People complained and even sued. Instead of fixing the issues, paying better, and offering adequate mental health (or even better not exposing workers to traumatic content), they shut down the program in that area and went to another one that didn't complain.
The major companies pay these 3rd party companies to train their (in their words) trillion dollar industry AIs are basically doing it to absolve themselves from culpability. Those training companies outsource keeping checks notes 85% of the agreed payment terms that companies are offering.
I would ask that major companies require a minimum contract payment and term length and offering the same mental health care resources or equivalent to those training.
I've always been against analytics on my personal site but as I have been less and less on social media I need a way to still connect with people talking about my stuff (and I'm not adding comments to my website...)
Shoutout to @robb@social.lol for making Echofeed which I'm switching to (if I can make it work) and @sethmlarson@fosstodon.org for showing it to me in action on his website.
Eric I don't know if this was intentional but I am often discouraged when I have to write messy exploratory code.
I think it's based on live-coding sessions or coding interviews (I haven't had too many of those) I feel like I have to defend every decision I make or I'm a bad developer.
This has made me try to write the best most performant code possible.
Thank you for reminder that process doesn't have to be pristine and sometimes worrying about the wrong things can make it harder to get things right.
Imagine preparing for months to speak at a prestigious conference or to collaborate on a groundbreaking project abroad, only to have your visa application rejected.
I’ve been following Julius’ work not just in the BPD community.
America’s policies feel greedy. We talk about the expanding the American dream around the world. When people want to come over for a couple weeks to America to share skills and opportunities that make both parties better, we're like but you could give up all your progress in becoming a recognized leader in your own community and country to become an outlaw???
It makes no sense and even when we write letters and do everything we can to show how beneficial it would be to have them with us, it doesn't matter.
At the end of the day, those folks will share their knowledge with those in Europe and (LISTEN UP POLITICIANS) our political adversaries like China. I know this because I'm already being asked to write letters of recommendations for people in Africa to learn and share their leadership skills in those areas already.
When we feel like we're being left behind on the global stage, this will be the reason why.
Trying out ZenMode and Twilight for my NVIM config. I'm not sure I can tell a difference.
When included with Twilight I think it is pretty nice for writing but I definitely like it with writing code as my eyes tend to wander around code a lot.
TIL: I have some plugin in lazyVIM that is listing my code. The downside is I don't know which plugin it is and if it is black then I have a new problem where the linter and running black . are coming up with different results...
I'm hoping to figure out how to get folks that are capable hired all over the world. Many of these folks are more talented than I am but their hometown is the biggest barrier to getting them hired.
Ruto refuses to sign the finance bill as is but their Parliament vote was 64% yes. They only need to flip 3-4 people to get a large-enough majority to pass it anyway.
Kenyans, (If it is okay for an American with many Kenyan friends to speak up), keep the pressure on your politicians.
Americans, find some Kenyan folks to learn from and be as loud as you are about your least favorite OLD WHITE DUDE IN CHARGE.
I'm a veteran and I struggle with depression and PTSD. I lost one of my brothers-in-arms and groomsmen to drug abuse and suicide. There isn't a week that goes by where I don't think of him; today I write this through tears of guilt.
Do the simple thing ask a service-member how they're doing and how is their mental health.
Folks in Black Python Devs this month have been crushing it. Tomorrow (Friday 1 Feb 2024), we'll be sharing a selection of some of the accomplishments shared from our community's members in our first newsletter post.
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Reminder that if you're deploying an app with a cli... if you want to be able to python -m call that app... You'll need to add a __main__.py to your project.
The last interview in this DjangoCon perspectives, I sat down in Panda Studios with @AutomationPanda and we talked a bit about the benefits of the conference local to you and the feelings of Keynoting for your hometown crowd!
In this interview, I chat with my amazing friend Felipe de Morais, CoFounder of AfroPython.
Felipe shares how both Brazilian and US Python communities can learn from one another what it means to see folks that look like you on the stage and around the conference.
In this interview, I talk with Ryan Cheley who flew across the country to give his first conference talk about contributing to the Django Project for the first time.
Ryan gave a great talk about success, failure, more failure, and more success.
I'm happy to begin sharing some of the perspectives of some folks that I interviewed at #DjangoConUS.
