Due to personal reasons, I've decided to replace my hair with snakes & turn people who stare at me into stone. @roxiqt@mastodon.social

Had a stressful week due to private turmoil and couldn't get anything done.

Articles

• Understanding A Protocol | Hmm, maybe I should try to deploy Takahē next week just to play around with it a little bit?
• A neophyte's introduction to video | I didn't bother to cut or add sound to my videos until now. But maybe I should 👀..
• Test factory functions in Django | Lots of nice tips over there. I would use Iterator instead of Generator[T, None, None] as return value annotation, but maybe I haven't been hurt badly enough by type annotations to reach an appropriate level of passive aggressiveness. Bonus points for good arguments against factory boy.
• Playing with ActivityPub
• The Origins of Python

Videos

• DjangoCon US and Europe 2022 Talks Available Online
• In a new Prodigy Short, @koaning explains how this works by building a custom interface to annotate *and* transcribe audio.

Weeklogs

• Weeklog for Week 48: November 28 to December 04 | Johannes
• Week in Review 2022-12-05 | Luis

Mastodon / Twitter

• I remember well when Google was first released. I felt confident that it would become a critical tool that we'd all rely on. I haven't felt that way again, until now: ChatGPT. In just a few days I've gotten so much out of it. | Resonates with me
• This modified version of the famous ‘turn #chatGPT into a pretend Linux system’ prompt is also my prototype for a product that will sell millions.
• ok. which one | I like to use this exact argument against agnosticism: how to be agnostic without assuming there's only one true religion? How to be agnostic about things you don't even know about?

Software

• Python 3.11.1, 3.10.9, 3.9.16, 3.8.16, 3.7.16, and 3.12.0 alpha 3 are now available
• tox 4 was released
• Mona Sans | a font by GitHub
• showcode | create beautiful code snippets

Podcasts

• Folge 7: Die Krise des Allgemeinen (Andreas Reckwitz im Gespräch: Die Gesellschaft der Singularitäten)
• Yoshua Bengio: The Past, Present, and Future of Deep Learning (The Gradient Podcast)
• Bits und so #821 (Hipster/Lobster) (Bits und so)

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