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
@davidism Yeah, can attest to that as someone who has family members in the Apple ecosystem. Lots of stuff is a pain in the ass, slow or borderline impossible on Apple devices.
@Greg I've been thinking of replacing my 2014 Kindle Paperwhite for ages now (I've kept it in airplane mode for over a decade so I make use of almost none of the software features, but I avoid many of the anti-features as well).
Do you mind sharing your reasoning for picking the Libra 2? I'd love a head start on my device research ☺
Paul Ganssle
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wow TIL that as of #tox 4, you can absolutely SLAY the environment build times if your project builds universal wheels (= virtually all pure-#Python ones)
Just add
```
[testenv]
package = wheel
wheel_build_env = .pkg
```
and it won’t build your package for every Python version anew: https://tox.wiki/en/latest/upgrading.html#universal-wheels
For my service-identity which has a very quick test suite but a lot of factor combinations, it’s 3m vs 30s. structlog that has fewer but slower envs is still 2:35 vs 1:47.
Me: "I should get this shirt."
Wife: "... Why?"
Me: "To look extremely cool, obviously."
Nailed it.
(Not shown: the matching one my 5 year old was wearing.)
Paul Ganssle
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Calling all #Python library maintainers! 🐍
Python 3.12 is in beta! 🎉
This means no new features are allowed in and it's now time to start testing your code. You might find things in your code to fix, or even better, you might find things to fix in Python itself!
Here's how to do it:
https://dev.to/hugovk/help-test-python-312-beta-1508 #python312 #beta #test #CI #GitHubActions
Paul Ganssle
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req for suggestions to my limited following 😅 anyone know of any tools/services for capturing user feedback on CLI tools e.g. “try out this new feature: do the prompts make sense? do the commands make sense for the task(s) we're asking you to do?”
Paul Ganssle
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git pro tip
`git log -S some_variable_name` returns all commits where `some_variable_name` is in the diff (either removed, added, or modified)
super useful for tracking down regressions where you know the variable that's the culprit
Note: I will eventually try `fish` or `zsh`, but my schedule and to-do list don't currently permit me to rework all my [dotfiles](https://github.com/pganssle/dotfiles) to work with a new shell.
I've tried `atuin` so far, and I don't like it. I think I can only use it with the full screen history search and somehow despite the fact that it's automatically merging commands from all shells, it still loses commands, sometimes *from the shell I'm currently using*.
Does anyone have a good solution for handling bash history?
What (I think) I want:
- History search for each shell searches the history of that shell first, then all other shells' history.
- I don't want to lose history from windows opened in tmux or when I'm running a bunch of shells in parallel.
What I don't care about:
- Syncing history
- Fuzzy search
What I don't want:
- Mandatory full-screen history search
@brettcannon Average speed increase/decrease numbers are kinda hard to judge. Kind of a different story if it does stuff like making tuple creation slower but numpy is unaffected or something.
Paul Ganssle
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This post basically describes my approach to understanding computers (and to doing physics):
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/05/30/eng/
- watch / poke / use system
- develop mental model of why it is
- find where that model breaks and you can not predict what the system does correctly
The places where your mental model and reality are wrong are the most interesting and productive things to look at!
@hynek To be fair no one seems to be saying I should actually start skipping back day. My doctor didn't suggest it or anything, so I guess it probably wouldn't help anyway.
Do you use #linux and #keepassxc?
I am wondering if you also see this behavior: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/9438#issuecomment-1564883094
If you don't, what OS and desktop environment are you using?
@hynek Yeah, that is indeed the problem. I've got too much to do and every time I try and accomplish the last task with 2.7 support I'm bogged down with a bunch of CI bitrot, which all bitrots again before I make much progress on the final PR.
@hugovk Self-hosted CI
@hugovk Ugh. I guess I know what I'll be doing instead of actually working on getting `dateutil` 3.0 out next time I have free time to work on open source.
Paul Ganssle
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Next, GitHub will be removing support for Python 2.7 from actions/setup-python in under a month, on 19th June. 🪦
"Breaking changes
"Hello everyone. The Python 2.7.x will be removed from python-versions and it won't be possible to set up Python 2.7.x by setup-python.
"The motivation for the changes
"Python2.7 is not supported since January 1, 2020."
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
