Dan Shernicoff's Musings-Blog

This past weekend I attended PyOhio for the first time.

I've been a vim user for a long time.

This past Tuesday night I arrived home exhausted.

This year one of my goals for PyCon US was to make my first contribution to CPython.

A little while ago, someone asked in the Python Discord "Why dunder?"

I work in a lot of repos, professionally and in my off time.

As a child, growing up in New York with parents who love theater, I got to go to a lot of shows as a kid.

A couple of days ago I found out about human.json - a protocol for people to claim the human authorship of their site and to vouch for others.

A few days ago I wrote a blog post about NaN.

Last week in the Python Discord we had an unusual discussion about a Python oddity.

This year I was asked to join the Program Committee for PyCon US and I want to talk a bit about what I did and how the talks were chosen.

Yesterday, the PSF announced that it was accepting a $1.5M donation from Anthropic.

I recently started playing (another) online word game, Word Grid.

It's day 12, the last day of the 2025 Advent of Code (if you're wondering why it's only 12 days this year please look at the AOC FAQ.)

It's day 11 and today's was a pretty easy one.

Day 10 is mean.

It's day 9 and today's was a fun one.

It's Day 8 and it was a bit of a doozie.

Day 7 of Advent of Code 2025 has us tracking the splitting of tachyon beams through multiple timelines.

It's the sixth day of Advent of Code 2025 and it was a frustrating one.

Ah yes, we've reached day 5 of the 2025 Advent of Code.

Day 4 is upon us and we have finally hit the start of the grids.

It's day 3 of the 2025 Advent of Code and we had another fun puzzle.

Day 2 of Advent of Code has us identifying invalid product IDs that were put into a system by some mischeivous kids.

I've decided that this year, in addition to publishing my solutions on GitHub, I'll do a blog post explaining the solutions I came up with and how I got there.

For the past decade, Eric Wastl has put up, every December, a coding challenge called Advent of Code.

The organizers of PyCon US decided to scare a lot of people on Halloween this year.

OK.

Over the course of the past year the PSF invested a lot of time and energy in applying for an NSF grant to help secure PyPI.

I love stories.

I've talked before about what got me to set this site up and four months later I want to say how happy it's made me.

I am pleased to announce the release of Render Engine version 2025.10.1.

Yesterday I pushed a pre-release for Render Engine to test out a new feature I have been working on.

I love my hosting service, Teahouse Hosting.

So me finding a bug is not a news story.

If you were at PyCon US this year you probably noticed a film crew walking around, mostly following Guido.

I don't know about where you live but here, in my corner of Maryland, today is the first day of school.

My wife, our 9 year old daughter, and I were taking an after dinner walk, as we are wont to do.

For the last 20 or so years we have moved away from paying for the virtual things we use and towards "free" software and services.

Some people write hundreds and thousands of words a day.

Last weekend my brother and I got in my car and took the long drive to my parents' house.

If you've been following along I've become somewhat enamored of Cooklang and wrote a Python parser for it.

Yesterday I posted on my Mastodon that "Coding interviews should be replaced with code review interviews."

Earlier today someone opened an issue on one of my projects based on something I wrote in one of my TIL posts.

Someone I interact with on Mastodon posted this and it really resonated with me.

I finally finished the project.

This past Friday my parents celebrated their 60th anniversary.

A few days ago I blogged about maybe adding a collection of recipes here and I mentioned Cooklang.

I have a lot of recipes.

My synagogue held its annual meeting earlier today.