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
Si habláis español, os animo a que vengáis a mi charla hoy, viernes 15 de mayo, a las 14:00 en la sala 104C, donde voy a hablar de zonas horarias. #pyconus
Paul Ganssle
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hey folks,
we're super short on volunteers tomorrow (May 15) at #PyConUS. We're seeing 50% empty shifts for green room volunteers, session runners and chairs.
If you have a talk session to wish to see tomorrow, why not double up and help out by being a session chair for that time?
Paul Ganssle
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Ayer me enteré de que esto existe y ahora vuestro TL queda bendecido por el pulpo dumbo. Bona nit.
If you find yourself at LAX trying to figure out why the pickup place for Uber/Lyft is like a million miles away, it is because there is a shuttle that you need to take to get a ride share.
Very sorry to the Chinese Lyft driver trying to explain this to me via a translation app. #pyconus
Paul Ganssle
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Anyone have a Fitbit charge 6 charger and at #pyconus ? If so, can I borrow it for a few hours? Thank you 🙏
Mfw I'm trying to cut down my talk and I realize I can't avoid saying "línea internacional de cambio de fecha" (international date line).
Paul Ganssle
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Standard smartphones cannot broadcast a 60 kHz radio wave. But if you play a 20 kHz square wave at max volume, the physical distortion in the analog amplifier generates a 60 kHz harmonic. The speaker's voice coil acts as a localized magnetic transmitter. 2/4
I did something to my neck and now it hurts to turn it too far to the left. Really affecting my ability to give people Blue Steel.
English version: "And now we'll dive a bit deeper into the difference between a time zone and an offset"
Spanish version: "This offset this time zone next topic"
Oof. Apparently I speak much more slowly in Spanish or something, even with a well-rehearsed script. I might have to cut a lot from this talk. 😢 #pyconus
Paul Ganssle
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Do we have a follower with experience in Kotlin and Compose? We added our first Compose module (~1.5k LOC) and are looking for a quick code review. The most interesting feedback would be about the high-level architecture, not necessarily reviewing every line. If you are interested, please leave a message under this post or on our forum: https://forum.antennapod.org/t/looking-for-code-reviewer/8472
#Kotlin #AndroidDev #WearOS
Paul Ganssle
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pip 26.1 is an incredible release, thank you to the pip maintainers!! 💜
– Relative dependency cooldown support!
– Installing from pylock.toml
– Multiple security fixes
Read the full blog post by @ichard26
https://ichard26.github.io/blog/2026/04/whats-new-in-pip-26.1/
As it pertains to me, there is an occasion of happiness when a new weird way of talking is discovered.
Paul Ganssle
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The newest gh CLI has added telemetry:
"As agentic adoption of GitHub CLI grows, our team needs visibility into how features are being used in practice."
Opt out with any of these:
export GH_TELEMETRY=false # any falsy value: 0, false, disabled
export DO_NOT_TRACK=true
gh config set telemetry disabled
https://cli.github.com/telemetry
https://github.com/cli/cli/releases/tag/v2.91.0
Edit: Here's a script to set the env vars for GitHub Actions in your orgs and user repos: https://github.com/hugovk/github-tools/blob/main/disable_gha_telemetry.py
Wow just saw this published today. Did they really have to kick me when I'm down? https://theonion.com/man-finally-good-enough-at-new-hobby-to-understand-how-bad-he-is-at-it/
Not great timing for me to hit that point in the Dunning Kruger curve where I realize how much native speakers have been humoring me when they tell me how good my Spanish is haha 😅
Man don't you hate those anxiety dreams where like you signed up to give a talk and then you find out you have to give it in Spanish? [Me too](https://us.pycon.org/2026/schedule/presentation/39/).
Ah, thanks but actually I think I will pass on "celebrat[ing] Easter Spanish-Style"...
Programmer working at Google. Python core developer and general FOSS contributor. I also post some parenting content.
Joined Nov 2019
