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Ben Falk

@ben-falk.bsky.social
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Principal Cloud Engineer @ Space Telescope Science Institute 🔭. I used to study bats 🦇. Now I build web services to help others study the universe 🌌

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Ben Falk @ben-falk.bsky.social · 15/09/2026
First defocused light on the Roman wide field instrument! science.nasa.gov/blogs/roman/...
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NASA Activates Roman’s Primary Instrument, Checks Out Coronagraph - NASA Science
NASA’s Nancy Grace Roman Space Telescope team has successfully activated the Wide Field Instrument, a 300-megapixel infrared camera that will allow scientists
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Ben Falk @ben-falk.bsky.social · 05/09/2026
I'll be speaking at the first ever FastAPI Conf on October 28th in Amsterdam! 🇳🇱 I'll be sharing how Space Telescope Science Institute distributes data for astronomy using FastAPI! 🔭 I'm super honored to be included in this amazing speaker lineup. Check it out! fastapiconf.com #Python #FastAPI
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FastAPI Conf 2026 · Amsterdam
A day of FastAPI with the people who build it. October 28, 2026, at the Transformatorhuis in Amsterdam.
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Ben Falk @ben-falk.bsky.social · 04/06/2025
First lightning bug of the summer!
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Ben Falk @ben-falk.bsky.social · 23/05/2025
How is it that there's no good tool to migrate a setuptools project to pyproject.toml, while still keeping setuptools as the build backend? Meanwhile, hatch and pdm both have workflows for converting (and thus switching off setuptools). #python
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Ben Falk @ben-falk.bsky.social · 08/05/2025
@brianokken.bsky.social Just listened to your test & code episode on pytest-check. From the episode it seems like it's in the same space as unittest's subtest. There's a pytest-subtests plug-in as well. It would be interesting to hear how these compare. Perhaps in a separate episode?
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