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
That said, I remember liking Murder at the Margin and the other Henry Spearman “economics professor solves murders with economics” books, so who knows…
Critical Chain is a novel by Dr. Eliyahu Goldratt using the critical chain theory of project management as the major theme.
Sounds like a real banger…
Paul Ganssle
boosted
I'm excited to chat with @glyph next Thursday @ 2300-2400 UTC (3p-4p PT), for my OSS Office Hours @ https://youtube.com/jayofdoom.
I expect we'll be talking about lots of things, but I want to pick his brain about how twisted got started and things he's learned while working on it.
Paul Ganssle
boosted
Paul Ganssle
boosted
Hey @conda switched to Calendar Versioning, nice! By unanimous vote, too: https://github.com/conda-incubator/ceps/blob/main/cep-8.md
https://calver.org for details. #conda #CalVer #python
“Whenever there’s a SuperKitties ad it makes me want to watch SuperKitties.”
YouTube uses Targeted Advertising… It’s super effective!
Amazon seems to be suggesting that I should order a “spare prince harry”.
I don’t even have one prince harry, I can’t imagine that I’d need two of them.
Wow, this is the first time I’ve encountered Youtube “shorts”. This is horrible.
I want to say that this marks my transition into a “kids these days are incomprehensible” old man, but I’m pretty sure that this isn’t even my final form in that respect.
Paul Ganssle
boosted
Any of y’all #ios havers understand how to add a podcast by RSS url in the podcasts app?
I unfortunately have a few #apple users in my life and when I try to add podcast feeds available locally, nothing seems to work. Safari doesn’t know what app to open RSS feeds with, so I go into podcasts, click the three dots and “Follow show by URL”, click submit and then… nothing. No indication of success or failure, and the show doesn’t seem to be there.
I’ll note that this has happened on two totally different phones.
I know the feeds work because my wife found some convoluted way to add it once that involved QR codes, and the feed opens just fine. I also used to be able to do this somehow, and I can see old feeds that I added in their list of shows.
Any of y’all #ios havers understand how to add a podcast by RSS url in the podcasts app?
I unfortunately have a few #apple users in my life and when I try to add podcast feeds available locally, nothing seems to work. Safari doesn’t know what app to open RSS feeds with, so I go into podcasts, click the three dots and “Follow show by URL”, click submit and then… nothing. No indication of success or failure, and the show doesn’t seem to be there.
“Did you know that Alexa can do fart sounds?”
Normal person: “No.”
Person with kids: “Um. Yes. I’m familiar.”
Some PM at Amazon: “sigh Yes.”
Excerpt from someone at Amazon’s promotion document:
- Spearheaded the development of the “Big Fart” Alexa skill, which has been activate 20M times in its first quarter.
- Added “wet farts” and “squeaky farts”, increasing engagement with the “Big Fart” skill by 25%
Paul Ganssle
boosted
This is the best write up I've seen for how and why to use #pytest 's xfail. I think the key part is it's helpful when managing an *evolving* codebase.
https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/11/pytest-xfail.html
Best =
* Tallies with my thoughts ✅
* Written far clearer than I could ✅
By @pganssle and I found it in this thread: https://fosstodon.org/@pythonbynight/109502171357299066
Paul Ganssle
boosted
Medieval landlords regularly collected eels as rent. But they didn't always eat them. Sometimes they bought things w/ their eels.
In the early 1200s the Ramsey monks rented a local causeway at the yearly rate of 1 pair of scarlet pants, 2 pounds of pepper & ginger, & 1,000 eels.
Later on, the property owner's widow renegotiated the causeway lease. She wanted 40 carts of firewood, 1/2 mark, and 1000 eels per year.
Apparently she was done with the red pants.
#Eels #History #medieval
Paul Ganssle
boosted
👋 Hey again #Mastodon.
Giving this a spin again, whatever the future of general purpose social media may be.
I'm into #python, #software, #opensource, #foss, #wikipedia, #freeculture, #فارسی, #fintech, and #photography. Oh, and lately, #fatherhood.
More about me on my site: https://sedimental.org/about.html
My goal for Q4 2022 was to get out at least one new blog post or public talk. Almost made it.
Attractive nuisances in software design: https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2023/01/attractive-nuisances.html
A common anti-pattern where a problem has a solution that is obvious, intuitive and wrong.
Paul Ganssle
boosted
New short blog post on the PyPy blog, bit of a PSA: Repeated string concatenation is quadratic on PyPy (and sometimes on CPython)
https://www.pypy.org/posts/2023/01/string-concatenation-quadratic.html
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
