Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

I doubt I was ever successful at this, and I probably slowly ate gummy bears out of a briefcase for several weeks or months until I had a briefcase.

I'm still kind of sad that I lost the briefcase. I'm glad I have some photographic evidence that this caper occurred.

Back when I was in college trying to be self-consciously weird, I went out and bought a briefcase and filled it with gummy bears.

My plan was to try to make someone curious enough to surreptitiously open the briefcase, only exacerbating their curiosity and driving them mad.

@cryptoxic I usually use pipx for things where it's basically an implementation detail that it's written in Python. `isort`, `black`, `virtualenv`, `build`, `tox` and any of those sorts of command line tools could be written in any language and be just as useful, but `pipx` is a convenient way to install them (`virtualenv` is a bit of a weird one in that respect because it defaults to using the Python it's installed with as the runner).

That said, each of my projects has coding standards to be enforced, and I want to enforce those irrespective of what is installed in any global system (e.g. on CI, or on a random contributor's computer), so that stuff all goes into `tox`.

I use `virtualenv` to create an isolated environment in which to either install libraries to play around with or to execute little scripts that have some dependencies.

@cnx At the end of the day I might end up buying a FitBit or some other "high end" fitness tracker with way more sensors and just deal with the privacy / control issues.

I'm starting to re-consider whether my privacy and control focus is really worth it since opsec is *really hard* and I'm protecting against a long tail risk and mostly not a concrete harm anyway. 🤷

@cnx @lupyuen It was only $40 shipped so I just bought it. It doesn't have everything on my wish list but worst case scenario I gave some money to a company that's at least trying to do what I want 😛

AFAICT the big thing it doesn't have that my Pebble has is sleep tracking, but the Pebble is just using the accelerometer (not even HR monitoring), so I suspect higher-quality sleep tracking is possible with just software upgrades. Though I don't know that I'll have time to actually *implement* that…

@cnx @PINE64 Every time I saw one of those they seemed a bit janky, but it looks like they are only like $30? If it's that cheap I might as well get one just to have it.

@gadgetbridge Bonus if I can wear it on my ankle or something so it doesn't have to also be a good replacement for my Pebble Time😅

Does anyone have recommendations for the best #fitness / sleep tracker compatible with @gadgetbridge, or even just a decent one?

I'm getting jealous of all the data my wife is getting from her Apple Watch, but I'm not enthusiastic about using some cloud walled-garden service.

We still sent them, of course.

Coincidentally, we also put in a little card for each of the parents with mine and my wife's contact info in case the other parents want to get in touch. 😅

Maybe these delicious cookies my wife & son made will minimize the flood of imputations…

Sent this "scratch art" kit out to all the kids at my son's school for Valentine's Day; I think you can tell that we have a bit of a "free range" parenting philosophy from how long it took us to think some might object to us arming a bunch of 3-4 year olds with sharpened sticks…

@brainwane Thanks! Everything went well! I have learned that the first-person experience of having your eyes surgically altered is a lot less freaky than the third-person experience of watching it done on Youtube.

Laser eye surgery was a qualified success. The eye doctor says my vision is 20/20 already, but I still can't seem to resolve any of the features of the sun when I stare at it.

Maybe a few more hours of staring will help the recovery process?

Giving my glasses a valedictory tour of the house before they shoot me in the eye with a laser tomorrow, presumably changing my prescription.

Who wore it best?

Oh no, my muscles are all feeling sore after my booster shot! Almost like I've been doing a bunch of new exercises in the gym these past few days - oh wait nevermind that's exactly what happened. \*closes VAERS tab\*

This is the true spirit of the web - every article is a gateway to 10 other articles.

"Oh man I've got 40 tabs of stuff to read later open, I should read some so that I can close them."

10 minutes later: "Oh man I have 43 tabs of stuff to read later open!"

@lynne When using ipython I configure it this way: https://github.com/pganssle/dotfiles/blob/a4340fa2a7fadd99b1d1d874cf865d0748bd7f15/dotfiles/ipython_profile_default/ipython_config.py

That's an arbitrary python file that ipython executes at startup time, so you should be able to add your desired imports there.