Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

Also saw some Cedar Waxwings in a tree right across the street from the swallow. This isn’t my first time seeing those, but they’re still reasonably rare (and not to mention pretty).

Too bad it’s such a dreary day…

#birds

Saw this gorgeous tree swallow on my “walk to work” this morning. Been seeing this one and another one around these last few days, but this season is the first time I’ve ever seen them!

#birds #birding

Dear Shokz Corporation,

I dig all the cool pictures of people running with your bone conduction headphones on, but maybe you could also have one or two photographs of like… all the buttons, and the location of the charging port?

Despite actually wanting a new phone, I ended up having my existing phone repaired because I couldn’t find a satisfactory phone.

Plus side: my phone’s battery is no longer bulging out the back.

Down side: I have been forced to opt out of the cycle of consumer electronic churn!

Who needs airline status when you can get boarding priority by traveling with young children?

So relaxing…

#lifehack

A while back I gave this talk on how to contribute to open source: https://ganssle.io/talks/#contributing-oss-pydata2018

Video: https://youtu.be/JhPC6_rO08s

I cannot possibly be the best speaker to give some version of this talk — does anyone have a good “canonical” version of this?

I have no idea if this will work out and I may have to end up cancelling / rescheduling meetings if they become impractical, but if you want to meet me at #PyCon, I’ve set up a schedule for 15-minute 1-on-1 chats:

https://calendly.com/meet-pganssle/one-on-one

#PyConUS2022

I don’t know if this is a valid metric of velocity in software engineering, but I’m definitely feeling productive today after making it to the 4ᵗʰ new failure mode on this pipeline I’m trying to get running.

OK, we’ve got a tricky UX problem in datetime.isoformat and I could use typical users’ intuitive thoughts here. If you are a #python programmer, can you take this short survey? Please don’t do any research before filling it out!

https://ganssle.io/s/isoformat-survey

Boosts appreciated!

Lego isn’t even pretending anymore. They’re just straight up making caltrops.

I’ve just released “Why naïve times are local times in Python”, explaining why it makes sense that the naïve datetime object stopped being abstract and started representing system local time as part of Python 3: https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2022/04/naive-local-datetimes.html

Useful take-away: dt.astimezone(None)

Nice to see more people making the case that reading the news is unnecessary and probably a net negative in your life:

https://thomasjbevan.substack.com/p/all-news-is-bad-news

As usual, I had to cut a bunch of stuff when I went way over time.

I probably should have been tipped off that my “xfail and code coverage” slides weren’t going to make the cut when I put this one together:

In 45 minutes I’ll be giving my #PyTexas talk: “xfail and skip: What to do with tests you know will fail”

The slides are here: https://pganssle-talks.github.io/pytexas-2022-xfail/

Or if you’d prefer a PDF (best on mobile):
https://ganssle.io/files/talks/2022-03-26_pytexas_2022_xfail.pdf

Why yes, I am something of a gourmet; how could you tell?

I switched over to AntennaPod a few months ago and I’ve been very happy with it. I’ve even got my first PR started!