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AlSweigart

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Author of "Automate the Boring Stuff with Python" and other programming books. Mostly harmless. he/him

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My dad was an electrician in the IBEW union. That job paid for my college education. I got a computer science degree with no debt. I was able to take a risk moving to Silicon Valley and write Automate the Boring Stuff with Python in my spare time. I remember where I came from and whose shoulders I stood on.

America works best when we say UNION YES.

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I'm looking to hire someone to redesign the http://automatetheboringstuff.com site. I want a lightweight site that uses static files, has a clean look like Wikipedia, without React or animated nonsense. Boring is good.

Any recommendations? Any advice on how to hire a web designer?

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@AlSweigart I'll do it. Check https://www.zip-tokens.com/ for a site that I did. It's probably fancier than you want but I can also resurrect and send you a little Hugo site that's more in line, if you want to see that one instead. That's just the easy one that's live. DM me if you like the idea.

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Pro-tip: dish washing detergent is a really basic chemical.

Just buy the absolute cheapest powder kind.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jHP942Livy0

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There's only one industry in modern capitalism:

Selling hot tubs to frogs.

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My PyTexas 2024 talk on scroll art, an artistic way for beginners to get into coding, is up on YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=SyKUBXJLL50

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On this date in 1856, John Brown and a group of militant abolitionists killed 5 pro-slavery settlers in Kansas.

This was in response to a violent attack on the city of Lawrence by pro-slavery terrorists. It became part of what was later known as Bleeding Kansas.

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What's funny about the "put glue on pizza" advice from Google AI is that that screenshot could have easily been faked... but you can't prove the AI didn't make this recommendation.

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CAPITALISM: Competition ensures that companies are constantly striving to offer superior products at lower prices.

ACTUAL CAPITALISM:

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@AlSweigart It's like @pluralistic says: capitalists actually hate capitalism, and always try by all means to avoid dealing with pesky competition

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"Go slow and fix things."

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What is your honest, first gut reaction to hearing someone describe themselves as a "digital artist"? (Feel free to PM me if you don't want to reply publicly.)

AlSweigart , to random
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Hey, did you realize you could play chess online (or really, any board game with any number of people) with Google Slides? Just invite them to edit the slidedeck:

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I've added color schemes to my Scroll Art website. Here's the "test tube" color scheme:

Check it out yourself in the browser and also look at the other scroll art pieces on the website: https://scrollart.org/static/diamond-sky-fullscreen.html

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I'm in NYC and I visited Penn Station today. It's a good metaphor for America because it's new and shiny and recently remodeled but everyone is sitting on the floor because benches would attract homeless people.

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"Scroll art" is a form of program-generated ASCII art that beginners can do in any language with minimal knowledge that creates something cooler than interest rate payments. I've collected a few examples online here: https://scrollart.org

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"Scroll art" is a form of program-generated ASCII art that beginners can do in any language with minimal knowledge that creates something cooler than interest rate payments. I've collected a few examples online here: https://scrollart.org

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