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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 18/01/2025

I'm only gonna turn 50 once, so we're having rum and tequila slushies at the party tonight.

Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 17/01/2025

From the NYT obit: “After ‘The Elephant Man,’ Mr. Lynch was asked by Mr. Lucas to direct ‘Return of the Jedi.’” Oh, what could have been. Ewok fever dreams. Darth Vader carrying a log everywhere. R2D2 finding an ear in an abandoned lot.

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Just want to give a shout out to the typed-ffmpeg Python package. It's good at what it does, and the developer has been so responsive and a joy to work with. Definitely made my work easier.

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Issues · livingbio/typed-ffmpeg

Modern Python FFmpeg wrappers offer comprehensive support for complex filters, complete with detailed typing and documentation. - Issues · livingbio/typed-ffmpeg

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

To be fair, my fitbit reports only 7h39m of sleep.

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

Anyone have experience publishing with BPB Publishing that they can share?

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 10/01/2025

@ovistoica.com I've added initial support for selecting playback rate. The main issue is that the selection is not "sticky", and you'll need to select it for each video you play (which may be the right thing anyway, but I haven't had time to think about it much). Let us know if this works for you!

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 09/01/2025

Maybe take solace in the knowledge that they'd heat them anyway.

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

The refurbisher is going to fix it.

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

They were swapped left-to-right, so instead of directing snow to the impeller they were pushing it to the side.

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

In May I bought a refurbished snow blower, and I've been eagerly awaiting snow ever since. The snow arrived (and how!), and the machine worked...poorly. On inspection, the auger blades are mounted in reverse 🤦

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 08/01/2025

Transducers are a really interesting idea, and @robert.smallshire.no has put together a really nice course exploring them through the lens of #Python. It's free over on @tubetrain.io!

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

Just finished with that over here. Some days I enjoy moving snow, but today was not one of them.

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 05/01/2025

Going out for my first skate of the year today. Hope my body remembers what to do!

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Definitely read Pynchon, Dodge, and Wolfe, and I think a few others. I want to look at your list in more detail when I get home; I've never been hooked by Le Guin, but I want to be. I'll probably take up the challenge then, too.

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 03/01/2025

Hey, Hudson Hawk is a terrific movie!

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 30/12/2024

How's the ice? Am I missing the best skating of the winter?

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 29/12/2024

Anyone have experience with OTC hearing aids? I'm apparently not clinically in need of hearing aids, but I definitely suffer in some situations (lots of background noise with multiple languages, in particular). Guidance or suggestions would be great!

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 26/12/2024

I'm not about to let some street sign tell me how to do version control!

A Mexican street sign saying "No Rebase".

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 21/12/2024

A cup of México's finest to fight my jetlag.

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 18/12/2024

Here's a cool little promo video for our latest course, "Abstract Base Classes in Python" :)

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tubetrain.io @tubetrain.io · 13/12/2024

New on Tubetrain, "Building Web Applications with Starlette in Python" by @sixtynorth.com! Learn step-by-step how to build a full-featured RESTful web application in Python using the popular Starlette ASGI web framework. Get started today!

tubetrain.io

Building Web Applications with Starlette in Python

Learn how to build a RESTful web application using a popular ASGI framework.

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Oh wait...face down! I can still do it, but that's definitely not an aikido thing 🤣

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 16/12/2024

Years of aikido have - if nothing else - taught me to fall down well, and to do what you describe. At this point, though, my knees have to cooperate as well.

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

@sixtynorth.com has a new course out! We've just published "Building web applications with Starlette in Python" on @tubetrain.io. We're really happy with how it's turned out, and we hope people out there find it helpful :)

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Pablo Galindo Salgado @pablogsal.com · 12/12/2024

We are very exited to share with you PEP 768 🐍, which proposes a safe external debugger interface to Python. We think this is a really exciting change that would allow debuggers and tools to safely attach to running Python processes without stopping or restarting them. 🔨🐛 peps.python.org/pep-0768/

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PEP 768 – Safe external debugger interface for CPython | peps.python.org

This PEP proposes adding a zero-overhead debugging interface to CPython that allows debuggers and profilers to safely attach to running Python processes. The interface provides safe execution points f...

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

We have "Python Improperly". It's the same as "Python Properly", but it uses camel case instead of snake case and assertions rather than exceptions.

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 11/12/2024

Prompted by a question in class today, I learned that if the expression following `raise` in Python is a class (not an instance), "...the exception instance will be obtained when needed by instantiating the class with no arguments." Something new every day.

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

I'm already "Augustin" in Mexico because a priest couldn't pronounce my name. When will this end?!

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 10/12/2024

All ready to go for two days of training at @cisco.com in Oslo. I'm running @sixtynorth.com's "Python Properly" course for a group of their developers. sixty-north.com/python_prope...

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Sixty NORTH |

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 06/12/2024

Best of luck in your new position!

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tushar.pyc @tush.ar · 05/12/2024

TIL even if a python package is nested inside a monorepo on github, you can install it with pip: pip install git+github.com/<user>/<monorepo>#subdirectory=my/nested/package

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

A captcha on X had me seriously questioning my humanity today. We're approaching the point where *only* computers will be able to pass these things. They need to get back to the basics like, asking me to explain why I won't flip over the stupid tortoise.

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I started by asking "Hey Google, what is cream of tartar?" One thing led to another, and eventually I had supreme cosmic awareness.

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I'm no expert, but from what I've read I think you've just described the bulk of the last few thousand years of philosophy.

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Carl T. Bergstrom @carlbergstrom.com · 04/12/2024

I know large language models can't do math, but one might have thought a large language model could do language. Here's Google explaining that the past tense of the verb lever is "leveraged".

AI Overview

The correct spelling is "leveraged"

Leveraged
The past tense and past participle of the verb "lever".

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 03/12/2024

We're in an interesting position at work where we're a) developing training material covering DDD and event sourcing and b) the software we're building to do this uses event sourcing and DDD. These halves influence each other in a largely virtuous cycle, and it can be quite beautiful!

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

I usually use Bulleit bourbon, but just because it's what I usually have around.

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Austin Bingham @austin-bingham.bsky.social · 02/12/2024

Or maybe there's a better joke involving locks and race conditions. I'm sure @chrisoldwood.bsky.social will know.

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