Paul Ganssle @pganssle@qoto.org

Definitely not worth $4000, but if I were on Jeopardy and got this clue, I would have been very sorely tempted to answer, "What is 01189998819991197253?"

The branding of this restaurant in Madrid is really sending mixed messages about its legitimacy.

Every day as a parent, explaining why your kids need to do not fun stuff that is good for them:

It inspires great trepidation and ambivalence when I find something new that belongs in my "What to do when the bug is in someone else's code" talk (https://ganssle.io/talks/#upstream-bugs), but I think `patchy` has earned a slide.

Or, as the kids say, "Thanks! I hate it!"

https://mobile.twitter.com/AdamChainz/status/1539747526567510016

@cnx In case you are willing / able to help: https://twitter.com/jugmac00/status/1534209238268104705?s=20&t=mwOtLNlkgfyQVaNjri4l0Q

D... does the Travel Town Museum have a (decommissioned?) nuclear powered train?

Also saw some Cedar Waxwings in a tree right across the street from the swallow. This isn't my first time seeing those, but they're still reasonably rare (and not to mention pretty).

Too bad it's such a dreary day…

#birds

Saw this gorgeous tree swallow on my "walk to work" this morning. Been seeing this one and another one around these last few days, but this season is the first time I've ever seen them!

#birds #birding

Dear Shokz Corporation,

I dig all the cool pictures of people running with your bone conduction headphones on, but maybe you could also have one or two photographs of like... all the buttons, and the location of the charging port?

Despite actually wanting a new phone, I ended up having my existing phone repaired because I couldn't find a satisfactory phone.

Plus side: my phone's battery is no longer bulging out the back.

Down side: I have been forced to opt out of the cycle of consumer electronic churn!

Who needs airline status when you can get boarding priority by traveling with young children?

So relaxing...

#lifehack

A while back I gave this talk on how to contribute to open source: https://ganssle.io/talks/#contributing-oss-pydata2018

Video: https://youtu.be/JhPC6_rO08s

I cannot *possibly* be the best speaker to give some version of this talk — does anyone have a good "canonical" version of this?

I have no idea if this will work out and I may have to end up cancelling / rescheduling meetings if they become impractical, but if you want to meet me at #PyCon, I've set up a schedule for 15-minute 1-on-1 chats:

https://calendly.com/meet-pganssle/one-on-one

#PyConUS2022

I don't know if this is a valid metric of velocity in software engineering, but I'm definitely feeling productive today after making it to the 4ᵗʰ new failure mode on this pipeline I'm trying to get running.

OK, we've got a tricky UX problem in datetime.isoformat and I could use typical users' intuitive thoughts here. If you are a #python programmer, can you take this short survey? Please don't do any research before filling it out!

https://ganssle.io/s/isoformat-survey

Boosts appreciated!

Lego isn't even pretending anymore. They're just straight up making caltrops.