Guido van Rossum
@gvanrossum
Python's BDFL-emeritus, Distinguished Engineer at Microsoft, Computer History Fellow, fully vaccinated. Opinions are my own. He/him.
Python wins the 2023 NEC C&C Prize. nec.com/en/press/20231…
The official trailer for the official Python documentary is out!!! ❤️to Ida.
The trailer for "Python, the Documentary" by @CultRepo premieres today! 🔥🐍 From its origins in the Netherlands to powering AI at top global companies, this is Python's story. 🎥 The film premieres at @EuroPython in July! Subscribe to @CultRepo's YouTube channel for updates!…
BREAKING! Guido van Rossum, the creator of Python, has officially reinstated himself as Python’s Benevolent Dictator for Life - but this time, he’s bringing some new quirks with him. 👀 Stay tuned for our Python documentary this summer! 🐍🎬 Feat @gvanrossum , Barry Warsaw,…
Voor Nederlands-sprekenden: NEMO Podcast over Internet: nemokennislink.nl/publicaties/al… (ook op Spotify). Ik kom ook aan het woord (vanaf 19:30).
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Good interview with Leslie Lamport. youtube.com/watch?v=K31-M2…
Join me next week for an intro to using Large Language Models with Python! aka.ms/LLMPy-8/7X Free, Online @ August 7, 6 PM (UTC)
Don't know how other authors feel, but seeing the first physical copy of your book, after years of looking at Word files and PDFs... Seems surreal. It's as if someone else wrote it... Anyway, this advance copy arrived in the mail. One more month to pub date…
We are vacationing on Terschelling. We rented e-bikes at De Groot Fietsen. This is an amazing guy -- not only did he ask if I was the Python guy, he also turns out to have filmed amazing time lapses of an art piece here, "The Streken". youtube.com/watch?v=veK-MQ… and…
PSA: According to Verizon tier 2 tech support, all international plan customers have lost access to the network as of 2pm Eastern time yesterday, with no ETA for a fix (could be Monday). I guess a server crashed. Kinda sucks since I'm in Europe this week and next. :-(
Our Python Web Apps series starts today! Check out our live stream (with @noble_renee) at 3:30PT on Web Apps 101 covering HTTP/HTML, Flask, and Quart: developer.microsoft.com/en-us/reactor/… And join us in the coming weeks for SQLAlchemy, FastAPI, Django, Docker, and more!
Fun nonfiction book: A City on Mars, by Kelly and Zach Weinersmith. I don’t want to give away the ending but it’s about space colonization and its dangers and risks.
I m really enjoying listening to Midst, a semi-improvised fantasy/SF story in podcast form by three anonymous narrators. Midst.co, Spotify or YouTube. It’s the first podcast I’ve ever listened to! (Sorry Pablo and Łukasz. :-)
Dear #pycon presenters. Here are my accessibility requests for next year. 1. No colorized code on black backgrounds. Blue or purple or gray is really hard to read. 2. Use large text please. I cannot read your regular terminal font. PLEASE.
📢 We’re excited to announce the general availability of Data Wrangler for VS @Code. Our new, code-centric, AI-powered data cleaning/prep tool is available to everyone today! 🔥 Learn more at aka.ms/dwrelease
Next year we should have Python2.7girl at the Eurovision Song Festival.
Does anybody have a relatively blemish-free first edition of the Pascal User Manual and Report by Jensen and Wirth they are willing to sell to me? It is a cherished childhood memory but I never possessed a copy. It must be from around 1974 or before.