David Beazley

@dabeaz

Author of the Python Essential Reference and Python Cookbook. I tweet deep thoughts about code, bikes, kids, and stuff. Come to Chicago and take a course.

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Joined February 2009

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    Jan 29

    Sure, there are code smells, but THEN there are code smells of FEAR. This is precisely why you should sign up for my Rafting Trip course, March 30-April 3, 2020. Chicago. You'll learn a lot.

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  2. 20 hours ago

    Deleting all of the ideas...

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  3. 22 hours ago

    Wait, the sky is blue?

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  4. Feb 1

    Ok, that did not work. But, after some amount of fiddling around, brought machine back with a bootable High Sierra USB drive. So, rolling again...

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  5. Feb 1

    Whoa. That so did not work. Fortunately, I’ve still got this: my precious. Let’s try it out....

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  6. Feb 1

    Welp, Mac dead again. Probably a flaky HDD. Upgraded to an SSD in under 10 minutes. Now an Internet reinstall. Er. Ugh.....

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  7. Jan 30

    Not to worry. If your favorite open source project isn’t being used by Palantir, parts of it were still probably created with funding for nuclear weapons.

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  8. Jan 30

    Just to note: this has nothing to do with talk acceptances (which apparently went out recently). I didn’t submit any pycon proposals.

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  9. Jan 30

    I've been thinking about this a bit lately as I've been drifting back to my polyglot roots with some of my courses and coding interests. Think I'm going to pass on PyCon this year. You might find me hanging out someplace like StrangeLoop or a similar conference though.

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  10. Jan 30

    People are often surprised to learn that I have never been a Python core-dev. Truth is that I've always fancied myself more as an independently minded polyglot. When I started with Python, I was also active with Tcl, Perl, and other communities (via the Swig project).

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  11. Retweeted
    Jan 29

    here's a secret for all u kids in college, engineering teams are saving all the interesting shit for their interns, once you start full time it's basically downhill from there

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  12. Retweeted
    Jan 28

    BLOG: Introducing Tcl 8.7: list and array enhancements.

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  13. Jan 28

    Today's captcha: Identify the supercomputer.

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  14. Retweeted
    Jan 28
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  15. Retweeted
    Jan 27

    This interview with the author of The Witcher is the most author goals thing I’ve ever read

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  16. Jan 27

    Picked up the bike at the shop. Yep, that’s a crack.

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  17. Retweeted
    Jan 26

    Get yourself a job / gig at some point in your career where you have no access to Google - sone facility with no phones or internet allowed or accessible for one reason or another. You will be stretched in ways you didn’t think possible and read man pages you’ve only skimmed.

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  18. Jan 27

    A day to reset perhaps. The last few months have just been a freaking mess. Talks, travel, teaching, injuries. Need to get my shit together. Need to get the book finished. Need to get back to coding. Need to take better care of myself.

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  19. Retweeted
    Jan 26

    Learning SmallTalk or Lisp might not be considered ‘useful’ by consensus, but I can promise you there is very little else that will so deeply impact the way you understand other programming languages.

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  20. Retweeted
    Jan 25

    People angrily commenting on my throwaway GitHub gist, think of it like homeopathy: you know how if you throw a single fuck into a giant pool of water and dilute it enough, you can't scientifically say that there's any fucks left in there? That's how many fucks I give

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