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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PyCon US CFP is still open but only for another 3 weeks or so! (Closes Dec 9)
Your tasks:
- submit a talk
- tell others about the CFP
- encourage others to submit a talk
- do an #IceCreamSelfie after your talk
Go!
@davidism The Wikipedia page is pretty good, but no, there isn't a public standard. It is infuriating that we as an industry seem to have chosen to use a proprietary standard, but alas.
RFC 3339 is a very limited subset and requires a time zone offset, so it is not suitable for a wide variety of applications.
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I unravelled `lambda` expressions for my #Python syntactic sugar blog series: https://snarky.ca/unraveling-lambda-expressions/
And with that, I am done with the series (again 😅)! https://snarky.ca/tag/syntactic-sugar/
The summary post at https://snarky.ca/mvpy-minimum-viable-python/ has been updated with my latest posts, getting the list of Python syntax you need an interpreter to support down to 11.
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Whenever I think "This person in the Python community is so awesome, surely they've already received the Community Service award/already a PSF fellow member", and when I looked into it, turns out I was wrong.
Then I make it right by actually writing up the PSF Fellow/Community Service award nomination for them so that they'll be properly recognized.
You too can nominate people who are doing great work in the #Python community! PSF Fellow nominations are due Nov 20!
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We are #obspy, resistance is fudel.
We make code that other people use to make code to make everybody understand this piece of rock better that we all sit on.
observations are that person that operates the seismometer their own
#introduction #python #scicomm #seismology #earthquakes #foss
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Does anyone have tried using https://github.com/tds-fdw/tds_fdw to connect to a #SQLAnywhere? I’m keenly interested in experience reports of any kind. #postgres #db #sybase
@lucifargundam @trinsec I thought it was rather pleasant, but apparently my son thinks my face tells a different story.
My son pulled my license out today and said, "Papa, is this you? You look so young!"
That photo was taken last year 😅
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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 👋
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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.
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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.
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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)👇
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
