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
@aperalesf Pienso en crear una app o página web para encontrar podcasts menos conocidos (un algoritmo anti-algoritmo) pero ya tengo demasiados proyectos 😭
@aperalesf Acabo de escuchar [El podcasting no me enfada, pero me da coraje](https://divagaciones-de-adrian-perales.castos.com/episodes/90-el-podcasting-no-me-enfada-pero-me-da-coraje), y estoy de acuerdo en que es bastante difícil encontrar podcasts independientes.
Por eso, hace poco me bajé la DB de podcast-index.org y la filtré yo mismo, utilizando `popularityScore` para evitar los podcasts demasiado popular. Me funcionó suficientemente bien para encontrar unos podcasts.
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As the Wayback Machine nears 1 trillion archived web pages this October, we're still looking for standout sites to feature.
Reply with your favorite pages to nominate them for the spotlight!
Also I feel that my older one's natural reflex to protect himself against malicious djinn will serve him well in the coming age of superintelligences.
7 year old has written a wish list for Christmas already. It includes "a non laggy PC", "a mouse (not the pet kind)" and "anything I imagine comes true and I can enable and disable it".
My 4 year old has asked to stop aging and in fact he would like to be younger.
Glad to be raising ambitious kids.
@nedbat Do any of the itertools iterators expose stuff like that? My impression was that these things are supposed to be composed into pipelines in a sort of functional programming style, so the details of which one is the outermost container would be irrelevant and maybe bad practice to rely on.
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TIL that, as of Python 3.13, virtual environments write their own .gitignore file. It adds a single line, consisting only of `*`.
Did you know this? Are you still adding `.venv/` to your own .gitignore files?
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boosting from bsky where @buttondown 's @jmduke says:
https://bsky.app/profile/jmduke.com/post/3lv5hwyipu22j
"buttondown is very excited to sponsor @htmlenergy.bsky.social's HTML DAY this coming saturday. if you attend and DM me what you built I will comp you a year's subscription to Buttondown.
at the very least, you owe it to yourself to go to https://html.energy/html-day/2025/index.html and click through to the very zine-core event sites, each of them more lovely than the last. (i am biased, but my favorite is seattle's)"
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I'm very happy to announce @savannah as the Release Manager for Python 3.16 and 3.17!
https://discuss.python.org/t/welcome-the-3-16-and-3-17-release-manager-savannah-bailey/100163
#Python #CPython #Python316 #Python317
@kfogel @kevin Ok I was slightly wrong: https://www.nyc.gov/site/buildings/property-or-business-owner/energy-grades.page
Interesting grading scheme, where "D" is the worst score you can get if you submit any information and F means "no information", with an extra grade, N, which also means "no information" but this time it is OK because they were exempt from providing information.
A few more steps and those quiet and signaling NaNs can evolve like IEEE floats and there will be more "no information" grades than stars in the universe 😛
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The Toad is out of the bag! 🛍🐸
Announcing Toad - a universal UI for agentic coding in the terminal
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📣 Public Service Announcement to all our Spanish(-speaking) users 🇪🇸
Episodes from Radio Nacional de España cannot be downloaded. RNE decided to block our app specifically.
Journalist @james contacted the Director Radio of RTVE to ask for clarifications. In response, they have said they will 'review our case'. We are yet to receive a reply to the email we sent last week. Keep an eye out for updates on our social media.
Details 👇
@kevin Hearty American fish don't need to be coddled by living "under water".
@treyhunner @mitsuhiko I got 25/26. The only one that threw me was one that throws a `ValueError` and I thought it would throw `SyntaxError` if it were an error so I just guessed as to what it could mean.
Brb incorporating this into my style guide: https://susam.net/elliptical-python-programming.html
@nitinkhanna I would say @brainwane is a great person to follow. She posts on an interesting variety of things and is a measured, patient thinker.
Paul Ganssle
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We've got a good-first bug for new contributors to Firefox: https://bugzilla.mozilla.org/show_bug.cgi?id=1658511
If you're interested in writing a little bit of C++/HTML/JS to make your first contribution, let me know! I'd be happy to guide you through the whole process over chat or video call.
From working with podcast-index.org database to find podcasts, I have learned that for language codes:
ES = Spanish
ES_MX = Mexican Spanish
ES_ES = Double Spanish
(Apparently people don't realize that ES_ES is supposed to be "European Spanish", so when you filter by ES_ES you get podcasts from like wherever)
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
