Python/PHP dev, feminist, SFF fan and tabletop roleplayer, occasional game jammer, OpenData enthusiast. Nonbinary: they/them/their.

Joined March 2013
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⚠️ Quick PSA: if you have cats, NEVER leave them alone with a window left open like this. I know at least two people whose cats died this way.
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Thinking of the friends I made at @pyconthailand a few years ago, and hoping everyone will be safe. 💜
Rae Knowler retweeted
The recording of my talk "Automating teaching about automation in Python" is now online! youtu.be/el5YJgTNIgs

.@the_compiler found himself teaching >100 first-year students automation with Python, in a flipped classroom. Cool! But how to grade all those exercises? With automation! #SwissPythonSummit
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Sliding in under the bar for #BiVisibilityDay2022. 💙💜💗
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Meant to say: via @Stefffi. :) I love it here, but it took so long to make friends who weren’t fellow immigrants!
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Rae Knowler retweeted
Mark Smith @judy2k has just announced that the next edition of #DjangoConEurope 2023 will be held next year in #Edinburgh 🏴󠁧󠁢󠁳󠁣󠁴󠁿 from 29 May to 2 June 2023 🎊 CC @DjangoConEurope
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.@the_compiler found himself teaching >100 first-year students automation with Python, in a flipped classroom. Cool! But how to grade all those exercises? With automation! #SwissPythonSummit
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.@the_compiler’s grading automation. Really appreciate that he rot13’s students names while grading! #SwissPythonSummit
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More microprocessors! Tobias Gresch is getting technical about running MicroPython on the RP2040. #SwissPythonSummit
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Tobias couldn’t get the part he needed, due to the chip shortage, so he used the RP2040 MicroPython to make one himself! #SwissPythonSummit
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Rae Knowler retweeted
22 Sep 2022
Everybody is live coding at @pythonsummit My nerdheart jumps in awe seeing what @deshipu does with PewPew and CircuitPython 😍
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Now @deshipu is telling us about CircuitPython! 👾🕹#SwissPythonSummit
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Rae Knowler retweeted
22 Sep 2022
Inspiring opening talk by Mahe who talks about her journey to become a lover of coding through the Python community #swisspythonsummit
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forgot to thread that this piece of joy is by @carinsurance—and unlike many other forms of coded bias it, was not neglect, it was a *conscious decision* the grammar isn’t great either but one problem at a time. x.com/thebestsophist/status/…

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#GLAMhack2021 update: @sinister_katze really wants the banana chips @ETHBibliothek sent in the apéro package.
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Rae Knowler retweeted
#GLAMhack2021: So many exciting challenges to chose from - the group creation session is in progress ... @OpendataCH @ETHBibliothek #OpenGLAM #OpenData
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It’s been almost a year since I used this account, oops! I went into a little lockdown-hibernation. Back today because it’s #GLAMhack2021! 🔓🎨💻
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Rae Knowler retweeted
30 Jul 2020
YouTube has an obligation to make its services accessible. Allowing community-created captions was probably the LEAST amount of infrastructure they could have implemented to provide for captioning. It should be restored and expanded.
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