Paul Bissex @pbx@fosstodon.org
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I build web applications using open source software. I co-wrote one of the first books on Django. Way back in the '90s, I did graphic design for newspapers and magazines. Then I wrote tech commentary and reviews for Wired, Salon, Chicago Tribune, and many you never heard of. I was a teacher/engineer for a few years, then became a full-time engineer. Today I help build the core platform of global startup accelerator MassChallenge, Inc.
Joined Apr 2020
Presuming there are other #Python developers besides me who periodically go looking for a simple visual catalog of #Pygments code-colorizing styles, I'll share this page I made last weekend: https://dpaste.com/styles
Also: if they've determined that it is polling servers for instructions, and can erase itself without a trace... who's to say that it hasn't already been activated (to unknown purpose) and erased itself on other machines?
Users of both #SublimeText and #Mercurial: do you have an ST package for hg that you like? The top two hits on Package Control both seem abandoned (q.v. dead links to Bitbucket). https://packagecontrol.io/search/mercurial
I'm a little worried about what happens when the people controlling this malware flip the switch. https://arstechnica.com/information-technology/2021/02/new-malware-found-on-30000-macs-has-security-pros-stumped/
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Well, this is both fascinating and terrifying: https://arxiv.org/abs/2012.07805
This is honestly like turning the crank on a meat grinder backwards and having that work so well that that cows just mosey out of it under their own power. It is astounding.
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♲ @darkreading_unofficial@joindiaspora.com:
Phishers are trying to trick users into opening a “LinkedIn Private Shared Document” and entering their login credentials into a fake LinkedIn login page, security researcher JB Bowers warns. The phishing attack The phishing message is delivered via LinkedIn’s internal messaging system and looks like it has been sent by one of the victim’s contacts. The message urges the recipient to follow a third-party link to view a document. But, as Bowers pointed out, “there … More →
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Phishers tricking users via fake LinkedIn Private Shared Document
Phishers are trying to trick users into opening a “LinkedIn Private Shared Document” and entering their login credentials into a fake LinkedIn login page, security researcher JB Bowers warns. The phishing attack The phishing message is delivered via LinkedIn’s internal messaging system and looks like it has been sent by one of the victim’s contacts. The message urges the recipient to follow a third-party link to view a document. But, as Bowers pointed out, “there … More →
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Counts for the top ten #Django errors shared from the debug view to dpaste.com, 2021-02-02 to 2021-02-12:
2063 DisallowedHost
154 OperationalError
133 ValueError
123 DoesNotExist
121 ImproperlyConfigured
113 TemplateDoesNotExist
105 TypeError
105 AttributeError
54 ProgrammingError
52 KeyError
If you click on this ad, do you get a product that teaches you how to invoke #Emacs commands by name?
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Today the site hit 500 registered users! To celebrate, here's a soft-launched present for all registered users: any Markdown or reStructuredText items you post can be rendered as HTML by adding ".html" to the URL.
Cool, my #Python talk proposal for #NERDS21 was accepted! https://nerdsummit.org/#33
After 15+ years of professional Python work I published my first #Python package on PyPI today. Something small that I extracted from my pastebin project. Poetry made it a snap to publish. https://pypi.org/project/basewhat/
Firefox protip: address bar supports substring-match live search of tabs (%-spc), history (^-spc), bookmarks (*-spc).
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Outreachy May to August internship applications are open! Outreachy is:
💵 Paid - $6,000 USD total internship stipend
🌍 Remote - both interns and mentors work remotely
🕰 3 months - internships run May 24 to August 24
🚨 Apply by February 22 at 4pm UTC https://outreachy.org/apply/
Outreachy supports diversity in open source software!
Past interns are:
♀️ 92% women
🏳️🌈 4% transgender, genderqueer, or non-binary people
🧕🏾 64% people of color
🧑🏿 12% people from a historically disadvantaged caste or tribe
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I read http://exple.tive.org/blarg/2020/10/25/navigational-instruments/ and now I use % to search for results in my currently open Firefox tabs all the time. Thank you @mhoye .
I wrote a 16-line Rust program all by myself, with only a little help from the copy and paste functions and the #rust channel on Freenode. https://dpaste.com/GG9X5CQLK
p.s. #reqwests is a good library. To my eye this little program is nicer to read than my Go and Javascript versions.
It's hard to imagine a Jira workflow that motivates having a keyboard shortcut for "assign this issue to me", but it exists.
I wonder if there is a single user anywhere who has used that feature intentionally, more times than they've hit it accidentally.
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Don't know how to code but still want to contribute to open projects? Consider open street maps!
OSM is the community built map of the world. Anyone can edit the map and all the data is freely available and usable in any of your projects.
Start in your own neighborhood. Maybe your street is missing or named wrong. Update the corner shop hours. Map the parks or sidewalks. Anything helps and many hands make light work!
Day 8 - #100DaysToOffload
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#PyConUS 2021 has open registration now.
https://pycon.blogspot.com/2021/02/you-can-now-register-for-pycon-us-2021.html
#Python
https://pycon.blogspot.com/2021/02/you-can-now-register-for-pycon-us-2021.html
#Python
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Phel is a functional programming language inspired by Clojure that compiles to PHP https://github.com/phel-lang/phel-lang | https://lobste.rs/s/sfulsk #clojure #php #web
- Blog
- http://e-scribe.com
- Languages
- Python, Javascript, Clojure, Haskell, Rust
- Platforms
- Ubuntu, Debian, FreeBSD, macOS
- Side project
- https://dpaste.com
I build web applications using open source software. I co-wrote one of the first books on Django. Way back in the '90s, I did graphic design for newspapers and magazines. Then I wrote tech commentary and reviews for Wired, Salon, Chicago Tribune, and many you never heard of. I was a teacher/engineer for a few years, then became a full-time engineer. Today I help build the core platform of global startup accelerator MassChallenge, Inc.
Joined Apr 2020
