing it as SVG in a browser is "problematic"

I can make the zoom work, but it's really pixelated and crappy until it "rests" at the new zoom level for a while.

Also Inkscape is somewhat grumpy with the file already, even on a decent desktop.

So, obviously I'm using the wrong tools (or using them wrong) -- how should I make this appear on the web?

Using Inkscape:

A screen-recording showing a diagram in Inkscape that is zoomed into for more and more details.

meejah, 9 months ago to python

pypiratzzi: download all signatures for a package from PyPI

https://meejah.ca/blog/pypiratzzi

#python

meejah, 8 months ago to random

Working on some diagrams for a more complex #magicWormhole explainer blog post .. what do you find most confusing about the process?
Did you know you can use it for things besides "file transfer"?

A far more complex diagram of Magic Wormhole, showing most of the interactions, mailboxes and database. It is intentionally low resolution as it is incomplete still.

meejah, 1 month ago to python

Should I promote my #python #coverage tool "cuvner" more? https://cuvner.readthedocs.io/en/latest/

Do you use it? What could be improved?

meejah, 1 month ago to python

Magic Wormhole 0.14.0 is released

https://mail.python.org/pipermail/python-list/2024-April/912199.html

https://pypi.org/project/magic-wormhole/

#python #infosec

meejah, 4 months ago to haskell

Hey #haskell is there a way to work with adwaita + gtk4? (Preferably expressed as an example :)

meejah, 18 days ago to random

@neilk what in actual fuck? Why does CBC give these morons attention??!

meejah, 4 months ago to random

What sort of guide do I need to follow to make links to my Web site look better in Mastodon?
(e.g. https://meejah.ca/blog looks boring, I'd at least put my "logo" or something in there)

meejah, 4 months ago to random

Hey @Coldbike I rarely visit "hacker" "news" but I was on there just now and an older article of yours is #26 ... (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=39128311 )

meejah, 4 months ago to rust

Thanks to @ju and whomever else is involved making https://gtk-rs.org/gtk4-rs/stable/latest/book/ -- as a #Rust newbie, this has so far been a nice introduction to GTK4 in Rust (and all the examples work!)
thanks :)

meejah, 8 months ago to python

Prototyping more Dilation things in #magicWormhole and it seems the implementation of "--text" becomes "1:1 chat" ... because current transfer protocol is "one thing, in one direction" but the next-gen Dilation one is "many things, in either direction"...
#python #privacy

meejah, 8 months ago to pixelart

What if instead of user-stories, the UI was a story ...

... can't stop thinking about a pixel-art themed, "point-and-click adventure" style UI (think "Sierra Online" but fast) that teaches you about the protocol slowly, as you go ... adding more options / features as you explore

Maybe not completely thought through yet, but would you use a "serious" application that had a "fun" interface (assuming it was still fast / small enough to get stuff done)?

#magicWormhole #pixelart