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
Has anyone out there gotten Wireguard working with the NetworkManager UI?
Seems like there used to be a plugin that added Wireguard endpoints as VPNs, but it got upstream support and NetworkManager now can import Wireguard configurations and…. doesn’t show them in the UI. The plugin doesn’t work anymore.
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@pganssle @jerub How about EDTF (level 0) by the Library of Congress? https://www.loc.gov/standards/datetime/
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@jerub Which I find mildly annoying, since the discussion always goes, “We should document that we accept ISO8601!”
“Ok, but that’s a ton of work because of XYZ, and includes formats that, if you encounter them, are more likely to be typos than deliberate choices.”
“Err, ok, let’s do RFC3339.”
“Ok, so datetime only and time zone is required, as is the T separator.”
“Well no that’s too strict, I guess we should just accept some ad hoc defined formats that are ISO8601-like.”
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@jerub RFC 3339 is stricter than the subset of ISO 8601 that most people talk about, because it is only a datetime format and requires a time zone.
As far as I can tell there is no standard that describes the subset of ISO8601 that people actually care about.
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Did you know that ISO 8601 is a very large standard that describes more than a single date and time format?
It describes periods, repetitions, many different syntax of describing years, week-of-year, day-of-year, seasons, quarters, semesters, trimesters.
It's mostly unknown because the standards are paywalled: you can't just read ISO 8601 without paying ISO money.
Most of the time, when people refer to ISO 8601, they mean the subset that is described in RFC 3339.
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Hey, remember that podcast I announced last year? https://www.conferencetalk.am/episodes/0002/assembling-an-organizing-team/
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This looks like a fun RSE job on Colorado:
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@pganssle Two Lebanese television channels and an airline are sticking with the old rules...
https://edition.cnn.com/2023/03/25/middleeast/lebanon-daylight-savings-intl/index.html
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Dear Google: when I am searching for a Python term, I would like you to prioritize the results pointing to the actual python.org documentation, not the dozen content farms that have popped up that republish copies of the Python documentation so they can cover them with ads.
Son: “Papa, what do you want for your birthday?”
Me: “How about a hug?”
Son: “No, something I can give you.”
Me: “Buddy you are by present, how about just hanging out with me?”
Son: “No, something you wrap.”
And as usual, if you have the ear of someone involved in setting time zone policy in Lebanon (or anywhere), maybe send them this article: https://codeofmatt.com/on-the-timing-of-time-zone-changes/
Latest version of tzdata (2023b) is out (on PyPI and upstream!): https://pypi.org/project/tzdata/
This includes a change to Lebanon’s Daylight Saving Time going into effect… this weekend, so don’t delay in your updates if you work with any datetimes in Lebanon!
If you are a #git expert and understand how cherry-pick works at a fundamental level, I’d appreciate if you could take a look at this StackOverflow question: https://stackoverflow.com/q/75825183/467366
Trying to figure out the best way to merge a specific PR that will make importing datetime significantly faster.
There actually does seem to be quite a bit of overlap between what he’s talking about and what @simon has done with datasette and dogsheep.
Found it: this was Pascal van Kooten on Podcast.__init__: https://www.pythonpodcast.com/nostalgia-personal-data-repository-episode-248/
He was talking about his project Nostalgia: https://nostalgia-dev.github.io
I vaguely recall that I listened to an episode of @talkpython or Podcast.__init__ or something where the guest had some sort of elaborate system fo...
Aww yeah, I am very ready for some lab grown meat: https://www.npr.org/sections/health-shots/2023/03/21/1165071880/fda-gives-2nd-safety-nod-to-cultivated-meat-produced-without-slaughtering-animal
I’m guessing just 2-4 more years of bureaucratic hurdles until it’s available but expensive, then 15 more years until I can eat a cultivated eagle steak with elephant marbling.
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I work at 2U on edx.org and Open edX. We are hiring: https://2u.com/careers/jobs/?keyword=&team=12&location=215
The reason I’m looking for this is that I’d really like to set up a system where I can easily capture small snippets of information about my day, like a journal with a bit more structure.
There are a bunch of numerical things that I track in sort of haphazard and idiosyncratic ways — I measure my weight and body fat % and track it in Google Calendar, I have a “Track and Plot” app on Android for my Uric Acid levels, and I use paper and pen to track my weight lifting.
I’d love to be able to have a free-form journal that can include voice/audio or text, plus numerical, boolean or structured data entries at specific points. Ideally something that uses an open format and can easily be synced between an app on my phone and something on my computer.
I vaguely recall that I listened to an episode of @talkpython or Podcast.__init__ or something where the guest had some sort of elaborate system for documenting everything about their life. Might be some sort of quantified self thing. Anyone else remember this and can track down the link?
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Just a quick reminder!
In California, the Los Angeles Public Library allows you to get a library card even outside of LA, as long as you live in California.
With your, #LAPL account you have access to a lot of program including free #LinkedinLearning and #Coursera.
https://lapl.org/education-research
Other Public libraries probably offer the same.
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
