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mistersql

@mistersql@mastodon.social

Software developer, tech lead in Washington, DC.

I tweet about

  • software, programming, #python, dad jokes, DC, Fed government tech contracting and jobs, #govtech

I also tweet mixed content with keywords you can mute if you want to.

I don't speak for my employer.

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anze3db, to random
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Quick takeaway from the public speaking workshop: you don’t need an about me slide.

BRB while I update my presentations 😂

mistersql,
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@anze3db @hamatti @carlton @mathsppblog I own a cat. I am adding value to this dialog.

mistersql, to random
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Yes.

"Dear presenters. Here are my accessibility requests for next year. 1. No colorized code on black backgrounds. Blue or purple or gray is really hard to read. 2. Use large text please. I cannot read your regular terminal font. PLEASE."
https://twitter.com/gvanrossum/status/1792293514929176817

mistersql, to random
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Regarding MS Recall, I've been running on my machines for ages and - I think MS needs to ask people if they want to turn it on, people are either going to really like it or want to leave no trail (and boy do we leave trails, in browser and file system w/o Recall). Other than that, this doesn't seem to warrant the drama people are tweeting.

https://timesnapper.com/

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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The rant nobody asked for.

Full comic here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/myth-2

mistersql,
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@ZachWeinersmith 🦇🐮

treyhunner, (edited ) to python
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I'm jealous of the little Python logo badge many of y'all have next to your names and many community folks I appreciate (@fedidevs, @ThePSF, and many others) are on fosstodon.

I've been posting on mastodon.social for a while and I have no meaningful complaints though (ever since the servers were upgraded!).

Should I switch to fosstodon.org? (Multiple select voting is allowed)

mistersql,
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@treyhunner @fedidevs I got exactly two account on two server where the "Local" feed is more useful than any other feed: the Esperanto Server and the Washington DC server. For Esperanto, not everyone tags their posts with Esperanto, but almost everyone sets up an Eo account on the Eo server. The DC server is all DC people, but not all people who live in DC or post about it joined the server. There is a difference in moderation & tag availability on different servers.

mistersql, to random
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Maybe tech debt could use a car repair metaphor. Instead of "our car is a rusty jalopy that we dearly love if maybe someday we should wash it for show (i.e. improvement is arrogance & cosmetics)", tech debt is "we drilled multiple holes into the oil pan because we didn't know what we were doing. We can still drive the car for a while."

I don't know, taking tech debt serious means owning up to a mistake, or having made a trade off that looks the same as a mistake.

ZachWeinersmith, to comics
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I solved ethics. Full comic here: http://smbc-comics.com/comic/consequent

mistersql,
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@ZachWeinersmith This is the trolley problem with hamsters. But hamsters aren't even capable of ethical behavior because they can't pull the lever, it's like, 500x taller than them.

khalidabuhakmeh, to random
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Windows out here diagnosing the state of my mental health… 😭

mistersql,
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@khalidabuhakmeh You are being hypnotized, now now feel 100%, you may now resume computing.

treyhunner, to random
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@mistersql, I don't think we ran into each other at PyCon. At the sprints today if you're around. Otherwise, maybe next year?

mistersql,
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@treyhunner I'll be there next year, see you online in the meanwhile!

mistersql, to random
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I went to a openspace on DevEx (DX), esp in the context of work some idea the attendees mentioned

  • a lot of social/organization issues-bosses' fault?
  • varies by context-startups have different incentives than big stable companies & cause their devs different pain
  • leads to shadow IT, burn out & stress
  • monorepo = pain! me: polyrepo= pain!

My idea was shadow IT should be formalized. Help techies help themselves when the org knows it lacks the leadership & skills to create a good DX.

mistersql,
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One theme was "Things aren't going to improve until a developer who has lived through the pain is promoted and does something about it"

mistersql, to random
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Almost vegan friendly city...I think the majority of vegan restaurants were nowhere near downtown Pittsburgh.

Economic crisis in Venezuela is bringing Arepas to all the downtown, I need to find the ones near DC.

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mistersql, to random
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#pyconus Time to learn to use rust with python.

from this guy

https://www.youtube.com/@davidhewittdev

mistersql,
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Pydantic will be selling an observability tool.

Why python + rust? (me: python is slow, duh)
Rust apps force developer to think about panic s
Rust is a more secure option than c/c++ for native coding with python

mistersql,
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Rust has novel solution for concurrency. (the borrowing/ownership thing I think)
Rust has borrowed features from modern languages like python

PyO3 with maturin let's you call rust from python or call python from a rust app.

mistersql,
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Slap this on your rust function
#[pyfunction] and C code will be generated to compile it to an extension. (py03 makes the C, maturin compiles the C.... I think)

mistersql,
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import b will import b.pyd using the ABI the same as if it were b.py
Cython *et al *do the same thing.

In 2 years, 1/2 of new packages using native code will be using Rust instead of C/C++

mistersql,
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Rust to python cheat sheet, they are similar

def - fn
str - &str
int - usize
let mut - (initialization)
return - (last line in function is return)

mistersql, to random
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I learned that pip can install from pyproject.toml. Or can it?
pip init doesn't do anything. So step one I have to google to figure out what pyproject.toml format pip can digest.

mistersql, to random
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Now for Simon Wilson, the man who stared down the Coding Horror, didn't blink and was still polite. It is keynote time.

mistersql,
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#pyconus LLM on the agenda! They naysayers didn't keep it out of the conference.

mistersql,
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Derogatory words for the bots "imitation intelligence" "autocomplete"

mistersql,
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Meta's bot is mostly CommonCrawl. Only 4.5 terrabytes of data.

stfn, to random
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Now this is a beast

Fun fact, in #boinc it took this gpu 24 hours to crunch an Einstein@Home task. For comparison, my RTX2060 did in 8 minutes

mistersql,
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@stfn I'm confused, this is $60 GPU to equal the other you would need $10800 of these. Rtx2060 is about $500. I did I do the math wrong?

mistersql, to random
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#pyconus #hatch sounds like it can do a lot of things. It reminds me of multi-linters except it is a multi-common-build-tasks tool. (dependencies, packaging, plus other things) Like multi-linters, it farms out the work to 3rd party tools. Or a mildly opinionated build-anything tool.

I should try it out on a project to get better opinions

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