Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
@webology I feel like I've also heard of people losing every connected account, but often times when these things break on HN you look into it and it's like, "Google changed the rules, we were totally legitimately using their API to make just one little click farm and then they said that was banned and banned us forever!!11one"
Plus considering I work there (and know a bunch of people who work there even if I leave), I suspect I might be able to avoid *some* of the more Kafka-esque parts of the cycle without resorting to HN.
Still, I might make an extra account just to be safe. Maybe I'll use my work account as the "backup" e-mail so that if I get banned and it propagates they'll just ban my work account 
I would like to publish an #Android app, but I feel like I've heard stories about people having some kind of issue and their entire Google account gets yanked, which would be... bad.
Do folks worried about this make a separate google account just for this? Does it help at all if you get banned?
I suspect this will not be likely to affect me given that my app is basically just a repackaging of an open source PWA app with no permissions requested, no ads and fully open source, so I am not too worried, but I also feel weird using my personal account for anything else.
@brettcannon @feoh Did you ever figure out how to do this? Any chance if an open source or shareable implementation if so?
Been hoping to do exactly this for years and years.
@hynek I think you might have an obligation to coin such a German term for this.
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i’m looking for a word for “person stumbles into attractive nuisance and starts propagating it as the next best practice”
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Here's a quick blog post with another recent example why you should run coverage on your tests:
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Days since running coverage on tests found a bug in the tests: 0
This time, a generator had already been exhausted, before we tried to iterate over it. The lack of coverage highlighted the problem.
https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/8979#discussion_r2172250301
https://nedbatchelder.com/blog/201106/running_coverage_on_your_tests.html
@womble @maxleibman I mean, when people send a bug report they are telling you that your software doesn't work for their use case, they aren't (usually) demanding that you do something about it.
I for one find that useful information whether or not they want to help fix it and whether or not I want to fix it.
Fireworks witnessed. I am confident that we are safe from the British for another year.
@pamelafox I am mildly regretting having gone with .io, .us and .be because prices are much higher for those and .be is not supported at all at my new registrar, so I was planning to do .com for future domains.
Being a museum attendant seems very boring, so to make their jobs more interesting, whenever you walk out of a gallery with a lot of people going into it, loudly say to your companions, "My favorite part of that exhibit was how you were allowed to touch all the art!" #randomactsofkindness
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Several deadlines are approaching for deprecated setuptools features
30th Aug
- bdist_wheel with universal=True
15th Oct
- Running `setup.py test`
- subclassing wheel.bdist_wheel
31st Oct
- Running `setup.py <anything>`
- setuptools.command.easy_install, setuptools.installer, fetch_build_eggs
For more info and migration guidence see
- https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/10/setup-py-deprecated.html
- https://packaging.python.org/en/latest/guides/modernize-setup-py-project/
Thanks to PyPA and everyone involved for their dedication and hard slog.
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Are you in Boston and want to hang with #Python people? Boston Python's project & collaboration night is June 24th. It's an informal gathering to talk together, work together, learn from each other, network, whatever. Tell your friends :)
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The "faster CPython" team at Microsoft was recently dissolved. My position at Microsoft was eliminated. If anyone has a reason to be disappointed in this, it's me.
So it feels okay for me to ask you to refocus any disappointment you might have about Microsoft's decision. Let's be grateful for a big Python user actually laying down meaningful cash for 4 years in support of a volunteer-driven community project! Let's express our frustration instead in how that doesn't happen more often!
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General PSA: don’t apply for a job at Canonical. Do NOT apply for a job at Canonical. Treat the blatantly artificially enormous number of job openings they post as the mirages of trickster fae. They are unhinged. Mark Shuttleworth is unhinged. They will drag you through the mud, disrespect you and your time, and definitely not give you a job. This article I saw today is like the thirteenth of its kind that I personally have seen https://dustri.org/b/my-experience-with-canonicals-interview-process.html
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I was poking around the Mastodon APIs and I can't find a way to have a bot hide individual posts for me, only update my filters list. Am I missing something?
There are only 3 plots: a person goes on a journey, a stranger comes to town, and "here is how I set up the static site generator for this blog".
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My #PyConUS keynote, with all the hand drawn doodles and animations: https://youtu.be/Bglsof9b23k
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Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
