Nathaniel J. Smith

@vorpalsmith

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  1. Pinned Tweet
    8 Mar 2017

    I know most of my followers are here for my thoughts on tech, not poetry, but I think tech should have more poetry so.

    For , an idiosyncratic list of poems I love and want to share. (thread)
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  2. 12 hours ago

    New blog post: Why I'm not collaborating with Kenneth Reitz. Content Warning: parts of this post could be triggering for those who have experienced gaslighting or other forms of abuse.

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  3. May 3

    Whoops... Actually this is happening *now*. I put the wrong time in my tweet.

    Trio open space at tomorrow (= Friday), 2pm room 10
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  4. May 2

    Trio open space at tomorrow (= Friday), 2pm room 10

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  5. May 1

    Has anyone, ever, been comfortable on a hotel pillow? I don't get it. Does the median traveler really want a basketball in a pillowcase, and if so, why?

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  6. Retweeted
    Apr 25

    Do you use the Trio async framework, and wish you had better logging to understand what's going on in your program? What you need is the ability to trace execution across tasks—and that's what the latest version of the Eliot logging library let's you do:

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  7. Retweeted
    Apr 22
    Replying to

    WHICH IS WHY : IS A NOOP OMG

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  8. Apr 21

    TIL: early Unix had a goto command for use in shell scripts. Not a shell builtin. An actual /bin/goto executable. Think about how that could work. (Answer here: )

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  9. Retweeted
    Apr 13
    Replying to

    I’ve been using trio lately and it is so sensical to me — I tried building the exact same script with asyncio, curio, and trio — definitely like trio the best

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  10. Apr 10

    Anyone interested in learning about the innards of how shared libraries really work, and maintaining important infrastructure that lots of people rely on? auditwheel is currently unmaintained.

    New blog post: I'm stepping down as maintainer of auditwheel
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  11. Retweeted
    Mar 21

    For I'd like to highlight three of my favorite contemporary poets who are NOT on Twitter / generally social media, because I feel they are at a disadvantage when it comes to hashtags like this one.

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  12. Retweeted
    Mar 19

    Wondering if and are meme-persons.

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  13. Retweeted
    Mar 5

    🐍⏳🌟 Do not forget! We are running mentored sprints for underrepresented folks in the community at . 📌 Applications for mentors and attendees are open until the 14th of March: Follow the thread for the projects already signed up ⬇️

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  14. Mar 8

    For the first time in my life, I have run out of capers.

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  15. Retweeted
    Feb 23

    Really enjoyed ’s Talk Structured concurrency in Python with Trio

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  16. Feb 25

    Don't thank me – it was mostly , with assists from and :-)

    Thanks for trio subprocesses. Makes my life a lot easier! :-)
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  17. Retweeted
    Feb 22

    Hi. Is there a way to detect IO(or cpu) blocking in a python async function?

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  18. Retweeted
    Feb 1

    Please welcome a mini arts festival "The Art of Python" to the PyCon Hatchery Program for ! See for details and to find out how you can take part! If you have a performance or visual art you'd like to present, proposals are due February 28!

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  19. Retweeted
    Feb 12

    The Maintainers Summit has an open CFP! Submit today! () Deadline: March 15!

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  20. Feb 15

    I think I can honestly say that this is the first time someone made a scientific-visualization-themed Valentine's day image macro out of me.

    Roses are red Violets are blue Viridis is great ..because it has green in it <3
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  21. Retweeted
    Feb 13

    Concurrent programming presents the same complexity we were facing in the 1960s when Dijkstra published “Go to considered harmful”. Can we learn from the past? will talk how Trio brings structured concurrency to Python making it easier for us!

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