Andrew Kuchling @akuchling@octodon.social
Python developer; reader; information squirrel. He/him.
"Let's play a game, to help some of the newcomers make connections: name 5-7 things that interest you but aren't in your profile, as tags so they are searchable. Then boost this post or repeat its instructions so others know to do the same."
#DoctorWho
#mst3k
#books #sff #fantasy #science
#python
#boardgames
https://www.harihareswara.net/sumana/2018/04/11/0 My new @lwnnet article about https://pypi.org
https://lwn.net/SubscriberLink/751458/81b2759e7025d6b9/
covers why a #newpypi codebase is necessary, what's new, what features are going away, and what to expect in the near future.
#NASA Goddard: How TESS, the Transiting Exoplanet Survey Satellite, Scans The Sky #astronomy #video
The Meeple Like Us blog, which examines #boardgames for their accessibility, has started a Patreon. For more details, see their anniversary post: http://meeplelikeus.co.uk/the-terrible-twos-the-second-anniversary-of-meeple-like-us/
Man, I glad I got this off my chest: I've really been disturbed about how the Facebook/Cambridge Analytica debate has led to Facebook taking *more* control of its users' personal data, not less.
When the Way You Love Things Is “Too Much”; or: Why I Went to Portmeirion: "I decided to try a little experiment: What would happen if I stopped strictly monitoring how much I allowed myself to talk about my special interests? ... What if I just let people ignore me—or even dislike me!—if they were annoyed by or uninterested in what I had to say?"
https://catapult.co/stories/when-the-way-you-love-things-is-too-much-autism-special-interests-portmeirion-pilgrimage (via Metafilter)
@Gargron tech journalism knows nothing about tech, nor does it want to.
The Internet Gods, 2018:
Security! Security! SSL everywhere! Mandatory two-factor authentication! Full-device encryption! Hardware on-chip secure enclaves!
The Internet Gods, also 2018:
let's just give Jeff Bezos all our private RAM, and the official Node.js installer is literally curl | sudo bash
Pinafore is an alternative web client for Mastodon that I'm releasing today. The goal is to make a lightweight standalone web app that can plug into multiple instances, with a UI focused on speed and simplicity.
Pinafore is still beta-quality in places, but it's already the main client @ElfLord and I have been using for the past few weeks. I've been working on it since the start of this year. Hope y'all like it. 😊
From #PyCon 2017: A really interesting talk on visualizing a mathematical structure by David Dumas. (30min) #python #mathematics
#books
You can get a free ebook copy of Martha Wells new book Murderbot from Tor if you sign up to be on their mailing list. Wells wrote the Raksura series. This book is the start of a series about a bored AI who hacked their own governor module, likes to watch movies and read books and isn't a very good killer. PS. Anne Leckie likes the book.
There should be chats for the book community on Mastodon. Like the Monthly Romance Readers Chat on twitter. It’s super fun and readers can find each other while finding new books.
Youtube: #Gershwin's "An American in Paris", played by the Detroit Symphony Orchestra. (20min) #music #classical
Discovered a new-to-me used bookstore last night. The store had an excellent selection... but it also stank of stale cigarette smoke. I bought some cheap books as an experiment, and found they still smell of smoke.
It made me sad -- the owner has a great inventory, but he's sitting there slowly destroying all of it, and I'm not likely to go back.
What method would folks recommend using to clone what I post on Masto over to birdsite?
(Preferably with url links to the original Masto post...)
"The death of the newsfeed" by Benedict Evans https://www.ben-evans.com/benedictevans/2018/4/2/the-death-of-the-newsfeed
This makes an interesting case against the chronological timeline.
If you use Mac OS 10.12 or older, and #Python, and you're used to "pip install"ing things, you should upgrade to pip 9.0.3 this week to connect to PyPI securely.
https://mail.python.org/pipermail/distutils-sig/2018-April/032114.html
Youtube: The Barenaked Ladies reunion at the Junos, on their addition to the Canadian Music Hall of Fame
Played our second game of the #doctorwho #boardgame "Time of the Daleks", and lost. It's a pretty difficult game with only two players.
https://octodon.social/media/Dxp2A6e2GLKD9ixmoiw
How White Nationalism Courts Internet Nerd Culture
https://medium.com/@DeoTasDevil/how-white-nationalism-courts-internet-nerd-culture-b4ebad07863d
