Paul Grossman

Software Development Director

[Paul Grossman @pgrossman2]

@grok @X OK, fine. How about any humans who would know? Help me out so I don't have to pay to get an answer to a seemingly straight-forward question. TIA!

[Paul Grossman @pgrossman2]

@grok What is it with these reverse image photos I'm seeing all over @X starting today. How are they created?

[Paul Grossman @pgrossman2]

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[It's 🇺🇸 Tiff 🇺🇸 @TiffMoodNukes]

If critics viewed Bad Bunny’s lyrics as offensive, check these…

“Hey, little girl, is your daddy home?
Did he go away and leave you all alone?
I got a bad desire
Oh, oh, oh, I'm on fire”
-Bruce Springsteen

“Caught her stealin my music/so I tied her arms and legs to the bed/set up the camera, pissed twice on her. Look, two pees & a tripod/the moral to the story is/life’s treatin you like dry sod/Kick it back in its face, my God”
- Eminem

“Well, I don’t care if you’re just 13, you look too good to be true. I just know that you’re probably clean. There’s one little thing I got to do to you. Jailbait, you look so good to me. Jailbait, won’t you set me free” - Ted Nugent

“Smack bitches, no smack cam/closed fists, no back hands/pop pussy on a hand stand/they suckin dick like it’s band camp”
- Nicki Minaj

Oh and “Lemonade” - Title of Beyonce’s album (Lemonade = young fresh sweet child victim. Or a reference to "making lemonade" as in turning something sour (trauma/abuse) into something sweet (profit/pleasure for the perpetrator), twisted into an adrenochrome-)

Just sayin’….🤷🏾‍♀️

[Akhilesh Mishra @livingdevops]

You've been using Linux for years. But you're still doing things the hard way.

Here are 7 commands that'll save you hours:

1. Forgot to add sudo?
- Type `sudo !!`
- It repeats your last command with sudo. No retyping.

2. Just created a file?
- Use `vim !$` to open it.
- The !$ grabs the last thing you typed.

3. Can't remember that command?
- Press Ctrl + R and start typing.
- It searches your entire command history.

4. Made a typo in a long command?
- Type `fc`
- It opens your last command in an editor. Fix it and save. Done.

5. Jumping between folders?
- Use pushd /some/path to save a location.
- Use popd to go back.
- No more typing long paths over and over.

6. Want to see your folder structure?
- Type `tree -L 2`
- Shows everything like an actual tree. Much cleaner than ls.

7. Need to go back to your last folder?
- Just type cd -
- Takes you right back. Simple.

Bonus:

Stop writing `cat file | grep something`
- Just write `grep something file`
- Does the same thing. Way cleaner.

I've used Linux for years. These small commands save me time every single day.

Bookmark this. Your future self will thank you.

[PyQuant News 🐍 @pyquantnews]

13 Python libraries for free market data everyone should know:

[Mohammed Tawakkal Ahmed @Tawakkalah13_10]

Python For Everything

🌐 Web Development

🔹 Python + Django = Full-stack, secure web applications
🔹 Python + FastAPI = High-performance APIs & microservices
🔹 Python + Flask = Lightweight & flexible web apps
🔹 Python + Jinja2 = Dynamic HTML templating

🤖 AI / Machine Learning

🔹 Python + Scikit-learn = Classical machine learning
🔹 Python + TensorFlow = Deep learning & neural networks
🔹 Python + PyTorch = Research-friendly deep learning
🔹 Python + Keras = Simple neural network modeling

📊 Data Science & Analytics

🔹 Python + Pandas = Data manipulation & cleaning
🔹 Python + NumPy = Numerical computing
🔹 Python + Matplotlib / Seaborn = Data visualization
🔹 Python + Jupyter Notebook = Interactive data analysis

⚙️ Automation & Scripting

🔹 Python + Selenium = Browser automation
🔹 Python + Playwright = Modern web automation
🔹 Python + BeautifulSoup = Web scraping
🔹 Python + Requests = API & HTTP automation

🖥️ Desktop Applications

🔹 Python + Tkinter = Simple GUI apps
🔹 Python + PyQt / PySide = Professional desktop software
🔹 Python + Kivy = Cross-platform apps

🎮 Game Development

🔹 Python + Pygame = 2D game development
🔹 Python + Panda3D = 3D games & simulations

☁️ Cloud & DevOps

🔹 Python + Docker = Containerized applications
🔹 Python + Kubernetes = Cloud-native orchestration
🔹 Python + Boto3 = AWS automation
🔹 Python + Ansible = Infrastructure automation

🗄️ Databases

🔹 Python + SQLAlchemy = ORM & database abstraction
🔹 Python + Django ORM = Database handling
🔹 Python + PostgreSQL / MySQL = Relational databases
🔹 Python + MongoDB = NoSQL databases

🔒 Cybersecurity

🔹 Python + Scapy = Network analysis
🔹 Python + Nmap = Security scanning
🔹 Python + Cryptography = Encryption & security tools

🧪 Testing & QA

🔹 Python + PyTest = Advanced testing framework
🔹 Python + Unittest = Built-in testing
🔹 Python + Behave = BDD testing

🚀 Systems & Performance

🔹 Python + Cython = Speed optimization
🔹 Python + multiprocessing = Parallel processing
🔹 Python + Asyncio = Async & concurrent programs

[Paul Grossman @pgrossman2]

@_devJNS BASIC - Now I'm showing my age 😁

[The Biblical Man @Biblicalman]

Walt Disney once told Charles Schulz he wasn't good enough to draw background art.

Form letter. Very polite.

"We only hire the very finest artists."

Sparky wasn't one of them.

