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
Just 2.5 months until PyCon. That one... really snuck up on me.
Glad I don't have to prepare a brand new talk and organize a summit... (Oh, wait 😅)
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#todayILearned that, when searching in Firefox's tab bar, you can prefix your search with `%` to search exclusively in the titles of open tabs.
Maybe everyone else already knew this, but I didn't—and I have the feeling that it will *dramatically* increase the number of open tabs I have at any given time.
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#plaintext email etiquette question:
When I'm replying to a thread with multiple participants, is there a standard way to indicate who I am quoting?
For example, in the exchange below, is there a good/standard way to attribute the first quote to Alice and the second to Bob?
> Foo is better
> Bar is better
I agree with Alice that foo is the way to go.
CC: @sir, resident plaintext email expert/evangelist
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Great software documentation has these key things (not necessarily split like this):
User's Manual: How to use the software and all its features in enough detail to stand alone for normal use, including basic troubleshooting.
Service Manual: The broad design of the software and how to install, configure, upgrade, and otherwise maintain it, including advanced troubleshooting.
Programmer's Manual: Design details, APIs, and internals needed to modify the software or write code that works with it.
The robustness principle: "Be meticulous about your appearance and never tell anyone when they have food in their teeth."
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Now that we're all rested from the holidays, time for you all to sign up for some fun activities: https://fosdem.org/2020/news/2019-12-31-call-for-volunteers/ Jokes aside, it would be literally impossible to make FOSDEM happen without all the wonderful people who volunteer, so thank you :) !
I did some basic profiling and I think the multi-threading behavior is actually not buying me much, because a lot of the time is spent doing the zip encoding.
Not sure if there is a simple way to parallelize that or if it's even worth doing.
I soft-launched this a few weeks back, but here is my most polished (i.e. not very) @rustlang project to date: metadata-backup, a tool for backing up your file system metadata.
Contributions welcome!
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Blog post: Testing an Arch Linux package in Gitlab CI
This is basically the blog post I was hoping to find when I was struggling with permissions issues in my new CI pipeline. It's a bit outside my comfort zone, so I'm especially keen on feedback (e-mail is best, but twitter or mastodon works in a pinch).
https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2019/12/gitlab-ci-arch-pkg.html
#PyO3 is considering dropping support for Python 3.5, but is looking for feedback from users. See the issue here: https://github.com/PyO3/pyo3/issues/685
I see no mention of translations in the Wikipedia article for the episode: https://en.m.wikipedia.org/wiki/Free_Hat
A central part of the "Free Hat" episode of South Park is the confusion between "free as in beer" and "free as in freedom". I'm curious, did anyone watch this episode in a language that makes a clear distinction between these? How was it translated? Did they add a gloss?
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To learn about more about the digital security and privacy, you can start from https://summertraining.readthedocs.io/en/latest/privacy.html and read the next few chapters.
"Alexa, who lives in Buckingham Palace?"
"Buckingham Palace's resident is Prince Philip."
Oh boy, my #PyCon proposal is number 734. Gonna be some stiff competition this year.
I was reminded of this when replying to someone else and I thought I'd post it separately, here's a 2015 blog post from @bderickson that I found very useful about how to generate LaTeX using Jinja2: http://eosrei.net/articles/2015/11/latex-templates-python-and-jinja2-generate-pdfs
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Hello world. Bio says the important things. I'm a PhD student using biophysical techniques and computational simulation of molecular systems to understand various aspects of protein behavior and regulation. I always choose FOSS tools where possible in my work. Now lets talk *nix and science!
#introductions
#linux
#foss
#science
I'm really glad people were tweeting about getting their #PyCon proposals in, because I really let the deadline sneak up on me this year.
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
