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Thomas Wouters
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Cat owner, Release Manager for Python 3.12 and 3.13, Meta employee. Former Python Steering Council and PSF Board member. (He/him or they/them.) (searchable)

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yhg1s.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
Go home, Firefox, you're drunk.
A text field in Firefox with "whole-heartedly" written in it, underlined in red since the word is apparently "wholeheartedly", with the right-click popup menu suggesting these "corrections": whole-heatedly, whole-hardheartedly, whole-halfheartedly, whole-downheartedly, whole-kindheartedly, add to dictionary.
November 19, 2025 at 3:02 PM
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hollygodarkly.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy
This podcast ep feels like it pairs well with the #bookreview posts I've been doing lately!

Are you not a sci-fi/fantasy reader, but you're considering trying the genre? We list a WHOLE BUNCH of great starting places! (And some that might not be so great, but it's clear which are which! 😆) […]
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wandering.shop
November 14, 2025 at 11:37 PM
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hollygodarkly.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy
I am SO EXCITED to see this become a reality! (I'm the tech monkey for this podcast, and I've been working hard behind the scenes for a couple months.)

Helping Sandra bring #wecontainmultitudes together has been a joy, and I hope you'll check it out!
https://www.theincomparable.com/multitudes/
We Contain Multitudes
We Contain Multitudes is your injection of joy! Join host Sandra Wong for bright-hearted conversations with famous guests about the geek-outs, hobbies, and interests they aren’t necessarily famous for.
www.theincomparable.com
November 14, 2025 at 11:31 PM
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fedi.chrisjrn.fyi
2. That entire line from the Zen of Python is in fact an incredibly subtle grammar joke. It uses en-dashes incorrectly as a way to point out there's stylistic disagreement about how to use em- and en-dashes in text _to point out that there is no such thing as an obvious way to do things_ (see […]
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social.coop
November 10, 2025 at 3:58 PM
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glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
I really want to stress that if you work at a company that makes a *profit* from your use of Python, you should be _extremely_ embarrassed if you have raised less money than we did

https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115499665145387452
glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy Glyph @glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy · Nov 5
@brettcannon on the one hand; yes, boosted. On the other: this effort was spearheaded by me, personally, and 3 friends in the community, over the course of 7 days. We received matches from just over 100 donors from the community out of an audience of potentially millions, and notably, zero […]
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mastodon.social
November 5, 2025 at 11:25 PM
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glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
@brettcannon on the one hand; yes, boosted. On the other: this effort was spearheaded by me, personally, and 3 friends in the community, over the course of 7 days. We received matches from just over 100 donors from the community out of an audience of potentially millions, and notably, zero […]
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mastodon.social
November 5, 2025 at 11:24 PM
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offby1.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy
I want to note, though, that even with all of this enthusiasm, the PSF is still not as funded as it would have been if they’d compromised their mission and taken the bestringed money offered by the NSF. This is good energy, to get grassroots funding to happen, but we *need* corporate […]
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wandering.shop
November 5, 2025 at 12:27 AM
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offby1.wandering.shop.ap.brid.gy
Thanks to @glyph for kicking it off, and to @petrillic, @amethyst, and @Yhg1s for sharing in the match. My part is half done. Tomorrow I’ll also forward this to my employer who will match my donation as well.
A screen shot of a donation receipt, for $1000 plus the 3% processing fee, to the PSF
November 5, 2025 at 12:25 AM
yhg1s.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
We hit the goal, so here my part of the matching pledge. Thank you, everyone who donated, commented and shared!

https://mastodon.social/@glyph/115493527623089000
A receipt for a $5000 donation (plus 3% to cover fees) to the PSF from me.
November 4, 2025 at 10:00 PM
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glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
With only a few hours left to go, WE HAVE CROSSED THE FINISH LINE, and fully matched all $17,000! Here is a screenshot of my own match (as I said at the beginning, I was going to give $5000 regardless and $5000 to match, so this is the full $10k).
A screenshot of a website saying "Your grant recommendation has been submitted", with the details for a $10,000 grant to the Python Software Foundation below.
November 4, 2025 at 9:24 PM
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glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Update for 2025-11-2: we are currently at $12047.97; 70.9% of the way through our $17000 matching fund. Max us out, folks. Keep it coming. The match will be computed on 11/4 AOE, so you still have a little time, but not THAT much!.

(I should note: if you've already given, please just share […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
November 2, 2025 at 7:12 PM
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toots.amethyst.cat
You have one less reason to not donate to @ThePSF to reward them for standing by their community.

