Thomas Wouters

We hit the goal, so here's my part of the matching pledge. Thank you, everyone who donated, commented and shared!

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Glyph (@glyph@mastodon.social)

Attached: 1 image With only a few hours left to go, WE HAVE CROSSED THE FINISH LINE, and fully matched all $17,000! Here is a screenshot of my own...

It's true: I've joined @Glyph, @Chris is., @Amethyst 🌸 and [@petrillic](

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Chris Petrilli (@petrillic@hachyderm.io)

36.9K Posts, 1.09K Following, 1.81K Followers · #BlackLivesMatter. Social Justice _________. Nerd. Architectural astronaut with a leaky suit. Do s...

) in gift-matching donations to @Python Software Foundation I've done gift matching before, because I think the PSF is doing tremendous work and I want more people to realize that. I was planning on doing gift matching for the end-of-year, but this way we get to share the load of the bookkeeping... by which I mean, send proof of your donations to Glyph 😅

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Glyph (@glyph@mastodon.social)

Have you been considering donating, but worried that we might be running out of space? Worry not! A new challenger appears! @Yhg1s@social.coop has...

Let me post a *non*-subtoot for once... We made a thing!

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PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports

👋 Hi everyone, We are very exited to share with you PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports: We’re proposing an opt-in lazy import syntax that defers ...

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Well! I guess this year will be the first year I'll be actively recommending people *not* vote for one of the candidates for PSF Board! (I hadn't gotten around to reading all the nomination statements yet.) I guess we're finally getting more diverse candidates 😂

I posted this last week, asking for #Python users to fill out a silly little survey:

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Thomas Wouters (@Yhg1s@social.coop)

Use #Python at all? I would like to do a silly thing, which I hope will bring amusement to others as well as me (if it works out). If you wouldn't...

I got quite a few responses! Almost 300 at this point. I can use this! It'll be hilarious! I can still use more answers, though, because some of the answers are much more spread out than I expected, even after cleaning up and consolidating. I hope with a few more responses I get more obvious standouts answers. Please fill out the survey if you haven't :)

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Informal Pointless Python Survey

Use #Python at all? I would like to do a silly thing, which I hope will bring amusement to others as well as me (if it works out). If you wouldn't mind, please fill out this form, and boost for reach:

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Informal Pointless Python Survey

A little palette cleanser to distract myself (and maybe you) from all the terrible, sad, frustrating news of late: Demi spooning with Akio. (As usual, Akio wasn't really involved in the spooning. He was sleeping there, and then Demi decided it was time for cuddles and wedged herself between his paws. Look at her satisfied little face though!) #SavannahCat #CatsOfMastodon

Well, time to get the ball rolling on the next phase of PEP 703 (getting rid of the global interpreter lock):

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PEP 779: Criteria for supported status for free-threaded Python

As you may remember, PEP 703 (Making the Global Interpreter Lock Optional in CPython) was accepted for Python 3.13, as an explicitly experimental f...

#Python #threading

As a non-macOS person, I need to #AskFedi for some advice on macmini network issues. I get frequent (every couple of minutes), short (a few seconds) of network disconnects, both when using WiFi and wired ethernet. The same cable works fine for other hardware, including mac laptop. Where do I go to debug this? What (cmdline) tools are there to inspect statuses and review logs? Where do I learn about those things for #macOS? (I'm away from the machine right now, can get to the GUI next week.)