dmpayton

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by dmpayton 10mo ago
Haha, I promise you I am not! I can't prove it was me, but I did find some old tweets where I shared that blog post in 2011. At one of the Santa Clara PyCon's I ran a small Qtile BoF in the Open Spaces and ended up meeting one or
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by dmpayton 10mo ago
Oh my god, that was me! I can't believe I just read this on HN. Whenever I'm at a conference (usually PyCon or DjangoCon) and meet someone whose work has benefited me, I try to make a point to thank them. I ended up getting involv
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by dmpayton 1y ago
I went through the "Install Windows" option just to hear the Windows XP installation music again. That track is such a vibe, I have loved it since I was a 14 year-old installing a pirated copy of XP in 2001.
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by dmpayton 1y ago
I first started using Django in 2006, v0.95, the "magic removal" release. I was 19 and doing PHP at a small startup. I'd heard the hype around Rails, and wanted to check it out. Several hours and many head-desk moments later,
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by dmpayton 1y ago
I'm so excited to find this out! I was a regular attendee of PyCon and DjangoCon for close to a decade, but haven't been to one since the pre-pandemic. times I now work at a nonprofit without much of a budget for extras and had ba
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by dmpayton 2y ago
Same! Excluding members of my family, over the years I've only met a few people online who share it.
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by dmpayton 2y ago
In my case, I've had multiple ophthalmologists recommend against getting IOLs until I'm much, much older, as the risk of side affects (specifically retinal detachment) outweighs the benefit I would get from having them. I still dr
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by dmpayton 2y ago
I was born with congenital bilateral cataracts and had the lenses in both eyes removed as an infant (a condition called Aphakia). I have been set up with monovision since I was very young -- that basically means I'm intentionally far-s
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by dmpayton 2y ago
I don't have anything meaningful to add other than how bizarre to see this on HN. Laura Splotch, who was interviewed in the article, is a good friend, neighbor, and former coworker. Weird how things intersect sometimes.
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by dmpayton 3y ago
This triggered a memory from my early days of learning to code... When I was in middle school and high school – late '90s and early '00s – I got heavily into forums and message boards. Customizing them was a major part of how I ta
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by dmpayton 3y ago
Heh, I'm literally in the middle of optimizing some N+1 query endpoints in a Django application for work, made a bit more tricky because of DRF's serializer. I think a setting for lazy queries would be a good solution, with it ena
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by dmpayton 4y ago
Heh, I discovered your comment while googling to fix the same. I'm in the same boat as you; it's seriously annoying and distracting. Did you ever find a solution?
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by dmpayton 4y ago
I just placed an order for a Pico W that, with tax and shipping, came out to around $15. Most places are capping the quantity to 1 for the moment.
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by dmpayton 5y ago
This is typical of Facebook. Years ago, Facebook maintained a Python SDK for their API. One day, with no warning, Facebook announced they would no longer support it because they didn't have the resources, and the repo was removed from
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by dmpayton 6y ago
I run a community hackerspace in Fresno, CA called Root Access. https://rootaccess.org/ My main focus this year has been – and continues to be – working ways to ensure the space survives the pandemic. We started making PPE
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by dmpayton 6y ago
> I tried quite a few things on both devices... I wonder what was tried? Disable bluetooth and wifi on the computer? Put the phone into airplane mode? `sudo reboot` from the terminal?
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by dmpayton 6y ago
Some of my favorite memories of open source involvement have been contributing to that "shitty" project. Thanks for helping to keep it going!
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by dmpayton 6y ago
I run a hackerspace in Fresno, CA called Root Access. My side project is that we're making PPE and other things to help with various efforts -- face masks, face shields, scrub caps, ear savers, no-contact accessories, etc. https:&#x2F
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by dmpayton 9y ago
I never got to meet JPB, but I was lucky enough to attend his keynote at PyCon 2014 in Montreal. It's a great talk, should you have a spare 45 minutes. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=QGVzb5YXmeo He is (indirectly) res
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by dmpayton 10y ago
As a parent, I get the emotional reaction. You want to provide the absolute best for your child, and this feels like a total missed opportunity. But as someone who had cataract surgery as a newborn, please don't fret about it too much.
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by dmpayton 10y ago
Bilateral aphakics unite! Congenital cataracts run in my family and, as luck would have it, I inherited the condition from my Dad. I had both my lenses removed when I was an infant in the mid/late 80's. I wore both contacts and gl
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by dmpayton 12y ago
Medical cannabis still exists in Colorado. You can still go to a doctor and get a recommendation, and many dispensaries will give a discount to qualified patients. (Edit: wording)
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by dmpayton 12y ago
I started with Awesome in 2009 and switched to Qtile about a year later. Python is what I do all day every day, and it's really useful to be able to customize my environment in my favorite language. The other plus of Qtile being in Pyt
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by dmpayton 12y ago
Yep. I use Ubuntu and my .xsession starts unity-settings-daemon before firing up Qtile to give me a more pleasent desktop experience.
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by dmpayton 12y ago
I'm not sure how Xmonad and AwesomeWM handle multiple monitors, but in Qtile you have a single set of groups (analagous to tags or workspaces) shared between your monitors, and each monitor displays one group.
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by dmpayton 12y ago
Before you ration drinking water, you ban or ration washing cars, watering lawns, and laundry. I live in Fresno, and we're not too far off from that. Come November, no one is allowed to water their lawns, and they're threatening
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by dmpayton 12y ago
Do you know about PythonSD? I'm sure they could get you in touch with a female engineer. http://pythonsd.org/ (I used to work at Cuker, and all the PythonSD guys are pretty great.)
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by dmpayton 13y ago
Ah, looks like there's an issue with the iHackerNews API itself, which I don't have a hand in. You'll want to hit up @ronnieroller on Twitter. Sorry I can't be of more help. :/
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by dmpayton 13y ago
I wrote a Python wrapper for the iHackerNews API, if that helps. https://github.com/dmpayton/python-ihackernews
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by dmpayton 13y ago
It's more to do with separation of concerns. The presentation of data should be the responsibility of the front-end (in this case, the data is a form description and the front-end is in your web browser). This is very useful for when y

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