As promised:

I'm a staff-ish level software engineer, fairly deeply involved in the Python community (see @NorthBayPython which I organise, and @ThePSF where I'm a board Director). Things I like: understanding/taking apart/reassembling systems; open source; technology in service of humans. Otherwise not terribly picky :)

Things I'm good at: programming in #Python (other languages acceptable, of course), communicating complicated stuff in conference talks, probably a few things related to that. Ask?

#FediHired #GetFediHired

As promised:

I'm a staff-ish level software engineer, fairly deeply involved in the Python community (see @NorthBayPython which I organise, and @ThePSF where I'm a board Director). Things I like: understanding/taking apart/reassembling systems; open source; technology in service of humans. Otherwise not terribly picky :)

Things I'm good at: programming in #Python (other languages acceptable, of course), communicating complicated stuff in conference talks, probably a few things related to that. Ask?

#FediHired #GetFediHired

I'm a software developer and sysadmin who could really use being #fedihired.

What I'd really like to do is Rust, but once you ignore the dubious crypto and AI stuff, there seems to be nothing out there. Prove me wrong with a counterexample!

I've spent decades fixing Enterprise mudballs mostly written in #Perl. If you've got a crufty legacy system that everybody else is too scared to touch, I'm your man. I love fixing stuff like that.

I've also done commerical #Scala, #Python, #C/#C++, and although I don't usually admit it on my CV but these are now Trying Times when everything is on the table, even #PHP (the longest six months of my life).

Perl naturally leads into Unix system administration and infrastructure. I've built and maintained mail clusters, VoIP systems, network monitoring, DNS management platforms, that sort of thing. If it's non-sexy but something which needs to be done, I'm there.

Available immediately, for contract or permie, onsite in Amsterdam/Randstad or remote to anywhere.

Drop me a private mention or mail peter@mooli.net if you have or know of something.

Time for a new #introductions

I am ostensibly human and can prove it cryptographically.

I like Art, all art, and most technologies. I hack mostly Perl, Bash, and Python but have spent the most of my time building websites with HTML, CSS, and JavaScript (ever since Flash/ActionScript died). I've been working with AI since long before LLMs were a thing, mostly for creative endeavors. I survived the flame wars and will no longer tolerate that kind of behavior. I am not a "Real Programmer" and neither is anyone else.

I play guitar, mandolin, some piano & drums, and I'm picking up ukulele a little. I crochet manageably and knit poorly. I can still do a fair number of my old magic tricks, but nobody really wants to see that kinda stuff anymore. I occasionally draw, collage, and paint as well as repair most household objects.

I have art and writing on my website(s), and if you can find them all hopefully you enjoy some of it, because I am not a "Content Creator" and I'm not interested in becoming an "Influencer," I just want to make stuff and experience life and share it with the world at my discretion.

I'm married with 2 kids, but usually I keep them out of my online interactions for their privacy.

Here's some hashtags I follow:
#art #history #retro #music #pocketmusic #gameboy #android #chiptunes #bots #ML #AI #guitar #mandolin #busking #streetphotography #streetart #stickerart #magic #webdesign #webdevelopment #uspolitics #dsa #zen #scifi #php #bash #python #javascript #node #automation #discordia #education

If you're new to contributing to Django and you're using an LLM, please consider reading this. We want to bring you into the community, but we can't do that only interacting with an LLM's output.

https://www.better-simple.com/django/2026/03/16/give-django-your-time-and-money/

#Django #Python #OpenSource

If you're new to contributing to Django and you're using an LLM, please consider reading this. We want to bring you into the community, but we can't do that only interacting with an LLM's output.

https://www.better-simple.com/django/2026/03/16/give-django-your-time-and-money/

#Django #Python #OpenSource

I'm a software developer and sysadmin who could really use being #fedihired.

What I'd really like to do is Rust, but once you ignore the dubious crypto and AI stuff, there seems to be nothing out there. Prove me wrong with a counterexample!

I've spent decades fixing Enterprise mudballs mostly written in #Perl. If you've got a crufty legacy system that everybody else is too scared to touch, I'm your man. I love fixing stuff like that.

I've also done commerical #Scala, #Python, #C/#C++, and although I don't usually admit it on my CV but these are now Trying Times when everything is on the table, even #PHP (the longest six months of my life).

Perl naturally leads into Unix system administration and infrastructure. I've built and maintained mail clusters, VoIP systems, network monitoring, DNS management platforms, that sort of thing. If it's non-sexy but something which needs to be done, I'm there.

Available immediately, for contract or permie, onsite in Amsterdam/Randstad or remote to anywhere.

Drop me a private mention or mail peter@mooli.net if you have or know of something.

This is your periodic reminder that `0xfor....real` is a syntactically-valid AND error-free #Python program

This is your periodic reminder that `0xfor....real` is a syntactically-valid AND error-free #Python program

If you maintain a @jazzband project, expect an email before @pycon. django-commons is a great option if you're looking for a new home, they've already taken on several projects and got the governance right from day one.

Wind-down plan: https://jazzband.co/news/2026/03/14/wind-down-plan

#Python #OpenSource

(3/3)

The 'multipart' #python library got an independent #security audit and I only know about that because they found something -> CVE-2026-28356

This is great, actually! Someone looked into it so thoroughly that they found an obscure single-character issue in a regular expression ... and didn't find anything else! Which means I can now be really confident about the security of this library. Nice!

#cve #infosec #sansio

After fighting for... days?... to figure out why using `@dataclass_transform` wasn't showing the expected intellisense in VSCode, I finally figured out that the Jedi language server doesn't seem to support PEP 681 at all?!

I didn't have access to Pylance (because it's proprietary), but https://open-vsx.org/extension/detachhead/basedpyright does seem to work.

(doing a bananas prototype where #Django models can be derived just from #Python typehints)

Here's a #python TIL:

>>> class Hello:
... pass
...
>>> Hello.hello = 'hello'
>>> instance = Hello()
>>> instance.hello
'hello'

I truly didn't think this would work, has this always been true?

RE: https://fosstodon.org/@pycon/116212187234545524

It is the ten year anniversary of my PyConUS 2016 keynote. I had hoped to attend this year to visit old friends and make new ones.

With no corporate sponsor, the cost in money, time, and effort is too much. My cancer treatment will not end until July. While my daily chemo drugs are self administered, they are considered hazardous. The rules tell me that they must be under lock and key while traveling.

No matter how I fiddle numbers, the logistics just don't work out.

Maybe 2027 will be my year.

#pycon #pyconus #python @pycon

@tezoatlipoca

I would strongly recommend #Mastodon team consider building this feature.

I have some generic, wide-ranging hashtags (#Music, #Python) - Most of this is noise to me, but occasionally I find great people I want to follow.

Most of the time, I'd like to JUST see a feed of the people I'm following - without seeing all the cruft.

Currently, that seems difficult, without explicitly adding everyone I follow to a list - tedious. Make sense?

#Mastodon #FeatureRequest

Oooo, this #Activitypub #python library looks like exactly what I've been praying for for ages!

https://git.fabiomanganiello.com/pubby