@mariatta@fosstodon.org

Blog: https://mariatta.ca/posts/no-more-rebuilding-the-community-website/

· 1mo ago

Does your local meetup community need a website? Because I have just the theme for you.

Every community I've helped run has needed a website, and every time, we'd spent time hours browsing for themes and ended up rebuilding it from scratch, because none of the themes are meant for communities. Until now.

Introducing "Popular", a static site theme built especially for community & meetup groups, works in Hugo & Astro.

#PyLadies #Python #Hugo #Astro #Community

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· 1mo ago

OMG why is tech still hard in 2026 🤕
My mother in law takes english lessons for new immigrants.
Taught by an english teacher who is not technical.
When he needs to send a class material that involves an audio file, he sends it via email as a Word doc attachment, and the MP3 audio file embedded inside the Word doc.

Mind. Blown.
I don't even know where to begin
My head hurts 😫

We can't open that MP3 file because we don't have a Windows that can open the word doc containing the MP3 file... 🤕

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· 1mo ago

No Release Friday.
#fishing

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· 1mo ago

Typo of the day: develolper
#TypoOfTheDay

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· 1mo ago

I'm filling in the form to apply for Claude for Open Source but it needs to access my GitHub account but because GitHub is down it couldn't access it and so I couldn't submit the form.
What a world in 2026.

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· 1mo ago

Just used GitHub Stacked PR for the first time. Now wishing this existed a long time ago.
https://github.blog/changelog/2026-07-30-stacked-pull-requests-are-now-in-public-preview/

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· 2mo ago

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Licensed to fish. 🎣

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· 3mo ago

Playing mahjong for the ASMR factor. 🀄

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· 6mo ago

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Finding volunteers is easy. Finding volunteer leaders for the community (eg conference organizers, open source maintainers) is hard. Finding successor to existing volunteer leader is also hard. My random thoughts of the day.

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· 5mo ago

Magnolia Blossom
#BloomScrolling

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· 3mo ago

Typo of the day: conference agonizer #TypoOfTheDay

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· 2mo ago

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Just came back home from a weekend without laptop, surrounded by nature. We went camping, fishing, played Cabo, and grilled 200 bucks worth of steak 🏕🎣🃏🥩😋

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· 5mo ago

Even if your inside joke is funny to you, those new to your circle who didn't get it will feel stupid for a moment until you explain the joke to them, and they will still feel stupid for not understanding it in the first place.

In a community, inside jokes could be a thing that bonds the people on the inside together, but it can also be the thing that separates your newcomers from the rest of the group.

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· 3mo ago

SaaS: We will begin serving ads to this thing you're using unless you pay Me: Delete my account. Pay for my own web app hosting and handroll my own thing.

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· 5mo ago

I want a static site generator that is Python-based. Is this possible, or even a reasonable expectation?

I really like the experience with frameworks like Hugo and Astro, but I wish I don't have to do npm install or go mod whenever changes is needed.

I know that Sphinx, Pelican, mynt exist/-ed, but these brought me more frustrations than joy 😥

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· 5mo ago

Typo of the day: envy vars
#TypoOfTheDay

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· 5mo ago

9 years of Typo of the days. Maybe one day one of these will appear in the Urban Dictionary.
https://mariatta.ca/posts/typo_of_the_day/

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· 6mo ago

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It is admirable and amazing that the open source community have been relying on voluntary unpaid contributors in critical roles for this long. I wonder how much longer this model will last.

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· 5mo ago

Achievement Unlocked. Claude hallucinated a response, and I told it to look up the correct answer in my blog post. (about django-allauth signup customization).

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· 5mo ago

Typo of the day: Trouble hooting
#TypoOfTheDay

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#PyConUS #MaintainersSummit #OpenSource

· 5mo ago

📣 We're recruiting Discord moderators for the Maintainers Summit at PyCon US 2026!

Looking for a few community-minded folks to help keep conversations friendly and respectful, answer newcomer questions, and make sure everyone in the room (and online) feels welcome and included.

If you've moderated for a community before, or want to learn, we'd love to hear from you.

