“Oh I need to communicate with someone on Discord quickly, guess I’ll launch it. Oh, there’s an update available, so Discord prevents me from opening their appliaction.”

Reason #215 to avoid #discord.

I’ll be giving a talk on time zones at #PyConUS tomorrow (April 21st) at 14:30 MDT. If that sounds interesting to you, please join me in 355DEF or online!

The slides are here: https://pganssle-talks.github.io/pycon-us-2023-timezones

#PyCon #PyConUS2023

“Papa, I fixed it. I plugged it out and plugged it in and then it worked!”

Only 3 years old and already turning it off and then on again. So proud.

Latest post is a big one: “Why you shouldn’t invoke setup.py directly”

A lot of people don’t know about this because we haven’t been great about getting the word out. This blog post is in part an attempt to remedy this.

Please help spread the word!

https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/10/setup-py-deprecated.html

My “short” blog post on generating regular numbers in Python, finally available only 7 months after I started writing it 😅: https://blog.ganssle.io/articles/2021/10/regular-numbers-in-python.html

#python

Self-hosting crowd:

Is there any relatively “out of the box” solution for self-hosting services like @nextcloud, Pixelfed, etc on a local server (possibly an RPi)?

Ideally I’d store the configuration for it in a git repo or something so that I can easily re-deploy it to a new machine without much fuss.

Even a collection of ansible playbooks with a relatively good provenance would be acceptable I think.