Stylus

stylus@social.afront.org

Named after my first AD&D character, ca 1991.I'm a software developer, primarily <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/Python" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#Python</a> <a href="https://social.afront.org/tags/CircuitPython" class="mention hashtag" rel="tag">#CircuitPython</a>Profile picture: Drawing of an owlHeader: the city of Porto at night, with reflection in the Douro river, from a vacation in 2023

Posts

Post #4301157
Welp after a canceled flight and a delayed flight I'll be spending the night in Cleveland and returning home hopefully tomorrow morning
Post #4301156
Strange New Worlds "start an episode without 'previously'" challenge Difficulty: impossible
Post #4301155
@lcamtuf it's called a globe, people hate it
Post #2557245
@AlSweigart high five! Thanks for joining me in offering a donation match for this great regional Python conference. Folks, if you haven't yet, please make your support of @pyohio go twice as far by donating today: https://pyohio.org/donate/ #PyOhio #PyOhiothon
Post #2271754
seeing yet another person say basically "I know I need to leave github, but I can't right now" .. a talk title came to me: "look for the exit nearest you". This hypothetical talk would be full of actionable ways to reduce the eventual costs of leaving an online service, even one that seems heaven-sent today. Because we sure keep being fooled about the shiny new service, thinking it'll be just as good forever because who would deliberately ruin it...
Post #2004693
Today's agenda: Welcome Violence What is ours to do Break
Post #2004692
Lots of weird dreams last night but the one I remember was: I was sooo excited about the new group I was working with. They were such retrocomputing fanatics that our online chat was UPPERCASE ASCII ONLY LIKE IT'S 1978 OR SOMETHING
Post #2004691
Time to wreck things! I have a Pi 4 with Octoprint, based on raspbian 11. It frequently nags that Python 3.9 is outdated... so today I'll do the "not guaranteed to work" updates from bullseye-&gt;bookworm-&gt;trixie via apt. I also finally got out one of my spare tasmota AC relays so I can power switch the printer &amp; lights off when not in use...
Post #2004689
Hey #NYC people. Can you advise me on whether it's reasonable (in terms of personal safety for a lone masculine person) to walk about a mile at around 2AM in the Times Square area (specifically between Hotel Martinique on Broadway &amp; Hyatt Place New Times Square as shown on the map) .. and if not, what would you do -- call a rideshare? I'm a reasonably confident traveler but I'm seldom out this late anywhere I go. #askFedi #boost4reach
Post #2004688
pair of boxers with "cockpit" written across the ass
Post #1861048
great music mix (mostly electronic) at the meadowlark coffee shop this AM #LNK
Post #1861047
cannabis implies an original canna.
Post #1861046
Where in the world are the early reviews of the #Prusa3d #bondTech INDX toolchanger? I know to take such reviews with a tablespoon of salt, but I'm really surprised there aren't a raft of youtube videos out there from folks who got shipped early units by Prusa specifically so there would be video reviews out at the same time the thing went in the store. Of course, since Saturday it also went back out of the store reportedly due to selling through an initial production run. #3dPrinting
Post #1861045
Oh! oh! micropython has had pre-commit checking of commit messages, but a regular prek install doesn't enable it! Now I'll make those mistakes much less often
Post #1861044
@pathunstrom so I'm using a slightly modified dykes in this 6800 computer simulator with a line-based terminal UI. Compared to what I mentioned in that PR, I started using my own parser instead of shlex. Now, I'm wondering if there's any pathway from this to tab completion in python's readline ... if you have any thoughts I'd love 'em. @dataclass class TakesAddresses: addresses: list[Symbol] @cmd("b") @cmd("break") class Break(Takes...