Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

Man, @psobot has some beautiful slides. Curious to know how some of this was done.

#pyconus

Also, I apologize in advance, I had much more limited time than normal to prepare this talk this year and I haven't had a chance yet to go through and add good alt text to all the images. If that's something that is valuable to you, check back in ~1 week.

If you are at #PyConUS and you might be interested in my talk, "Programming for Yourself", it is today at 14:45 in Room 301-305

The slides are available on github here: https://pganssle-talks.github.io/2025-pycon-us-programming-for-yourself

Thanks for the help everyone who was looking for this. Just heard back from the Uber driver and apparently they found it! ☺

If anyone at #PyConUS finds this fitness tracker, please let me know. It fell out of the band today around noon, possibly near the registration desk.

Oof, the new captchas on StackExchange sites are killer. That 20-30 second delay is annoying enough that I basically avoid answers on SE sites now. Unless other people aren't seeing these, this must be killing their traffic.

Anyone out there using #AR / #VR headsets for productivity on #Linux? I would love to be able to ditch my portable second monitor in favor of some glasses with virtual monitors in them, even if the experience isn't suitable for replacing my main daily driver.

Also very interested to hear about portable new input methods that could potentially replace a keyboard.

Aw yeah, just preordered a Pebble Core 2: https://ericmigi.com/blog/introducing-two-new-pebbleos-watches

Now I just have to wait ~9 months. I guess in the meantime I can start working on a custom watchface for it!

#pebble #repebble

"Usually I go with the flow, but this time I decided to go for it, so I will go down to the office and tell my boss that I want to go up for promotion. If he doesn't go along with it, I won't just go away, I won't go down without a fight even if I have to go ahead and go around him and go over his head. It might be a lot to go through, but I don't want to let my life go by unlived! Sorry to go on for so long, going into so much detail. Say, you seem like a good listener, do you want to go out sometime? Then we wouldn't have to go it alone."

I am so often thankful that English is my native language. I am very grateful for everyone who, as an adult, has taken it upon themselves to learn our crazy system of phrasal verbs. I would really hate to have to try to remember all the differences in meaning that come from appending a different preposition to the same verb.

"The bully, looking for someone to pick on, picked out a boy who he saw picking at his face; the bully knocked down the boy's books that he was using to pick up lock picking and made him pick them up. Perhaps he thought this was a good way to pick up girls?"

(Note that "pick up" is used with 3 different senses in this paragraph).