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Time to update my profile photo to be a more accurate reflection of the… drop in contrast in my hair over the last 8 years.
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mastodon 4.5.18Founding Apiarist on @PyBeeWare project. Former @DjangoProject Core Developer. Itinerant shaver of yaks. Subject to occasional, wild, enthusiastic rants.
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RE: https://fedi.simonwillison.net/@simon/117379601493499039
THIS. So very much this. I have *twice* in the last three months got a pants-filling email that was related to a bot finding a site I manage, and triggering a DDOS-by-credit card.
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Just published this post about how we’re going to need default hard budget caps on pretty much everything https://simonwillison.net/2026/Oct/3/default-hard-budget-caps/
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Advice I was given in my youth:
Print your slide on a full piece of paper. Put the paper on the ground. Stand on a chair.
If you can’t easily read your slide, neither can the person at the back of the room.
It flummoxes me that 30 years into using computers to show slides, tiny fonts in slide is *still* widespread practice.
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Dear tech talk/conference presenters: USE BiGGER FONTS PLEASE!
The average age of your bog standard techie is increasing. I've had crappy eyesight all my life, but I suspect now more and more are struggling to actually try to read the code samples you're putting up.
Make the fonts (for you) uncomfortably large. I guarantee your audiences, both in person and later on Youtube will thank you!
#a11y #vision #technology
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Bucket list item acheived: I'm going to see Radiohead play live 🎉 🎉 🎉
TIL on macOS, you can configure sudo to use Touch ID for authentication. Thanks to @kattni@kattstodon.com for the tip. Details here: https://sixcolors.com/post/2020/11/quick-tip-enable-touch-id-for-sudo/
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It’s 3:45 am, so of course I’m on my way to the airport for #PyConAU.
Reading toots about everyone having a great time at #djangoconUS.
Really miss my US Django crew, but looking forward to seeing my AU people.
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After some unpacking: #PyConAU 2026 speaker mug has been installed. And, thanks to a contribution from @grahamdumpleton@mastodon.social, the set is now complete, replacing a 2011 mug that was accidentally purged some years ago (I was on a Web frameworks panel, so this isn’t stolen valor!!)
Something that isn’t a new feature... but it is new: 3.15.0b1 is the first Python release to have *official* iOS binary artefacts. You can now download a Python iOS XCframework from Python.org!
Moderators have closed the thread after 4379 comments. #PyConUS
With the assistance of an early check in - stop the clock at a leisurely 26 hours, 2 minutes.
Yesterday, @hynek@mastodon.social commented on a Github issue, saying he would fly on a different day to me to ensure I got to Long Beach to deliver the @beeware@fosstodon.org challenge coin he just earned.
Reader: The blessing worked! All my flights were early, and I didn’t even have to wait in a queue for US customs!
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Thesis: The surge in popularity of TUIs is not because there's been a sudden interest in retro computing. They're popular because they're an easy way to get a cross platform UI in an app experience.
Antithesis: There are other - and better - ways to achieve this goal. A good cross-platform GUI toolkit gives you the same thing, while retaining the ability to do things like, say, display an *image* or a *line chart*.
A good cross-platform GUI toolkit can even output a TUI if you need that to access your app's UI over SSH.
Like, say, Toga: https://toga.beeware.org
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... and now, for bonus points: in an attempt to re-create my developer account, I'm stuck on a page that says “Create account and Pay”... which I've pressed twice... and Google has charged my credit card twice... but I can’t log into anything.
Who wants to take bets that their new account validation scheme hasn't tested the "This email address has been used before" path?
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@ancoghlan@mastodon.social I would sign onto that class action in a heartbeat.
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RE: https://mastodon.social/@hugovk/116731833341936501
This is big news - having 3 of 14 of the STA fellows being Python folk is a huge expression of support for the importance of the Python ecosystem. Congratulations to @hugovk@mastodon.social, @georgically@mastodon.social and @stanfromireland@mastodon.social !
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@andrew@fedi.aeracode.org Oh yes. Went to mine a few years ago with a shoulder issue. Told me to take my shirt off, walked around me once, lifted my sore arm to a couple of angles, and declared "So you're right handed, use a mouse with that hand, your desk is a little higher than it should be, and your chair has armrests”. And he was dead on. Problem was resolved with a couple of weeks of exercises and some ergo fixes to my desk setup.
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@mdione@en.osm.town If that matters, you’re doing it wrong.
A person in the back row can’t tell the difference between 8k and a potato. Assume it’s being projected at 640x480. If it’s not legible at that resolution, it’s not legible *at all*.
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@fancysandwiches@neuromatch.social Oh, goodness no.
I swear, if we end up with “Trainy McTrainFace”…
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@brettcannon I’m all for ragging @simon for the problems he causes (love you mate!) but isn’t this same thing that virtualenvwrapper and Conda both require? i.e., venvs are stored in a separate directory that isn’t in my project folder?
(For the record, when I read that part of the PEP, I yelled “hell yeah”. My venvs often span multiple projects; a redirect file is an awesome solution)
I needed to hear this, because it reflects how I’ve been feeling for a while. I need to get better at the call to action part.
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@arichtman@eigenmagic.net That is ... consistent with what I've got going on here. Thanks for the intel. If you hear anything concrete from powers that be, I'd love to hear about it.
