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
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@jonafato Add mine to the pile please? :)
https://www.feoh.org/posts/pycon-us-2025-this-year-was-a-life-changer.html
Was really great meeting you in person today. Thanks so much for introducing yourself!
Interesting to see how everyone is lamenting the demise of Pocket, but I haven't seen anyone mention that when Pocket was added to Firefox it seems like a lot of people were up in arms about how a proprietary service was being forced on Firefox users.
I'm guessing it's different people in each case but I'm a little surprised to see no one saying, "Good, we all hated that thing anyway" (since that had seemed like the common sentiment before the shutdown - I never heard anyone praise Pocket before this).
Photo: All future Python talk attendees after watching Pablo and Yury's PyCon US talk.
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Just want to say congrats to @elthenerd and @jonafato for their successful first year chairing PyCon US 
Very well done! I hope you all get to take a break now before starting to plan next year's conference 
#PyConUS
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My presentation about using rust from python from PyConUS got published very quickly this year 
https://youtu.be/CqOZdTFb4io?si=uu6TtfmV335ihaSE
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I'll be at #PyConUS sprints today and Wednesday.
I am beginning the process of replacing my ThinkPenguin laptop battery in case anyone here wants to help - am in room 308 currently.
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PyCon was lots of fun! The slides for my talk on processing large JSON files without running out of memory:
https://pythonspeed.com/pycon2025/slides/
Looking forward to videos getting posted so I can watch all the talks I ended up missing due to scheduling conflicts/practicing my talk/getting lost/meeting someone in the hallway.
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While I missed the remaining talks today, on my flight back from #PyConUS I was quite productive and made a new thing!
https://pyref.dev is a fast, convenient way to access Python reference docs.
It's also available as a CLI tool (pip install pyrefdev).
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May as well throw this query out to the fediverse.
I am looking for *concrete examples* of code that works correctly when interpreted by Python 2.7 but *silently produces incorrect output* when interpreted by Python 3.x. I encountered such a thing about 10 years ago but didn't save it and have been unable to reconstruct it.
All examples are good, but examples that produce output from which it's difficult or impossible to recover the correct output are better.
@feoh @roguelynn Glad you liked it! If you see me around please say hi! I am wearing a blue hawaiian shirt with taco cats on it today.
From your other posts it seems like you are partially blind, hopefully that's a bright enough signal, but if you don't feel confident that you can identify me by sight and you did want to chat, let me know how I can find you and I'll keep an eye peeled!
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Thanks @masonasons for the tip that yt-dlp can download from RSS feeds. Here's the command I came up with to download all available podcast items from a feed in chronological order (oldest first) to nicely numbered files with the title and date.
yt-dlp --no-abort-on-error --color "no_color" --download-archive ".download_history" --windows-filenames --embed-metadata --embed-chapters --playlist-items "::-1" --output "%(n_entries+1-playlist_index)02d %(title)s (%(upload_date>%B %d %Y)s).%(ext)s" --format bestaudio "https://example.com/rss"
Reading the asyncio docs on stage, very "A monad is a monoid in the category of endofunctors, what's the problem?" energy. #pyconus
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"First thing to do is check robots.txt and see if this is allowed."
Probably not a subtle dig at the people DDoSing like 90% of the internet to scrape training data right now, but it should be 
"Artichoke sky" new band name. #pyconus
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That was an excellent talk by @pganssle with some good takeaways:
* You can use whatever tech stack you want
* Projects are a great way to learn
* You can use programming to answer questions for yourself
* Your projects don't have to pay
* It's OK to make something just for you
* It's also great to tell other people about your work
The slides include links and references to all of the projects:
https://pganssle-talks.github.io/2025-pycon-us-programming-for-yourself/
Remember, if you can't remember the name of an eponymous law, just call it Cunningham's Law and someone will surely correct you.
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
