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PyCon US is just around the corner.  I've asked Rob Ludwick to come on the show to discuss how to get the most out of your PyCon experience. There's a lot to do. A lot of activities to juggle, including actual juggling, which is where we start the conversation.

Even if you never get a chance to go to PyCon, I hope this interview helps you get a feel for the welcoming aspect of the Python community.

I recorded this interview as an episode for one of my other podcasts, Python People. But I think it's got some great pre-conference advice, so I'm sharing it here on Python Test as well.

We talk about: 
- Juggling at PyCon
- How to get the most out of PyCon
    - Watching talks
    - Hallway track
    - Open spaces
    - Lightening talks
    - Expo hall / vendor space
    - Poster sessions
    - Job fair
    - A welcoming community
    - Tutorials 
    - Sprints
    - But mostly about the people of Python and PyCon.

"Python enables smart people to work faster" - Rob Ludwick

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Note: This blog was first published on May 24, 2023, and has been updated to reflect new information and insights. Takeaway: DrupalCon Portland 2024 offers valuable sessions, summits, and exhibitors useful to State and local government agencies. As an attendee, you'll have the opportunity to learn from industry experts, discover powerful tools and solutions, and network with peers facing similar challenges in the government space.

Our friends at postmarketOS hosted Plasma Mobile's lead developer Devin Lin on their podcast. You can find it on the postmarketos website

Had a need for a mindmapping application and found view your mind in the archive. Works but the version is a bit rusty. Sadly my Debian packaging skills are a bit rusty as well, especially when it comes to bigger GUI applications. Thus I spent a good chunk of yesterday afternoon to rip out cdbs and package the last source release on github which is right now 2.9.22 (the release branch already has 2.9.27, still sorting that out).

Git repository and a amd64 build of the current state. It still deserves some additional love, e.g. creating a -common package for arch indep content.

Proposed a few changes upstream:

• spelling fixes
• .desktop file improvements
• small adjustments for the documentation installation via cmake

Also pinged pollux@ who uploaded vym up to 2019 if he'd be fine if I pick it up. If someone else is interested, I'm also fine to put it up on salsa in the general "Debian" group for shared maintenance. I guess I will use it in the future, but time is still a scarce resource for all of us.

Discover the innovative journey of Drupal Gutenberg through the insights of Thor Andre Gretland, Head of Sales and Business Advisor at Frontkom. In an exclusive interview with The DropTimes, Thor Andre unveils how Gutenberg is revolutionizing the Drupal ecosystem, enhancing content creation, and bridging communities. Learn about the groundbreaking collaboration between WordPress and Drupal, the challenges addressed, and the future of open-source CMS development. From improving user experience to addressing digital marketing needs, this interview is a deep dive into the evolving world of content management.

Akademy 2024 (the annual world summit for KDE) is happening in Würzburg, Saturday 7th – Thursday 12th September. (I hope you knew that)

First of all, if you're reading this and thinking, "Should i go to Akademy?" 

The answer is [most probably] YES! Akademy has something for everyone, be it coders, translators, promoters, designers, enthusiasts, etc.

Now, with this out of the way, one of the many things that makes Akademy is the talks on the weekend, and you know who has something to say? *YOU*

Yes, *YOU*. I'm sure you've been working on something interesting, or have a great idea to share.

*YOU* may think that your idea is not that great or the things you work on are not interesting, but that's seldomly the case when someone explains me their "boring" thing they've been working on, i always think "Wow that's great".

Ok, so now that I've convinced you to send a talk proposal, when better than *TODAY* to send it?

Yes I know the Call for Participation is open until the 24 of May, but by sending it today you make sure you don't forget sending it later and also [more important for me] you help those of us in the Program Committee not when the final date starts approaching and we don't have lots of talks yet because you all prefer sending talks on the very last minute.

So stop reading and send your talk today ;-)

This week we put some of the final Plasma 6.0 bugs to rest, and continued working towards Plasma 6.1 with a variety of UI improvements. Nothing ground-breaking this week, just a slow grind of useful work towards a solid release!

UI Improvements

Kate now considers a file as recent when it’s saved or closed, not just when it’s opened. This means your recent files list will no longer omit files you kept open for a long time while working on them (Christoph Cullmann, Kate 24.05. Link)

The panel icons for Kickoff (Application Launcher) and Kicker (Application Menu) widgets are now capped in size so they can’t grow ridiculously huge on thicccc panel (Akseli Lahtinen and me: Nate Graham, Plasma 6.0.5. Link 1 and link 2)

System Settings no longer lets you choose GNOME’s Adwaita or High Contrast icon themes as your systemwide icon theme, because despite registering themselves as FreeDesktop-compatible icon themes, they are no longer actually designed to be used this way and will break everything from KDE if you try anyway (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 6.0.5. Link)

The screen that KWin considers active for the purpose of determining which screen to open new windows on is now determined by “last user interaction”, which includes things like mouse movement and keyboard focus. Hopefully this should better match people’s expectations (Xaver Hugl, Plasma 6.1. Link)

Made the wallpaper chooser views frameless, matching the current styling of most other settings pages in System Settings and Plasma (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 6.1. Link 1 and link 2):

Plasma’s notifications now use a more appropriate icon for canceling jobs, and also elide long title text in the middle rather than on the left (Ivan Tkachenko, Plasma 6.1. Link 1 and link 2):

Ok, so maybe “plasma-brows…gration-host” is not a work of towering genius. The fact that a long ugly technical name is shown there is another bug we’ll investigate.