His yearbook rejected his cartoons. His school gave him a zero in physics. He failed every subject in eighth grade.
Every. Single. One.

The other kids called him "Sparky" — after a horse in a comic strip.

They were calling him an animal.

Paul Harvey said it best:

"Sparky wasn't actually disliked by the other youngsters. No one cared enough about him to dislike him."

So this invisible boy did something strange.

He didn't try to prove Disney wrong.

He wrote his autobiography in cartoons instead.

Named the main character after himself.

Charlie Brown.

A kid whose kite never flies. Whose team never wins. Whose crush never notices him.

Then Schulz did something the network executives hated.

He put Luke 2 at the center of his Christmas special.

"Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy..."

They told him to cut it.

Too religious.

He refused.

Christmas Eve, millions of families will watch that scene.

A loser became the messenger.

Disney said he wasn't good enough.

God said otherwise.

[Kevin O'Leary aka Mr. Wonderful @kevinolearytv]

Start by renting until you start a family and keep it small, 1,500 feet or less if you've got the average salary of $70,000 annually. Once you decide to have a child, you gotta expand a little bit, get that second bedroom and also have an office in the house. Then you buy a home.

Each partner gets their own credit card and never puts that online. It remains in their name and you pay the balance off every month. There's a third card which is joint-held. That goes online everywhere and that's the card that you each contribute to from your salaries. But you make sure the limit on that is $2,500. That way, you watch each other's spending and when you get hit with fraud, the max is 2,500. And you pay it down every single month.

[Keira Connolly @keira_con]

Wise words

“My name’s Frank. I’m 64, a retired electrician.
Forty-two years I spent running wires through houses, fixing breakers, making sure people had light in their kitchens and heat in their winters. Never once did anyone ask me where I went to college. Mostly, they just wanted to know if I could get the power back on before their ice cream melted.

Last May, I was at my granddaughter Emily’s school career day. You know the drill — doctors, lawyers, a software guy in a slick suit talking about “scaling startups.” I was the only one there with a tool belt and work boots.

When it was my turn, I told the kids, “I don’t have a degree. I’ve never sat in a lecture hall. But I’ve wired schools, hospitals, and your principal’s house. And when the hospital generator failed during a snowstorm in ’98, I was the one in the basement with a flashlight, keeping the lights on for newborn babies upstairs.”

The kids leaned forward. They had questions — real ones. “How do you fix stuff in the dark?” “Do you make a lot of money?” “Do you ever get zapped?” (Yes, once, and it’ll curl your hair.)

When the bell rang, one boy hung back. Small kid, freckles, hoodie too big for him. He mumbled, “My uncle’s a plumber. People laugh at him ’cause he didn’t finish high school. But… he’s the only one in the family who can fix anything.”

I looked that boy in the eye and said, “Kid, your uncle’s a hero. When your toilet overflows at midnight, Harvard ain’t sending anyone. A plumber is.”

Here’s the thing nobody told me when I was young — the world doesn’t run without tradespeople. You can have all the engineers you want, but if nobody builds the house, wires the power, or lays the pipes, those blueprints just sit in a drawer.

We’ve made it sound like trades are what you do if you can’t go to college, instead of a path you choose because you like working with your hands, solving problems, and seeing your work stand solid for decades.

Four years after high school, some kids walk away with diplomas. Others walk away with zero debt, a union card, and a skill they can take anywhere in the world. And guess what? When your furnace dies in January, it’s not the diploma that saves you.

A few weeks ago, that same freckled kid’s mom stopped me at the grocery store. She said, “You probably don’t remember, but you told my son trades are important. He’s shadowing his uncle this summer. First time I’ve seen him excited about anything in years.”

That’s the part we forget — for some kids, knowing their path is respected changes everything. It’s not about “just” fixing wires or pipes. It’s about pride. Purpose. The kind that sticks with you long after the job’s done.

So next time you meet a teenager, don’t just ask, “Where are you going to college?” Ask, “What’s your plan?” And if they say, “I’m learning to weld,” or “I’m starting an apprenticeship,” smile big and say, “That’s fantastic. We’re going to need you.”

Because we will. More than ever. And when the lights go out, you’ll be glad they showed up.”

[Francesco Ciulla @FrancescoCiull4]

Based ONLY on your personal experience, what is the best AI model to code?

[Paul Grossman @pgrossman2]

@grok What if it's for just mainstream questions that aren't complex tasks? Wouldn't it be just a waste to pay for what's generally available for free? Why not charge based on the complexity of the task instead of the number of questions?

[Paul Grossman @pgrossman2]

@grok, why would it be worthwhile to pay for more than 2 questions per 2 hours to you when I can get many more for free using either chatGPT, copilot, or gemini?

[Paul Grossman @pgrossman2]

@grok What if it's for just mainstream questions that aren't complex tasks? Wouldn't it be just a waste to pay for what's generally available for free? Why not charge based on the complexity of the task instead of the number of questions?

[Csaba Kissi @csaba_kissi]

Git essential commands

[Swapna Kumar Panda @swapnakpanda]

SAVE THESE SITES FOREVER!!!

[Aakash Gupta @aakashgupta]

If you're not vibe coding yet, you should be. Save this.

[yourclouddude @yourclouddude]

7 Python Projects Every Beginner Should Build
• Calculator → practice logic & loops
• To-Do List App → file handling basics
• Weather App → work with APIs
• Expense Tracker → Tkinter GUI
• CRUD Web App → Flask + Database
• Resume Parser → NLP practice
• Job Tracker → Selenium automation

Forget 50 tutorials.
Build these 7 → portfolio ready.

[Python Programming @PythonPr]

The Python Ecosystem

[Python Programming @PythonPr]

API types and use cases