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
Do you have a website for your family? Any interest in sharing it with me?
Looking to set something up, and I'd be interested in seeing other examples of the genre.
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Another lost treasure of the internet is the sci.electronics.repair FAQ.
http://www.walshcomptech.com/repairfaq/REPAIR/F_tshoot.html
Just look at this goddamn thing. Thousands and thousands of words, chock-full of battle tested wisdom, enough to help anyone with some motivation solve their problems. Zero monetization, zero bullshit. What ever happened to that Internet? I sure do miss it.
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If you're looking for a chance to get paid to write meaningful open source software, here's one of those rare opportunities. Fully remote.
We're hiring additional software engineers to join the SecureDrop team, an open source platform to protect journalists & whistleblowers. Our posting outlines the specific skillsets we're looking for:
https://freedom.press/jobs/sr-software-engineers-securedrop/
If this describes you, please get in touch! Happy to answer questions.
Anyone in #SLC have ideas for fun and relatively unique things to do with a 3 year old (and a 1 month old) in the Salt Lake City area? (Let's say no more than a 1 hour drive away)
Unfortunate name for a children's juice, I'd say: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thiamine_deficiency
Self-hosting crowd:
Is there any relatively "out of the box" solution for self-hosting services like @nextcloud, Pixelfed, etc on a local server (possibly an RPi)?
Ideally I'd store the configuration for it in a git repo or something so that I can easily re-deploy it to a new machine without much fuss.
Even a collection of ansible playbooks with a relatively good provenance would be acceptable I think.
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AntennaPod 2.3 is rolling out! Already on Google Play since a couple of days, and hopefully soon also on @fdroidorg. You can now tag your subscriptions to organize them. For a full list of changes, have a look at our website: https://antennapod.org/blog/2021/07/2-3-0-release
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🦀 Software Developer, Rust
We're looking for two developers to join the team that develops and maintains the networking software at the core of the Tor network, keeping it secure and improving it for the future.
https://www.torproject.org/about/jobs/rust-dev/
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I think the fragment on the end of this NWS URL (if you reload after a few seconds you get a different one) may be a tweak to slow down auto-reloaders. Agree? Know otherwise? https://forecast.weather.gov/MapClick.php?lat=42.6198&lon=-72.5933#.YPoUWjopCCi
There's a new #python dateutil release: 2.8.2, with bug fixes and updates to the built-in tzdata. This will likely be the last release that bundles tzdata (we plan to switch to the `tzdata` package).
Thanks to new maintainer @mariocj89@twitter.com for putting it together!
PyPI: https://pypi.org/project/python-dateutil/
Changelog: https://dateutil.readthedocs.io/en/stable/changelog.html#version-2-8-2-2021-07-08
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RT @Yhg1s
There's one thing more exciting to me about https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2021/07/ukasz-langa-is-inaugural-cpython.html than the fact that we hired Łukasz, and that's the number of qualified candidates we got. We had a *very tough decision* because we could only hire one -- this time 'round. Fund @ThePSF so we can hire the rest!
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Does anyone know of any culture that has a unique unambiguous gesture to say "thank you" ? We generally manage to convey it by nods and smiles and other context-dependent signals, but does some culture have a context-independent clear non-verbal way to convey thanks?
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I wanted to say "thank you" to someone using an emoji, and realized there's no clear single emoji for that. In fact no clear real world non-verbal way to say it either. How weird that we created nods and shrugs and namastes and many others, but none for this very common thing humans want to express.
At my son's preschool they made paper crowns to celebrate 4th of July and now I'm worried that I may have accidentally enrolled him in a Royalist school...
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Another of my favorite podcasts is going "spotify only". Reminder, in case you support spotify, that they are terrible and are ruining the last widely used distributed part of the web.
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anybody out there (within range of US domestic shipping) have use for a texas instruments t-nspire cx? student in your life who can't afford one? just want to hack on it?
this thing: https://education.ti.com/en/products/calculators/graphing-calculators/ti-nspire-cx-cas
free to a good home. full disclosure: i hate this thing. have had for some years, pretty much like new since i've barely used it.
(boosts welcome.)
Bearded man in a Firefox t-shirt wearing latex gloves and eating ice cream: "Wow, how'd it get that name?"
Naturalist: 😐
Foxglove beardtongue: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penstemon_digitalis
Weirdly, there's no "etymology" section where it explains that it got its name from someone desperately looking around the room and naming random objects that came into their vision.
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