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@arichtman@eigenmagic.net Billing Console has an entry on the service health page: https://health.aws.amazon.com/health/status
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@savannah@fosstodon.org As an Australian, I look forward to your reign as the time when we can finally correct the spelling of APIs involving colour and initialise. 😜
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I've been asked a few times to share what I know about running a successful sprint at a PyCon (or similar event), so I've written down what I know: https://cecinestpasun.com/entries/how-to-succeed-at-sprinting/
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@chessert@mastodon.online I’m pretty sure 24pt was the value I was told… but either way, a lot more than 12.
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Consensus seems to be Thaw is the best option; seems to be working well so far…
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@hynek@mastodon.social @jezdez@publicidentity.net Aw, man... I’m 37345. Seriously? I couldn't register 3 users earlier? Or 75 later?
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@andrew@fedi.aeracode.org Yes - that. And also: “I’m going to poke you really hard just above your hip, and your shoulder will loosen up.” Seems like you're poking the wrong part of me... and yet it, it works…
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@mdione@en.osm.town @carlton@chaos.social "The Rise of the Meritocracy", by Michael Dunlop Young. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Rise_of_the_Meritocracy
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@carlton@chaos.social HELL YES.
Except for the bit where it *is* possible to read any work without being reminded... because the vast majority of people who use and hear the term *don't know it originated in a work of satire*. Poe's law, writ large.
Can anyone explain why I'm getting Dependabot security updates a branch of a repo that isn't the default branch for the repo?
The branch was the default branch 6 months ago - but I've changed the default branch, and I've renamed the requirements file in the "old default" branch... and yet, I'm still getting security notifications for packages in that requirements file.
(Repo in question is https://github.com/beeware/beeware.github.io the lektor branch is the "old default". I just got a notification that "mistune" has a security issue; dependabot says the last commit it scanned was 6e496e3, which is on the main branch).
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@mahryekuh@hachyderm.io True - although there are places in AU where you'll get 40C *and* 90% humidity. I don't know *why* people live there... but they do. If you can call that "living"... :-)
So... is anyone aware of AWS having issues with their billing right now? I've just had an ... alarming billing alert go off.
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It would be hillarious… except that an accidentally misconfigured cloud account that is exploited by some nefarious hacker/AI agent is literally one of my major sources of professional anxiety, and was one of the contributing factors to my depressive episode 11 years ago.
So thank for that walk down memory lane, AWS.
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@mahryekuh@hachyderm.io Being from AU - sure, EU “hot” temperatures generate a chuckle. But there’s an appreciable difference that the raw numbers don’t describe.
EU houses are built for the cold - they are designed to retain heat, and supplement it at peak winter. AU houses are built to prevent heat entering, and supplement cooling at peak summer. Put an AU house in EU, and the occupants will die from exposure in mid-November.
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@samwilson@wikis.world It wasn’t a “break and enter”. The landlord has the keys, used them to access the property, and (presumably) changed the locks. It’s a term used to indicate that a lease has been forfeited without requiring court proceedings to evict a tenant.
Valē Glen Hansard.
If you don’t know the name: he’s an institution of Irish music. He’s the guy trusted to play Fairytale of New York at Shane MacGowan’s funeral, and he won a Beat Original Song Oscar (with co-writer Markéta Irglová) in 2007 for Falling Slowly, from the movie Once (which he and Markéta starred in).
https://youtu.be/k8mtXwtapX4?si=kwXPPRGMe-8kZw4L
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@benno@eigenmagic.net For bonus points - does the bug only happen randomly on every Nth (N>3) build? Been there brother… and 🔪🔪🔪🤬🤬
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@jacob@social.jacobian.org … and *two* runners broke the barrier in the same race, with one of the runners *in his first marathon*. 🤯
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@webology@mastodon.social But what the TUI is doing *visually* is 100% reproducible in a GUI. You just get it in 4k, rather than 80x25
I definitely agree that the remote access angle is beneficial, though. I... have thoughts there too.
Apropos of nothing: If you’re a podcast listener, and are on the lookout for something interesting, and don’t have Articles of Interest in your feed - get on that.
If you had told me I would be hanging out for the next episode of a podcast about *Fashion*, I would have told you to stop huffing paint.
And yet - it’s the most fascinating and insightful deep dive into why we wear what we wear.
Multi part deep dives into GORPcore, Army uniforms, and army surplus. Another deep dive into the Japanese influence on Ivy League Prep fashion. Single shot episodes on wedding dresses, or the science of sizes. And they’ve just started a “book club” series reading the philosophical texts that have influenced fashion.
I cannot recommend it highly enough.
https://www.articlesofinterest.co/podcast
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@skimbrel@tech.lgbt Oh jeebus is @EWDurbin@mastodon.social back on his PyCon Standard Time BS? 🤣
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@glyph@mastodon.social I know that there are some Briefcase-packaged apps that have been submitted to the Mac App Store (there's been a couple of bugs reported - such as the need to provide security profiles for binaries that use SSL, and the fact that Tkinter has a 10 year old bug that makes it incompatible with the app store). However, I haven't done it myself, and can't offer much by way of specific advice around sandboxing techniques etc.