schmonz.com is a Fediverse instance that uses the ActivityPub protocol. In other words, users at this host can communicate with people that use software like Mastodon, Pleroma, Friendica, etc. all around the world.
This server runs the snac software and there is no automatic sign-up process.
Once again I demonstrate that I do not know how to use social media, not even Mastodon. Let me try that again properly with the relevant metadata: I have done my first post-ZeroVer release of #DBXS, an #OpenSource #Python raw #SQL #database access library. If that collection of hashtags seems interesting to you, perhaps check it out!
GitHub Actions is dropping Intel macOS by November.
(Cirrus dropped it in Dec 2022, CircleCI in June 2024, Travis CI dropped all(!) macOS in April, and Anaconda last week.)
CPython has dropped it to tier 2. What does this mean to you? Not too much; we still support it, produce installers, CI failures block releases.
It means we only test on buildbots and failures must be fixed/reverted within 24h rather than immediately.
https://discuss.python.org/t/dropping-intel-mac-to-tier-2/102100
ICYMI: The authors of 'Building Better Research Software', a Carpentries Incubator lesson designed to provide “next steps” for learners after a Software Carpentry #Python workshop, are looking for workshop hosts and Instructors to try teaching the lesson and provide feedback.
🙏 The goal is to submit the lesson for adoption into Software Carpentry and we need plenty of feedback from the Instructor community to achieve that.
Please read the blog post and consider teaching the workshop in your local community! https://carpentries.org/blog/2025/08/building-better-beta-pilots/
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@glyph @hynek it'd be interesting IMO to see the breakdown of how many people use YouTube by level of experience. My hypothesis is that there's a (positive) correlation between level of experience and preference for written documentation over video documentation - I think videos are reasonably well suited for tutorials (if you are the type of person who can learn from a video at all) but poorly suited for the reference documentation that more experienced devs are more likely to use.
Okay so I am putatively a #Python #ThoughtLeader ™ so perhaps I should go through and give this a non-jokey read-through, and share some impressions: https://lp.jetbrains.com/python-developers-survey-2024/
I really appreciate that they do these every year.
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PyPI now checks for expired domains to prevent domain resurrection attacks, a type of supply-chain attack where someone buys an expired domain and uses it to take over #PyPI accounts through password resets. #Python #OpenSource #SupplyChain #Security
https://blog.pypi.org/posts/2025-08-18-preventing-domain-resurrections/
We've got an amazing speaker lined up at #Python #Edinburgh, on 9th September.
@ambv is going to be talking about WebGL and PyScript!
www.meetup.com/python-edinb...
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Running a single user (or small) instance in the Fediverse? Relay instances acting as a spreading proxy can help you to find your content and also to make your posts visible to others - and you can easily join with #Mastodon, #snac and many other ones!
The https://fedi-relay.gyptazy.com relay is mostly for tech related content and just got updates to the manpageblog design.
#mastodon #snac #relay #activitypub #fediverse #federated #bsd #devops #proxmox #ipv6 #opensource #community #debian #python
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Am I the only one who didn't know that #Python list comprehensions (and presumably other types of comprehensions) can accept **multiple** conditional statements at the end?
[i for i in range(30) if i%2 if i%3 if i%5]
TIL that software (especially #scripting runtimes like #Python, #Perl, and #NodeJS) running in #Alpine #Linux containers is often slower than in other distros like #Ubuntu. This is despite Alpine being faster on startup and often vastly more efficient with CPU, memory, and storage.
It mostly comes down to Alpine’s use of musl libc rather than #GNU’s glibc. musl is optimized for minimalism, not raw performance. Also, the Alpine packages are often not compiled with as many optimizations.
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I'm hosting office hours again in less than 12 hours. Have a question about #Python, Python Morsels, or anything else you think I might have thoughts on?
Join me!
This is a reminder that the https://kiwipycon.nz/ CFP is still open! Submit talks. There's also an academic track that will have abstracts be peer-reviewed, if that is your thing.
Deadline: August 21. Conf: 21-23 Nov.
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Proxmox fully automated! From ClickOps to Code: Automated. Audited. Revisioned. Repeatable.
Starting from the base by automating:
- Cluster initialization
- Cluster join
- Storage Integration
- Proxmox Backup Server Integration
- SDN Networks (different ones for pros/dev)
- Guest Resources utilizing the cluster infrastructure
#Proxmox #PVE #Pbs #ProxmoxBackupServer #opensource #Automation #Ansible #python #devops #terraform #cicd #pipeline #cluster #nfs #iscsi
I created a simple Python CLI program to easily add configurable watermark text to an image or directory of images.
Re: https://lgbtqia.space/@alice/114988947359085193
Here's the #Codeberg repo: https://codeberg.org/alicewatson/watermarker
There is probably one line of #Python that I type more than any other (nontrivial) line:
`HERE = Path(__file__).parent`
This is obscenely useful for scripts or small projects but I find myself using it in projects of more appreciable size, too?
Do you use PDF, epub, or other downloadable #Python documentation? Or do you only use the web docs?
The core team are trying to decide whether it's worth keeping various non-HTML builds (which are often slow to build).
https://discuss.python.org/t/removing-non-html-pdf-epub-etc-documentation-downloads/101343
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Okay, so, fans of the #TwistedFramework help me out here:
I am mucking around with writing a simple new thing that, in order to have type annotations that aren't *completely* useless, needs to deal with the fact that Protocol and Factory aren't annotated.
But adding annotations makes the entire framework notice that the pattern of paired-Protocol-and-Factory subclasses are inherently LSP violations, because .protocol and .factory are writable attributes and thus invariant.
@pybay This ticket choice is fully awesome! I would love to see other conferences adopt the same idea.
I don't think it's in the cards for me to travel to California for #PyBay2025 but I'll be wishing you a successful conference from afar.
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What if you need to compare two iterables while ignoring the order of their items?
Read the full article: Checking whether iterables are equal in Python
▸ https://trey.io/0frqkp
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