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
@rober Lol, "Our user experience is trash, but we also have a different trash UX that is complementary to the other one!"
I appreciate the helpful tip, but also I'm not sure I want to encourage the continued existence of Discord.
@drewtoynbee This may be of interest to you, @astrojuanlu
#matrix isn't *great*, but it's a darn sight better than this.
"Oh I need to communicate with someone on Discord quickly, guess I'll launch it. Oh, there's an update available, so Discord *prevents me from opening their appliaction*."
Reason #215 to avoid #discord.
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Just released Typer 0.8.0 🔖
With support for ✨ custom param types ✨
Thanks to John Purviance for the work in the PyCon sprint! 🍰
https://typer.tiangolo.com/tutorial/parameter-types/custom-types/
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Post-conference notes from my experience at PyCon 2023. I think I am squeaking under the wire for these to still be relevant…
@kazarnowicz FTR, the "official" meanings are:
bemused = confused
quizzical = mildly amused
nonplussed = frazzled / shocked / confused
easterly = going from east to west (there may be contexts where the official meaning is the opposite of this)
Probably at least half of all people think that they mean:
bemused = mildly amused
quizzical = confused
nonplussed = nonchalant
easterly = going west to east
It's basically never clear from context which meaning an author intends, so practically speaking these words are useless now 😛
@kazarnowicz I am a native speaker, and I suspect that I have an unusually large vocabulary, but I got that from reading a lot, and these days if you read on any kind of e-reader device you can long-press on a word to define it. I suspect that most people won't know the word but in most contexts I can imagine using it the meaning should be clear enough.
Unlike, for example, the words "bemused", "quizzical", "nonplussed" or "easterly", where you get sentences like, "Harold gave Jane a bemused look", and you don't know if the author is in the group of people who know the "correct" meaning or the group of people who thinks it means the thing it sounds like it means.
@kazarnowicz Yes, but I had to look it up to verify that I had it right.
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Genuinely the best thread I've seen on Hacker News in years: "Ask HN: Most interesting tech you built for just yourself?"
So many delightfully niche projects!
https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=35729232
Note: This is one of the *exceedingly rare* occasions where I like something like this.
For the most part I find content about datetimes, DST and programming in general to be boring and uninteresting.
Heading home from #PyConUS, ready to relax and see my family again after 10 days in SLC.
To celebrate, here's some fiction relevant to my work that you might be interested in:
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Anyone have videos of the club juggling that happened at #PyConUs? I saw some on phones, but I guess they weren't shared?
It was just a few days ago that I was spontaneously praising @kevin for his work transforming Bloomberg's culture with respect to open source. You could do much worse than hiring him.
In case you haven't heard, Red Hat is laying off people today, and I'm one of them. My 'career' as a Hatter lasted just over 15 months, much less t...
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In case you haven't heard, Red Hat is laying off people today, and I'm one of them. My 'career' as a Hatter lasted just over 15 months, much less time than I had planned or expected.
Many of you know me well, and know that I have extensive background in open source software, project management, open source business, and lots of related activities. If you're aware of any opportunities which may be of interest, feel free to send them my way via any channel you like.
Boosts much appreciated, of course, and thanks in advance!
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@PyConUS #PyConSprints #PyCon #PyConUS #PyConUS2023 there are other projects sprinting this year which weren't able to speak at the end but are listed on the PyCon website. Check them out! https://us.pycon.org/2023/events/sprints/
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@PyConUS #PyConSprints #PyConUS2023
* Circuit Python - hardware projects, issues are tagged for beginners, also open to introducing people to the project - 3 days
* Pants - build project and deployment system
* MyPy and MyPyC - 2 days - all skill levels
* Conda - 2 days - packaging, ecosystem, all of Conda to expand the contributor community
* Hive - simulator for electric vehicle fleets - open to all skill levels
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* CPython - not mentored sprints
* GNU Mailman - all 4 days, Django web UIs and core
* Beeware - Sprinting on Briefcase, open to all levels of skill, contributors get a challenge coin
* Open Source Governance Project - open to non-code contributions
* Django Simple Deploy - 3 days
Mesa - Agent based modelling in Python, wide impact - open to all developers
* PEP 669 - Monitoring API in CPython, includes non-code contributions
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
