Nik Kantar
nik@nkantar.social
<p>Hi, I’m Nik. 👋 I live in Los Angeles, California ☀️ with my wife ❤️ and our cats and dogs 🐾.</p><p>I’m a software engineer working primarily with Python 🐍, and am the <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@pybeach" class="u-url mention">@<span>pybeach</span></a></span> founder 🏛️ and a <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@socalpython" class="u-url mention">@<span>socalpython</span></a></span> organizer 🎤.</p><p>I do indoor rowing 🚣♂️, ride bicycles 🚴♂️, pretend to read 📖, pretend to write 🖋️, listen to too many podcasts 🎙️, and still wear a mask 😷 because COVID isn’t over 🦠.</p><p>I often put bonus content in media alt text 🖼️.</p><p>He/him/his. ♂</p>
Posts
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Post #2590685
Booth 726, come say hi! #PyConUS
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Post #2590684
Hard to keep up with #PyConUS whilst being busy with attending… 🤔
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Post #2590683
Driving to #PyConUS daily was probably a mistake. Lesson learned for next year.
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Post #2590682
&gt; “Don’t lick it.” &gt; — @itsthejoker on resin at the #PyConUS 3D printing open space
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Post #2590681
Attending my first actual talk: “From Graveyard to Glory: Production Python in the Browser” by @mahmoud! #PyConUS
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Post #2590680
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@jong0uld/116581269311132636 This is the kind of stuff that makes me love this community. Sorely needed in this market. ❤️ #PyConUS
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Post #2508161
RE: https://fosstodon.org/@socalpython/116184371044198589 I’m sadly not at #scale23x, but some awesome humans are. ❤️
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Post #2150143
A happy ending in two photos. (Neighbors left town for a bit, cleaned up their balcony, and it looked like they moved away.)
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Post #2150142
My brain still keeps reading cloudisland.nz as “cloud is land dot en zee” and at this point I think that’s nonnegotiable.
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Post #2150141
I wrote a little bit about this year’s @NorthBayPython, which was fantastic. Shoutout to all the organizers, volunteers, speakers, attendees, and sponsors. :yay: #nbpy https://nkantar.com/blog/2026/05/nbpy-2026-afterfeels/
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Post #2150140
Today I got my 3D printer working again by swapping out the gnarly hotend with a fresh one. It was a great example of postponing something for a month and then needing less than an hour to actually do it. 😐
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Post #2150139
neurodivergent : neurospicy = neurotypical : neurobland I will not be taking questions on this matter.
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Post #2150138
Due to how this model was designed, only 1.23 g of one color will be used for the print, and 105.73 g will be wasted on support, purging, and tower. 🥲
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Post #2150137
Courtesy of @cianmm: https://red-squares.cian.lol/ 10/10 would lawl again.
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Post #2150136
Tempted to put something like “I didn’t know what to write here so I wrote this.” on my #pyconus badge…
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Post #1942151
So glad @pycon will require masking, but so disappointed by the complaints about that. With the overlap of the marginalized and the immunocompromised, this can reasonably be seen as an inclusivity issue, making this sentiment effectively “inclusive, but only if convenient”.
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Post #1734890
#nbpy, I love you. ❤️
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Post #1673923
&gt; [paraphrased] @chrisjrn: “What we’re feeling is the fallout of never having defined what software engineers actually do.” &gt; One of the clouds pinned to the backdrop of the #nbpy stage falls down.