Refined the UI shown when changing global themes to make it clear what will happen and what’s potentially dangerous (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 6.1. Link 1 and link 2):

https://i.imgur.com/626VvQ2.mp4

When you use the command-line powerprofilesctl tool to change power profiles, the new state is now reflected in the Power and Battery widget (Natalie Clarius, Plasma 6.1. Link)

Several Breeze icons (folder-encrypted, folder-decrypted, and folder-music) now have proper symbolic versions at their 16px and 22px sizes (me: Nate Graham, Frameworks 6.2. Link)

Bug Fixes

Gwenview no longer fails to open large images; now its Qt 6 version can open the same size of image that the Qt 5 version could (Méven Car, Gwenview 24.05. Link)

On Wayland, KWin no longer crashes when it’s unable to open a socket to XWayland for some reason (Vlad Zahorodnii, Plasma 6.0.5. Link)

Fixed a case where Plasma could crash while modifying the set of favorite apps in Kickoff (Application Launcher), Kicker (Application Menu), or another launcher menu using the same backend infrastructure (Fushan Wen, Plasma 6.0.5. Link)

When using Qt 6.7, the System Tray popup is no longer sometimes inappropriately resized to a tiny nub, and also clicking a System Monitor widget showing GPU sensors no longer causes Plasma to freeze (Marco Martin, Plasma 6.0.5. Link 1 and link 2)

Fixed an extremely strange issue that could be triggered by opening any windows of IntelliJ IDE apps, and would cause other windows and Plasma panels to become transparent to clicks (Vyacheslav Mayorov, Plasma 6.0.5. Link)

When waking the system from sleep, quick-tiled windows no longer sometimes disappear, and vertically-maximized windows are no longer sometimes mis-positioned (Xaver Hugl, Plasma 6.0.5. Link 1 and link 2)

On X11, forcing tablet mode on when using a multi-screen setup with global scaling no longer causes one of the screens to scale everything incorrectly (Xaver Hugl, Plasma 6.0.5 Link)

Applied a workaround in KWin for an AMD GPU driver bug, which should reduce instances of random visual glitchiness (Xaver Hugl, Plasma 6.1. Link)

Fixed another case of Korners, this time for menus in QtWidgets-based apps (Ivan Tkachenko, Plasma 6.1. Link)

Resizing a window with a wallpaper chooser grid in it no longer sometimes causes the grid view’s header to disturbingly detach and appear in the middle of the view (me: Nate Graham, Plasma 6.1. Link)

More audio and video files now have appropriate icons, and when no suitable format-specific icon is found, the system will no longer fall back to an inappropriate symbolic speaker or filmstrip icon (Kai Uwe Broulik and me: Nate Graham, Frameworks 6.2. Link 1 and link 2)

Fixed a case in Kirigami where some UI elements would have incorrect colors when using mixed light/dark color schemes (Evgeniy Harchenko, Frameworks 6.2. Link)

After we fixed the “Pick your installation option popup” in the “Get new [thing]” windows, Qt 6.7 broke it again, so we fixed it again! This time moar betterer (Akseli Lahtinen and Ivan Tkachenko, Frameworks 6.3. Link)

Fixed an issue that caused apps with System Tray icons to inappropriately quit when deleting their tray icons (Tor Arne, Qt 6.7.2. Link)

Other bug information of note:

• 3 Very high priority Plasma bugs (same as last week). Current list of bugs
• 35 15-minute Plasma bugs (down from 39 last week). Current list of bugs
• 126 KDE bugs of all kinds fixed over the last week Full list of bugs

Performance & Technical

Implemented a bunch of security hardening for our crash reporting system based on feedback from SUSE’s security team (Harald Sitter, Plasma 6.0.5. Link)

Automation & Systematization

Added multiple autotests to ensure that mounting different types of mountable filesystems works as intended (Stefan Brüns, Frameworks 6.2. Link)

Added an autotest to make sure that Plasma-themes UI elements that should have the same height—such as text fields and buttons—still do even if the Plasma style is changed (Fushan Wen, Plasma 6.1. Link)

…And Everything Else

This blog only covers the tip of the iceberg! If you’re hungry for more, check out https://planet.kde.org, where you can find more news from other KDE contributors.

How You Can Help

The KDE organization has become important in the world, and your time and labor have helped to bring it there! But as we grow, it’s going to be equally important that this stream of labor be made sustainable, which primarily means paying for it. Right now the vast majority of KDE runs on labor not paid for by KDE e.V. (the nonprofit foundation behind KDE, of which I am a board member), and that’s a problem. We’ve taken steps to change this with paid technical contractors—but those steps are small due to growing but still limited financial resources. If you’d like to help change that, consider donating today!

