Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

Remember, if you can't remember the name of an eponymous law, just call it Cunningham's Law and someone will surely correct you.

Man, @psobot has some beautiful slides. Curious to know how some of this was done.

#pyconus

Also, I apologize in advance, I had much more limited time than normal to prepare this talk this year and I haven't had a chance yet to go through and add good alt text to all the images. If that's something that is valuable to you, check back in ~1 week.

If you are at #PyConUS and you might be interested in my talk, "Programming for Yourself", it is today at 14:45 in Room 301-305

The slides are available on github here: https://pganssle-talks.github.io/2025-pycon-us-programming-for-yourself

@hugovk @adamchainz Does `pull_request` still fire on a draft PR? I guess the maintainer still gets notified about a draft PR, which maybe defeats the purpose, but it seems like a fairly small fraction of people are running CI on their own forks. I basically never do that, I just make a draft PR early.

I guess this at least partially explains why ever PR I've ever gotten from you has been flawless and basically ready to merge from the get-go, though.

Thanks for the help everyone who was looking for this. Just heard back from the Uber driver and apparently they found it!

If anyone at #PyConUS finds this fitness tracker, please let me know. It fell out of the band today around noon, possibly near the registration desk.

Oof, the new captchas on StackExchange sites are killer. That 20-30 second delay is annoying enough that I basically avoid answers on SE sites now. Unless other people aren't seeing these, this must be killing their traffic.

@hynek Lol, I think I may have had my first anxiety dream about this last night!

Though to be fair, I also have booked absolutely nothing with regards to PyCon, so, uh, that's a fair get, subconscious.

Anyone out there using #AR / #VR headsets for productivity on #Linux? I would love to be able to ditch my portable second monitor in favor of some glasses with virtual monitors in them, even if the experience isn't suitable for replacing my main daily driver.

Also very interested to hear about portable new input methods that could potentially replace a keyboard.