Josh Schneider

@diji
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Father of two boys. Test Automation Engineer. Primarily fluent in Python, but conversant in C#, Go, VBScript, and others. Huge movie geek.
Githubhttps://github.com/dijital20
Bloghttps://somethingmoreserious.wordpress.com/

PathRoot 1.1.0 has been published. I finally got around to writing the missing edge case tests, and fixing a few bugs. This release moves the minimum Python version to 3.12 from 3.10.

https://pypi.org/project/pathroot/

Client Challenge

Excited to give my newest talk, "What a Front of the Front End Developer Brings to Your Team", at @nedcamp in a couple weeks! I hope to see you there. #nedcamp #nedcamp2025

https://nedcamp.org/index.php/sessions/2025/what-front-front-end-developer-brings-your-team

What a Front of the Front End Developer Brings to Your Team | New England Drupal Camp

Are you a front of the front end developer who focuses on CSS, semantic HTML, and presentational Javascript, and do you wonder if your skillset matters in the world of modern web development? Do you think about the best way to mark up an SVG to be as accessible as possible, and write Twig templates with (relative) ease? You’re not alone and your front of the front end development knowledge is still important today.This session discusses why your front of the front end development skills are still relevant in today’s web development ecosystem, how to convince your team that a front of the front end developer is a valuable asset, and how front of the front and back of the front end developers can work together to develop powerful front end solutions in Drupal and beyond.Let’s show the web development community that front of the front end developers contribute so much to a team!

I’ve decided that an AI-based feature that I need is one that pops up “Pop-up Video” style factoids when I make a cultural reference in a meeting.

Someone else in meeting: I’ll try.
Me: Try not? Do, or do not.
Popup: “Do or do not” is spoken by Yoda in Empire Stikes Back, the second movie in the Star Wars series (by release date).

Hey all! I'm still looking my next senior front end developer role or a role as a Drupal developer focused on the front end.

I have 19+ years of experience working with small agencies and Fortune 500 companies and focus on writing clean, accessible HTML, CSS, and JavaScript.

Resume: https://aubreysambor.com/resume

Leads/boosts appreciated!

#GetFediHired #FediHire #HireMe #FrontEnd #WebDev

Oh yeah, I still have this blog. Mason from PyTexas asked for my rules for developing in Python, so here's some brain droppings on the subject.

https://somethingmoreserious.wordpress.com/2025/07/21/best-practices-for-python-development/

Best Practices for Python Development

I am an opinionated person. I am a rule follower, and have been called “rigid” or a “hard-ass” for most of my short professional development career. I’ve always said t…

Something More Serious
Made it to our new home up in Washington. No more highways for us for a few days. Hopefully can get into our new home tomorrow, and our stuff sometime this week.

2 months later, I finally posted the #python project that came from an idea @AlSweigart gave to me; "What if we had a pathlib.Path object that wouldn't allow operations outside a trusted root."

Thanks to @gaborbernat for his help with navigating packaging issues and giving me the encouragement to post my first project.

https://pypi.org/project/pathroot/

Client Challenge

Another #PyTexas in the books. It’s been so great to meet so many faces from the meetup, old friends from past years, and the best group of organizers ever. Looking forward to next year!

Yup, I’m speaking again at the @pytexas Virtual Meetup in January.

Every developer, at some point or another, needs to communicate their ideas, whether it’s to collaborators or a “message in a bottle” to yourself. Since we’re visual creatures, diagrams are a great way to convey lots of ideas. Let’s talk about different diagram types, what they’re made of, and what they’re good for.

I had an epiphany this morning while talking to my kiddo about my #AdventOfCode work and his latest gaming obsession:

A debugger is just a “skip dialog” option for code.