Christopher Neugebauer

The elections are on next Tuesday, and so much is at stake, including the soul of the Democratic Party when it comes to transgender people. I am asking you to leave a very small number of races blank in which a Democrat has embraced extreme anti-trans hate. I make my case here.

My registrar dashboards are like a Steam Library full of aspirational games.

READ THE FUCKING LYRICS UNTIL THE END, I REALISE IT HAS LIKE 973 VERSES, BUT IT'S THERE IN THE LYRICS; FAAAAAAARK

tl;dr: continue writing useful docs well. 🫠 @MaggieFero #PyBeach

"generative engine optimisation (GEO); answer enging optimisation (AEO)" - @MaggieFero "Old McDonald had a farm (EIEIO)" - Me #PyBeach

Hello from #PyBeach/#PyBeach2026! There's at least three people who know things about #NBPy around, so come ask us why you might want to visit us in Petaluma next year! Or follow this account thingy?

Sometimes I feel bad about bugs I have introduced into my code. On the other hand, I have never written a bug that could be read out on Sesame Street.

Democratic-aligned group Progress Action Fund has released a PRO-trans ad, attacking Republicans for being creepy in bathrooms. It will run in Texas and Ohio, and is expected to reach millions. You have to see the ad itself. Subscribe to support our journalism.

I didn't realise anyone thought XKCD 221 was meant to be instructional https://xkcd.com/221/

I donated in the 2024 cycle, and every candidate was exceptionally grateful for the support.

Back at my desk after the best part of two weeks away tending to (closer-to-home, and actually expected, this time) Life™. It'll be nice to have a year (ok, 6 months maybe?) where not Everything happens, but for now, I'll accept a week or three?

today in tech infra work: can someone please explain the concept of significant digits to AWS?

RE: https://wandering.shop/@phildini/117355209284737892 hell yeah let's bring some of that "but how can we possibly afford it" energy to the concept of cops. if you care about budget discipline we cannot afford to have cops, and now we have the data to prove it.

The thing that most helped me develop this outlook and let go of utilitarianism was building teams. Tech is obsessed with getting the smartest, best programmers onto a team. But the reality is that you cannot be The Most Programmer. Programming is a skill that (like all skills, really) is […]

This is quite possibly the biggest landmark in US political advertising I've seen in my lifetime. No I won't tell you why, just watch it. https://www.youtube.com/shorts/dr1KS5JepLA

Dear Bluesky - A million years ago I found a figure on how much it costs the US Army in retraining every time Microsoft changes office. It was a great number, but that bookmark was like three computers ago. Have any of you seen it?

He's just confessed how he did it! https://github.com/frazerpearce/TimeLord

For my birthday, my brother-in-law gave me a 4992-digit hex number that, when used as a seed for Python’s random number generator, makes it so that printing a sequence of “random” ASCII characters actually prints a birthday greeting. I find it rather amazing that this is possible! This is the […]

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Being an immigrant means choosing who in your life you're physically proximate to. Most of the time, for me, that's been an easy choice. Now, for the next foreseeable future, there's people who need me, on both sides of a quite wide ocean, and I suspect I'm going to crossing quite a lot over […]

RE: https://ngmx.com/@pathunstrom/117311215886825900 Consider submitting to a nonlocal conference as well. They can often have financial support for speakers.

RE: https://cloudisland.nz/@daisy/117305626591812098 Every chance this is the CFP that you are also procrastinating over! Now's your chance!

things I could give a 5-hour talk on with prep, or a 60-minute talk with no prep: how and actually why airfares are perverse and impenetrable

STUPID AIRLINE TICKET SHIT I HAVEN'T HAD TO THINK ABOUT IN 10 YEARS BUT DO NOW: Alaska now book all of their round-trip tickets with round-trip fares. These cost the same as booking individual one-way, but if you cancel the return leg, your ticket is rebooked as a one-way fare ON THE DAY YOU […]

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@pybeach/117282739535599834 look! it's me! a real person, giving a real talk about a real Python feature! exciting!

RE: https://toot.community/@yvanspijk/117281092866350025 for anyone else wondering why Pennsylvania Dutch is a German dialect and not a Dutch dialect:

RE: https://mastodon.social/@gedeonm/117276394832986913 My "I am not complicit" t-shirt has people asking a lot of questions that are already answered by my t-shirt

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@ThePSF/117276203168428075 so proud to have helped get this over the line over the last few months

Congratulations to those elected and re-elected to @ThePSF's board. It's an often thankless job, successes take months or years to deliver, but are so important for the community. I'm glad y'all have stepped up. The Foundation's in good hands. My time is up for now, but looking back, I got to […]

RE: https://tldr.nettime.org/@tante/117269357701498157 Last year I gave a talk about how Open Source has always been terrible at creating consequences for not following social contracts (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WsbUzGailCw); and also how moneyed interests are great at creating their own […]

Omarchy is part of new fascism. But it's also a good case study about how little political resilience is built into FLOSS: The libertarian roots have not only made the whole movement ready for the taking by corporations but also by fascists. And sadly many influential organizations in that […]

GOOD THING WE DON'T HAVE ANY MORE OF THOSE AROUND TODAY https://bsky.app/profile/eb99.bsky.social/post/3mvawhnzlgc2d h/t @sarahjeong.bsky.social

DOES APPEAR THAT PG&E SPRINKLED SOME DESICCATED UNRELIABILITY OVER THEIR POWER LIES OVER THE SUMMER

RE: https://mastodon.social/@iris_meredith/117178026845359543 An absolute banger. Such good writing that I am literally angry because Iris made some of the points I have been struggling to make for months, and she made them much better than I was going to. Read it, read the whole thing, make […]

if your opinions are actually good, people don't call your software "opinionated", they just describe it as "excellent" https://mas.to/@swelljoe/116382321356370995

the ink is dry but chris has to get a day of work in before he can write an email and updating a website so feel free to pencil in june 19 and 20! back in summer (but in a venue with proper insulation) so you can enjoy more of downtown petaluma. we're excited.

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@pybeach/117163275642981465 It's me! Come see me in Santa Monica in October, doing a basic, non-introspective, boring-ass technical talk for once. Balm for the soul after this year, I tell you.

RE: https://social.coop/@chrisjrn/117163005062511977 UPDATE: it was convincing

I just requested a redline on a contract because "[an perverse incentive] seems quite silly" I hope my argument was convincing.

contribution to bike helmet discourse: Bike helmets are a great individual health tool because they stop you from getting brain injury Mandatory bike helmet laws are a bad public health tool because while they increase the number of journeys on modes of transit that make cycling unsafe (wheeeeee)

SPAAAACE https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Sq1Nr58hM

remembering for the first time in a while that the 45RPM single version of Jolene sounds great and very very very different at 33RPM

OK I hope there's some availability on an upcoming launch www.youtube.com/watch?v=g1Sq... (RIP Tim curry)