Yesterday I released version 0.6.0 of my audiobook RSS server, audio-feeder
: https://github.com/pganssle/audio-feeder
It takes your directory of audiobooks and generates an RSS feed for each one, so that you can listen to them in your standard podcast listening flow.
I’m particularly happy with the new feature “rendered feeds”, which uses ffmpeg
behind the scenes to generate alternate feeds where the audiobook is broken up along different lines.
I was thinking about this because I was thinking about how I might optimize the resource consumption of a program where I’m ~the only user, and then I thought, “Hmmm.. If I spend that same time working on an open source project currently used by millions of people, with even a modest improvement I could probably save more energy than my homebrew project will consume in its entire lifetime.”
Fun stuff.
It would be interesting to live in a world where most people used this or something like it in production: https://www.sciagraph.com/
I’m kinda curious to know stuff like, “How much electricity would it save if time zone conversions in pandas were 20% more efficient?”
I have been using Git a long, long time. I have worked on Git clients and libraries. At some places I've worked, I am the person folks go to when they need Git help.
And yet, only today I learned you can pass -m to commit twice (or more) and it will do the right thing of making each successive message a new paragraph (which is useful for the convention of a short summary as a single first line and following paragraphs as a more detailed message).
#askfedi Expanding on my earlier laptop query: I'd love to find a site with a comprehensive database of laptops from say the past ten years that lets you search by filtering on specs like:
* Weight
* Ports
* Screen size, resolution
* Screen brightness
* Claimed battery life
Know of anything like this? It would be a much more direct and efficient way for me to build up my shortlist of machines I look for in the used market. TIA.
Well, here I am on Mastadon.
Intro in order, I suppose. That's how it works, right?
Me:
- That datetime guy. Ask me about time zones, DST, leap year bugs, etc.
- Been doing .NET/C# longer than I can remember. 20+ years. These days I code mostly on a Mac.
- I work at Sentry, and used to work at Microsoft.
- I live in the forests of Woodinville WA, with wife Maggie, my son, and our three dogs.
- I like Star Trek, home improvement, and playing stupid pop music on the piano.
HI! 👋🙂
📣 #Python News:
Let's welcome the newest Python core developer: @hugovk. Hugo has been contributing to Python for years, improving our docs, devguide, toolings, and infrastructure. He's also one of the PEP editors and an active member of the Python docs community.
Hugo's promotion to become core dev was approved by Python Steering Council yesterday. 👏🥳
https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-hugo-van-kemenade/20990
How can a music notation data format encode the music of a concert-pitch score along with individual transposed-instrument parts, without duplicating information? What's the right level of abstraction?
If that question makes any sense to you, check out my proposal and the current discussion in this GitHub issue:
Nice: https://www.nature.com/articles/d41586-022-03783-5
I hope this half-solution to a non-problem is actually gone for good 🙂.
I don’t think I’ve ever met anyone who needed or wanted leap seconds. And I’ve spent some time looking!
Why did nobody tell me that in #Python 3.11, datetime.fromisotimestamp() can parse arbitrary ISO timestamps!? #gameChanger
(Before it could only parse the output from datetime.isoformat(); e.g. choking on timestamps ending with a Z for UTC.)
PyCon US CFP is still open but only for another 3 weeks or so! (Closes Dec 9)
Your tasks:
- submit a talk
- tell others about the CFP
- encourage others to submit a talk
- do an #IceCreamSelfie after your talk
Go!
I unravelled `lambda` expressions for my #Python syntactic sugar blog series: https://snarky.ca/unraveling-lambda-expressions/
And with that, I am done with the series (again 😅)! https://snarky.ca/tag/syntactic-sugar/
The summary post at https://snarky.ca/mvpy-minimum-viable-python/ has been updated with my latest posts, getting the list of Python syntax you need an interpreter to support down to 11.
Whenever I think "This person in the Python community is so awesome, surely they've already received the Community Service award/already a PSF fellow member", and when I looked into it, turns out I was wrong.
Then I make it right by actually writing up the PSF Fellow/Community Service award nomination for them so that they'll be properly recognized.
You too can nominate people who are doing great work in the #Python community! PSF Fellow nominations are due Nov 20!
We are #obspy, resistance is fudel.
We make code that other people use to make code to make everybody understand this piece of rock better that we all sit on.
observations are that person that operates the seismometer their own
#introduction #python #scicomm #seismology #earthquakes #foss
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.