Dave Aronson

RETIRED software engineer, int'l speaker (5 continents so far), and mead-brewer. NO LONGER ON THIS NAZI SHITHOLE; find me on Bsky/FB/LI/Codosaur.us.

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@bcardarella Horseman

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@pyconwroclaw I'm thinking of applying to speak, but am wondering: what speaker travel expenses (if any), such as airfare and hotel, do you cover? Thanks!

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@pyconwroclaw I'm thinking of applying for your 2025 conference, but am wondering: what speaker travel expenses (if any), such as airfare and hotel, do you cover? Thanks!

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@NorfolkDev Okay, looping you in: I see you have the 2026 CfP open, has the budget changed? I see the wording about getting in touch before exceeding £300 is still there.

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It's at:

https://t.co/T4We8Yo9Yv

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I said I left here but will announce new CfPs one last time.

Software conference CfPs closing in the next 30 days include:

- Python confs in Africa, Europe, and NZ
- JS confs in Europe, Japan, and USA
- Three Ruby confs in the USA

and more. Link in comment cuz algorithm! :-P

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@koshercockney @Osint613 Poor booboo, look how starving he is . . . .

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I have finally "stocked" an account on BlueSky. Follow me at https://t.co/Z0NbzKRvk5

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@jeffr0 Their website now says it's happening next year, but the forms, and Twitter and FB accounts, all say 2025. Any idea what's going on?

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@Some_Conf Your Twitter account says Oct 8-9 2025, and your speaker form says 2025, but your website says April 22-23, 2026. What's the deal?

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@marniekaylopez @SpillTheMemes Is that a feather boa? ;-)

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Grok finally said the quiet part out loud. Twitter (not gonna call it X, except to point out that that's the central part of a swastika) is now undeniably a Nazi bar. Fuck this shithole, I'm outta here.

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@MickyAbir Feel free to use this meme I made a while back:

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@valentinajemuov @cupac_jelena Feel free to use this meme I made a while back:

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@MrPunyapal @oxidmod Feel free to spread this meme I made a while back:

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@alexbunardzic And various other tools have been run, like style checkers and linters and so on, that will catch the vast majority of low- and even medium-hanging fruit, leaving humans to bother with only the stuff that takes human-level intelligence to catch.

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@alexbunardzic Plus, run it BEFORE you submit a PR (or whatever kicks off your CI/CD pipeline), and you get a chance to kill the mutants before the rest of the team sees what a porous test suite you wrote. :-)

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@JuanSanchez0x0 @tekbog #MutationTesting isn't just for crypto; it's been around a lot longer than crypto (assuming you mean currency), since 1971 in theory and more like about 2000 in practice (when CPUs and memory were fast/cheap enough), and there are tools for most common programming languages.

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It's at:

https://t.co/T4We8Yo9Yv

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Software development conference CfPs (Calls for Papers, Presentations, etc.) closing in the next 30 days include:

RubyConf Thailand
CodeMotion Milan
PyCon South Africa
JSNation US

and many more. For details, see first comment, due to the *&^%$#@ algorithms keeping you onsite.