Mario Munoz (has moved)

The front outside wall of a barn, covered in cream-coloured paint. Inside the barn, you can see a space set for a conference, with rows of chairs in the midfield and a projector screen. Two people are sitting at a desk. Hanging on the door (propped open) is a wooden North Bay Python logo.

bad news: For the first time in a while, you're going to have to wait a full year between #NBPy events

Good news: WE'RE COMING BACK! April 25th and 26th, 2026, at our favorite ranch just south of Petaluma. See you there!

https://buttondown.com/northbaypython/archive/save-the-date-for-2026/

All "workarounds" in your code are potential Chesterton's fences. Comment them well or the next guy or gal will tear them down.

This tweet as much a "note to self" as unsolicited advice.

In England do they call it Super Mario Bruvs

Love Is Saved By The Blind Bell

#HashTagGames
#SitcomRealityShows

Kermit the frog sticker with an LGBT flag

Kermit the frog sticker without an LGBT flag, after a asshat cut it off

Kermit the frog sticker with an larger LGBT flag

Before ... After hate ... After I fixed it

Hugz & xXx

I got nersniped into proposing a potential afternoon/evening of Takes, to be held somewhere in the Bay Area, sometime in August.

Got a Take? Have an insatiable appetite for Attention? Submit your Take so that we might have an event: ehat.fyi

oh no

Bought my #DjangoConUS 2025 ticket yesterday. Early bird is still open through Saturday, May 31st!

https://fosstodon.org/@djangocon/114582281985601120

@brass75 Only notes are making the days longer (36 hours might work) and more coffee...

those two may or may not be related...

One thing that crystalized to me this #PyConUS is that I judge my conferences by the amount of meaningful social interactions. There's always more ppl that I want to hang out with than I end up, especially given that I had some kind of vocal chord injury and didn’t take advantage of all nights 1/7

I tried the impossible task of condensing my #PyConUS experience into a blog post... I did not succeed... After posting it and re-reading it, I thought of at least half a dozen more interactions that I wished to highlight, and the more I sit with it, the more I realize that my attempt was […]

The builder.ai story is wild. Microsoft put almost half a billion dollars into them (and lost it all). Everything crumbled when the Financial Times did a tiny amount of research on them, and realised their accounts were signed off a friend of the CEO. As […]

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I tried the impossible task of condensing my #PyConUS experience into a blog post... I did not succeed... After posting it and re-reading it, I thought of at least half a dozen more interactions that I wished to highlight, and the more I sit with it, the more I realize that my attempt was […]

Looking through #PyConUS pics and see that I forgot to post a pic for #PierogiCon

Enjoy!

Turns out some old (and new) friends were feeling the same way, so we got a crew together from the Old Days and we spun up a collective, got fiscal hosting with Raft Foundation (badasses!), and spent a couple of months building processes and testing ways to work and things to make, and now we're […]

Welp, looks like Stereolab has released their first album in around 15 years... I'll be over here feeling old and jamming out...

#Music

@offby1

"Closed with unmerged commits
This pull request is closed."

🥴

I gave a lightning talk at #PyConUS titled ORM? OMG!!, and also hosted an open space on the topic of ORMs which was really good! My lightning talk highlighted a tool called Advanced Alchemy (a wrapper around SQLAlchemy), and I had great conversations throughout the conference on the topic […]

@hynek I'm glad to have caught this one live, but plan on watching it again, as there is plenty to unpack in the way I approach my own design.

@hugovk I missed @yngvem and Marie's talk about text encodings and unicode oddities during the conference, but just caught the video and it is quite great! Informative and entertaining!

https://youtu.be/np-xKVMIKcY

Listening to Mike Birbiglia (one of my favorite comedians) on the Wild Card podcast... To the question, "what truth guides your life more than any other?"

"... Trying is more significant than results..." […]

In case you needed a playbook for responding to would-be dictators. From the NYT:

"The funny thing is that there’s a playbook for overturning autocrats. It was written here in America, by a rumpled political scientist I knew named Gene Sharp. While little known in the United States before his […]

@hynek 💯 agree. It's been awesome how many people have Signal. And the peer pressure gets the rest, mwuahahaha. 😈 @Sha.01

Made it to LA from #PyConUS and already feeling the post conference blues. Can't wait to see you all in Long Beach next year! ⛱️

@sharif yes but no 😅

@sharif sorry, no games allowed now that I'm no longer there 😭

Btw Pantheon is finally out on Netflix. I think it’s one of the best animated series / best sci-fi series (animated and not). It revolves around the concept of ‘UI’ (uploaded intelligence) which feels like a parallel to AI. The themes it takes on are super smart. Very compelling. We binged it […]

Mural of a cactus painting with a cigarette, mustache, and droopy eyes. Cactus is wearing a big sombrero with the words "don't be a prick"

Done excellent advice from a cactus at Condado Tacos #PyConUS