And don’t forget to send your receipt to @glyph - we still have plenty of matching funds to go around!
https://fosstodon.org/@lorenipsum/115470439602513874
Loren (@lorenipsum@fosstodon.org)
@offby1@wandering.shop @glyph@mastodon.social @acdha@code4lib.social @ThePSF STRIPE PAYMENT IS UP, STRIPE PAYMENT IS UP, THIS IS NOT A DRILL https://psfmember.org/civicrm/contribute/transact/?reset=1&id;=2
fosstodon.org
October 31, 2025 at 10:10 PM
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glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Now that the remaining PNG files have been manually OCR'd, the total stands as follows:

We've raised $9238.74 which is 54.3% of our $17000 total. Once again within 24h of a contributor joining the match we are over half full, but we all stand ready to be maxed out so please keep those donations […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
October 31, 2025 at 7:30 PM
yhg1s.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
It's true: I've joined @glyph, @offby1, @amethyst and @petrillic in gift-matching donations to @ThePSF

I've done gift matching before, because I think the PSF is doing tremendous work and I want more people to realize that. I was planning on doing gift matching for the end-of-year, but this way […]
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social.coop
October 31, 2025 at 2:59 PM
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glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Have you been considering donating, but worried that we might be running out of space? Worry not! A new challenger appears! @Yhg1s has committed ANOTHER $5000 match, raising our total matching funds to $17,000, which (modulo a few additional receipts I need to process) means we are down to 43%.
October 31, 2025 at 2:53 AM
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glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
Clearly we have some momentum so I have recruited two additional volunteers contributing to the matching pool: @amethyst is kicking in an additional $1000 to the match and @petrillic is adding $5000. The total contributed still stands at $3973.40 but that is now only 36.1% of the pledged match […]
Original post on mastodon.social
mastodon.social
October 29, 2025 at 12:51 AM
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glyph.mastodon.social.ap.brid.gy
In light of the PSF's recent loss of an NSF grant and attendant funding shortfall, I will be matching donations up to $5000. Send me your receipts.

Very happy if you've already donated for similar reasons but the point is to motivate *new* donations so be sure the timestamp is after this toot 😉.
October 28, 2025 at 8:02 PM
yhg1s.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
They say "don't read the comments" but I think the ratio of good vs bad comments in this thread makes it very, very worthwhile.

Also, the *reach* has been amazing. I've seen reposts from people I follow for very non-Python reasons (not mutuals!), who as far as I know have never posted or […]
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social.coop
October 27, 2025 at 9:35 PM
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fedi.chrisjrn.fyi
I mentioned in my @pybay welcome – #python's vendor-neutral governance is what's made Python be successful at keeping up (and keeping ahead) of the tech industry for 30 years.

@ThePSF cannot serve private interests. We can only support what's good for the language and growing its community. And […]
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social.coop
October 27, 2025 at 4:29 PM
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fedi.chrisjrn.fyi
CODE COMMENTS
a sign says "are you picking up or returning rentals? please go left to the roll-up door. Thank you!" there are two arrows pointing to the right.
October 13, 2025 at 4:54 PM
yhg1s.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
The arms race between Akio's desire for a solitary nap and Demi's desire for Akio continues...

#savannahcat #catsofmastodon
A large Savannah tomcat, Akio, sleeping in a cat furniture hammock, with a smaller Savannah cat, Demi, trying to snuggle with him on the edge of the hammock, nearly falling out.
October 8, 2025 at 4:14 AM
yhg1s.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
Obviously @hugovk did a lot of work on 3.14, so I also pressed a few buttons and released 3.13.8 😅

https://discuss.python.org/t/3-13-8-has-been-released/104211

https://mastodon.social/@hugovk/115333348041057866
#python #python313 #release
3.13.8 has been released
It’s obviously a minor release today that shouldn’t draw much attention away from the new hotness, but Python 3.13.8 is also here… This is the eighth maintenance release of Python 3.13 Python 3.13 is the newest previous major release of the Python programming language, and it contains many new features and optimizations compared to Python 3.12. 3.13.8 is the eighth maintenance release of 3.13, containing around 200 bugfixes, build improvements and documentation changes since 3.13.7. Major ne...
discuss.python.org
October 7, 2025 at 2:38 PM
yhg1s.social.coop.ap.brid.gy
Let me post a *non*-subtoot for once... We made a thing!

https://discuss.python.org/t/pep-810-explicit-lazy-imports/104131

#python #pep
PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports
👋 Hi everyone, We are very exited to share with you PEP 810: Explicit lazy imports: We’re proposing an opt-in lazy import syntax that defers module loading until first use, aiming for faster startup, lower memory, and clear semantics with zero overhead when not used. We worked hard to balance user value, an elegant implementation, and predictable behavior, and we’ve included alternative implementation paths where trade-offs are worth discussing. Not only do we believe this is import...
discuss.python.org
October 3, 2025 at 12:03 PM