Jon Banafato

📺 Found Footage: The Making of the Patterson Project

Highly recommended. I've seen this kind of horror and this kind of comedy before, but I don't think I've seen them combined, and I am here for it.

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📺 Hocus Pocus

📺 Over the Garden Wall

📺 Over the Garden Wall

What a joy this show is.

📺 Scare Me (2020)

Most of this movie consists of a few people hanging out in a cabin telling scary stories, which is the closest to capturing the feeling now that I had watching Are You Afraid of the Dark? as a kid.

Two snakes enjoying a pie with 3.14 on the top and π crimping.

Just released! 🚀

Please install and enjoy Python 3.14! 🥧

discuss.python.org/t/python-3-1...

#Python #Python314 #release

Thinking, once again, about starting a horror movie book club

Only SIX days until we blast off for Wagtail Space! Got your space helmets everyone? Because between incredible talks and fun socials, this is going to be a spaceflight to remember!

Get your free ticket to Space right here: events.zoom.us/ev/AtWesoZI_...

Join us next Tuesday for our monthly 📆 meetup! This month we'll be joined by @webology.bsky.social as he shows us how he uses Claude Code 🧑‍💻 to increase his productivity in both his professional and open source projects! 🤩

We hope to see y'all there! Info in the comments

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Banned Books Week is next week, and I quite like their "if you have X minutes" webpage to give readers concrete and actionable steps. bannedbooksweek.org/let-freedom-...

KDE for You KDE is developed by a community of passionate people. We develop KDE for everyone, from kids to grandparents and from professionals to hobbyists.

Turns out that KDE has a section along the lines of what I was thinking. Neat. kde.org/for/

A carved wooden jack-o'-lantern

New Halloween decor

Meet the New Host of Reading Rainbow: Mychal the Librarian After 20 years, Reading Rainbow is back! The new host is Mychal the Librarian, who has been spreading library joy online for years.

Good news Tuesday (is that a thing? sure, why not?):

Reading Rainbow is coming back: bookriot.com/new-host-of-...

Scholastic launched a streaming service with shows like The Magic School Bus, Goosebumps, and lots in between: www.scholastic.com/newsroom/all...

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Square has a bunch of these pages, as well. So when I search for "point of sale for barbershops", I get one of their landing pages near the top of the results page. Are our open source websites missing this?

Definitely. Part marketing / landing page, part user success story / testimonial, part showcase for third party tooling. All this info is out there in the world, so the thought here is mostly "what if a place to collect it?". Could be a great opportunity for community contributions, too.

There's also the angle of I just really like hearing about how people are using Python in ways that I don't encounter all that often. I talked to a few people at DjangoCon US that work in interesting fields I have no insight into, and they're building everything with Python and Django.

Mostly as a way to highlight different capabilities to different audiences, e.g. Python for astronomy? We've got you covered, including links to popular libraries and some highlighted use cases from people in your field. Same goes for web dev, journalism, etc. etc.

That, and more. The types of pages you mention as well team size / business stages like startups, for small IT teams at nonprofits, for large teams at major corporations.

e.g. Squarespace has "tours" of websites for musicians, photographers, small business owners, and other example use cases -- are there equivalents like this for programming languages and frameworks?

What are some examples of open source projects that take a marketing approach of maintaining dedicated landing pages for different target users?

Today is not Friday, but it's still a good day to support these groups. Do you use Python at work? If so, does your employer sponsor or contribute to the PSF and the Python packages you depend on?

Thanks for clarifying. Yes, the short version is that enrollment ends some time before voting begins for the current election cycle (with this year's dates detailed in that blog post). You should expect to receive information and reminders for next year. Thanks for being a Contributing Member!

The election just closed, but I wanted to respond here and follow up for the future. Did you join as a Supporting or Contributing member and affirm your intent to vote before 2:00PM UTC on August 26th (pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/06/2025...)? If so, I believe you should have received a ballot.

I voted. Did you?

This year's election is down to the final hours, and voting is an high-impact way you can continue to contribute to Python.

Feedback is hard to come by, especially positive feedback. If you appreciate someone, if their work has helped you, and especially if you want them to continue doing the things they're doing, let them know.

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ATTN PSF Voting Members: The 2025 PSF Board election vote is open now until September 16th! If you affirmed your intention to vote in this year's election, or voted last year, you should have an email with voting instructions 🗳️ Learn more on our blog:

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Authors Against Book Bans Our Mission Statement We are Authors Against Book Bans. We, a coalition of writers, illustrators, anthology editors and contributors, and other book creators, stand united against the deeply unconstit...

An organization worth supporting: www.authorsagainstbookbans.com. They don't take donations directly, but you can financially support some related organizations listed at www.authorsagainstbookbans.com/faq/#:~:text... if you are so inclined.