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:boost_requested: Dear Fediverse, I am about to step up into my first role as a tech lead (*context in follow-up post) and would like to ask some questions to help me prepare & improve:

Groups:

  • 🔵 Technical: Devs, DevOps, Infra
  • 🟠 Product: Marketing, UX/Design, etc
  • 🟣 Business: HR, management C-roles.

Questions:

  1. What are your initial thoughts when you hear you'll be getting a new tech lead?
  2. What are your hopes & expectations for them?
  3. What are your concerns when a new "tech lead" is hired?
  4. What changes do you hope for, or expect?

❗ Please add your colour to your reply & poll.

Lastly, if you have other advice for someone who wishes to be the best possible tech lead of their teams.

Hi y'all, this has become a bit more important now. I learned this week that my current contract will not be renewed for funding reasons. Please see the quoted post for more info! ​:boost:

#FediHire #GetFediHired #OpenStreetMap #Python #Rust #JavaScript #CSharp #C #GIS #DistributedSystems #Networking

RE:
https://transfem.social/notes/a4imho4jra5v01up

TransFem SpaceOlivia A-C (@LivInTheLookingGlass)#FediHire | Software Engineer & Data Scientist | Chicago, IL, US | Remote Preferred, In-Office Okay :boost: I’m Olivia Appleton-Crocker, a software engineer with a strong background in backend development, data science, & research. I have an MS in Computer Science & Engineering from MSU, where I published papers on distributed systems. Currently a Data Science Fellow at the TMW Center, improving code coverage & diagnosing bugs. Previously at Intel, coordinating small teams & influencing NVMe spec changes. I’ve put extensive work into #OpenStreetMap, currently adding Chicago sidewalks, mapping my hometown, & leading disaster-response mapathons. Built overpassify–a transpiler for querying OSM data in idiomatic Python. Projects include adding UDPLite to CPython, adding fediverse comments to sphinx sites, & a multi-language Project Euler site. Proficient in Python, C/C++, Rust, JavaScript, C#, SQL, Fortran & more. Seeking roles in software engineering, data science, or research—especially in open-source, GIS, Rust, or distributed systems. More info: https://oliviaappleton.com Edit: I learned this week that my current contract will not be renewed because of funding issues, so this has become a bit more important #GetFediHired #OpenStreetMap #Python #Rust #JavaScript #CSharp #C #GIS #DistributedSystems #Networking

#getFedihired - Know #MongoDB and/or #ElasticSearch and/or GNU/Linux #sysadm ? Expecially if you know #Ansible and/or #python and #shell scripting

A couple US or India #WFH positions opening up for 24/7 support ( includes #weekend and #holiday shifts )

US roles are US daytimes, India roles are the other 16 hours of day

DM me if you're interested ( job listings coming soon )

We should also have some SRE and dev positions and a MongoDB DBA position soon

Ontem voltei a pegar no Django depois de 10 anos para um side-project. É como se fosse um regresso a um lugar onde um dia se foi feliz.

Tem a sua personalidade e tal, mas continuo a adorar os seus pormenores e as suas escolhas sobre como deve funcionar uma framework web.

Também fiquei muito agradado de ver que muito pouco mudou desde há uma década no que toca à forma fundamental como o Django faz as coisas. Talvez isso não seja apreciado pela juventude habituada a ciclos de upgrade rápidos e drásticos, mas pra mim foi um grande alívio ver que não tenho de me atualizar muito para montar um pequeno projeto.

Há gente djangueira por aí?

Lua is a popular language used in many programs for user scripts. One notable mention in the Unix world is NeoVim, although it's probably even more popular in the game industry. I recently discovered pocketpy, which aims to do the same but with a Python 3 language subset. In the post I just have published in my blog I show how to use pocketpy with C. Hope it's useful!

Python user scripts in C programs with pocketpy rvr.typepad.com/wind/2025/03/p

Imagine you're a #Gentoo packager, and you're about to bump a #Python package. Which of the release summaries sounds the most ominous to you?

