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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http://www.crummy.com/2004/05/20/1
"But other parsers know too much about HTML. They choke on or try to rewrite bad markup. They assume you care about the whole document. A pirate might make you walk the plank, but only a parser would make you walk the whole tree."
Happy 20th birthday to the #Python screen-scraping library Beautiful Soup by @leonardr .
Man, some folks do such a good job with the design of their slides, it makes me want to do better.
Picture is from [Steph Orella Bello](https://sporella.xyz)'s talk, but there are many other intimidatingly good presentations out there.
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hey psst svcs stickers spotted at n the PSF sticker table! #PyConUS
@y2mango Yes, one of the various reasons...
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Juggling starts a little early today: 3:45 in the open space hallway! #PyConUS
Luckily my target audience — parents of 2-6 year olds — is used to getting up early 😅
"Hm... maybe if I wear a fake mustache and a hat, I can sign up for two lightning talks in a row, and then I don't have to cut this one down quite so brutally...."
Some motivation for you to get up and to the #pyconus venue early tomorrow morning: I'll be giving a lightning talk about my (FOSS) chord trainer application (for children).
- [Slides here](https://pganssle-talks.github.io/chord-trainer/#/)
- [App Link](https://pganssle.github.io/cim/)
@jonafato Exhausterating sounds best to me.
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@edrogers Great! I might have to duck out of lightning talks early actually, so I will keep them on me tomorrow if I don't see you on my way out.
@kevin Sure! I will try to keep some on me.
By the way for various reasons I happen to have a bunch of Google Open Source swag to give away and nowhere to give it away, so if you are at #pyconus and want a flashlight, let me know.
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Pro tip for #pyconus #pycon speakers, presenters, tutorial hosts - dark text on white background is more legible than vice versa. The projector does a better job at projecting white light and the dark text shows off in a better contrast. As a member of the audience it’s more legible on a projector screen than white text on dark background - especially from far.
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I have a very specific question about Matplotlib usage at NASA in the Science Mission Directorate:
Does anyone know of usage of Matplotlib specifically in the Biological and Physical Sciences Division?
@glyph No I don't mean you should deprecate the function. I think we, as a society, should heap approbation and disdain on humans who use 12 hour clocks. 12 hour clocks are ridiculous.
@glyph Needs a deprecation warning. Not that you can actually deprecate the use of 12 hour clocks by fiat in a random library, but it's worth a shot.
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