Otherwise, visit https://community.kde.org/Get_Involved to discover other ways to be part of a project that really matters. Each contributor makes a huge difference in KDE; you are not a number or a cog in a machine! You don’t have to already be a programmer, either. I wasn’t when I got started. Try it, you’ll like it! We don’t bite!

I am so excited about the new Python REPL that will likely land in Python 3.13. I’ve been following this CPython pull request since I heard Pablo and Łukasz announce their work on the new Python REPL in episode 1 of their new core.py podcast.

Github notifications? 🤔

That pull request was quiet for many months, but in the last couple weeks, I started seeing email notifications in my inbox about it. I’ve never fancied myself a competent C developer and I try to steer clear from understanding TTY magic, so I have no idea what most of the commits do. But seeing activity on this pull request rejuvenated my excitement about this upcoming feature!

I also remember reading that the Python 3.13 feature freeze is coming up soon, so I’ve been silently cheering for that PR to make the cut before the deadline.

In the last few days, I decided that I should try committing to use this new REPL locally as my default Python environment. When I type python on my machine, I want to live in this new shiny REPL. I figure this will make it easier to spot bugs that might not have been noticed yet… though honestly it’ll mostly just allow me to try out this fancy new REPL first-hand.

Installing a custom CPython build in pyenv

I use pyenv to manage the many Python versions I have installed on my machine. I wondered whether it was possible to install a custom build of CPython with pyenv.

Instead of going to the pyenv documentation to figure out an answer, I argued with an AI until it gave me a working answer. I tried a few AI systems at first, but Claude seemed to give me the most promising-looking answer so it was the one I argued with for 5-10 minutes until I got a working solution.

First, I created this ~/.pyenv/plugins/python-build/share/python-build/3.13.0-pyrepl file:

1 2 3 prefer_openssl11 export PYTHON_BUILD_CONFIGURE_WITH_OPENSSL=1 install_package "pyrepl" "https://github.com/pablogsal/cpython/archive/pyrepl.tar.gz" standard verify_py39 ensurepip

Then I ran this command, which took a couple minutes:

1 $ pyenv install 3.13.0-pyrepl

After that, pyenv versions showed a new 3.13.0-pyrepl version:

1 2 3 4 5 6 7 8 $ pyenv versions system * 3.8.18 (set by /home/trey/.pyenv/version) * 3.9.18 (set by /home/trey/.pyenv/version) * 3.10.13 (set by /home/trey/.pyenv/version) * 3.11.6 (set by /home/trey/.pyenv/version) * 3.12.0 (set by /home/trey/.pyenv/version) 3.13.0-pyrepl

I then added 3.13.0-pyrepl to the top of my ~/.pyenv/version file to make this my default Python:

1 2 3 4 5 6 3.13.0-pyrepl 3.12.0 3.11.6 3.10.13 3.9.18 3.8.18

And it worked! Tying python showed the new colorful prompt.

Is is a bad idea to make this not-even-beta version of CPython the default Python on my machine? I have no idea. Everything’s been fine for the last 10 hours at least… 🤷

If you ever need to try installing a custom CPython build with pyenv, maybe the above instructions will work. They’re mostly generated by a large language model that didn’t give me a working answer until the third response… so feel free to let me know if it’s all wrong (or all right?).

After this adventure, I checked my podcast feed this evening only to realize that there’s a new core.py episode all about exactly this feature! If you’d like to hear some core developers nerd out about CPython development, give core.py a listen. You don’t need to understand how CPython development works to enjoy their enthusiasm. 💖

I recently went on Brodie Robertson’s Tech Over Tea channel for a second time. I guess I didn’t succeed at pissing him off enough on the first go-around, because he invited me back! Let’s see if I did a better job of it this time by telling him he was using Arch wrong.

Anyway, Brodie was a fantastic host, and we talked about a number of topics such as KDE’s position in the world, institutional continuity, fundraising and financial stability, the difficulty of reporting and triaging bug, the challenges of packaging software, and windows that block WiFi signals.

I hope you enjoy it!

And here’s the link I mention at the end: https://kde.org/community/donations

Author: Adrin Jalali

Historically, scikit-learn’s files have included authorship information similar to the following format:

# Authors: Author1, Author2, ... # License: BSD 3 clause

However, after a series of discussions which you can see in detail in this issue, we could list the following caveats to the status quo:

• Authorship information was not up-to-date and in most cases, but not always, reflect the original authors of the file;
• It was unfair to all other contributors who have been contributing to the code-base;
• One can check the real authors and the history of the authors of any part of the code-base using git blame and other git tools.

Therefore we came to the conclusion to standardize all authorship information to mention “The scikit-learn developers”, and have the license notice as:

# Authors: The scikit-learn developers # License: BSD-3-Clause

The change is to happen gradually in the coming months after April 2024.

