Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

@simon @jonafato @talkpython I don’t think so. I remember the person on the podcast had a story where they were trying to remember something they had done or learned, and they were able to figure out what it was because they remembered that they had learned it while riding a specific train or something, so they were able to cross-reference their location data to see when they were at that train and then check their notes taken around that time (details here might be all wrong, but I don’t think there’s anything like that in Simon’s podcast).

I also sort of think that I listened to this pre-pandemic.

@liaizon @talkpython Obsidian looks sort of promising, but it’s a bit too free-form, and I’d like something a bit more multi-media (e.g. sometimes I have something to record but don’t want to stop and type it out because I’m walking from place to place, I’d prefer to just do a voice note and hopefully transcribe it later).

@aj @talkpython Hmm.. That could have been, but I think the focus was much more about this person quantifying their own life. I am not sure what the Python angle was.

The reason I’m looking for this is that I’d really like to set up a system where I can easily capture small snippets of information about my day, like a journal with a bit more structure.

There are a bunch of numerical things that I track in sort of haphazard and idiosyncratic ways — I measure my weight and body fat % and track it in Google Calendar, I have a “Track and Plot” app on Android for my Uric Acid levels, and I use paper and pen to track my weight lifting.

I’d love to be able to have a free-form journal that can include voice/audio or text, plus numerical, boolean or structured data entries at specific points. Ideally something that uses an open format and can easily be synced between an app on my phone and something on my computer.

I vaguely recall that I listened to an episode of @talkpython or Podcast.__init__ or something where the guest had some sort of elaborate system for documenting everything about their life. Might be some sort of quantified self thing. Anyone else remember this and can track down the link?

@art My understanding is that this is frequently a condition of state funding for local libraries. Basically every library in California will offer library cards to every California resident. New York is the same way as far as I know.

For anyone who is interested in how my quest for a perfect rice container went, I ended up going with these, which seem pretty much perfect: https://www.amazon.com/dp/B08BMTDZ39

They’ve held up just fine through multiple cycles of dishwasher and microwave, and they stack perfectly.

It seems amazing to me that apparently no one has made a voice recorder / voice memo app that works with Android Auto. The built in assistant is… extremely limited, and will only do voice-to-text for very short recordings.

It seems like a lot of people (like me) want something where they can press a button and it starts a new audio recording, but I haven’t found any audio recording apps that even show up in Android Auto.

Given how simple this kind of app is, and how common I’d imagine this feature request to be, I wonder if there’s a technical limitation, or if I’m just terribly bad at searching for these types of thing…

#android #app #apps

Pro-tip: When you are done eating your Lucky Charms, these packing materials are actually edible, and can be used as bird seed or compost!

#lifehack #stpatricksday

@jacob @glyph @jonathan @brettcannon pip didn’t come from core.

pytest was in active competition with unittest and still isn’t in core.

Virtualenv was ubiquitous before venv was created, and I get the impression that it is still more popular.

@kushal Seriously though, they shouldn’t be allowed to call the thing they distribute Python.

@kushal #NeverUseDebian

@Greg I mostly listen to audiobooks and podcasts, but I’ve found Aftershokz Aeropex bone conduction headphones very helpful for around the house. They leave your ears open so you can still hear your kids / partner if you want to listen to stuff while doing dishes or laundry or something.

This kind of thing, by the way, is one of the main reasons that I am so bad at getting anything done in OSS anymore. My free time is at an extreme premium, and whenever I steal half an hour to try to merge an uncontroversial PR or something, it gets eaten up fixing bitrot. ☹

Anyone know what versions of windows and mac runners I need to pin to in GHA to get Python 3.6?

With Ubuntu I know it’s 20.04, but I don’t know how to divine from this what the right invocation is.

Here’s an example of it failing.

Also, to be clear, anyone who tells me to stop supporting 3.6 will be immediately blocked. ☺

#python #github