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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 16/09/2026

Thanks to the incredible support of our sponsors, we’re able to offer Community Access tickets and make PyBay more accessible to members of our community who might not otherwise be able to attend. Community Access tickets: pybay.org/get-tickets/ (please boost for visibility)

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PyBay 2026 - 11th Annual Bay Area Python Dev Conference

11th Annual Python developer conference - longest running on the US West Coast. Join us in San Francisco!

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 02/08/2026

One of my favorite features of AI is that it admits when it's wrong, rather than leaning into confirmation bias.

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

add to ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md: - NEVER use `except Exception` or bare `except:` in Python code. Always catch the specific exception types the guarded code can actually raise (e.g. `except (OSError, ValueError) as e:`). Enumerate the plausible failures instead of catching everything

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 22/07/2026

I'm seeing Claude Code doing "try/except Exception ..." a lot. Even Fable 5. It does narrow the except if I tell it to. This is not production worthy code out of the box, IMHO. Let's be careful out there.

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 21/07/2026

🐍 📢 💻 🎤Talk proposal submissions for our _11th_ annual Python conference, PyBay 2026, have been extended to July 26! The conference will be Oct 3, 2026 in San Francisco. pybay.org/speaking/cal...

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PyBay 2026 - 11th Annual Bay Area Python Dev Conference

11th Annual Python developer conference - longest running on the US West Coast. Join us in San Francisco!

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 20/07/2026

Reminder: SF Python July 29th @ GGU Running Python fully sandboxed with Wasm - Syrus Akbary Agent Memory Is Not One Thing - Melanie Warrick www.meetup.com/sfpython/eve... See you there!

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 15/05/2026

I snagged an open space at pycon. Check it out if you’re into using pytest for system testing: pytest for system tests S-3 - Friday May 15, 11:00 AM PDT I’ll demo pytest-fly (github.com/jamesabel/py...)

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 14/05/2026

Heading to PyCon US! If you want to meet up LMK!

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 08/05/2026

Build your first MCP server in Python - @pamelafox.bsky.social From Graveyard to Glory: Production Python in the Browser- Mahmoud Hashemi GPU Communications for Python-Benjamin Glick,Michael Yh Wang Mind the gap! Why static typing requires more than just adding annotations-Jia Chen,Steven Troxler

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Yup. AI can make mistakes. Sometimes if you give another go it’ll find them. Perhaps it could continually check, but that’d be even more tokens.

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 29/03/2026

Claude Code Hack: occasionally tell Claude Code to do a deep code review. Even if it generated all the code. It'll find issues, and often even bugs. It doesn't do this automatically (at least not yet).

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 10/01/2026

Reminder: SF Python meetup is this Wed. Thanks to @sentry.io for hosting! Lineup: Migration from On-Prem Messaging System to The Cloud: What, How and Why - Tom (Ran) Tao Artificial Neurons: The Small Math That Explains The Big Models - Tyler Suard www.meetup.com/sfpython/eve...

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SF Python January at Sentry, Wed, Jan 14, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Want to learn more about Python and meet other Pythonistas? Please register: [here](https://ti.to/sfpython/jan-14th-sf-python-sentry?source=meetup) (https://ti.to/sfpython

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 09/12/2025

This Wednesday is SF Python meetup at @sentry.io ! We'll have one talk from Evan Kohilas and in the spirit of the holidays plenty of time for networking and announcements. See you there! www.meetup.com/sfpython/eve...

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SF Python December at Sentry, Wed, Dec 10, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Want to learn more about Python and meet other Pythonistas? Please register here: [https://ti.to/sfpython/dec-10th-sf-python-sentry?source=meetup](https://ti.to/sfpython/d

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 15/09/2025

I need a pubsub that scales to zero using AWS basic managed services and boto3 (Python). The consumer is a long-running Python desktop application. Apparently the best (only?) way is to create it from SNS+SQS.

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PyBay @pybay.bsky.social · 18/08/2025

🐍 PyBay 2025 Spotlight: Aastha “Why Your Async Code Might Be Slower — and How to Fix It” Asyncio can speed up apps, but misuse often makes Python slower. Want to hear more? Join us at PyBay 2025! 📍 Date/Location Oct. 18th in San Francisco, CA 🎟️ Tickets buff.ly/jbRsUye 🎤 More Talks: buff.ly/IcKhzwP

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 29/07/2025

I finally experienced Python editable installs and they're pretty cool.