Rector is a tool for making changes to PHP code, which powers tools that assist with upgrading deprecated code in Drupal. When I recently made some refactoring changes in Drupal Code Builder, which were too complex to do with search and replace regexes, it seemed like a good opportunity to experiment with Rector, and learn a bit more about it.

Besides, I'm an inveterate condiment-passer: I tend to prefer spending longer on a generalisation of a problem than on the problem itself, and the more dull the problem and the more interesting the generalisation, the more the probability increases.

So faced with a refactoring from this return from the getFileInfo() method:

return [ 'path' => '', 'filename' => $this->component_data['filename'], 'body' => [], 'merged' =>$merged, ];

to this:

return new CodeFile( body_pieces: $this->component_data['filename'], merged: $merged, );

which was going to be tedious as hell to do in a ton of files, obviously, I elected to spend time fiddling with Rector.

The first thing I'll say is that the same sort of approach as I use with migrations works well: work with a small indicative sample, and iterate small changes. With a migration, I will find a small number of source rows which represent different variations (or if there is too much variation, I'll iterate the iteration multiple times). I'll run the migration with just those sources, examine the result, make refinements to the migration, then roll back and repeat.

With Rector, you can specify just a single class in the code that registers the rule to RectorConfig in the rector.php file, so I picked a class which had very little code, as the dump() output of an entire PHP file's PhpParser analysis is enormous.

You then use the rule class's getNodeTypes() method to declare which node types you are interested in. Here, I made a mis-step at first. I wanted to replace Array_ nodes, but only in the getFileInfo() method. So in my first attempt, I specified ClassMethod nodes, and then in refactor() I wrote code to drill down into them to get the array Array_ nodes. This went well until I tried returning a new replacement node, and then Rector complained, and I realised the obvious thing I'd skipped over: the refactor() method expects you to return a node to replace the found node. So my approach was completely wrong.

I rewrote getNodeTypes() to search for Array_ nodes: those represent the creation of an array value. This felt more dangerous: arrays are defined in lots of places in my code! And I haven't been able to see a way to determine the parentage of a node: there do not appear to be pointers that go back up the PhpParser syntax tree (it would be handy, but would make the dump() output even worse to read!). Fortunately, the combination of array keys was unique in DrupalCodeBuilder, or at least I hoped it was fairly unique. So I wrote code to get a list of the array's keys, and then compare it to what was expected:

foreach ($node->items as $item) { $seen_array_keys[] = $item->key->value; } if (array_intersect(static::EXPECTED_MINIMUM_ARRAY_KEYS, $seen_array_keys) != static::EXPECTED_MINIMUM_ARRAY_KEYS) { return NULL; }

Returning NULL from refactor() means we aren't interested in this node and don't want to change it.

With the arrays that made it through the filter, I needed to make a new node that's a class instantiation, to replace the array, passing the same values to the new statement as the array keys (mostly).

Rector's list of commonly used PhpParser nodes was really useful here.

A new statement node is made thus:

use PhpParser\Node\Name; use PhpParser\Node\Expr\New_; $class = new Name('\DrupalCodeBuilder\File\CodeFile'); return new New_($class);

This doesn't have any parameters yet, but running Rector on this with my sample set showed me it was working properly. Rector has a dry run option for development, which shows you what would change but doesn't write anything to files, so you can run it over and over again. What's confusing is that it also has a cache; until I worked this out I was repeatedly confused by some runs having no effect and no output. I have honestly no idea what the point is of caching something that's designed to make changes, but there is an option to disable it. So the command to run is: $ vendor/bin/rector --dry-run --clear-cache. Over and over again.

Once that worked, I needed to convert array items to constructor parameters. Fortunately, the value from the array items work for parameters too:

use PhpParser\Node\Arg; foreach ($node->items as $array_item) { $construct_argument = new Arg( $array_item->value, );

That gave me the values. But I wanted named parameters for my constructor, partly because they're cool and mostly because the CodeFile class's __construct() has optional parameters, and using names makes that simpler.

Inspecting the Arg class's own constructor showed how to do this:

use PhpParser\Node\Arg; use PhpParser\Node\Identifier; $construct_argument = new Arg( value: $array_item->value, name: new Identifier($key), );

Using named parameters here too to make the code clearer to read!

It's also possible to copy over any inline comments that are above one node to a new node:

// Preserve comments. $construct_argument->setAttribute('comments', $array_item->getComments());

The constructor parameters are passed as a parameter to the New_ class:

return new New_($class, $new_call_args);

Once this was all working, I decided to do some more refactoring in the CodeFile class in DrupalCodeBuilder. The changes I was making with Rector made it more apparent that in a lot of cases, I was passing empty values. Also, the $body parameter wasn't well-named, as it's an array of pieces, so could do with a more descriptive name such as $body_pieces.

Changes like this are really easy to do (though by this point, I had made a git repository for my Rector rule, so I could make further enhancements without breaking what I'd got working already).

foreach ($node->items as $array_item) { $key = $array_item->key->value; // Rename the 'body' key. if ($key == 'body') { $key = 'body_pieces'; }

And that's my Rector rule done.

