My video of the day was Olurinatti's amazing review of many Black Revolutionaries around the world.
If you've never heard the stories of revolution in Haiti, Dem. Rep. of Congo, Burkina Faso, Granada and Guyana, take a couple hours and learn how historically black revolutions were and arguably are misrepresented and taught differently in the countries of their original oppressors.
Being in a stage of my life where I cry more and cherish more moments I can't help but think about the small things in life that remind me of the people that are no longer here.
Angela Giratana's short film left me sobbing thinking about all the "Last Moments" I've missed out on and how I haven't even begun processing them until much later in life.
I prompted a new thing into existence for Zellij. It's called zj and it's a smart session picker/switcher.
↗ https://github.com/kjaymiller/zj/tree/main
I'm a big fan of Nerando's but this is why I think I'm just not cut out for the next generation of development. My rambling nature barely allows me to write content that people want to read and now you're saying I gotta write for the bots? I'm good.
> Each time a successful person has enormous leverage over a critical piece of shared code and each time something triggers them... and **each time a corporate gatekeeper steps in, patches the...
↗ https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XWuT5N-rcd8Happy to announce that we're sponsoring at local gaming workshop with Kids Next Code!
↗ https://www.eventbrite.com/e/youth-and-teen-game-design-gamified-learning-program-ages-8-16-tickets-1990242130789
Reminder to myself... I moved my brewfile into my .dotfiles repo so it can be managed with stow. I'm hoping to get better at managing things and one way to do that is to consolidate some of the...
↗ https://github.com/kjaymiller/.dotfilesA great recap and explainer for why PyCon US means so much to us as Black Python Devs!
The challenge of sending physical atoms across the world to some countries is utter madness.. This is why we're happy to support initiatives like books for techies! They get it.
The photos from PyCon Asia are live! This was my favorite conference of the year!
↗ https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMt-0LmSQFsEn46gF7Y8_n1GXSejneo38tMrxR11Pr9gzn6pF9wyhMZ9R71XULFmQ?pli=1&key=aFN6bzgtNzZEVU44MFE0YkczbXFJWUZDVDgwYTZR
A version bump touched three lines of pyproject.toml. CI failed across the whole Python matrix with an error blaming a circular dependency on render-engine-cli. The real culprit was four layers down: a shallow checkout starving setuptools_scm of tags.
These are personal notes and not meant to be a review or critique of PyCon US. ## Soft Metrics Speakers - A lot Attendees - Less that usual and it's obvious Talks - I went to a couple and they...
↗ PyCon US
We'll have our community booth at #PyConUS and we hope that you'll consider helping us support Black Python Devs.
Starting today if you donate at the amounts on the graphic we have some amazing new swag that you can pickup in person at our PyCon Booth.
It's first come first serve so you can reserve yours with a donation today.
To Reserve: Donate and share your donation confirmation at our community booth!
↗ https://blackpythondevs.com/support.html
To all my friends in and around Toronto (or those who want to hang out there). I'll be doing a live recording and meet and great for Conduit on July 18, 2026! Details here and get your tickets before they sell out!!!
↗ https://www.theunicornsidekick.com/conduit-live-show/
I like the UI that AI has put together for wytchr and I wonder if there is. world where I put all my bookmarks in a similar system. My first thought was that I could put them here but there are a...