Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

Reminder that depending on your Mastodon instance, you may be missing some #PyConUS posts.

When I search my personal instance for #PyConUS, it shows "55 people in the past 2 days"
mas.to: "155 people in the past 2 days"
mastodon.social: "170 people in the past 2 days"
fosstodon: "164 people in the past 2 days"

You can see all the mastodon.social conference posts at
https://mastodon.social/tags/pyconus

or via RSS at
https://mastodon.social/tags/pyconus.rss

(More info in my pinned post https://masto.machlis.com/@smach/110745938219191480 )

Anyone lose a dark blue folio with very well written notes in Room 321 at #PyConUS? I dropped it off at the registration desk so stop by there if you see this.

Please boost for spread!

@rhave @kyhwana I really wish there was a better name and reference for the HTML date standard. RFC3339 is good for a human readable interchange for computers, but its treatment of timezones makes it less suitable for a computer/human interchange.

ISO-8601 can die in a fire.

Today at #PyConUS we are celebrating the 20th anniversary of @leonardr's library Beautiful Soup as an Open Space!

Join us in:
Room 315
1:45-2:30pm

for the party, featuring zines and lightning talks, and say hi to Leonard!

#PyCon #PyCon2024 #PyConUS2024

Like I just said on stage at #PyConUS , the @pytexas virtual meetup happens every month, first Tuesday of the month, at 8pm central. The meetup happens on Discord, so you can invite some Texas into wherever you are!

Our CFP is always open, so if you want to speak, go sign up. If you want help building your talk, we can help! Talk to me, I got you!

http://www.crummy.com/2004/05/20/1

"But other parsers know too much about HTML. They choke on or try to rewrite bad markup. They assume you care about the whole document. A pirate might make you walk the plank, but only a parser would make you walk the whole tree."

Happy 20th birthday to the #Python screen-scraping library Beautiful Soup by @leonardr .

hey psst svcs stickers spotted at n the PSF sticker table! #PyConUS

Juggling starts a little early today: 3:45 in the open space hallway! #PyConUS

Tomorrow morning’s #PyConUS lightning ⚡️🌩️ talks have been selected and speakers selected have been emailed! Please keep your 👀 peeled as we have some logistics in the email for y’all!

Thanks! CC: @Thepsf @pyladies

@pganssle giving a talk walking those familiar with unittest on the basics (and some advanced items) on #pytest at #PyConUS

I use pytest daily, but still found this talk pretty helpful. (Note to self: '--stepwise')

#PyCon

Pro tip for #pyconus #pycon speakers, presenters, tutorial hosts - dark text on white background is more legible than vice versa. The projector does a better job at projecting white light and the dark text shows off in a better contrast. As a member of the audience it’s more legible on a projector screen than white text on dark background - especially from far.

I have a very specific question about Matplotlib usage at NASA in the Science Mission Directorate:

Does anyone know of usage of Matplotlib specifically in the Biological and Physical Sciences Division?

#pycon2024 #PyCon #PyConUS2024

If you are coming in person to #PyConUS in Pittsburgh this weekend, and are comfortable playing the guitar in public, let me know? I may be preparing a surprise for the 20th anniversary of Beautiful Soup https://www.harihareswara.net/posts/2024/celebrate-beautiful-soups-20th-anniversary/ .