Amethyst Reese

The past year or so has truly been a decade.

This year’s North Bay Python was incredible.

I am a software engineer by nature, and I focus on building tools for other developers, both for my employer and for personal, open source projects.

I joined Pascal Hartig on the Meta Tech Podcast, episode #57, to talk about Fixit, the new open source linter I’ve been working on, how and where Python is used at Meta, and how the Python Language Foundation team supports thousands of engineers, data sci…

Let’s talk about my newest open source project, built as part of my effort to improve the linting ecosystem at Meta: This year, we have been building a new linter, Fixit 2, designed from the ground up to make developers more efficient and capable, both in…

My name is Amethyst.

My PyCon talk “Open Source on Easy Mode” is available to watch on YouTube, but I made a bold decision this year to give my talk using an iPad.

I joined Michael Kennedy on the excellent Talk Python podcast, episode #304, last week to chat about the Omnilib Project, an organization of open source packages I started, and how they fit into the modern world of Python and AsyncIO.

Back in 2019–remember the before times?

I am a gender fluid person.

A week ago today, I gave a talk at PyCon Australia in Sydney.

This past Friday, I presented a talk at PyCon US 2018 – the first time I’ve been fortunate enough to attend.

This week, I was interviewed by Mike Driscoll of Mouse vs Python for their “PyDev of the Week” series, focusing on developers in the Python community.

It’s no secret that I’m a huge fan of space, video games, or video games set in space.

When I was in elementary school, I discovered a series of books in the library that detailed, in glorious full page color, photos of the outer solar system as captured by Voyager 1 and Voyager 2 on their epic journeys to places never before explored by hu…

Paul Stamatiou, on falling in love with Android: I set out to write an article about how I feel Android provides unique affordances that create a unique cohesive mobile experience (more on that below) rather than talking openness, features and apps.

Armin Ronacher, on Firefox’s removal of the option to disable Javascript: My immediate response to change of removing the switch was: “Thank god, that should have happened ages ago”. … You don’t get extra privacy by disabling JavaScript.

Soren Johnson, lead designer of Civilization 4: The answer is to make digital games so attractive that players will abandon physical discs on their own.

One of my favorite projects that I’ve created has to be ZNC Push, a plugin for ZNC that generates push notifications for IRC highlights and private messages.

Eighteen months ago, I wrote an article about my Favorite Android Apps, but a lot has changed with Android and its app ecosystem since then.

Along a similar vein as my previous post on Why I Prefer Android, Ralf Rottmann, a self-described “Apple fanboy”, has described why I prefer Android better than I could in my own words: The latest version of Android outshines the latest version of iOS in…

For the last couple years, this site has been managed and updated using the open source static site generator called Poole.

Asked of me on Hacker News: What do you prefer about Android?

The past two months have been intense.

I’ve been spending time migrating my server from Ubuntu 10.04 to Arch Linux, and in the process I thought very deeply about every PHP application installed on the old server.

Hey man, Just wanted to say thanks for the ZNC Push Module you made.

Last week, I received an offer from EA BioWare: they want me to join their San Francisco operations team as a Platform Systems Engineer!

Based around the core conditions and functionality from my original project, ZNC Push is a module for ZNC that will send push notifications to multiple services for any private message or channel highlight that matches a configurable set of conditions, in…

This is a post I’ve been meaning to write for a long time.

Yesterday, my wife and I visited the National Museum of the United States Air Force at Wright-Patterson AFB in Dayton, Ohio.

Spotify-Gnome is a program that provides Gnome media key support for the Spotify Linux client.

When users are having troubles with setting up the source integration plugin with their repositories, I’ve found that there is a common set of pain points.

This past Friday, I bought the new Samsung Galaxy Tab 10.1, and I absolutely love it.

Today marks an incremental release to the Source Integration plugin framework for MantisBT, now at version 0.16.3.

I’ve recently been working on a parallel processing task in Python, using the multiprocessing module’s Pool class to manage multiple worker processes.

Things that make it obvious that your “job offer” is just a piece of spam you’re throwing at the wall to see what sticks: Saying you found my resume on Monster.com or some other job site when I have never ever registered or even visited the site in questi…

Fred Wilson’s recent post on Locale for Android was on Hacker News today, and although I commented there on why I like Locale, I want to expound on that a bit further.

On Saturday, I appeared as a guest host on Podcast 17, for the interview portion of episode #128, to talk about the benefits and challenges of creating open source modifications for Valve’s Source engine, the power behind their classic Half Life 2 series.

I just got three new toys to play with at work, sitting in a server room, just waiting for me to have fun with them.

For multiple reasons, I’ve decided to move away from using my LeetCode.net domain for my online identity and begin using NoSwap.com instead.

Update: ZNC to Notifo has been renamed to ZNC Push, and given support for multiple push notifications services, including Boxcar and Prowl.

Yesterday evening, I received sorrowful news.

I am biased.

(Originally posted by myself on Hacker News) I’ve been typing with the Dvorak layout for about three years now.

I really like PHP as a technology, both for its extensibility and its deployment style.

I’ve just reached the 1000 commit milestone as recorded by my Ohloh profile.

Chris Dornfeld at Unitz has an excellent, detailed overview of the options available when importing Subversion repositories into MantisBT using my Source Integration framework.

From HN: The Good King Lisp raised his glass and toasted with the Knights of Lambda, “To much recursion!”

What’s twenty-four?

Since I’m about to present the topic, I’m making the presentation slides available for all.