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James Abel

@JamesAbel

SW/HW engineer in the Bay Area. SF Python meetup. VP Eng Aclarion. Former Intel Principal Engineer. Bass player. https://xitter.cf/t.co/K4LkskKBMr. @jamesabel@mastodon.social

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PSA: The PSF has become aware of a website advertising a "PyConf2026" event in San Francisco. This event appears to be a fake, and we advise community members to use caution. We're also following steps as recommended by our trademark lawyer, and we have filed a report with the ticket platform.
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Is it just me, or are Claude Code subscription tokens super loss leaders? Or does pay-as-you-go have high margins? $100 subscription usually gets me through the week, but if I need to pay-as-you-go I burn $20 in less than an hour.
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Details: my Anthropic subscription is $100/mo, it resets weekly, and I tend to use Fable.
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Thanks to the incredible support of our sponsors, we’re able to offer Community Access tickets and make PyBay more accessible to members of our community who might not otherwise be able to attend. Community Access tickets: pybay.org/get-tickets/ (please boost for visibility)

PyBay 2026 - 11th Annual Bay Area Python Dev Conference

11th Annual Python developer conference - longest running on the US West Coast. Join us in San Francisco!

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SF Python meetup is back at Sentry, Wed Sept 9! We're talking Ducks and Data! See you there! meetup.com/sfpython/events/3…
Ducks and Data - Sept SF Python at Sentry, Wed, Sep 9, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Ducks and Data - Sept SF Python at Sentry, Wed, Sep 9, 2026, 6:30 PM | Meetup

Want to learn more about Python and meet other Pythonistas? Please register: [here](https://ti.to/sfpython/sep-9th-sf-python-sentry?source=meetup) (https://ti.to/sfpython/

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PyBay@py_bayAug 13
Only 1 day left to get your early bird tickets to PyBay 2026! buff.ly/tqqS8hN #programming #python #softwareengineering #tech
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PyBay@py_bayAug 10
Only 4 days left to get an early bird ticket to PyBay 2026! buff.ly/tqqS8hN
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This makes me sad (and impacting my workflow). If GH/MSFT can't keep services up, what chance do the rest of us have? :(
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@githubstatusAug 6
We are investigating errors affecting GitHub Actions. Some workflow runs are failing to start or failing partway through, and some requests to the Actions REST API are returning errors. Some customers may also see unexpected rate limiting in their workf... githubstatus.com/incidents/q…
Incident with Actions

Incident with Actions

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One of my favorite features of AI is that it admits when it's wrong, rather than leaning into confirmation bias.
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I'm seeing Claude Code doing "try/except Exception ..." a lot. Even Fable 5. It does narrow the except if I tell it to. This is not production worthy code out of the box, IMHO.
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add to ~/.claude/CLAUDE.md: - NEVER use `except Exception` or bare `except:` in Python code. Always catch the specific exception types the guarded code can actually raise (e.g. `except (OSError, ValueError) as e:`). Enumerate the plausible failures instead of catching everything
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🐍 📢 💻 🎤Talk proposal submissions for our _11th_ annual Python conference, PyBay 2026, have been extended to July 26! The conference will be Oct 3, 2026 in San Francisco. pybay.org/speaking/call-for-…
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Reminder: SF Python July 29th @ GGU Running Python fully sandboxed with Wasm - Syrus Akbary Agent Memory Is Not One Thing - Melanie Warrick meetup.com/sfpython/events/3… See you there!
SF Python July 29th @ GGU, Wed, Jul 29, 2026, 5:30 PM | Meetup

SF Python July 29th @ GGU, Wed, Jul 29, 2026, 5:30 PM | Meetup

Want to learn more about Python and meet other Pythonistas? Please register here: [https://ti.to/sfpython/july-29th-sf-python-ggu?source=meetup](https://ti.to/sfpython/jul

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Windows RDP wasn't working for me, so I made my own: github.com/jamesabel/remoted…
GitHub - jamesabel/remotedesktop: Remote desktop client/server for Windows computers on the same...

GitHub - jamesabel/remotedesktop: Remote desktop client/server for Windows computers on the same...

Remote desktop client/server for Windows computers on the same LAN, with autodiscovery. No RDP, no Microsoft authentication. - jamesabel/remotedesktop

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My new favorite Claude Code prompt is "make it so" (assuming it suggested something good)
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I snagged an open space at pycon. Check it out if you’re into using pytest for system testing:   pytest for system tests           S-3 - Friday May 15, 11:00 AM PDT   I’ll demo pytest-fly (github.com/jamesabel/pytest-…)
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Heading to PyCon US! If you want to meet up LMK!
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SF Python Meetup “PyCon US Preview” is Monday, May 11th 5-8pm @ Github. See you there! meetup.com/sfpython/events/3…
SF Python At GitHub - PyCon US Previews!, Mon, May 11, 2026, 5:00 PM | Meetup

SF Python At GitHub - PyCon US Previews!, Mon, May 11, 2026, 5:00 PM | Meetup

Please register here: [https://ti.to/sfpython/may-11-2026-sf-python-github](https://ti.to/sfpython/may-11-2026-sf-python-github) After a couple months off from logistical

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Build your first MCP server in Python-@pamelafox From Graveyard to Glory: Production Python in the Browser-@mhashemi GPU Communications for Python-Benjamin Glick, Michael Yh Wang Mind the gap! Why static typing requires more than just adding annotations-Jia Chen, Steven Troxler
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