Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

@brainwane Thanks! I know a few Spanish speakers who have offered to watch the talk and look at drafts. I will let you know if they get tired of me 😛

Wow just saw this published today. Did they really have to kick me when I'm down? https://theonion.com/man-finally-good-enough-at-new-hobby-to-understand-how-bad-he-is-at-it/

Not great timing for me to hit that point in the Dunning Kruger curve where I realize how much native speakers have been humoring me when they tell me how good my Spanish is haha 😅

Spain be like:

@hugovk @treyhunner Though also I suspect that this whole line of thinking doesn't really answer my original question that well, which is, "How relevant is pytz today?" When I first gave my time zones talk it was the dominant package and I could say, "Don't directly attach pytz zones to your datetimes" and 5 people would run off to fix production bugs.

These days there are more pytz downloads than ever but I think a big part of that is that it is still a dependency of pandas and cryptography, which might not mean anything about whether most programs today actually use pytz directly.

@hugovk @treyhunner Any advice on a package to normalize against? I feel like setuptools would have worked a while ago but these days it's less and less likely that you will get a copy of that automatically with Python. pip might work, but with uv...

Maybe just need to normalize against Python downloads, assuming the ratio between downloads and package installs is roughly constant.

@feoh Goodreads has also been absurdly slow for years and years. It is a real shame, but somehow GR decayed *less* in the past 10 years than sites like Reddit and Twitter.

*Words mean what people think they mean and there is no objective true definition here, but one definition has historical weight to it and feels more official as the definition doesn't originate from basically a mistake.

@hynek True, but I'm thinking basically having good taste buys us a few extra years, not decades, so it's not *that* self serving 😉

@hynek Good time to have built a whole brand around being good at seeing the whole picture, crafting strong and sustainable processes and thinking deeply about design as you have (and to a lesser extent I have).

@hynek It seems to me that unless something really changes about the trajectory of AI, human software skills will not be that relevant in the fairly near future.

I suspect that one of the skills that will stay most relevant for longest will be taste and design principles.

@feoh @brianokken
> One such test for Python code, called a pytest, had its own specific prompt that caught my eye:

Lol. Glad to see NYT still upholds the same high journalistic standards I have come to expect from them 😛

@kevin They might grow them on the berry farm.