Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

#introduction
I'm Mariatta, in Vancouver 🇨🇦

I work at Google as Senior Developer Relations Engineer, maintaining open source Python client libraries for Google Cloud.

As one of the #Python core developers, I care about documentation, workflow, bots, and contributor experience.

I'm the Chair of #PyConUS 2023-2024, Fellow member of @ThePSF and Community Service Award recipient.

My pets are a variety of tropical freshwater fish and some Amano shrimps.

I love food, traveling, and kdrama 👋

Hi there,
#introduction

This is the official Mastodon account for the Python Software Foundation (PSF.) We're the non-profit home of the Python programming language and our mission is to to promote, protect, and advance the Python programming language, and to support and facilitate the growth of a diverse and international community of Python programmers.

We also run PyCon US, https://us.pycon.org/2023/

We're excited to be here. :D

Hi all! I'm Thomas Caswell and I work on OSS.

Trained as a physicist, but these days I work as an #RSE supporting scientists working in #python.

I am the current Project Lead of #Matplotlib , a core dev of #h5py and am a PSF Fellow.

I'm based in NYC and work at BNL at NSLS-II where I help build data acquisition, management, and analysis tools for experimental scientists.

#introduction

The “access contacts” app permission is still the worst and most dangerous one out there. I wish mobile OS vendors could find a way to rate limit and monitor apps’ use of that data.

A (lengthy) Mastodon #introduction.

I'm Thomas, a Python Core Developer and Googler from Amsterdam (NL). I'm on the Python Steering Council and the #PSF Board of Directors, and I'm the 3.12/3.13 Release Manager. I hang out on #python on libera (IRC) as well. I also have #cats (#Savannah and #Bengal).

I usually toot/boost about #python, especially #governance and non-profit support of #python. A little thread with examples (and cat pictures at the end)👇

Stumbled on a new project by Zac Hatfield-Dodds (the Hypothesis person!) called "shed", https://github.com/Zac-HD/shed
It runs autoflake, pyupgrade, isort, black, blacken-docs on a project with a set of logical defaults. You can also use it with Jupyter Notebooks and Django.
Saves running all those tools individually #python #django #jupyternotebooks #jupyter

I'm the lead maintainer of Flask, Click, Jinja, and a bunch of other Python open source libraries 🐍 When I'm not programming, I like to brew beer and go hiking around San Diego 👋 #introduction

Anyone who can help run a mastodon instance for verified official accounts of scientific python projects? There is funding to pay for hosting so you don’t need to do much tech work, but gotta do everything else. Please boost!

Tomorrow around this time (8am PDT), I'll be going live on https://youtube.com/jayofdoom for my live streamed Open Source Office Hours. Come join me to ask questions about OSS in general (or OpenStack specifically) or to just see what it's like to work on an open source project for a while :).

https://jay.jvf.cc/officehours

#opensource #streaming

Hello! A brief #introduction - I’m an Asst Prof at Boston Children’s Hospital and Harvard Medical School. I study organizational principles of #neuralNetworks. We study #neuralCircuits underlying #motorControl, #sensoryIntegration, and #decisionMaking across species. We also develop methods for synapse-resolution #connectomics. Looking forward to learning more!

Lab: https://www.lee.hms.harvard.edu/

#qotojournal
I'm a PhD student obsessed with bio-based nanoparticles, so I'm trying my hand at 3D printing seaweed using at-home supplies. The troubleshooting is intense. Creating an at-home lab without funding is VERY HARD. Mashed seaweed was OK to print (with cellulose nanocrystals), but optimization? Yikes. Would love any tips !

If you've been on here a bit and you're liking the group of folks you're following, be sure to periodically export that list and save it somewhere safe.

Settings > Import and export > Data export

One of the (scary but rare) downsides of decentralization is that if the instance you're on goes down permanently for any reason, you'll lose your account. It's customary for the admin to give plenty of notice if that's going to happen, but better safe than sorry.

@tekwizz123
These lists are unreliable and are usually the result of 3+ generations of "just import this guy's list trust me bro", and the reasons given are things like "the usual" or "no tos" or "anime profile picture" or "peers with an instance I don't like"

As an example, my single user instance are on both of these lists. Who knows why it's there. Good luck trying to get off of it.