Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

Do you hate the feeling of being a useless spectator while your mate is laboring to bring your child into the world? Consider hiring "prowling sorcerers" who you can fend off with a spear!

(Note: This will likely not be covered by insurance.)

That awkward moment when you get to your desk and your co-worker has borrowed your chair, WFH edition.

backports.zoneinfo only has 1300 downloads in the last week: https://pypistats.org/packages/backports-zoneinfo

Not bad, but we're going to really have to get the word out if we're going to finally replace pytz! Get out there and migrate today!

This Back to the Future Delorean is clearly depicting the scene in BTTF 1 where Doc and Marty are testing the time machine, but it's already been modified as a flying car! There isn't even a Mr. Fusion.

HAVE YOU NO REGARD FOR CANON, PLAYMOBIL?

Trying to write a subinterpreter-compatible, subclassable Python C extension type that stores data on the class itself.

Time to go outside to pick up my laundry...

OSS maintainers gotta hustle sometimes...

"Alexa, who lives in Buckingham Palace?"
"Buckingham Palace's resident is Prince Philip."

From the python-dev mailing list:

> Having tried comp.lang.python with no response, I turn here...

MFW a property testing library keeps finding increasingly obscure bugs in my code.

Just finished putting the stickers I made in Austin on my laptop. That tesselation is very satisfying.