Paul Jimenez

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Just some guy, ya know?

Born and raised in Houston, then spent two decades in Austin, but lately am in Great Falls, Virginia.

Long time linuxite. CLI uber alles. FOSS fanboy. Mostly python lately, but java, C, perl, pascal and others in the past. Interested in Zig, Nim and other lesser-known languages.

#internetoldfart

Homepagehttps://place.org/~pj/
Matrix@PJ:place.org
email[email protected]
githubhttps://github.com/pjz
@pjz It came today. I AM EXPERIENCING MOONLANDER ENTRY SHOCK… But having fun being a keyboard n00b all over again :)
#elixirconf2025 starts today! And I'm here! And i don't really know why! Call me elixir-curious, i guess.

*Picks and Shovels* is a new, standalone technothriller starring Marty Hench, my two-fisted, hard-fighting, tech-scam-busting forensic accountant. You can pre-order it on my latest Kickstarter, which features a brilliant audiobook read by Wil Wheaton:

http://martinhench.com

eof/

Excited to start reading _The Bezzle_ by @pluralistic ! #ebook #launchday #kickstarter

Frustrated at KivyMD's lack of a reasonable release process:
* `pip install kivymd` gets me v1.2.0.
* Github's latest tag is v1.1.1,
* ...despite the README saying 'v2.0.0'.
* #announcements on their discord says 1.x is no longer supported.
* current advice on what to install is 'pip install https://github.com/kivymd/KivyMD/archive/master.zip`.

...but it's free so I shouldn't complain? Maybe I drop kivyMD and just use plain Kivy. At least they have actual releases.

[#36] Zig Roadmap 2024 - Andrew Kelley

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From 1940s-1980, the wealthiest paid 70-94% marginal tax rates. Zero of them went broke from taxation. Zero of them left the USA. All remained exceedingly wealthy, manufacturing boomed, AND we had the strongest middle class growth in US History.

Let's do that again. #TaxTheRich

@darius I think about the NHS digital design standards all the time, where the standard is functionally "your target audience is a fifteen-year-old for whom english is a second language. They're using a 6 year old android phone that's been handed down twice, and they are sitting in a hospital emergency waiting room trying to look up information in the middle of the most terrifying night they have ever had. Your site must work for that person, at that moment."

https://digital.nhs.uk/about-nhs-digital/standards-for-web-products#using-valid-html

Standards for web products - NHS Digital

All web products supplied to or used by NHS Digital must meet minimum standards of security, accessibility, and functionality.

NHS Digital

👋 Hello #fediverse! I'm going into a meeting at 4ET to talk about our newsroom's social media options.

If you think our station and other #NPR stations should have a Mastodon server or a broader presence in the #fediverse, pls boost this post. If you have thoughts, please reply, I want to hear them!