Sign up: https://secretcodes.dev/qr/discord-moderator-form

#PyConUS2026 #MaintainersSummit #OpenSource

secretcodes.dev

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https://mariatta.ca/posts/pycascades-2026-recap/

· 5mo ago

Finally wrote my recap from PyCascades 2026!

#Pycascades #conference #python

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· 5mo ago

Typo of the day: what is the wife password
#TypoOfTheDay

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· 6mo ago

Typo of the day: source env/bi/activate
#TypoOfTheDay

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· 5mo ago

RE: @mariatta@fosstodon.org

Another 28 days later:
Package arrived but in passive aggressive way. They sent me a full set of wheels. (I only needed one!) 💀💀💀💀

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· 2mo ago

Curious... in the year 2026, are you all still saying you'll "look it up on the internet" / "search it up" / "google it" or are you all now saying "ask AI".

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· 5mo ago

RE: @pyohio@fosstodon.org

Blueberry Mango Sorbet

PyOhio: ""Which Is the Most Pythonic Flavor of Ice Cream?"…" - Fosstodon

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· 5mo ago

Finding myself using lingo from our teens even when chatting with my husband lol
I was just saying "This speaker is super OP in the Linux world so I'm going to the session"
#lfnw

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· 2mo ago

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@SesameSquirrel@mastodon.social @SnoopJ@hachyderm.io HK mahjong is the one I play. Agree with your sentiment about American mahjong.

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· 5mo ago

Typo of the day: manage.py collectattic
#TypoOfTheDay

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· 6mo ago

I keep waiting for Claude to emit "reticulating splines" lol or is that trademarked?

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· 5mo ago

No more going up-up-down-down-left-right-left-right on my calendar to find a time to meet.

My Secret Codes now has an app that shows my calendar availability.

And because this is 2026, Secret Codes also has its own MCP agent, so now your agent can talk to my agent.

For the humans: https://secretcodes.dev/availability
For the agents: https://secretcodes.dev/agents

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· 6mo ago

Woke up early to book a campsite through BC Camping website. No luck today :(

One second there were a dozens of available site. One millisecond later, everything is unavailable.

Will try again next week.

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· 3mo ago

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@kati@fosstodon.org 😢

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· 6mo ago

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@CodenameTim In my experience, the reason the community leaders still doing more things is because some volunteer tasks have strict due date (need to cut a release, need to finish CFP review, need to host a conference at specific date). If the volunteers don't do things on time, the leaders ended up having to pick up the slack.

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· 6mo ago

So weird. Back when I was PyCon US Chair, I would get spam solicitation emails about professional speakers offering their keynote, entities selling attendee email address, etc. All were ignored and marked as spam.

Now, even though I'm no longer the chair, I guess my email address was still leaked somewhere. They're still sending me spam solicitation emails but now all of these are about offering financing and loans to PyCon. 😟

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· 5mo ago

Small batch of no spreadsheet sticker arrived!
Though I think I need to tweak the size 😅
But this is why I test print.
Consider this a "limited-edition"!

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· 5mo ago

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@pyohio 😥 Unfortunately I can't travel this July but perhaps it could help inspire others to come up with their own opinion about the most Pythonic Ice Cream Flavor 😁

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· 5mo ago

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To me, gift wrapping is art and craft. I don't have art talent but when opportunity arise, I want to be able to express what little art talent and crafting skill I have. So I like spending time wrapping gifts, not just for its functionality, but to fulfill my own personal passion. 😊🎁

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· 5mo ago

#LFNW is happening this weekend. I'm looking forward to it. Last year I gave two talks and also I staffed the PyLadies Vancouver booth the whole time.
This time I'm giving just one talk, which means I'll actually get to watch other talks. I already have a list of talks I'm interested in.
What's great is that you could just show up! No registration or ticketing. Just come.
https://www.linuxfestnorthwest.org/schedule/
#opensource #conference

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· 5mo ago

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@astraluma Please do!

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· 6mo ago

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@rbos yeah I plan to 🙂 thanks

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· 5mo ago

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@astraluma @aurynn @agmlego Thank you for sharing! I have not used Nikola before. I will try it.

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· 5mo ago

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@rgegriff It is basically about one setting variable for disabling signups that is probably not needed by most apps 😅 https://mariatta.ca/posts/disabling-signup-django-allauth/

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