The PewPew LCD boards arrived, unfortunately the fab house didn't have the microcontrollers or displays in stock, so I will have to add those manually. Luckily it's only 50 units.
"Our culture’s default assumption is that everybody should always be striving for perfection – settling for anything less is seen as a regrettable compromise."
The EuroPython 2024 Community Voting is open for a few more hours, it will expire on March 27, 2024 AoE. ⌛
If you haven't already done so, find out if you are entitled to vote and express your choices. 🏃
"Link to talk slides: Optional slides of (previous) versions of your submission for reviewers only. MUST NOT include your name."
Okay that's weird. So you would look at my slides, but only if they are scrubbed of (presumably) all pointers to my identity?
And then three fields down: "Public link to supporting material. Any link you would like to share with the Programme team – e.g. a github repository, paper, etc."
Sigh, another con announcement and no health policy.
You know when you're announcing the travel bursary deadlines,consider if some of those folks who might want to speak or attend and can't afford it may like, need to consider the healthcare side.
As in can't afford to get sick or more sick.
Especially when the conference for the same system on another continent does.
@onepict every single time I asked #europython about it I got largely ignored. Their stance of "we'll do the bare minimum required by the local laws (which is typically nothing nowadays)" just feels terrible, so the advice of "do whatever feels safe for you" results in not engaging at all, not even virtually.
Does anyone else backtick your own #perl scripts? That's what I meant back during #europython 23 when I was talking with some ppl about quick prototyping before rewriting standalone scripts into more robust things.
Also, don't mind me, i'm just slowly waking up from 20 yrs long coma. Ok, just hormone induced continuous stress disorder, but it kind of feels like I'm 12 again and full of curiosity. #hrtmagic
Your introduction to the :python: logging module at #EuroPython was great to watch.
It probably was the push I needed to start using it instead of all those prints. It seems so much more useful in the long run, and to leave those debug logging bits in there and only wake them up with an appropriate environment variable.
I helped out with the CPython sprint at #EuroPython last weekend, we had one room for code and another for documentation, and merged some 140 PRs in total! It was rewarding to help people make their very first contributions. Thanks to everyone who contributed, plus to all the organisers and volunteers!
Here's a great writeup on the conference and sprints from @ambv:
While I'm back from Prague where I was taking part in #EuroPython2023, it's still very much on my mind! I wrote about what I did there, and some other related stuff.
Turns out using func(**kwargs)becomes very inconvinient, when you're using type-checking.
Pyright 1.1.312 landed a change:
> ... The new behavior matches that of mypy and assumes that the unpacked dict may supply arguments for all otherwise-unmatched keyword parameters even if they have default argument values.
On a train from Prague to Berlin after my 11th #EuroPython & my 🧠 is completely empty but my ❤️ is overflowing. Not only is it crucial for people who invest a lot of time in unpaid community work to have the opportunity to meet their users & readers & hear more than complaints. 🧵
It would be great if we could stop playing the "Q&A after the talk" game at conferences. Those are generally very low value to everybody but it gets even worse when you interrupt a speaker during their own time slot only to learn nobody has any questions anyway. Let the speaker talk, the Q&A isn't more important than what they prepared.
It was a wonderful experience as usual thanks to all the wonderful people I met, to the organizers, volunteers and friends of Python Italia who are always ready to share a pizza 🇮🇹🍕🤗
It's sprint time! If you're at #EuroPython, BeeWare is sprinting in room RB109 (not RB113 as suggested on the program). Come say hi, grab a sticker, and maybe try your hand at a patch and earn a challenge coin!
Sophie Wilson, the co-designer of the ARM processor, is telling it like it is in her #europython2023 keynote. The future is multicore. We have to address it.