Ben Hampson

@develobile Hi! I'm getting to know pyto. Really cool app. Just FYI I couldn't find the docs for shortcuts_attachments(). It took some guesswork for me to find out it was in the pasteboard module. Thanks again!

@jugmac00 Haha! This is hilarious! Be sure to charge them 💰💰💰for the source code + a monthly charge for spellchecking services.

That is the #opensource dream! Create just one typo fix PR in my friend's repository and you get endless career opportunities! @BHampson, you are a living legend 😉

@pvrconsulting @GridEdgeLtd Thanks Perry! The Python conference definitely helped me out a lot on my way to this first job!

Today, I start my new job as a Python Developer at @GridEdgeLtd! 🥳 🙌🏼 They use AI to help places like the Bullring and Birmingham Airport reduce their electricity consumption and costs, as they endeavour to reach #NetZero. I’m excited to get stuck in!

@jugmac00 @GridEdgeLtd Thank you Jürgen! And thank you for your help and encouragement along the way. You’ve been a real help!

@BHampson @GridEdgeLtd This is one lucky company to have you! 👍

The HOT Tech Team is looking for a Backend Engineer to be a keystone of the team in developing quality FOSS software for humanitarian data. Looking for 3-5 years experience. Deadline is 8 August. bit.ly/HOTEngineerDev… #remotejobs #techjobs #opensourcejob

@jugmac00 Haha! 😆 That could have been a nice little money maker! 💶

Yesterday, I entered something like 32.67 EUR in a HR tool of a multi billion dollar company to get back the money I spent on a book, and the tool converted it silently into 3267 EUR. Unfortunately, our accounting dept is pretty good 😬🤣

Today I've been going through Python's built-in functions. format() has commas for thousand separators. Neat. price = 14336540 print(format(price, ',')) # >>> 14,336,540

What data vis tools do we use to make our charts at @TheEconomist ? I answered this frequently asked question in our weekly data newsletter view.e.economist.com/?qs=215799c4a2…

@jugmac00 @fluentpython Haha fair enough! 20+ years is impressive!

@BHampson @fluentpython 20+ years ago when I bought this bike 2nd hand there was no alternative to 26" 🤷😬😂

sunshine ✅ bike ✅ danube river ✅ pre-print of @fluentpython 2nd ed ✅ reading the chapter about "Concurrency with Futures" 😱 Let's see how this turns out 🤣

@EliHolderness Fantastic, thanks so much for letting me know!

@BHampson anvil.works/jobs 👀👀👀

Launching BenHampson.co.uk! Check out the projects I’ve built: 📈 Tradebot - a trading bot (with a /very/ creative name) 🐦 Twitter Clone - built with Django 📍 BenHampson.co.uk - built with Django + Wagtail Need a junior backend dev? Hello! 👋 Get in touch! 📮

@jugmac00 @pycon I actually tried to bake one loaf last year and it turned out like a rock. I had to throw it away - it was inedible. 🤦‍♂️ Thankfully coding went a lot better.

@BHampson While I learnt to bake bread during the pandemic, this guy researched and developed his own stocks and cryptocurrency trading system 😱 I met Ben during @pycon where he voluntered as a session host. He also took part at the sprints where he contributed to an OSS project.

@jugmac00 @pycon Thank you Jürgen! So kind of you!

@BHampson @pycon He is one of the good ones! He is super motivated and picks up things super quickly. If you have an open position, go get him! Also, he uses tox 😎

The web team @monzo is growing! - Based either in London or UK remote - Joining a highly impactful team within the company - £60-90K boards.greenhouse.io/monzo/jobs/319…

Does anyone have a better way to deploy small Django projects on your own VPS? It’d be good to know any ideas for next time! #Django #DjangoConEU

After a few false starts, these 2 guides from @testdrivenio are 👌🏼. Definitely the way to go. testdriven.io/blog/dockerizi… testdriven.io/blog/django-le…

I severely underestimated the amount of work required to containerise my Django app along with Postgres + nginx. Plus adding SSL is a bit finicky when you have things in containers.