Stéfan van der Walt

mystmd 1.6 is out! Static exports should now work with hosting services like GitHub Pages, RTD, etc. Give it a try and let us know if you run into difficulties. github.com/jupyter-book... You can also now preview doc builds in PRs via CircleCI, following this template: github.com/stefanv/myst...

@mystmd.org 1.5 is out, along with an updated web theme! github.com/jupyter-book... github.com/jupyter-book... Improved site footers, hidden entries and external URLs in table of contents, better UI for in-browser execution plus improved docs and bug-fixes.

New seminar just announced! BIDS welcomes Peter Fackeldey (@pfackeldey.bsky.social) to campus on June 6. Don't miss his talk "Awkward Array: manipulating nested, variable-sized data with NumPy-like idioms" events.berkeley.edu/BIDS/event/2... #DataAnalysis #NumPy

🚀Last week, the #ScientificPython Developer Summit brought together 32 package maintainers from across the ecosystem at eScience UW in Seattle! ✨It was a great opportunity to collaborate on improving the tools that power scientific Python research.🧑🏽‍💻 Thanks to everyone that joined! 🧡

Wouldn't it be nice if someone went through to highlight the newly un-redacted parts of previous JFK reports? I got you! Let me introduce you to `diff-jfk`

Libro is a fantastic audiobook service: it's like Kindle, except that your *local bookstore* gets a portion of the profit each time you buy an audiobook.

Take a peek at the NetworkX developers' retreat with Jarrod Millman, a key member of the leadership team! bids.berkeley.edu/news/fast-an... #NetworkX #OpenSource #PythonPackage

Why major in philosophy? - can be smug after only 2-3 classes - only major where you finish knowing less than when you started - generally better beards than psychology - can't find a job, but then again what even is a job?

Recently found out that some people are actually READING all the books that they buy to put on their shelf?? Seems unbelievable but apparently it's true.

Not to be outdone on the procrastination *ahem* I mean productivity front, I adapted @charlbotha.com's org-timer pomodoro solution for waybar: mentat.za.net/blog/2025/01... bsky.app/profile/char...

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just discovered litecli (github.com/dbcli/litecli), it feels like a big improvement over the default SQLite REPL (autocompletion! support for multiline queries! syntax highlighting!)

During #PGP key-signing session with @mentat.za.net we just learned that keys.openpgp.org must strip third party signatures from public keys which complicates #WebOfTrust keys.openpgp.org/about/faq#th... This is such a pity, because #openpgp keyserver's WKD as a service is great!

PGP key discovery via Web Key Directory (WKD) aka setting it up so your #email clients can automatically find your #PGP public key by friend @mentat.za.net mentat.za.net/blog/2024/11...