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
Feels similar to the way that everyone my age got chicken pox and no one ten years younger than me (and with sane parents) got it. What a time to be alive.
As someone who lost a lot of weight and kept it off using old fashioned willpower and exercise, I am *really* happy that these drugs are making that horrible process optional.
(Plus making weight loss available to the large fraction of people for whom — empirically — the "old fashioned" method does not work).
I blogged about my experiences with weight loss drugs. And also vibe-coded a tool to calculate your excess calories. https://willmcgugan.github.io/...
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PSA: You have less than two weeks to nominate someone for PSF Fellowship for Q4 of 2025. Details at https://www.python.org/psf/fellows/, and I wrote a blog post about the topic last year at https://www.jonafato.com/2024/10/31/psf-fellow-nominations-q4-due-date.
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An interesting coincidence how @willmcgugan’s weight loss blog post comes just 2 weeks after my own! Clearly, it’s a topic on people’s minds. My account involves no injections, so you can treat it as an alternative approach.
https://lukasz.langa.pl/b2217f47-6312-458f-955f-d63a752a9ad0/
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I blogged about my experiences with weight loss drugs. And also vibe-coded a tool to calculate your excess calories.
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The wait is over — #PyConUS 2026 is here! 🙌
The #PyConUS 2026 site is now LIVE and the Call for Proposals is OPEN! We can't wait to welcome you to Long Beach, CA this spring and spotlight the incredible work happening across the Python community 🐍
👉 Details: https://pycon.blogspot.com/2025/10/pycon-us-2026-call-for-proposals-now.html
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The Steering Council has accepted PEP 810 (explicit lazy imports) for Python 3.15!
https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-810-explicit-lazy-imports/104131/466
7 y/o: "I just want to check the date."
Me: "It's November 1st."
7 y/o: "November?! That means it's Christmas!"
A future Target / Walmart / department store executive in the making I see.
"Alexa, play Halloween music"
*Zombie by The Cranberries starts playing*
... I... guess?
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🎙️ Bored this weekend? Well, we have Part 2 of the interviews from the CPython core sprint in Cambridge UK. Don’t worry, this one’s shorter than Part 1. Only 2 hours 18 minutes. Much less than Part 1!
✨ Hear from Greg, Thomas, Paul, Pradyun, Carol, Guido, Brett, Erlend, Tal, Lysandros, Yury, and Diego.
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SemVer is just an attractive nuisance at point. The concept simply doesn't survive even a short contact with reality.
I have to say that unfortunately, since Mozilla took over K9 mail and turned it into Thunderbird for Android, it has really ruined the usability for me. Anyone have any recommendations for other #foss email clients?
Bonus points if they can handle sending from catch-all email addresses.
Might be a controversial opinion, but I think using freeways for long term parking might not be the most effective use of the roads...
I am unreasonably pleased that #PyBay has open wifi with no captive portal.
So this happened at TSA today, which means it's time to get new headphones. Are bone conduction headphones still the best option for headphones that you can wear all the time but you can hear it when people talk to you?
My ideal headset would be very discreet, such that people can barely tell you are wearing them (or if they are visible I would prefer if people felt comfortable talking to me while wearing them).
I do not use Apple products.
Just got hit by the thing where YouTube on mobile automatically dubs videos into the language your interface is in with no way to turn it off (WTF?!). The solution I found was to open the video in NewPipe and go to Settings > Video & Audio > Prefer original audio.
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Hmm... Should I take a few hours to buy a new computer now, or should I wait until my existing computer completely falls apart and buy one in a panic later... Choices, choices...
(Just kidding, it's definitely going to be the second one)
The traditional Columbus Day celebration of not going to work sometimes.
7 y/o: "What's Columbus Day?"
Me: "<General explanation of who Columbus was>... So basically, it celebrates when Europeans discovered America."
7 y/o: "Oh, so basically it has no purpose."
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Give this a go to help guide the future of the web!
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
