ainewsbot (@ainewsbot@schleuss.online)
Python: The Documentary - Python: The Documentary
New documentary about the origins of the Python programming... - https://simonwillison.net/2025/Aug/28/python-the-documentary/#atom-everything #computer-history #guido-van-rossum #youtube #python
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simonjust (@simonjust@mstdn.dk)
CultRepo (formerly Honeypot): "Python: The Documentary | An origin story"
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4QL4VqJ0 #development #Programming #python
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DodoTheDev (@DodoTheDev@front-end.social)
Content warning:Apprenticeship update
I found out today that the apprenticeship I'm on doesn't do C++ as a language, but C#. And that's a language that my work actually uses! I may have to move over to C# to make it more relevant for work (although I'd still prefer python).
Apparently, work use C# to code their backend. What else is it used for please? I know it was created for/by MS, so I'm guessing it's mostly used in Windows environments?
#apprenticeship #dev #softwareDevelopment #cSharp #python
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pybay (@pybay@fosstodon.org)
We’re almost one month away from PyBay 2025! 🎉
Join the Bay Area Python community for talks, connections, and fresh ideas.
📅 Saturday October 18th, 2025 in San Francisco!
🎟️ https://pretix.eu/bapya/pybay-2025/
🐍https://pybay.org/
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frank (@frank@frankwiles.social)
Hey everyone! I'm going to try out this live streaming thing. Want to join my very first live stream? #python #django
https://www.twitch.tv/thefrankwiles 5PM Eastern today!
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lobsters (@lobsters@mastodon.social)
Simulating wealth distribution in an agent-based system https://lobste.rs/s/xz9ssk #finance #python #visualization
https://notebooks.manganiello.tech/fabio/wealth-inequality.ipynb
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david_alberto (@david_alberto@social.sciences.re)
#Astronomy #sundials
A plane refraction #sundial, a rare kind of sundials. A 5cm thick plexiglas (acrylic glass) block, a small washer on top of it. The washer's shadow tells solar time on the drawing at the bottom.
It also tells the current position of the subsolar point on the map, i.e. the place where the Sun is directly overhead.
It took me some time to write the #Python script which draws the hour lines and the map... Thank you matplotlib, numpy, geopandas! Now I can customize refractive index, thickness, width, longitude, latitude. Work in progress.
Light is refracted (bent) by the acrylic glass, even when it's grazing on the surface, so the shadow always stays inside a limited circle. Due to its refractive index, the block has to be about twice as wide as it is thick. I'd love to make a 20cm wide sundial, but I'd need a 10cm thick block...
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leanpub (@leanpub@mastodon.social)
Mastering Modern Time Series Forecasting by Valery Manokhin is on sale on Leanpub! Its suggested price is $54.95; get it for $42.46 with this coupon: https://leanpub.com/sh/o8R2Rcp2 #ComputerScience #MachineLearning #Mathematics #Python #DataScience #DeepLearning #Education
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michalfita (@michalfita@mastodon.social)
@zeitverschreib If you want to learn any just to do that conversion task?
None.
In any other case... I'd bet on both.
#Rust is great for final software where productivity matters as well as quality.
#Python is great for some one liners in the Python shell for quick and dirty solutions, you can write bigger tools as well, but I found #Rust quickly becomes more efficient tool of choice as it's much harder to leave tiny mistakes into the run time.
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hugovk (@hugovk@mastodon.social)
Watching the #Python documentary under the stars in Athens! Thank you #PyConGreece and #CultRepo!
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display (@display@freundica.de)
Hat wer von Euch Erfahrung mit dem Buch "Python Crashkurs" von Eric Matthes? Ist es empfehlenswert für Menschen, die vor knapp 30 Jahren zuletzt in Turbo Pascal und danach nur noch gelegentlich kleinere Sachen in VB programmiert haben?
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KeithTheEE (@KeithTheEE@mastodon.social)
#Python The Documentary was awesome, and a great look at the history of the language
If you're eager for more, and a look at the future of the language and its uses, you should plan on joining @pyconafrica's Friends Of PyCon Africa Live stream: https://za.pycon.org/friends-of-pycon-africa
on 30 August 2025 at 17:00 GMT+2
It's going to be a great time!
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