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/
Fixed some grammar and punctuation issues. /whew

I was happy enough with a slide in my talk tonight, that I turned it into a blog post. Enjoy. Share with someone you think it may help.

https://somethingmoreserious.wordpress.com/2026/06/02/survival-guide-to-screwing-up/

Survival Guide to ⁉️🤬🙅💥ing Up

I told you it would happen. The prophecies foretold it, and now the unthinkable has happened. Failure has risen, like the Eldritch monstrosity that it is, and has now consumed some part of your pre…

Something More Serious

Hey, guess what? I’m gonna be speaking at the #PyTexas meetup again. This time, I’m gonna try to distill some of what I’ve learned mentoring some really great people.

If you’ve never had a mentor, I’ll tell you how to get one and what to expect. If you’ve never been a mentor, I’ll tell ya what to expect and why you should. For both audiences, I’ll tell you how these relationships start, and give you the evergreen knowledge that’s a good core to build on.

https://pytexas.org/meetup

#PyTexas was great, as always. I got to see a ton of friends, my fellow organizers who are like extended family, got to give a kickass lightning talk (that motivates me to finish out the full talk), and got to revisit Texas for the first time since moving.

Now for the long journey home…

Train ride to #PyCascades. Really great seeing some friends and making some new ones at the social event last night. Excited to see some talks and learn some things today!
Vancouver, I’m here. Now take me to #pycascades
@rands Maple Mono. Has nerd fonts built in. Easy to read.

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

@starshaped The fastest way to trigger me, btw, is to say the words, “it should be easy, you should just…” because those are words typically uttered by those that don’t do the work to those that do the work on how the work should be done.

@starshaped The question I’ve started asking is this:

Right now, the price per token of AI is heavily subsidized. When that subsidization stops and prices rise, what then? Will companies be forced to choose between paying massive costs to keep their sunk cost fallacy going or paying massive costs to replace those tools and processes, or is there something I’m missing?