Although it's taken me far more time than changing each file by hand, it's been far more interesting, and I've learned a lot about how Rector works, which will be useful to me in the future. I can definitely see how it's a very useful tool even for refactoring a small codebase such as DrupalCodeBuilder, where a rule is only going to be used once. It might even prompt me to undertake some minor refactoring tasks I've been putting off because of how tedious they'll be.

What I've not figured out is how to extract namespaces from full class names to an import statement, or how to put line breaks in the new statement. I'm hoping that a pass through with PHP_CodeSniffer and Drupal Coder's rules will fix those. If not, there's always good old regexes!

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Introducing Operations Site Runner: a self-hosted CI/CD platform using GitHub Actions and DDEV. admin Fri, 05/03/2024 - 16:47

I've been building and designing automation systems for almost 20 years. I built DevShop on top of Aegir to implement continuous integration and quality control over 10 years ago.

Running CI systems is hard. Really hard. There needs to be an active task runner. A dashboard. API integrations. Tooling. Network Access. It can be incredibly complicated. In the Enterprise? Forget it.

I've been imagining a new system for many years, and here it is.

Portland, Oregon – the Rose City, home to an array of charming experiences that extend beyond the walls of this year's much-anticipated DrupalCon. While knowledge sharing and the industry buzz at the Oregon Convention Center will undoubtedly be the main draw, the locale offers a diversity of attractions, from serene parks to bustling markets. For those fortunate enough to attend DrupalCon, it would be a miss not to maximize your time and immerse yourself in the unique culture Portland has to offer. Here are five more local attractions, in addition to our previous recommendations, that promise to enrich your DrupalCon experience and provide unforgettable memories.

1. Cruise the City on E-Scooters around Peace Memorial Park

SW corner of NE Oregon St and, NE Lloyd Blvd, Portland, OR 97232

Arriving in Portland, the first thing visitors often notice is the city's commitment to sustainability and the vibrant outdoor lifestyle. What better way to experience this than by gliding through the renowned bike paths and urban green gardens on an E-Scooter? A stone's throw away from the Oregon Convention Center, Peace Memorial Park provides a picturesque setting that is perfect for a leisurely ride. With the Willamette River flowing alongside and the skyscrapers beyond the riverbank, this sanctuary of serenity is a stark contrast to the bustling city center.

2. Discover the charm of Portland’s most historic rose garden

400 SW Kingston Ave, Portland, OR 97205, United States

Known as the City of Roses, Portland proudly hosts the International Rose Test Garden, the oldest of its kind in the United States that has been in continuous operation. With the arrival of spring, there's no better moment to witness the garden's vibrant first blooms. Showcasing over 10,000 roses across 610 varieties, the garden not only offers a breathtaking display but also serves a crucial role in the cultivation and testing of new rose species. As a sanctuary for hybrid roses from across the globe, the garden continues its legacy of innovation and preservation in the heart of Portland.

3. Savor Artisanal Coffee at Roseline Coffee Cafe & Roastery

321 NE Davis St, Portland, OR 97232

Portland is known for its craft coffee culture, and Roseline Coffee Cafe & Roastery stands as a testament to this. Just moments from the convention center, this local favorite offers a welcoming reprieve from the conference crowds. Here, you can try blends and single-origin roasts that represent the pinnacle of Portland's coffee craft. Whether you’re an espresso aficionado or simply in need of a caffeine hit, the experience at Roseline will elevate your DrupalCon visit.

4. Explore Exhibitions At The Portland Art Museum

1219 SW Park Ave, Portland, OR 97205

Just a brief drive from the Oregon Convention Center, the Portland Art Museum stands as Oregon's largest and one of the nation's oldest art institutions. Nestled within two historic buildings in Portland’s South Park Blocks, a key part of the city's cultural district, the museum boasts an extensive and diverse art collection. Visitors can purchase Portland Art Museum tickets online or at the museum, with adult admission priced at $25. The Museum offers a wide array of exhibitions, from in-depth retrospectives of individual artists to comprehensive historical surveys and significant traveling exhibitions from across the globe. These exhibitions showcase pieces from the museum's own collection alongside masterpieces loaned from other museums and private collections worldwide.

5. Immerse Yourself in the Quirkiness of the Portland Saturday Market

2 SW Naito Pkwy, Portland, OR 97204

If your stay in Portland includes the weekend, the Portland Saturday Market offers a vibrant immersion into the local eccentricity and artisanal zeal that define the City of Roses.

A visit to this lively gathering can be enriching and is just a short drive away from the Oregon Convention Center. Wandering through the maze of stalls, you’ll find an array of handcrafted delights – from jewelry to leather goods, pottery to fine art – all lovingly crafted by the city’s talented makers. The sounds of live music and the aroma of delectable local cuisine will captivate your senses, while the palpable sense of community will remind you of the inclusive spirit that saturates Portland's identity. Whether you're making a purchase or simply taking in the scene, the Saturday Market encapsulates the heart and soul of the city, making it a must-visit destination.

