Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

https://ctgraphy.tumblr.com/post/129031716304/why-you-should-photoshop-your-cosplay-pictures This detailed explanatory blog post is, for me, doing for photography a bit of what Greg Milner's excellent "Perfecting Sound Forever: An Aural History of Recorded Music" https://www.wordyard.com/2010/08/04/perfecting-sound-forever-great-book-on-history-of-recording/ does for audio recording and playback. The author demonstrates and explains, about post-processing manipulation/retouching/editing involving correcting light and color:

"And so that’s what photoshop means 95% of the time. It’s correcting what the camera couldn’t do."

I'm translating an #svg figure for a #Wikipedia article. I have an alignment problem due to the #font being not available everywhere. Is there a way to right-align text boxes independently of the actual font being used? I want them to remain editable as text. I'm using #inkscape.

This is the file's page: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:HarmCausedByDrugsTable.svg#%7B%7Bint%3Afiledesc%7D%7D
In my browser (Chrome on Ubuntu), the text is misaligned (image 1). Image 2 is the screenshot of the relevant SVG code.

From what I can gather, text-anchor:end is indeed what we want to ensure right-alignment but it's not working. Any idea on how to make this work?

New post:

https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2022/speech-to-text-with-whisper-how-i-use-it-why/

I've started regularly using OpenAI's #Whisper to make transcripts and captions/subtitles, and am writing to share how, and why, and my reflections on the ethics of using it.

A lot of HOWTO in here, but the last section dives into @simon's #ML #machinelearning #AI vegan analogy in a way you might find interesting even if Whisper isn't your thing.

TIL: you can use `shell: python` in GitHub Actions to run #Python code directly
https://github.com/pypa/virtualenv/blob/main/.github/workflows/check.yml#L77-L83

I’m happy to announce #Python attrs 22.2.0!

The headline feature is certainly the `alias` argument to fields that allows you to freely set the __init__ name for attributes (e.g. if you don't like attrs's behavior of stripping underscore).

But there's also a lot of under-the-hood improvements around performance and typing.

This is the last version to support Python 3.6. 🫡

https://github.com/python-attrs/attrs/releases/tag/22.2.0

Coverage.py 7.0 has shipped!

The feature change is `report --format`, but the version bumped because you might need to fix some settings.

Let me know if something is truly broken!
https://pypi.org/project/coverage/7.0.0

If anybody wants to contribute to an open source project with more almost 7 million downloads a month, have a look at https://github.com/tox-dev/tox/issues/2753

#tox #opensource

Looks like #Coverage 7 for #python dropped and here's a pro tip:

If you had:

```
[tool.coverage.paths]
source = ["src", ".tox/*/site-packages"]
```

change the second line to:

```
source = ["src", ".tox/**/site-packages"]
```

(or even `source = ["src", ".tox/py*/**/site-packages"]`)

If nothing about this makes sense: https://hynek.me/articles/testing-packaging/

@adamchainz @pganssle (TL;DR at the bottom) by default, less draws to the alternate screen so when you quit it, you no longer see what you've seen right before quitting, you just get back to the terminal as if the command never returned anything.
If you Google for this, you'll find that there's an `-X` option that allows you to set less to draw on the primary screen but this has a couple of drawbacks. Notably, this makes less not capture mouse scroll events which means you can no longer scroll through the file with mouse scroll.
If, instead of `-X`, you use this new `--redraw-on-quit` option, less will continue drawing on the alternate screen, so mouse scroll will work and after quitting less will just redraw what you've last seen before quitting on the primary screen.
I find this useful because after finding what I need using less, I usually want to type some command that's based on what I've seen there and this allows me to still see what I was looking at after quitting less.

TL; DR:
<no options> - doesn't keep output after quitting, mouse scroll works
`-X` - keeps output after quitting, breaks mouse scroll
`--redraw-on-quit` - keeps (technically redraws) output after quitting, mouse scroll works

Congratulations to the new Python Steering Council for 2023!

* Pablo Galindo Salgado
* Gregory P. Smith @gpshead
* Emily Morehouse
* Brett Cannon @brettcannon
* Thomas Wouters @Yhg1s

And a welcome to first-time council member, Emily Morehouse. The other four were also members (at least) last year.

https://peps.python.org/pep-8104/#results #PythonSteeringCouncil #Python #SteeringCouncil

Somehow `less` only has 328 GitHub stars! Give it some love ⭐️

https://github.com/gwsw/less