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
Paul Ganssle
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Twitter is falling apart. Reddit is falling apart. Facebook fell apart ages ago. Meta is a trashfire. Instagram is baloney. Google can't even search for anything you want anymore.
You know what website still miraculously works?
Wikipedia.
You should donate to keep it that way.
I’ve been tempted to get an Oura ring, but I’m a bit worried that the device would become useless if the company went under and also, more importantly, it seems like they have a proprietary charger that costs $60!
Why don’t people build their stuff to work with standard wireless charging pads 😭
Paul Ganssle
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wow TIL that as of #tox 4, you can absolutely SLAY the environment build times if your project builds universal wheels (= virtually all pure-#Python ones)
Just add
```
[testenv]
package = wheel
wheel_build_env = .pkg
```
and it won’t build your package for every Python version anew: https://tox.wiki/en/latest/upgrading.html#universal-wheels
For my service-identity which has a very quick test suite but a lot of factor combinations, it’s 3m vs 30s. structlog that has fewer but slower envs is still 2:35 vs 1:47.
Me: “I should get this shirt.”
Wife: “… Why?”
Me: “To look extremely cool, obviously.”
Nailed it.
(Not shown: the matching one my 5 year old was wearing.)
Paul Ganssle
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Calling all #Python library maintainers! 🐍
Python 3.12 is in beta! 🎉
This means no new features are allowed in and it's now time to start testing your code. You might find things in your code to fix, or even better, you might find things to fix in Python itself!
Here's how to do it:
https://dev.to/hugovk/help-test-python-312-beta-1508 #python312 #beta #test #CI #GitHubActions
Paul Ganssle
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req for suggestions to my limited following 😅 anyone know of any tools/services for capturing user feedback on CLI tools e.g. “try out this new feature: do the prompts make sense? do the commands make sense for the task(s) we're asking you to do?”
Paul Ganssle
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git pro tip
`git log -S some_variable_name` returns all commits where `some_variable_name` is in the diff (either removed, added, or modified)
super useful for tracking down regressions where you know the variable that's the culprit
Note: I will eventually try fish or zsh, but my schedule and to-do list don’t currently permit me to rework all my dotfiles to work with a new shell.
I’ve tried atuin so far, and I don’t like it. I think I can only use it with the full screen history search and somehow despite the fact that it’s automatically merging commands from all shells, it still loses commands, sometimes from the shell I’m currently using.
Does anyone have a good solution for handling bash history?
What (I think) I want:
- History search for each shell searches the history of that shell first, then all other shells’ history.
- I don’t want to lose history from windows opened in tmux or when I’m running a bunch of shells in parallel.
What I don’t care about:
- Syncing history
- Fuzzy search
What I don’t want:
- Mandatory full-screen history search
Paul Ganssle
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This post basically describes my approach to understanding computers (and to doing physics):
https://rachelbythebay.com/w/2023/05/30/eng/
- watch / poke / use system
- develop mental model of why it is
- find where that model breaks and you can not predict what the system does correctly
The places where your mental model and reality are wrong are the most interesting and productive things to look at!
Do you use #linux and #keepassxc?
I am wondering if you also see this behavior: https://github.com/keepassxreboot/keepassxc/issues/9438#issuecomment-1564883094
If you don’t, what OS and desktop environment are you using?
Paul Ganssle
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Next, GitHub will be removing support for Python 2.7 from actions/setup-python in under a month, on 19th June. 🪦
"Breaking changes
"Hello everyone. The Python 2.7.x will be removed from python-versions and it won't be possible to set up Python 2.7.x by setup-python.
"The motivation for the changes
"Python2.7 is not supported since January 1, 2020."
This is the one place where ChatGPT has seemed useful to me, by the way. When I try and use it for anything Python-related, it’s worse than useless because I know Python stuff way better than ChatGPT, and it’s faster for me to just do it myself anyway.
When I’m trying to get a handle on super basic questions, ChatGPT seems to be kind of OK at explaining things in such a way as to unblock me.
Not that I think that there’s something we or they could be doing a ton better. I’m sure there are reasons for why it’s all confusing and disorienting.
Spending time trying to contribute to open source Android applications really brings me a lot of empathy for new Python users.
I barely understand what I’m doing. The packaging ecosystem seems complicated and I don’t understand it. When I try and upgrade versions a bunch of stuff breaks. The documentation refers to a bunch of stuff I don’t understand, and seems relevant only to newer code bases.
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The votes have been counted, announcing the 2022 #Wikimedia #Commons Picture of the Year 
Great cormorant (Phalacrocorax carbo), Little egret (Egretta garzetta) and Gadwell duck (Mareca strepera) in Taudaha Lake, near Katmandu, Nepal.
Attribution: Prasan Shrestha / CC-BY-SA 4.0
3,600+ voters selected this picture first out of 1,102 featured pictures and 55 other finalists!
See the rest of the results: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/Special:MyLanguage/Commons:Picture_of_the_Year/2022/Results
Paul Ganssle
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Long shot, but anyone with Android / Android Auto experience know what’s going on here?
Long shot, but anyone with Android / Android Auto experience know what’s going on here?
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
