Elena Williams

"We do these things, not because they are easy, but because we thought they were going to be easy ..."

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@lzsthw @lzsthw quiet day reading old newspapers. A blow torch? My Dude. I see you, I feel you but "melt the locktite" I'm dying. Been the guy with sandpaper, never heard of "Gorgomyte cloth", bravo! It's a very good story, love a happy ending. Do you have photos of the hole at work?

After more testing, I believe a better curriculum for a "Painting 4 Programmers" doesn't use pastels for the color training. Pastels are awesome for painting in color, but for learning to _see_ color oil paint has a major advantage, this hole in my knife: Here's how it works: 1. It's difficult for people to compare a color they've mixed with a color they see because of how colors interact. If you have an orange square inside a blue field then that orange will look far more intense than it actually is. 2. The way you work around this is to view the color (in this case, the orange square) through a hole in a gray card. The hole isolates the color, and the gray card blocks the surrounding colors that confuse it. 3. To see if your color matches you then look at it next to the color you're seeing through this little hole. 4. Eventually I realized if I just punch a hole in my knife I can take the paint that's on it while I'm mixing, point it at the thing I'm mixing, and if the hole "disappears" then I've got it. This combines the "hole in gray card" method with the "put color next to thing" method in one easy quick to use comparison method. 5. Doing this speeds up your ability to compare colors with your mixes exponentially, which then increases your color training. 6. Pastels though, don't have this mixing knife thing. They're sticks that are square or circles, so comparing them uses the gray card. You can make a bunch of little bits of paper with holes in them, but it's really annoying. 7. The other problem is you never really have pastels that exactly match what you see. They get close, but you'd need probably 10k pastels to really exactly match what you see. Oil paint can get way closer to what you see. 8. There's also a cost factor. You only need 5 small tubes of oil paint and a knife to be able to match nearly everything you see in oils. To do the same in pastels you will probably spend thousands of dollars. 9. Now, once you _learn_ how to see color accurately then pastels shine because you can use really great tricks to make people see colors you want, but that's a more advanced technique. Based on that, I think the curriculum will be way easier if it's this: 1. Basics of drawing with pencil and paper. 2. Monochrome painting with pastels or charcoal. 3. Color painting with oil paint and a palette knife. Let me know what you think!

@AdamChainz 🤔 "recommendations from friends" ... maybe you already have the good oil ... kindest regards either way. Further I also need to kick my googs habit also and this "x" is good. More evidence on the pile though I'm painfully attached.

@AdamChainz Ended up plonked next to some delightful individuals from Fastmail at PyConAU last, so if you need any needfuls just let us know and can forward appropriately.

Yesterday my janky two-Gmail account setup finally broke. With no clear guidance to fix it, I finally made the move to Fastmail, which I’ve been considering for years. Turned out to be really straightforward! I imported both accounts, set up DNS, and started replying in <1h.

Today, we’re introducing Claude Pro, our new plan on Claude.ai offering 5x more usage. For a monthly price of $20 (US) or £18 (UK), customers will get more message capacity, priority access during high-traffic periods, and early access to new features.

📢 We're thrilled to introduce the first #PyLadiesCon! 🎉 ! December 1st - 3rd, 2023, and prepare for an incredible online experience! 📢 Submit your proposals by September 10th. Don't miss out on this opportunity! Submit your proposal:👇 buff.ly/3Z479Cs

@tveastman kk, had to find it, but you say "indefatiguable" I think of Richard Burton's grave shakespearean drop: youtube.com/watch?v=OlG25C… Honestly I thought it was in that amazing opening, but that's "slowly, surely, they drew their plans against us". So good.

@tveastman For me it's from killer 1978 War of the Worlds concept album from the Horsell Commons scene. Dun-dun-duuuuhhh ....

First-ever FastAPI event, in Berlin! 🎉 Hear from (and mingle with): @tiangolo - creator of FastAPI 🚀 @mitsuhiko - creator of Flask 🍾 @samuelcolvin - creator of Pydantic 📐 @marcelotryle - maintainer of Uvicorn, Starlette 🚄 Thanks to @getsentry 🎁 sentry.io/resources/fast…

So exciting, I'm still mind-blown and humbled 🤯 When I was learning Flask and wondering about the genius behind it, I didn't imagine this 😊 One thing is meeting your heroes... but another is sharing the stage, for an event around the little thing you made 🤩

@pydanny Here in Oz, they're teaching Flask, there was a wonderful talk at PyConAU to this effect: youtube.com/watch?v=qZkwhT… NB: WE MISS YOU GUYS :sparkle_hearts:

What Python courses are good for 13-year-olds. What does everyone recommend? (I've made some recommendations already, but recognize I'm a bit out of the loop in terms of teenager-focused coding education.

Yeah, so I helped the Excel team with this. Excited that it's out! techcommunity.microsoft.com/t5/excel-blog/…

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Learn how Python and FastAPI let Elena Williams and the team behind G-NAF, the monster-scale National Address File, get huge data to anyone who wants it fast, in "Learning FastAPI on hard-mode: getting out lots of the hardest (aw yeah, geo) data fast" 2023.pycon.org.au/program/SBZNPD…

Our Call for Volunteers is open! If you'd like to be a part of making PyCon AU happen, sign up now at 2023.pycon.org.au/attend/volunte…

Need to work with timezones in #Python? Don't use pytz! Use zoneinfo. It's included in the standard library from Python 3.9 onward and pip install-able if you're on 3.8. Big NOTE: If your code needs to run on Windows, you'll also need to pip install tzdata too!

IT'S HERE! 🍾🎉 FastAPI 0.100.0, final release 🚀 Official support for @pydantic v2 😎 Still supporting Pydantic v1 🤓 Is there a better way to celebrate 60k GitHub stars? ✨ Check out the release notes: #01000" target="_blank" rel="nofollow noopener">fastapi.tiangolo.com/release-notes/…

This is what adding support for @pydantic v2 in @FastAPI looks like. 🚀 ...all while keeping compatibility with Pydantic v1. 😎 Of course, lots of those lines are tests. 🤓 Prepare the champagne. It's minutes/hours away. 🍾

ChatGPT doesn't give you information. It gives you information-shaped sentences.

I just need to retire legacy