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
My son pulled my license out today and said, "Papa, is this you? You look so young!"
That photo was taken last year 😅
Paul Ganssle
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Any biohackers on here? I've apparently reached a point where using CRISPR-Cas9 to gene edit myself is within my risk tolerances.
All this #PyDataNYC content in my feed is making me nostalgic. It wasn't practical for me to come down this year (due to lack of planning on my part), but I think I'm going to have to arrange to be in New York for it next year.
My baby loves feeding me and my wife the food he is eating. Today he started playing the game with me where he gives you food but then pulls it away when you try to take a bite. It is the most adorable thing ever. That is all.
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#introduction
I'm Mariatta, in Vancouver 🇨🇦
I work at Google as Senior Developer Relations Engineer, maintaining open source Python client libraries for Google Cloud.
As one of the #Python core developers, I care about documentation, workflow, bots, and contributor experience.
I'm the Chair of #PyConUS 2023-2024, Fellow member of @ThePSF and Community Service Award recipient.
My pets are a variety of tropical freshwater fish and some Amano shrimps.
I love food, traveling, and kdrama 👋
Paul Ganssle
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Hi there,
#introduction
This is the official Mastodon account for the Python Software Foundation (PSF.) We're the non-profit home of the Python programming language and our mission is to to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers.
We also run PyCon US, https://us.pycon.org/2023/
We're excited to be here. :D
@sethmlarson To be clear, PEP 621 is better than nothing, but they should start with PEP 517 and parse pyproject.toml only as an optimization.
@sethmlarson Though honestly the whole "allocate funding by dependency" feels like a Goodhart disaster waiting to happen, so maybe it's not such a big deal if the metric is measured stupidly anyway 🤷
@sethmlarson It feels irresponsible that someone built a funding allocation mechanism on top of Github's dependency graph. My god.
@sethmlarson Or instead of using this half-solution they could just use PEP 517, which has been the standard for like 5 years?
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Hi all! I'm Thomas Caswell and I work on OSS.
Trained as a physicist, but these days I work as an #RSE supporting scientists working in #python.
I am the current Project Lead of #Matplotlib , a core dev of #h5py and am a PSF Fellow.
I'm based in NYC and work at BNL at NSLS-II where I help build data acquisition, management, and analysis tools for experimental scientists.
Paul Ganssle
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The “access contacts” app permission is still the worst and most dangerous one out there. I wish mobile OS vendors could find a way to rate limit and monitor apps’ use of that data.
Paul Ganssle
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A (lengthy) Mastodon #introduction.
I'm Thomas, a Python Core Developer and Googler from Amsterdam (NL). I'm on the Python Steering Council and the #PSF Board of Directors, and I'm the 3.12/3.13 Release Manager. I hang out on #python on libera (IRC) as well. I also have #cats (#Savannah and #Bengal).
I usually toot/boost about #python, especially #governance and non-profit support of #python. A little thread with examples (and cat pictures at the end)👇
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Stumbled on a new project by Zac Hatfield-Dodds (the Hypothesis person!) called "shed", https://github.com/Zac-HD/shed
It runs autoflake, pyupgrade, isort, black, blacken-docs on a project with a set of logical defaults. You can also use it with Jupyter Notebooks and Django.
Saves running all those tools individually #python #django #jupyternotebooks #jupyter
@kevinbrownsilva Ah, good point!
Paul Ganssle
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I'm the lead maintainer of Flask, Click, Jinja, and a bunch of other Python open source libraries 🐍 When I'm not programming, I like to brew beer and go hiking around San Diego 👋 #introduction
Paul Ganssle
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Anyone who can help run a mastodon instance for verified official accounts of scientific python projects? There is funding to pay for hosting so you don’t need to do much tech work, but gotta do everything else. Please boost!
Another #mypy puzzler; apparently `mypy` doesn't know how to do type narrowing when you do an early return like this:
https://mypy-play.net/?mypy=latest&python=3.10&gist=29a4ee0232bf69953ec79680eb39f550
@yuvipanda @minrk To be fair, `pipx` solves that problem (its how I have `black` installed, I believe), but I think there's a distinction between "apps that happen to be written in Python" and "apps / libraries that need to be in your Python environment".
You could re-write `black` in Rust or C or C++ or something (without Python bindings) and it wouldn't matter, because it's a command line application.
Stuff like `mypy`, `pytype` and `virtualenv` are a grey area because they have Python version-specific features, but they are invoked from the command line, so you *could* rewrite them, but your users are expecting behavior like "`mypy` should be able to see all the libraries installed in the current environment" and "`mypy` uses the Python version of the current environment".
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
