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Like I just said on stage at #PyConUS , the @pytexas virtual meetup happens every month, first Tuesday of the month, at 8pm central. The meetup happens on Discord, so you can invite some Texas into wherever you are!

Our CFP is always open, so if you want to speak, go sign up. If you want help building your talk, we can help! Talk to me, I got you!

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"But other parsers know too much about HTML. They choke on or try to rewrite bad markup. They assume you care about the whole document. A pirate might make you walk the plank, but only a parser would make you walk the whole tree."

Happy 20th birthday to the #Python screen-scraping library Beautiful Soup by @leonardr .

Man, some folks do such a good job with the design of their slides, it makes me want to do better.

Picture is from [Steph Orella Bello](sporella.xyz)'s talk, but there are many other intimidatingly good presentations out there.

Juggling starts a little early today: 3:45 in the open space hallway! #PyConUS

Luckily my target audience — parents of 2-6 year olds — is used to getting up early 😅

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"Hm... maybe if I wear a fake mustache and a hat, I can sign up for two lightning talks in a row, and then I don't have to cut this one down quite so brutally...."

Some motivation for you to get up and to the venue early tomorrow morning: I'll be giving a lightning talk about my (FOSS) chord trainer application (for children).

- [Slides here](pganssle-talks.github.io/chord)
- [App Link](pganssle.github.io/cim/)

Tomorrow morning’s #PyConUS lightning ⚡️🌩️ talks have been selected and speakers selected have been emailed! Please keep your 👀 peeled as we have some logistics in the email for y’all!

Thanks! CC: @Thepsf @pyladies

By the way for various reasons I happen to have a bunch of Google Open Source swag to give away and nowhere to give it away, so if you are at and want a flashlight, let me know.

@pganssle giving a talk walking those familiar with unittest on the basics (and some advanced items) on #pytest at #PyConUS

I use pytest daily, but still found this talk pretty helpful. (Note to self: '--stepwise')

#PyCon

Pro tip for #pyconus #pycon speakers, presenters, tutorial hosts - dark text on white background is more legible than vice versa. The projector does a better job at projecting white light and the dark text shows off in a better contrast. As a member of the audience it’s more legible on a projector screen than white text on dark background - especially from far.

I have a very specific question about Matplotlib usage at NASA in the Science Mission Directorate:

Does anyone know of usage of Matplotlib specifically in the Biological and Physical Sciences Division?

#pycon2024 #PyCon #PyConUS2024

If you are coming in person to #PyConUS in Pittsburgh this weekend, and are comfortable playing the guitar in public, let me know? I may be preparing a surprise for the 20th anniversary of Beautiful Soup harihareswara.net/posts/2024/c .

I'm thinking small, clearly labeled Tupperware containers and a few scoops will maybe put customs inspectors in a less suspicious frame of mind?

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Ok, I am traveling to Spain soon, and when I travel I usually bring a bit of protein powder (I put it in cottage cheese or yogurt to add some flavor and texture).

However, I suspect that my usual approach — Ziploc baggies in a freezer bag — might invite, uh... extra scrutiny... at customs (see photo).

Anyone have alternative ideas about how to transport this stuff without creating suspicion? The original packaging won't work because it is very bulky.

I've just released cibuildwheel 2.18.0, with prerelease support for CPython 3.13 - set CIBW_PRERELEASE_PYTHONS to test building 3.13 wheels! (No free-threading yet, waiting on binaries & pip) github.com/pypa/cibuildwheel/r #python #release

Next month, @the_compiler is organising a pytest sprint in Austria, next to the Swiss border.

There's also a possibility for paid travel/accommodation.

See github.com/pytest-dev/sprint for more info and signup.
#Python #pytest #sprint

What better way to spend Friday afternoon than watching me talk about Chapter 7 of Probably Overthinking It?

"Causation, Collision, and Confusion"

youtube.com/watch?v=8rUm46mk0Y

I was at Google today to give a talk about Chapter 7 of Probably Overthinking It: Causation, Collision, and Confusion.

I'll post the video when it's available, but in the meantime, the slides are here: docs.google.com/presentation/d

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