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
Feels similar to the way that everyone my age got chicken pox and no one ten years younger than me (and with sane parents) got it. What a time to be alive.
As someone who lost a lot of weight and kept it off using old fashioned willpower and exercise, I am *really* happy that these drugs are making that horrible process optional.
(Plus making weight loss available to the large fraction of people for whom — empirically — the "old fashioned" method does not work).
I blogged about my experiences with weight loss drugs. And also vibe-coded a tool to calculate your excess calories. https://willmcgugan.github.io/...
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PSA: You have less than two weeks to nominate someone for PSF Fellowship for Q4 of 2025. Details at https://www.python.org/psf/fellows/, and I wrote a blog post about the topic last year at https://www.jonafato.com/2024/10/31/psf-fellow-nominations-q4-due-date.
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An interesting coincidence how @willmcgugan’s weight loss blog post comes just 2 weeks after my own! Clearly, it’s a topic on people’s minds. My account involves no injections, so you can treat it as an alternative approach.
https://lukasz.langa.pl/b2217f47-6312-458f-955f-d63a752a9ad0/
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I blogged about my experiences with weight loss drugs. And also vibe-coded a tool to calculate your excess calories.
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The wait is over — #PyConUS 2026 is here! 🙌
The #PyConUS 2026 site is now LIVE and the Call for Proposals is OPEN! We can't wait to welcome you to Long Beach, CA this spring and spotlight the incredible work happening across the Python community 🐍
👉 Details: https://pycon.blogspot.com/2025/10/pycon-us-2026-call-for-proposals-now.html
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The Steering Council has accepted PEP 810 (explicit lazy imports) for Python 3.15!
https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-810-explicit-lazy-imports/104131/466
7 y/o: "I just want to check the date."
Me: "It's November 1st."
7 y/o: "November?! That means it's Christmas!"
A future Target / Walmart / department store executive in the making I see.
@webology My controversial opinion is that DST actually makes a lot of sense where I live, especially now that we have computers that set all of our clocks and handle a lot of the tricky bits.
Now we just need to get humans off the road so that the strongest argument against DST (possible increase in traffic accidents) will be moot.
"Alexa, play Halloween music"
*Zombie by The Cranberries starts playing*
... I... guess?
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🎙️ Bored this weekend? Well, we have Part 2 of the interviews from the CPython core sprint in Cambridge UK. Don’t worry, this one’s shorter than Part 1. Only 2 hours 18 minutes. Much less than Part 1!
✨ Hear from Greg, Thomas, Paul, Pradyun, Carol, Guido, Brett, Erlend, Tal, Lysandros, Yury, and Diego.
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SemVer is just an attractive nuisance at point. The concept simply doesn't survive even a short contact with reality.
I have to say that unfortunately, since Mozilla took over K9 mail and turned it into Thunderbird for Android, it has really ruined the usability for me. Anyone have any recommendations for other #foss email clients?
Bonus points if they can handle sending from catch-all email addresses.
@ehmatthes It would be nice if this ends up implemented in ruff, since the majority of the time accessing one component of a timedelta is not something you want to do anyway: https://github.com/astral-sh/ruff/issues/13598
@ehmatthes FYI there is a much more elegant way to find out how many of a given time unit there is in a timedelta, which is to divide it by another timedelta, like so:
```
>>> timedelta(days=3) / timedelta(hours=1)
72
```
In fact all the talk about normalization feels a bit misleading. The root of your original bug isn't really normalization so much as the fact that you are accessing a component when what you wanted was a view onto the entire duration.
Might be a controversial opinion, but I think using freeways for long term parking might not be the most effective use of the roads...
I am unreasonably pleased that #PyBay has open wifi with no captive portal.
@pamelafox I pretty only write pytest tests in classes when I might subclass them for some reason (or when directly migrating something based on unittest), but using them as a namespace makes a certain amount of sense.
So this happened at TSA today, which means it's time to get new headphones. Are bone conduction headphones still the best option for headphones that you can wear all the time but you can hear it when people talk to you?
My ideal headset would be very discreet, such that people can barely tell you are wearing them (or if they are visible I would prefer if people felt comfortable talking to me while wearing them).
I do not use Apple products.
@nowis To be fair, how could someone know more than one language? What are these people, computers?
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