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With these five enriching experiences, your DrupalCon excursion will extend far beyond the convention doors. You'll build lasting connections with both the Drupal community and the diverse tapestry of Portland. Whether you're charting a solo adventure or teaming up with fellow tech enthusiasts, these local highlights are poised to enhance your trip with a delightful blend of tranquility, creativity, and community.

One of the things I do as a side project for Freexian is to work on various bits of business automation: accounting tools, programs to help contributors report their hours, invoicing, that kind of thing. While it’s not quite my usual beat, this makes quite a good side project as the tools involved are mostly rather sensible and easy to deal with (Python, git, ledger, that sort of thing) and it’s the kind of thing where I can dip into it for a day or so a week and feel like I’m making useful contributions. The logic can be quite complex, but there’s very little friction in the tools themselves.

A recent case where I did run into some friction in the tools was with some commands that need to present small amounts of tabular data on the terminal, using OSC 8 hyperlinks if the terminal supports them: think customer-related information with some links to issues. One of my colleagues had previously done this using a hack on top of texttable, which was perfectly fine as far as it went. However, now I wanted to be able to add multiple links in a single table cell in some cases, and that was really going to stretch the limits of that approach: working out the width of the displayed text in the cell was going to take an annoying amount of bookkeeping.

I started looking around to see whether any other approaches might be easier, without too much effort (remember that “a day or so a week” bit above). ansiwrap looked somewhat promising, but it isn’t currently packaged in Debian, and it would have still left me with the problem of figuring out how to integrate it into texttable, which looked like it would be quite complicated. Then I remembered that I’d heard good things about rich, and thought I’d take a look.

rich turned out to be exactly what I wanted. Instead of something like this based on the texttable hack above:

import shutil from pyxian.texttable import UrlTable termsize = shutil.get_terminal_size((80, 25)) table = UrlTable(max_width=termsize.columns) table.set_deco(UrlTable.HEADER) table.set_cols_align(["l"]) table.set_cols_dtype(["u"]) table.add_row(["Issue"]) table.add_row([(issue_url, f"#{issue_id}")] print(table.draw())

… now I can do this instead:

import rich from rich import box from rich.table import Table table = Table(box=box.SIMPLE) table.add_column("Issue") table.add_row(f"[link={issue_url}]#{issue_id}[/link]") rich.print(table)

While this is a little shorter, the real bonus is that I can now just put multiple [link] tags in a single string, and it all just works. No ceremony. In fact, once the relevant bits of code passed type-checking (since the real code is a bit more complex than the samples above), it worked first time. It’s a pleasure to work with a library like that.

It looks like I’ve only barely scratched the surface of rich, but I expect I’ll reach for it more often now.

We’re excited to announce the May 2024 release of the Python and Jupyter extensions for Visual Studio Code!

This release includes the following announcements:

• “Implement all inherited abstract classes” code action
• New auto indentation setting
• Debugpy removed from the Python extension in favor of the Python Debugger extension
• Socket disablement now possible during testing
• Pylance performance updates

If you’re interested, you can check the full list of improvements in our changelogs for the Python, Jupyter and Pylance extensions.

“Implement all inherited abstract classes” Code Action

Abstract classes serve as “blueprints” for other classes and help build modular, reusable code by promoting clear structure and requirements for subclasses to adhere to. To define an abstract class in Python, you can create a class that inherits from the ABC class in the abc module, and annotate its methods with the @abstractmethod decorator. Then, you can create new classes that inherit from this abstract class, and define an implementation for the base methods. Implementing these classes is easier with the latest Pylance pre-release! When defining a new class that inherits from an abstract one, you can now use the “Implement all inherited abstract classes” Code Action to automatically implement all abstract methods and properties from the parent class:

New auto indentation setting

Previously, Pylance’s auto indentation behavior was controlled through the editor.formatOnType setting, which used to be problematic if one would want to disable auto indentation, but enable format on type through other supported tools. To solve this problem, Pylance’s latest pre-release now has its own setting to control auto indentation behavior, python.analysis.autoIndent, which is enabled by default.

Debugpy removed from the Python extension in favor of the Python Debugger extension

In our February 2024 release blog, we announced moving all debugging functionality to the Python Debugger extension, which is installed by default alongside the Python extension. In this release, we have removed duplicate debugging code from the Python extension, which helps to decrease the extension download size. As part of this change, "type": "python" and "type": "debugpy" specified in your launch.json configuration file are both interpreted as references to the Python Debugger extension path. This ensures a seamless transition without requiring any modifications to existing configuration files to run and debug effectively. Moving forward, we recommend using "type": "debugpy" as this directly corresponds to the Python Debugger extension which provides support for both legacy and modern Python versions.

Socket disablement now possible during testing

You can now run tests with socket disablement from the testing UI. This is made possible by a switch in the communication between the Python extension and the test run subprocess to now use named-pipes as opposed to numbered ports. This feature is available on the Python Testing Rewrite, which is rolled out to all users by default and will soon be fully adopted in the Python extension.

