Hi, I’m Nik. 👋 I live in Los Angeles, California ☀️ with my wife ❤️ and our cats and dogs 🐾.
I’m a software engineer working primarily with Python 🐍, and am the @pybeach chair 🪑 and a @socalpython organizer 🎤.
I do CrossFit 💪 and olympic weightlifting 🏋️♂️, ride bicycles 🚴♂️, pretend to read 📖, pretend to write 🖋️, listen to too many podcasts 🎙️, and still wear a mask 😷 because COVID isn’t over 🦠.
I often put bonus content in media alt text 🖼️.
| Website/blog | https://nkantar.com |
| Newsletter | https://buttondown.com/nkantar |
| GitHub | https://github.com/nkantar |
| Pronouns | he/him/his |
Yes, I know it's YT. Yes, it might end up being taken down for whatever reason (doesn't take a lot of imagination to figure out why) No idea if @rebeccawatson has posted this on fedi or not. (edit: she has)
Even so, it is GREAT info to help contend with the coming events of this weekend. We'll worth the nine minute run time.
Be safe out there. #nokings #skepchick #teargas
If you have been anxiously waiting for it (and why wouldn't you be?), my PyCon US 2025 talk, "Program Your Own Computer in Python", is now available to view on YouTube:
An elected official just got forcibly removed from a press conference at which an executive-appointed official was spreading misinformation. Said elected official was thrown to the ground and handcuffed.
Just in case anyone was wondering where we were at in all this.
While building my own deployment tool is certainly proving to be fun, I can’t help but wonder if I’d be better off using something more robust in production.
I know of Dokku, Coolify, and CapRover, but haven’t really used any of them meaningfully.
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