Let's start with the Django Software Foundation President Chaim Kirby who has a fantastic announcement about his plans for next year!! Check it out on the #PythonCommunityNews Youtube Channel!
My mania is in full swing and I've been creating a bunch of things. So instead of copy/pasting like I've been doing... I made this cookiecutter template for faster project scaffolding.
Hoping to make my website more accessible by adding some automated testing. Luckily one of my favorite coworkers gave an amazing talk on this earlier this (I've been putting it off)
Our goal is to help the Python community make informed decisions in this year's @thepsf election. This video breaks down what the PSF does (and does) do.
Slowly trying to get back into making YT Shorts - I found out that VS @Code profiles now allow you to select a base language with some settings, snippets and extensions.
All this content around creating opengraph social card and then when I move all the images to azure to speed up the process, I end up not changing my endpoint in the template. 🤦🏾♂️
Jacob is an amazing human that ceases to amaze me. I hope to one day be in a position where I can begin planning a life where I can be a benefit to more than myself and immediate family
Looking at Micro.blog for cross-posting. If this works as expected, this post should be on all the socials that micro.blog enables cross posting on, including itself and my website.
Another great interview from @pycon for you to check out! Trey Hunner has an amazing gem for people attending conferences. It involves a deck of cards and your hotel lobby!
Did you know that 76% of PyCon attendees were there for the first time.
I was so happy that Aseda asked what I was doing and kindly agreed to do a super quick interview about her first trip to PyCon US and how it compares to other events she's attended.
I took the last couple days of my time at @PyCon to interview some folks. They are all available on the @PyCommunity News YouTube channel. Today I want to highlight my conversation with the author of "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" @alsweigart.
Sometimes finding THE solution isn't the answer because we don't always know what THE solution should be. Instead we should justify why a solution that we found is good enough until a better solution arrives...
We talked about this (kinda and also it's opposite) in Conduit Ep 42.
New Video 📹: I found this VS Code Extension to run tasks from the side bar. There was a minor issue with it but instead of trying something different, I found the fix and made a video (I also filed an issue and submitted a PR).
Another wild week of Render Engine Development. I wound up getting Pluggy working in render engine and now even have a plugin for pytailwindcss up and running and started working on another.
In today's mental health corner. I've been feeling some overwhelm as of late and wanted to share a video that helped me a bit. I'll be fine, Just need to defer/drop some things and get back into the groove (hopefully talks on bicep, azd, and devcontainers can help realign my focus).
The talk I was most excited about giving didn't get accepted to PyCon US this year. That said I'm excited to be able to submit it to other places like JuneteenthConf and Refactr.Tech!
Just a reminder of how awesome shortcut detective is. I ran into an issue where I somehow mapped ⌘+w to another shortcut. I remembered this app from Irradiated Software. Still works for Big Sur (At least the intel chip one)
Things I failed at tonight:
- Working on Book
- Getting Newsletter Post Written
- Billable work that I need to finsh to get paid
- Finish Scheduling Podcast
Things I did do:
- Two Blog Posts
- Lot's of Tailwind Changes to site
- Couple of good tweets
A new idea for a podcast I'm thinking of of is the AntiProductivity Show (Working Title) where I talk with folks that play with Productivity tools to discover the weaknesses in their systems. It's like a productivity show but honest.
Update to the Bunch Alfred Package. Moved the calling of bunches to the CLI.
Also changed the command from b to bunch (Of course you can always change it
back).
Also now using Python to call the ruby package. Because of JSON formatting.
That's also what we call them. I have a long history of dating white girls. Now
I'm happily married to one and we have a beautiful little light-skinned girl. I
know the people that follow me don't have a problem, but I always feel
obligated to let folks know I'm treat black folks that got a problem with that
the same wy I do white folks...
My Netlify build is trying to load my building structure only because my repo has a requirements.txt. No runtime.txt and no build options. I render content locally and have the output be the only thing that Netlify serves.
Creating Rules around your life isn't a way to automate your life or make it mundane. In fact it's a way to ensure that you provide yourself the power and time to make the decisions you both want to do and need to do.
It's a way to prevent others (and yourself) from interfering with your plans.
