Dave Aronson

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Guillermo Galetti

Well FB is often rather slow about such things. Give it a few hours and maybe it will have caught up. Probably busier on weekends….

Hmmm, there should be an invite to join the Dave group. Maybe it doesn’t go into the inbox but some other mechanism. (That’s one of my [many] gripes about social media — each platform gives us usually at least two and sometimes more inboxes to have to go check!)

Speaking of which, check your Facebook inbox. :-)

Its profile says it gauges the mood of Bsky. Yes, it’s just silly fun, but it can’t even begin to do what it claims to do, without distinguishing between such uses. Adding standard sentiment analysis techniques would help, and it could still be a swear-bot by only looking at posts with swears.

Well, people have long said you should be committed…. ;-)

How can it judge overall mood when it apparently doesn’t distinguish between “fucking awesome” and “fucking horrible", or between “that was total shit” and “that was some good shit”? Not to mention, uses of swear words in a purely inquisitive quotational setting, such as this message!

Maybe you could do stego in a followup talk, like how I’ve been pitching one (albeit unsuccessfully so far) on how to use mutation testing to build a unit test suite in the first place.

There are still some in that one, but you can check out the longer ones. In particular, don’t just listen to it while doing other stuff your watching, watch the video, I do a lot of visual puns and related references. (Plus in the ones from mid-2021 on, there’s a very helpful diagram.)

This is one of the shortest versions I’ve done; I deliberately chopped out all the blather that was just related puns or whatever. So, it should be a good dense intro, and if you want more, check out the long ones in the Mutation Testing playlist in my YouTube channel.

YouTube video by Dave Aronson "Kill All Mutants! (Intro to Mutation Testing)" PyDistrict September 2025

I have uploaded the version of my "Kill All Mutants! (Intro to Mutation Testing)" talk that I gave at the September 2025 meetup of PyDistrict (the Washington DC #Python group), at: www.youtube.com/watch?v=JTMO...

#mutationtesting #testing #softwaretesting #publicspeaking

It's at:

www.codosaur.us/speaking/cfp...

S/W dev conf CfPs ending w/in 30 days:

- Python confs in Poland, Brazil, and Canada
- JS confs in India and USA
- Stack-agnostic confs, in Brazil, Australia, Nigeria, USA, and Europe

For details, see:

www.codosaur.us/speaking/cfp...

Details at link in 1st comment cuz algorithm. Pls spread.

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Hmmm . . . Moses, Moai, it all makes sense now! It's really Passover Island! (Just like how Die Hard is really a Chanukah movie!)

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Today’s #Mead Adventures: Sweetened the cyser with another 6 fl oz of apple concentrate, re-stabilized, and bottled. Racked the wildflower from primary onto stabilizers and 12ozA clover honey. (When clear, will combine that with the grape ones to make them less grapey.) DID NOT start a new batch.

Go not to the LLMs for counsel, for they will say both no and yes -- when the answer is really 42.

Today’s #Mead Adventures: Not much, just racked the cold-crashed #cyser off another layer of lees. Gonna let it crash for two more weeks at room temp rather than chilled, so the bottles don’t get condensation.

And, because there are no penalties. Want something to stop? Gotta have penalties, plus reasonably swift and certain enforcement. We’ve severely reduced all three factors for most crime, and they've rarely even existed for most governmental/corporate misbehavior, with predictable results.

With all that’s going on in the world? I’m ramping up. Maybe less once we move to Portugal, as I’ll be leaving my brewing equipment behind. (On the other claw, you can get a very nice bottle of wine for well under €5 at pretty much any grocery store there.)

I’d love to but your CfP isn’t open yet! ;-)

Please announce far and wide when you open your Call for Speakers! :-)

Today’s #Mead Adventures: racked the cyser from the bucket to a jug for cold-crashing, and started a new batch, 2.5 lbs wildflower plus water to a gallon, to dilute the pyment and the other grape mead to make it all not so intensely grape-y. Good thing I have a 3-gallon Fermonster to blend them in!

It's at:

www.codosaur.us/speaking/cfp...

Software conference CfPs (Calls for Papers, Presentations, etc.) closing in the next 30 days include:

- Ruby confs in USA
- Python confs in Indonesia, Poland, and Brazil
- Stack-agnostic conferences in UK, Canada, and Malaysia

and more. For details, see link in first comment (*&^%$#@ algorithm!).

The whole thing? Probably not, especially the empty bits between the lumpy bits. And the hot bits. Other than that, though, maybe. It would take a very long time, but I think after we get the first few out of the way, we should be able to keep ahead of demand from then on.

Meh, it’s okay, not bad, lots of room for improvement, but it’s the only one we’ve got. (As far as we know!)

How it started and how it’s going?

So, RegEx succeeds in humping your leg and so on?