Peter David McCormick

Husband, father, director of PyCon Canada. Python, Go, JavaScript, systems & infrastructure.

[Peter David McCormick @pdmccormick]

@rhatr @mitchellh Visit https://t.co/dkGLhzWBL2<username>

[Peter David McCormick @pdmccormick]

@__tinygrad__ Somewhere just out of sight, Erdős is sitting at the kitchen table with a pot of coffee, looking over some papers, a pencil in hand. Smiling.

[Peter David McCormick @pdmccormick]

@spreadsheeticus @OrganizationTao @WIRED There is specific XMPP metadata in the 2 released files that show the files were rendered projects exported from Adobe Premiere. Further, in a portion of the files around the infamous missing minute, there appears to be an overlay menu in the top right corner. So not raw sources.

[Peter David McCormick @pdmccormick]

Not to mention an exploding cottage industry of new AI-centric tooling for dealing with all manners of low hanging security, performance and architectural issues, resource over-utilization optimization, etc. There is going to be more work for everyone, not less! More is more.

[Peter David McCormick @pdmccormick]

Vibe coding is creating new opportunities for senior developers. With the sheer volume of weekend projects finding product/market fit, there will be intense demand for more experienced hands to wade through the endless reams of AI generated slop. Sharpen your pencils, folks.

[Peter David McCormick @pdmccormick]

@ForrestTheWoods The full types are actually “short int”, “long int”, “long long int”, but historically in C the “int” type keyword could be dropped as it was assumed (i.e. “unsigned x;” is equivalent to “unsigned int x;”)

Before C swept the world there was more variety of CPU architectures.

[Peter David McCormick @pdmccormick]

In #k8s world, is there a reason why YAML is preferred over JSON for writing deployments and such? Wouldn't it be easier to programmatically generate JSON than use text templating languages to generate YAML?

[Peter David McCormick @pdmccormick]

Completionists are often mistaken for perfectionists. Perfectionists are never satisfied because they cannot define what “perfect” is. But completionists have a vision etched into their minds, they know what “done” is and they cannot rest until that vision is realized.

[Peter David McCormick @pdmccormick]

Just as no one owns your identity as a person in the real world, likewise no one but you should have control over your digital identity. Here is a sneak peek into what I've been working on this year at @Qui_Identity
#DecentralizedIdentity #VerifiableCredentials #KERI #ACDC

[Kirk Simpson @tksimpson]

I hate the blue check mark.

I love what it’s supposed to be (proof of who I am), and I hate what it has become.

See how Qui is developing a new model for verified identity that brings trust to 21st century interactions.
https://t.co/bhqeCXXXH5

[Peter David McCormick @pdmccormick]

I've been working on reverse engineering the Dante protocol for networked audio over Ethernet/IP. Would anyone be interested in helping out the effort?

[Peter David McCormick @pdmccormick]

In #Python, have you ever seen a construct like "return; yield" as the body of a function? The presence of a "yield" means this function will always return a generator, but the preceding "return" ensures that it will be always be empty. Useful for a base class default method.

[Peter David McCormick @pdmccormick]

What else could be possible with at least one RP2040 designed into a #RaspberryPi?

[Peter David McCormick @pdmccormick]

Here's my prediction/dream for the #RaspberryPi 5: that it would include not 1 but **2** Pico-style RP2040 microcontrollers.

[Peter David McCormick @pdmccormick]

These controllers would run independently of the main CPU, so the system could be deep sleeping or rebooting or even shutdown completely while they are still active. The PIO features of the 2040 could natively implement all sorts of low level interfaces like CAN, DMX or I2S.

[Peter David McCormick @pdmccormick]

@hishnash This definitely makes sense because otherwise they will need to integrate a DDR memory controller into the silicon, a feature that would only currently be useful to the Mac Pro, whereas more PCIe lanes would be applicable to Thunderbolt, DisplayPort, etc.

[Peter David McCormick @pdmccormick]

Here’s my prediction for the Mac Pro: it will support upgradeable RAM slots, as a last level cache relative to the on-package memory design of Apple Silicon. It will also support external GPU’s, but it’s just taking awhile to get drivers up and running. Seems reasonable, no?

[Peter David McCormick @pdmccormick]

@tebeka Great example! FWIW it’s also possible to concatenate slices by doing “s := append(s1, s2…)”, although that may affect future uses of “s1” if it already has enough capacity for the combined length of both.