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• Post #4290781

  Shout out to the person at the restaurant playing Squirrel Nut Zippers. Not often I hear this out in the wild. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yS2IBMQIjDo

• Post #4216685

  I've only just learned of this rendition of Because The Night by Garbage and Screaming Females, and it's every bit as great as you'd expect it to be https://m.youtube.com/watch?v=tOmKGjy-Ct0

• Post #4216684

  PyOhio is this week! It's a wonderful conference that I look forward to attending, and you should too. Registration is still open at https://www.pyohio.org/2026/attend/registration/. And if you, like me, forgot to order your t-shirt in the first round, you can still get one shipped directly to you at https://www.pyohio.org/2026/attend/shirts/.

• Post #4216683

  I am following a particular mastodon thread that is quite amusing. I'm tempted to participate but fear that some of the references might go over my head.

• Post #4216682

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@AlSweigart/116976471279103511 Listen to Al. Volunteer at PyOhio.

• Post #4216681

  I successfully avoided earning a volunteer badge ribbon at PyOhio this weekend, despite what some other folks may tell you.

• Post #4216680

  Some day, I'll learn to write conference recap blog posts.

• Post #4216679

  I don't know who needs to hear this, but "it's not even that hard, just try" isn't a constructive response when someone says they're struggling with a task. Offering help is a fine option, and so is not kicking someone when they're down.

• Post #3751947

  RE: https://mastodon.social/@jonafato/114851931269079778 It's that time of year again.

• Post #2817087

  RE: https://frankwiles.social/@frank/116621311397681034 This is a wonderful question and one I'll be following for myself, as well.

• Post #2817086

  If you participated in PyCon US, please fill out the survey. It helps a lot. Remind your friends.

• Post #2817085

  📺️ Taskmaster Back home and catching up on a couple of episodes.

• Post #2817084

  I am revisiting pdfpc after a number of years away from it. Not quite like riding a bike, but I am pretty quickly falling back into the workflow and why I find it comfortable as someone who spends a lot of time in a terminal-based text editor.

• Post #2817083

  📺️ Mortimer & Whitehouse: Gone Fishing Sometimes, winding down with a fishing show is what one needs.

• Post #2817082

  I was talking with someone about Conference Chats recently, and they seemed pretty shocked to learn that there are 300 of us in the group. Like any community, some are more active than others, and it's still a pretty tiny fraction of the population of conference and community organizers that could be part of it, but it's certainly grown a bit over the years from its "a few of us on a calendar invite" origin.

• Post #2817081

  I have recently doubled down on some travel gear, and it has made trips over the last few months quite a bit more pleasant. Of note, I can recommend a travel pillow, a dedicated outfit for plane days, and modern noise-cancelling headphones (my last ones were showing their age and had already had several ear pad replacements).

• Post #2543526

  PyCon US starts this week! Are you local to the Long Beach area? There's a schedule (https://us.pycon.org/2026/schedule/) packed full of talks, tutorials, open spaces, and many other events to connect with your Python communities. Find out more and join us at https://us.pycon.org/2026/attend/information/!

• Post #2104884

  Becoming more excited for PyCon US by the moment. Packing and prep will soon be replaced by seeing folks I don't see often enough, meeting new friends, watching talks, and the many, many other events that happen at and around the conference. See you there?

• Post #1875516

  RE: https://fosstodon.org/@pycon/116491660763212975 If you're attending PyCon US (you should!), this is the last call to book your hotel at the discounted conference rate. Staying at the conference hotel is always fun, and it helps out the conference a ton.

• Post #815263

  There is apparently a flood watch in parts of Pennsylvania including Pittsburgh. Stay safe out there. https://weather.com/en-NA/weather/alerts/localalerts/l/be93c45fa06315da7fc7a7e6763b6adb939da1c83fa7497bb39e3ff112212b8c

• Post #776118

  Why is it that I keep seeing "everyone should pin their GitHub Actions versions to a SHA because that's the secure way to do it" and not "GitHub should build tooling that creates and manages Actions lockfiles by default"? Am I just missing that version and only seeing the former one boosted?