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 11/06/2025

That’s around 10 seconds of energy of a nominal human. Most queries would take me more than 10 seconds to answer :)

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pamelafox.bsky.social @pamelafox.bsky.social · 10/04/2025

I had a great time talking about pgvector at the SF Python meetup tonight! Here are my slides: pamelafox.github.io/my-py-talks/... And a not-as-interactive version of the talk recorded here: www.youtube.com/watch?v=MJHU... (Live audiences are so fun!)

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pgvector for Python developers | POSETTE 2024

YouTube video by Microsoft Developer

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 05/04/2025

This Wednesday is another great SF Python meetup at Gel (formerly EdgeDB)! Pamela Fox will give a talk on "PostgreSQL pgvector for Pythonistas" and Cody Maloney will present on "Remember to .close() file-like objects". See you there! www.meetup.com/sfpython/eve...

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SF Python Meetup at EdgeDB/Fal.ai, Wed, Apr 9, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Want to learn more about Python and meet other Pythonistas? Fal.ai/EdgeDB: [128 Spear St, San Francisco, 4th floor](https://maps.app.goo.gl/wFvZvrVyAbsYn5JJ7) Please regi

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Salar Rahmanian @salarrahmanian.bsky.social · 19/03/2025

The value of #OpenSource #oss www.hbs.edu/ris/Publicat...

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 16/03/2025

AI that should be mainstream but apparently isn't: - Personal AI wiki. Take misc. docs (text, MD, Word, PDF, PPT, etc.) and build a prompt-able (servable/exportable) webpage. - Consumer fire robots. Assess what prevention needs to be done & do it (clear brush, etc.).

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 12/03/2025

SF Python meetup is tomorrow (Mar 12) at GGU! 2 great talks and hanging out with other pythonistas! www.meetup.com/sfpython/eve...

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 08/02/2025

Perhaps this? from time import time start = time() [time() for _ in range(round(1e6))] duration_with = (start_without := time()) - start [_ for _ in range(round(1e6))] print(f"{(duration_with - (time() - start_without)):.6f} uS") I get 0.085705 uS

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 16/01/2025

Test like you're testing in quality. Code like you don't have any tests.

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 07/01/2025

www.meetup.com/sfpython/eve... My Python Journey: From Machine Learning to Full-Stack - Astha Singh Thakur Prompt engineering & social justice: what we know so far - @annthurium.bsky.social Issue Resolution in Python - Tillman Elser Journey to the center of `read()` - Cody Maloney Thanks @sentry.io

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Python I/O performance, AI/LLMs, and a Journey, Wed, Jan 8, 2025, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Want to learn more about Python and meet other Pythonistas? Please register here: [https://ti.to/sfpython/jan-8th-sf-python-sentry](https://ti.to/sfpython/jan-8th-sf-pytho

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 15/12/2024

I keep trying to find a good definition of entropy, but all the answers seem so random.

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 13/12/2024

I was today years old when I realized a Hanning window is from Julius von Hann. The Hamming window is named after Richard Hamming. There is no Hanning person per-se in this context. #SignalProcessing #DSP

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 04/12/2024

I'm experimenting with switching from PyQt to PySide. No show stoppers so far! License is part of the motivation. I do prefer Signal to pyqtSignal :)

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 01/12/2024

Here's my next tiny-but-convenient Python package: ismain. Instead of the not-so-pretty if "__name__" == __main__: ... Do this instead: from ismain import is_main if is_main(): ... github.com/jamesabel/is...

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GitHub - jamesabel/ismain: test if running as "main"

test if running as "main". Contribute to jamesabel/ismain development by creating an account on GitHub.

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

While this seems trivial, I need to convert to bool in MANY projects, from data in the wild. It's handy to have one way to do it.

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

The 1st package I'll describe is tobool. It converts many different representations of a bool to an actual Python bool (or a None). It aims to accept data from many sources which have their own representation of True and False, such as "Yes", "True", "T", 1, "On", etc. github.com/jamesabel/to...

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GitHub - jamesabel/tobool: convert many different representations of a bool to an actual bool

convert many different representations of a bool to an actual bool - jamesabel/tobool

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

I'll be posting mainly about tech (for example: computer architectures, application analysis, testing, ML/AI, design automation, and Python) and music (with an emphasis on bass guitar, live sound, and recording). Here we go ...

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James Abel @jamesabel.bsky.social · 26/11/2024

That was it! Now I can start posting.

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