Pylance Performance

The Pylance team has been receiving feedback that Pylance’s performance has degraded over the past few releases. As a result, we have made several smaller improvements to memory consumption and indexing including:

• Improved performance for third-party packages indexing
• Skipped Python files from workspace .conda environments from being scanned (@pylance-release#5191)
• Skipped index on unnecessary py.typed file checks (@pyright#7652)
• Reduced memory consumption by refactoring tokenizer and parser output (@pyright#7602)
• Improved memory consumption for token creation (@pyright#7434)

For those who may still be experiencing performance issues with Pylance, we are kindly requesting for issues to be filed through the Pylance: Report Issue command from the Command Palette, ideally with logs, code samples and/or the packages that are installed in the working environment.

Additionally, we have added a couple of features in the latest Pylance pre-release version to help identify potential performance issues and gather additional information about issues you are facing. There is a new notification that prompts you to file an issue in the Pylance repo when the extension detects there may be a performance issue. Moreover, Pylance now provides a profiling command Pylance: Start Profiling that generates cpuprofile for all worker threads. This file is generated after starting and stopping profiling by triggering the Pylance: Start Profiling and Pylance: Stop Profiling commands and can be provided as additional data in an issue.

With these smaller improvements and additional ways to report performance issues, we hope to continue to make improvements to performance. We greatly appreciate the feedback and collaboration as we work to address issues!

Other Changes and Enhancements

We have also added small enhancements and fixed issues requested by users that should improve your experience working with Python and Jupyter Notebooks in Visual Studio Code. Some notable changes include:

• Test Explorer displays projects using testscenarios with unittest and parameterized tests inside nested classes correctly (@vscode-python#22870).
• Test Explorer now handles tests in workspaces with symlinks, specifically workspace roots which are children of symlink-ed paths, which is particularly helpful in WSL scenarios (@vscode-python#22658).

We would also like to extend special thanks to this month’s contributors:

• @DetachHead Support experiment configuration in workspace settings in @vscode-python#23267
• @DavidArchibald Fix debugger attach to process when running on WSL in @vscode-python-debugger#267

Call for Community Feedback

As we are planning and prioritizing future work, we value your feedback! Below are a few issues we would love feedback on:

• Design proposal for test coverage in (@vscode-python#22827)

Try out these new improvements by downloading the Python extension and the Jupyter extension from the Marketplace, or install them directly from the extensions view in Visual Studio Code (Ctrl + Shift + X or ⌘ + ⇧ + X). You can learn more about Python support in Visual Studio Code in the documentation. If you run into any problems or have suggestions, please file an issue on the Python VS Code GitHub page.

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Let’s go for my web review for the week 2024-18.

Radio Free Fedi - Sounds from the Fediverse to the Universe

Tags: tech, fediverse, streaming, culture

I’ve been listening to these radio channels the past few weeks. It’s quirky, it’s weird, it’s wild. I definitely recommend them to get out of your usual music bubble.

https://radiofreefedi.net/

We can have a different web

Tags: tech, internet, web, culture, history

Very nice account of how the Internet is nowadays and how it got there. I like the gardening metaphor which works nicely here. And yes, we can go back to a better Web again. It’s a collective decision though, that’s what makes it hard.

https://www.citationneeded.news/we-can-have-a-different-web/

Save the Web by Being Nice

Tags: tech, blog, web, social-media

Definitely this. Get the content you like known, send appreciation messages to the authors. This should keep the moribund web alive.

https://sheep.horse/2024/4/save_the_web_by_being_nice.html

Google Made Me Ruin A Perfectly Good Website: A Case Study On The AI-Generated Internet

Tags: tech, web, advertisement, google, criticism

Ever wondered why the quality of websites seems to go down? Well, here is a case study of what you end up needing to do if you try to fund a website through ads (like most websites).

https://theluddite.org/#!post/google-ads

Latest Google layoffs hit the Flutter and Python groups | Ars Technica

Tags: tech, google, flutter

Looks like Flutter’s days are counted. It seems it has peeked and announcements like this are likely to move people away from it. Time will tell of course.

https://arstechnica.com/gadgets/2024/04/latest-google-layoffs-hit-the-flutter-and-python-groups/

The walls of Apple’s garden are tumbling down - The Verge

Tags: tech, apple, vendor-lockin

Indeed there are more and more signs of the Apple vendor lock-in to be in trouble. And that’s a good thing.

https://www.theverge.com/24141929/apple-iphone-imessage-antitrust-dma-lock-in

Having a machine room can mean having things in your machine room

Tags: tech, hardware, funny

Sure you can expect mice, but raccoons? This is a funny finding… well scary if you’re responsible of this machine room.

https://utcc.utoronto.ca/~cks/space/blog/sysadmin/MachineRoomRaccoon

pyinfra automates infrastructure super fast at massive scale

Tags: tech, tools, infrastructure, deployment, python

Looks like an interesting tool for infrastructure automation. It’s all Python based which is an interesting departure from yaml files in that space. Could be a nice alternative to Ansible. I might take it out for a spin.

