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Like I just said on stage at #PyConUS , the @pytexas virtual meetup happens every month, first Tuesday of the month, at 8pm central. The meetup happens on Discord, so you can invite some Texas into wherever you are!

Our CFP is always open, so if you want to speak, go sign up. If you want help building your talk, we can help! Talk to me, I got you!

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"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](sporella.xyz)'s talk, but there are many other intimidatingly good presentations out there.

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 😅

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"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 venue early tomorrow morning: I'll be giving a lightning talk about my (FOSS) chord trainer application (for children).

- [Slides here](pganssle-talks.github.io/chord)
- [App Link](pganssle.github.io/cim/)

Tomorrow morning’s #PyConUS lightning ⚡️🌩️ talks have been selected and speakers selected have been emailed! Please keep your 👀 peeled as we have some logistics in the email for y’all!

Thanks! CC: @Thepsf @pyladies

@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.

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 and want a flashlight, let me know.

@pganssle giving a talk walking those familiar with unittest on the basics (and some advanced items) on #pytest at #PyConUS

I use pytest daily, but still found this talk pretty helpful. (Note to self: '--stepwise')

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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.

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.

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