Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

I have no idea if this will work out and I may have to end up cancelling / rescheduling meetings if they become impractical, but if you want to meet me at #PyCon, I’ve set up a schedule for 15-minute 1-on-1 chats:

https://calendly.com/meet-pganssle/one-on-one

#PyConUS2022

Latest post is a big one: “Why you shouldn’t invoke setup​.py directly”

A lot of people don’t know about this because we haven’t been great about getting the word out. This blog post is in part an attempt to remedy this.

Please help spread the word!

https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/10/setup-py-deprecated.html

From the archives of my blog but still very relevant: "pytz: The Fastest Footgun in the West", about why you probably shouldn't be using pytz:

https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2018/03/pytz-fastest-footgun.html

Now that I’ve released this on a Friday afternoon, time to run off to go apartment hunting and make myself completely unavailable for a few days! Byyyyyeeeeeee!

Hot off the presses, we’ve just released the latest version of tzdata, bringing us in line with the upstream 2022b data: https://pypi.org/project/tzdata/

See release notes here: https://github.com/python/tzdata/releases/tag/2022.2

(Or upstream: https://github.com/eggert/tz/blob/2022b/NEWS)

Definitely not worth $4000, but if I were on Jeopardy and got this clue, I would have been very sorely tempted to answer, “What is 01189998819991197253?”

The branding of this restaurant in Madrid is really sending mixed messages about its legitimacy.

Every day as a parent, explaining why your kids need to do not fun stuff that is good for them:

It inspires great trepidation and ambivalence when I find something new that belongs in my “What to do when the bug is in someone else’s code” talk (https://ganssle.io/talks/#upstream-bugs), but I think patchy has earned a slide.

Or, as the kids say, “Thanks! I hate it!”

https://mobile.twitter.com/AdamChainz/status/1539747526567510016

@cnx In case you are willing / able to help: https://twitter.com/jugmac00/status/1534209238268104705?s=20&t=mwOtLNlkgfyQVaNjri4l0Q

D… does the Travel Town Museum have a (decommissioned?) nuclear powered train?

Also saw some Cedar Waxwings in a tree right across the street from the swallow. This isn’t my first time seeing those, but they’re still reasonably rare (and not to mention pretty).

Too bad it’s such a dreary day…

#birds

Saw this gorgeous tree swallow on my “walk to work” this morning. Been seeing this one and another one around these last few days, but this season is the first time I’ve ever seen them!

#birds #birding

Dear Shokz Corporation,

I dig all the cool pictures of people running with your bone conduction headphones on, but maybe you could also have one or two photographs of like… all the buttons, and the location of the charging port?

Despite actually wanting a new phone, I ended up having my existing phone repaired because I couldn’t find a satisfactory phone.

Plus side: my phone’s battery is no longer bulging out the back.

Down side: I have been forced to opt out of the cycle of consumer electronic churn!

Who needs airline status when you can get boarding priority by traveling with young children?

So relaxing…

#lifehack