Frederick Wagner 🐍

Reluctant technologist, lover of humans, follower of Christ

[Frederick Wagner 🐍 @doctaphred]

Lest you ever forget:

You are worth *so much more* than the entire world could *possibly* have to offer.

Take heart, and spread the word.

[Frederick Wagner 🐍 @doctaphred]

@hillelogram (That gif looked a LOT higher quality before I posted it... gonna blame it on the Melon Husk)

[Frederick Wagner 🐍 @doctaphred]

@hillelogram Attended a 1-day workshop: also ded, but looking forward to arising from my own ashes and wielding the powers of temporal logic [of actions]

[Frederick Wagner 🐍 @doctaphred]

@jdan @NotionHQ it's soooooooooo slooooooooow

[Frederick Wagner 🐍 @doctaphred]

@jmeickle @weirdoqueen I did not, in fact. Thanks for the tip!

[Frederick Wagner 🐍 @doctaphred]

@illiterich Thought of you at Macy's yesterday

[Frederick Wagner 🐍 @doctaphred]

whatever they unearthed in that antarctic glacie needs to be LEFT THE HECK ALONE

[Frederick Wagner 🐍 @doctaphred]

What in God's green grubhub...

[Frederick Wagner 🐍 @doctaphred]

tag yourself i'm Pulled Sandwich

[Frederick Wagner 🐍 @doctaphred]

@nedbat

[Matthew Garrett (@[email protected]) @mjg59]

My vacuum cleaner's API has an endpoint that tells you which AWS region to use, but the endpoint in question is hosted in us-east-1

[Frederick Wagner 🐍 @doctaphred]

@kaldrenon Ah, gotcha. Good points! Thanks for engaging, it was helpful.

[Frederick Wagner 🐍 @doctaphred]

@kaldrenon The quoted tweet in isolation is a bit edgy, but it doesn't sound like a rejection of looking stuff up; just of embracing a posture of perpetual ignorance. The ability to look up the right things sounds a lot closer to the understanding he's advocating for than rote memorization!

[Frederick Wagner 🐍 @doctaphred]

@kaldrenon I'm not sure what's going on, then... your QT on its own sounds like an endorsement/restatement of both the quoted tweet and the linked post, but your follow-up seems to reject that point. (The point I'm hearing from both is that it's critical to continually learn and improve.)

[Frederick Wagner 🐍 @doctaphred]

@fwiles computers

[Frederick Wagner 🐍 @doctaphred]

@wirecutter You've clearly never had to work with their APIs... e.g., https://t.co/iqm4xsifIl ("Relatively speaking" is also a pretty low bar to begin with.)

[Frederick Wagner 🐍 @doctaphred]

@SwiftOnSecurity @Cruxador These look like the storm shutters that are everywhere in Florida. FWIW, my parents and grandparents have used them daily for decades, without any failures I've ever heard of.

[Frederick Wagner 🐍 @doctaphred]

@notsolonecoder But if possible, I'd actually recommend using PyCharm's venv manager: the GUI makes it way easier to explain, and learners don't have to remember to "activate" anything (or get confusing errors when they don't)

[Frederick Wagner 🐍 @doctaphred]

@notsolonecoder In my experience teaching, virtualenv and venv are both super confusing for learners until they understand environment variables and the PATH search process. Last I checked, pipenv was basically unusable (bugs, and unstable interface). These days I'd probably go with poetry.