George Hickman

@ghickman
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Python, engineering best practices, D&D chat, all things Sci-Fi/Fantasy. Hash tag farm lyfe.
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George HickmanApr 28

Do not love the level of churn black is giving me because of a change to blank lines after imports.

Yes, it was in preview, but in a team of 1.5 we realistically never have time to check the preview.

Sigh.

George HickmanApr 15
django-subatomic continues to be a delight to work with. You can see the care the authors have taken with it from the reasoning in their docstrings.
George HickmanApr 12
y'all keep telling each other to touch grass, and I am here to tell you to check what's on that grass first
George HickmanApr 12

Upgrade Django, feed some lambs, build a feature, muck out the barn.

Entirely normal Sunday.

George HickmanApr 12

First project upgraded to Django 6.x What a delight to drop the django-template-partials dependency, its settings, and the template loads… and all my partials just keep working 👌

Thanks @carlton et al!

George HickmanApr 11
Andrew GodwinApr 11
Of course, from here the astronauts will go to the medical bay so the flight surgeon can give them the all-clear, and then from there they'll be placed in the Possession/Inhabitation Chamber where NASA's Chief Occult Officer will ensure they are not controlled by any evil Moon spirits.
George HickmanJan 31
Carlton GibsonJan 31

Rewatching @hynek's keynote from @PyConUK this year. (Not yet on his Talks page, I noted.)

Can't miss the chance to (re)?post this slide:

> Giving everyone what they want is a failure of leadership

George HickmanJan 27
Didn't like that bridge anyway.
George HickmanNov 4, 2025
Christopher NeugebauerNov 4, 2025

Did you know @ThePSF is a charity that runs on a budget that is a vanishingly small proportion of the money that Python-using corporations make, but we still put on PyCon US, run PyPI, and (try to) fund grants that support Python events all around the world.

Changes in the tech and politicial landscape make it ever harder to fund the essential work we do. If #Python is part of your life, read this post that connects the dots, and consider donating or sponsoring our work: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2025/10/connecting-the-dots.html

Connecting the Dots: Understanding the PSF’s Current Financial Outlook

Python Software Foundation Blog
George HickmanOct 26, 2025
What're folks using to test projects with multiple Python versions these days? tox? nox? some new hotness?