AlSweigart

AlSweigart, 6 days ago to random

I really like this work of scroll art that I made, but I haven't had time to write up a description of it.

Click the VIEW FULLSCREEN button for best effect.

https://scrollart.org/hex-portals/

danilo, 9 days ago to random

BeefstickAI, which wants to build generative AI for dogs and doggy daycare providers, raised a $14M series A led by Gullible Ventures and LPSwindler (TechCrunch)

AlSweigart, 9 days ago to random

My book Automate the Boring Stuff with Python and several @nostarch ebooks are in a Humble Bundle benefiting the Python Software Foundation! It's raised $25k so far! (Be sure to click Adjust Donation and Custom Amount to max the share going to the@thepsf

https://www.humblebundle.com/books/dive-into-dev-ops-no-starch-books

AlSweigart, 10 days ago to random

Silly project idea: Build a robot to move chess pieces around a board and take photos of common configurations, then open it to let people play chess that shows a photographed board instead of computer graphics. I'd build up a cache of openings, and have the robot take more photos as needed.

AlSweigart, 10 days ago to random

How big of a problem is it for Python that when a non-technical Ubuntu user searches App Center for "python" they don't find the Python.org interpreter at all? (But do find other random packages.)

The python.org downloads page for Linux users just links to the source code downloads, which is less than ideal for non-technical users who just want to write some scripts.

AlSweigart, 11 days ago to random

What are the recommended ways to install Python on Windows, macOS, and Linux? Is it downloading from python.org for all of them? Or is it Microsoft Store, Homebrew, and apt-get?

ehmatthes, 10 days ago to random

Moving from an island in AK to the lower 48 means going through everything in the house.

This was one of the 1980s ways to pretend that kids didn't learn to curse by listening to their parents. Note from the future: it didn't work.

playdate, 16 days ago to random

Did you hear the story about how $400k worth of Playdates were misdelivered by FedEx to a construction site near our warehouse? And then someone just… stole them? Seriously.

Well, guess what got hastily dumped at a random restaurant this morning?

Welcome back stolen Playdates!

AlSweigart, 7 days ago to random

Republicans are Nazis.

"Colorado GOP calls for burning of Pride flags"

"In a statement to The Hill, Williams said the Colorado Republican Party makes “no apologies for saying God hates pride or pride flags as it’s an agenda that harms children and undermines parental authority.”"

https://thehill.com/homenews/lgbtq/4705267-colorado-gop-burning-pride-flags-pride-month-lgbtq-log-cabin/

AlSweigart, 7 days ago to random

Back in the early 2000s at UT Austin, I was with the Campus Greens table that was next to some Christian anti-choice organization, where a woman was giving an emotional speech about how much we she regretted her abortion. The CG folks and I respectfully listened to her.

We should have been shouting her down. We shouldn't have been silent.

AlSweigart, 8 days ago to random

I'm looking into the design of hidden object games, and I noticed that there are YouTube shorts videos that are essentially 60 second non-interactive hidden object games. Huh. Clever use of the YT Shorts/Tiktok format.

AlSweigart, 8 days ago to random

The Furiosa movie is worth seeing in the theater. It's not as good as Fury Road but it's still good.

AlSweigart, 9 days ago to random

My PyTexas 2024 talk on scroll art, an artistic way for beginners to get into coding, is up on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyKUBXJLL50

AlSweigart, 11 days ago to random

If you could lay out bad statistics end to end, they would stretch across the Milky Way Galaxy over a million times.

AlSweigart, 12 days ago to random

Screenshot from the web comic Dresden Codak.

AlSweigart, 11 days ago to random

Any level of government regulation is considered an attack on the "free market".

But no amount of corporate manipulation and monopoly can disqualify the market from being "free".

Damn, I continue to be impressed by American propaganda.

AlSweigart, 21 days ago to random

I just did my post-#PyConUS covid test and it came up negative. Sharing a sold-out conference with 2,500 people and not coming home with some bug is no small feat, and I'm glad that PyCon has a sensible mask policy (mask indoors, but not at meals or when speaking or taking photos).

We keep each other safe.

AlSweigart, 21 days ago to random

When I am a deranged millionaire, I will create an art museum that features reproductions of famous painting that are horizontally flipped.

Starry Night horizontally flipped.

AlSweigart, 21 days ago to random

I'm filling out the #PyConUS attendee survey and they asked what the highlight of the conference was for me.

Finding out 1) what funiculars are 2) riding a funicular and 3) finding out that "Funiculi, Funicula" opera that Pavarotti sang is about funiculars are in the top 10.