Currently working on a PR to Toga* that has been contributed by a developer who is completely blind. The insights that are coming from this are fascinating. For example - 80 character line limits apparently aren't a thing in the "blind coding" world. And discussing how tools like "Visual Studio" work... well… (* Yes - a completely blind programmer is contributing to a GUI framework. Accessibility matters.)
Carl Sagan once famously said that if you wish to make an apple pie from scratch, first you must invent the universe. I am currently working on modifying the various toolchains that are needed to build Python binary packages for iOS. I am currently feeling Sagan's sentiment *HARD*.
Today marks a personal milestone. After 10 years of wrangling iOS and Android support for CPython, there is an official final CPython release - 3.13.0 - that officially supports iOS and Android out of the box.
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What’s New In Python 3.13
Editors, Adam Turner and Thomas Wouters,. This article explains the new features in Python 3.13, compared to 3.12. Python 3.13 was released on Octo...
 It's worth noting that today wouldn't have happened without a substantial grant from @npub1vv84...6fhk in 2020, and almost 3 years of 2xFTE funding from my employer, Anaconda. Turns out: funding open source gets results.
If there's anyone in my circles looking for a new engineering manager position, and would like to join the Anaconda OSS team, get in touch - Anaconda is looking to expand the manager pool. It's remote friendly, but the people being managed are mostly US based (some EU, and yours truly in AU).
I know there's plenty of plane nerds in my circles... and I know there's plenty of people always looking for new talk ideas... it strikes me that there’s a lot of potential for a “programming analogy” talk based off this. The video being referenced (linked the thread) is a fascinating set of insights, and the observation in this toot is just one of many possible interpretations of those insights.
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Dave Anderson (@danderson@hachyderm.io)
Today I'm thinking again about the "Children of the Magenta" lecture. In the late 90s, airlines realized that after going all-in on automation and ...