#Pyparsing API going back to version 1.0.0 (2003) has used a camelCase name scheme for its methods and argument names. In versions 3.0-3.1 (Oct 2021-Jun 2023), I added PEP8-compliant snake_case names, while maintaining synonym definitions for the legacy names for backward compatibility.

Soon, pyparsing will begin emitting DeprecationWarnings for the legacy names. To ease this transition, the next release 3.2.2 will include a utility to convert in place scripts that use the legacy names. #python

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As expected, here's a quick Mastodon.py release that fixes some issues people found, mostly pagination related. Upgrading from 2.0.0 to this should be perfectly safe, it's bugfixes only~ Thank you to everyone who reported an issue or even contributed a PR to immediately fix it <3 🐍

* Changelog on GitHub: github.com/halcy/Mastodon.py/r
* Docs: mastodonpy.readthedocs.io/en/v
* PyPi: pypi.org/project/Mastodon.py/2

Maintenance release. Fixes a few minor, but important, issues

Remove spurious debug prints (Thanks aitorres)
Fix pagination fetch_remaining being broken due to typing changes (Thanks jikamens)
Fix...
GitHubRelease v2.0.1 · halcy/Mastodon.pyMaintenance release. Fixes a few minor, but important, issues Remove spurious debug prints (Thanks aitorres) Fix pagination fetch_remaining being broken due to typing changes (Thanks jikamens) Fix...

My latest blog post: Simplify VCD

mikecoats.com/simplify-vcd/

Simplify VCD is a tool designed to make working with Value Change Dump (VCD) files more efficient and faster. This tool enables users to clip sections of VCD files, trim irrelevant data, and reduce the resolution to a more manageable timescale, significantly improving processing speed and usability.

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forgort skehdort but now i porst schedost (schedule post)


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2025-02-28T00:00:00.000Z on Twitch - Feliz Jueves ==
#TheFinals feeds my ospuze addiction

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2025-03-01T00:00:00.000Z on Twitch - RTFL ==
Modded
#minecraft with friends !!

I've been gone for 19 years BUT I did bring milk

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2025-03-02T14:00:00.000Z on Twitch - Pog Grahams ==
It's either making s'mores or
#python dev, don't ask me I'm just an activitypub note.

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2025-03-05T00:00:00.000Z on Final's channel - Blind WW ==
Chat I do believe we are getting good at this. This scares me

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2025-03-07T00:00:00.000Z on Twitch - Feliz Jueves ==
"Oh?
#TheFinals again?" I hear you say. "I thought this man was allergic to scheduling something on a consistent, easy to follow weekly basis"

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2025-03-08T00:00:00.000Z on Twitch - RTFL ==
Okay this is just unnatural. It's the modded
#minecraft thing again. What's even the point of a schedule for this

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2025-03-13T23:00:00.000Z on Twitch - Feliz Jueves ==
Where were you when variety streamer is kill. I was watching airfryer when
#TheFinals ring

Twitchskehmatics - Twitchbird escapes local zoo and installs linux on your computer

Hey everyone, what's cooking in the open-source universe? 🤯 I just stumbled upon something that's seriously mind-blowing.

So, there's this Python library pretending to be a music tool (automslc), but get this – it's actually illegally downloading songs from Deezer! And the worst part? It turns your computer into an accomplice in a huge music piracy operation. Seriously, a digital pirate cove. 🏴‍☠️

And then there's this npm saga with @ton-wallet/create... Crypto wallet emptied, just like that! 💸

The moral of the story? Open source rocks, but blindly trusting everything is a recipe for disaster. Always double-check those dependencies! Automated scans are cool, but a real penetration test? That's pure gold. 🥇

Clients are always so appreciative when we can spot and fix this kind of stuff beforehand!

Now, I'm curious: What are your go-to methods for keeping your codebase squeaky clean and secure? Any tips or tricks you'd like to share?

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