Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

@alex https with a valid cert, unfortunately (for this hypothesis, at least)

@brianokken I mean, I *literally* just wrote this article less than a week ago: https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2023/01/attractive-nuisances.html

I'll note that this has happened on two totally different phones.

I know the feeds work because my wife found some convoluted way to add it once that involved QR codes, and the feed opens just fine. I also used to be able to do this somehow, and I can see old feeds that I added in their list of shows.

Any of y'all #ios havers understand how to add a podcast by RSS url in the podcasts app?

I unfortunately have a few #apple users in my life and when I try to add podcast feeds available locally, nothing seems to work. Safari doesn't know what app to open RSS feeds with, so I go into podcasts, click the three dots and "Follow show by URL", click submit and then... nothing. No indication of success or failure, and the show doesn't seem to be there.

@adamchainz Yeah I'm pretty sure they got the promo.

"Did you know that Alexa can do fart sounds?"
Normal person: "No."
Person with kids: "Um. Yes. I'm familiar."
Some PM at Amazon: "*sigh* Yes."

Excerpt from someone at Amazon's promotion document:

- Spearheaded the development of the "Big Fart" Alexa skill, which has been activate 20M times in its first quarter.
- Added "wet farts" and "squeaky farts", increasing engagement with the "Big Fart" skill by 25%

@tintvrtkovic Yeah, I have found that my relationship to open source development has dramatically changed as my life circumstances have changed, as well. Hard to set a single policy that will work for your entire life, so it's best to stay flexible — not entirely related to what kind of feature requests to accept, except that it should probably bias you against things that will require constant upkeep in the event that you want to step back.

My goal for Q4 2022 was to get out at least one new blog post or public talk. *Almost* made it.

Attractive nuisances in software design: https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2023/01/attractive-nuisances.html

A common anti-pattern where a problem has a solution that is obvious, intuitive and wrong.

#python #programming

@cfbolz I wrote a blog post about this from the other side as well: https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2019/11/string-concat.html

I was mildly surprised that it was quadratic in PyPy because in my smaller benchmarks it was always so fast anyway for realistic cases. 😅

@hynek Oh wait sorry I didn't realize the thing you said about getting invited to local cons based on PyCon performance.

That hasn't really happened for me, and invited talks I know about tend to be Keynotes where the social capital is "this person is a good speaker and will draw attendees" rather than "this talk they gave at PyCon was interesting we should have them do it here too"

@hynek I think maybe reading between the lines, your process is you do not give talks unless you know they are getting into PyCon US, whereas I treat regional Python conferences as a "minor league" where my talks prove themselves out before graduating to the big stage.

@hynek I actually, non-rhetorically, don't understand the problem or the relevance of the amount of time spent on talks.

For me PyCon US is usually the "capstone performance" of my talk, not the debut - and that's not usually my choice, so whether or not PyCon accepts my talk this year has no real bearing on other conferences from this year, since usually a talk gets rejected once or twice from PyCon US before I actually give it. A lot of investment in the talk makes me *less* sensitive to the timing of when I give it, not more.