Joe Banks

I'm honored to be recognised as a PSF Fellow! Python was my entry point into Computer Science many years ago and has taught me most of what I know today, so I'm grateful that I have the opportunity to give back to the language and the brilliant community behind it. 🐍

@ChrisDragon2016 @DBanksy Cheers Chris 🙂

@DBanksy @JoeBanksDev Brilliant....Congratulations @JoeBanksDev

So this happened. Congratulations @JoeBanksDev BSc.

Python 3.13 is here! At 5 PM EDT (in a little more than 2 hours) we're going to be joined by @llanga and @pyblogsal on the Discord server, to talk about this new version of Python, and what goes into making the Python we know and love! discord.gg/f8MBCp2E?event…

Small blog post for folks who are running AlertManager in Kubernetes and want quick n' easy high-availability! A setup I put together a while ago for @PythonDiscord. jb3.dev/posts/ha-alert…

I lead the Graphics & Automation Technology team at the BBC. This is a thread of what my team achieved with our BBC Graphics app for the UK General Election 2024🧵

Put together another small visualisation for winning seats last night, with the previous incumbent and winner, shows which parties took seats from most others (such as that the Conservatives took 1 Labour MP). files.jb3.dev/party_transfer… Will update as the final 5 results come in.

Put together some of the data from the Ipsos UK projection for #GeneralElection2024 . Interesting to see where the 2019 winners seats are going. Excludes seats for which Ipsos consider it too close to declare or where there is no data (Northern Ireland) files.jb3.dev/sankey.html

Had to get involved... Lola the Labradoodle at the Polling Station! #GeneralElection2024 #GE24 #dogsatpollingstations #Elections2024 @BBCNews @guardian

I'm manifesting a ✨productive summer✨, and to kick it off I've redone my portfolio site, including hopefully the first of a series of articles over the summer. Covering the fairly large stats infrastructure we've got running at @PythonDiscord, enjoy! jb3.dev/posts/pydis-st…

I built something I think is kind of neat! Using @willmcgugan's @textualizeio! Great framework and happy with how the first iteration has turned out 😄✨ github.com/jb3/antur

@2003Montgomery @WagwanNick @ScatterVolt 👀

I'm happy to announce that we'll be starting development of this handy tool next week! Our goal is to launch in early November. Maybe I'll give sneak peeks here and there but I still don't want to reveal too much until we get close to the launch date.

This little fella is 20 today. Now towers over me at 6’2”, how did that happen? Happy Birthday ⁦@JoeBanksDev⁩

Our Station Manager, Joe!

If the Online Safety Bill is passed, people everywhere—not just U.K. residents—could have their private chats and photos scanned and analyzed by government-approved software. eff.org/deeplinks/2023…

Can't wait to attend, #wild #guide!

Today is #WorldRadioDay! We wanted to give a shoutout to URN radio for working so hard and being a brilliant radio station for students 🤩 Did you know that they've been broadcasting since 1979? 😲

Sunset over the Cheviots

@InfernoComms Congratulations!

We are now rated 4.4 by our customers on Trustpilot! trustpilot.com/review/inferno… #trustpilot

@EWDurbin en.wikipedia.org/wiki/DNS-based… 🤞🤞

certificate authorities (not u letsencrypt) are a scam. scam scam scam. i'll be doing everything in my power to avoid ever dealing with a CA again.

@b0rk Here's a fun one: People often forget DNS runs over TCP as well as UDP, I've been on networks with angry firewalls which allowed 53/UDP but blocked 53/TCP. Since it only cuts to TCP when max UDP packet size is reached it only manifested with certain DNS queries. Easy fix luckily.

what problems have you run into with dns? so far I have: - updating records can take a long time (because of caching) - DNS errors turn up in weird ways that initially seem to have nothing to do with DNS (like "connection refused") - CNAME records are kind of weird