Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

I'm looking for #Android testers for a closed test of my Toronto GO Transit app. This is an app that provides accessible GO Transit information. It's aimed at people using screen readers, but the simple interface would be useful to others as well. I need to find 12 testers that are willing to keep the app installed for 14 days to satisfy the Google Play requirements. If anyone is interested in testing, shoot me a DM and i will send you a Google Group link that will give you access to the test release. Obviously it's better if you are in Toronto or surrounding areas, but I also just need numbers.

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Reviewing talk videos at the moment, just wanted to take a quick straw poll based on initial viewing.

For context, it took a good 5 mins to go back and forth adding missing captions to the transcript I was provided per 1 minute of talk.

Accessibility in the digital video space has been something I have been pushing at day job, so I'm incredibly bias, thus I'm looking for what people are thinking these days.

Maybe I'm over-thinking it?

Join Cristián Maureira-Fredes (@maureira.dev@mastodon.social) at EuroPython for "Understand and expand Python: a hands-on experience on Python internals". talk: https://ep2026.europython.eu/K7XNTF

I wonder who I know that knows someone at HackerOne that can convey the message that PyPI explicitly disallows security research packages, and bans users who upload them. Put that in a notice to your users somewhere prominent - since it's become pervasive and a drain on resources.
This also takes time away from legitimate security incident response - so it's a net negative for the world.

You still have several hours left to nominate someone as a PSF Fellow for Q2 of 2026 https://www.python.org/psf/fellows/

I'm giving a lighting talk about gh-profiler this evening. If you've been curious about it, come to the lightning talk session at 5:45!

#PyconUS

Look, last-minute Łukasz at #pyconus reporting here that there is a last-minute talk on Sunday at 2:30pm worth attending!

PEP 810 co-author Brittany Reynoso will be talking about lazy imports!

https://us.pycon.org/2026/schedule/presentation/176/

#pycon #pyconus2026 #python