https://pyinfra.com/

run0

Tags: tech, security, tools, command-line, systemd

An alternative to the venerable sudo coming with systemd. Looks like it has interesting properties.

https://www.freedesktop.org/software/systemd/man/devel/run0.html

Practical parsing with PEG and cpp-peglib - Bert Hubert’s writings

Tags: tech, parsing, c++

Time to leave Lex and Yacc behind? This is definitely a nice approach to make parsers nowadays.

https://berthub.eu/articles/posts/practical-peg-parsing/

Bytecode VMs in surprising places

Tags: tech, bytecode

Bytecodes everywhere! Really it’s a very widespread trick, I didn’t expect some of those.

https://dubroy.com/blog/bytecode-vms-in-surprising-places/

Reflectively constructing enums at runtime - Highly Suspect Agency

Tags: tech, java

Probably shouldn’t do this in most case… but if it’s really needed and you can bare the pain, Java has solutions for you. This is an interesting dive in lower parts of the APIs.

https://highlysuspect.agency/posts/enum_reflection/

Brane Dump: The Mediocre Programmer’s Guide to Rust

Tags: tech, programming, rust, funny

Funny read, it has lots of good advice for starting up with Rust.

https://www.hezmatt.org/~mpalmer/blog/2024/05/01/the-mediocre-programmers-guide-to-rust.html

A Free-Space Diffraction BSDF

Tags: tech, 3d, physics, mathematics

Very cool BSDF. Should lead to better diffraction rendering in real-time 3D.

https://ssteinberg.xyz/2024/04/05/free_space_diffractions_bsdf/

Keep Out! — Little Workshop

Tags: tech, web, 3d

Good demonstration of what you can do with WebGL nowadays.

https://www.littleworkshop.fr/projects/keepout/

CC0 Textures & Models | Share Textures

Tags: tech, 3d, foss

Another great resource for nice models and textures for your 3D needs.

https://www.sharetextures.com/

Shader post-processing in a hurry

Tags: tech, shader, graphics

A nice list of little tricks to improve the image quality of your renders.

https://30fps.net/pages/post-processing/

Software Friction

Tags: tech, project-management

Interesting musing about the concept of friction in strategy. There are indeed a few lessons to learn from it in the context of software projects.

https://www.hillelwayne.com/post/software-friction/

Bye for now!

 

2023 was an exciting year of growth for the Python Software Foundation! We’ve captured some of the key numbers, details, and information in our latest Annual Impact Report. Some highlights of what you’ll find in the report include:

• A letter from our Executive Director, Deb Nicholson
• Notes from Our PyCon US Chair, Marietta Wijaya, and PSF Board of Director Chair, Dawn Wages
• Updates on the achievements and activities of a couple of our Developers-in-Residence, Łukasz Langa and Seth Larson—and announcing more members of the DiR team!
• An overview of what our PyPI Safety & Security Engineer, Mike Fiedler, has accomplished- as well as some eye-watering PyPI stats!
• A celebration and summary of PyCon US 2023, the event’s 20th anniversary, and the theme for 2023’s report cover
• A highlight of our Fiscal Sponsorees (we brought on 7 new organizations this year!)
• Sponsors who generously supported our work and the Python ecosystem
• An overview of PSF Financials, including a consolidated financial statement and grants data

We hope you check out the report, share it with your Python friends, and let us know what you think! You can comment here, find us on social media (Mastodon, X, LinkedIn), or share your thoughts on our forum.

Step behind the curtain of DrupalCon Portland's keynote lineup and immerse yourself in a world of innovation and expertise. Join us as we unveil exclusive insights from industry leaders, including Cristina Chumillas, Janez Urevc, Ted Bowman, Fran Garcia-Linares, Jürgen Haas, and Mateu Aguiló Bosch, offering a tantalizing glimpse into the transformative sessions awaiting attendees

Congratulations to the inaugural members of the new Project Update Working Group.

This is a new working group tasked with helping maintainers prepare contributed projects for the next major release of Drupal core.

The inaugural members are as follows:

1. Norah Medlin (tekNorah) (provisional)

2. Vladimir Roudakov (vladimiraus)

3. Sven Decabooter (svendecabooter)

4. Naveen Valecha (naveenvalecha)

5. Kristen Pol (Kristen Pol)

6. Matt Glaman (mglaman)

7. Darren Oh (Darren Oh)

8. Mark Casias (markie)

9. Kim Pepper (kim.pepper)

10. Björn Brala (bbrala)

11. Lucas Hedding (heddn)

12. Pedro Cambra (pcambra)

13. Allan Chappell (generalredneck)

14. Jakob Perry (japerry)

15. Timo Huisman (Timo Huisman) (provisional)

The group will work in the coming weeks to establish processes and changes required to Drupal.org to facilitate the role.

If you wish to get in touch and say congratulations, you can find them in the #project-update-working-group channel on slack.