Happy 45th anniversary to MS-DOS!

If you played the Scroll Lock #puzzle at #PyCon US this year (or the Mother of Exiles last year) or did not but want to know more about what they are, I made a newsletter (old school, no privacy-invading features): buttondown.com/medianoche.org

🎉 Less than one month until #SciPy2026! 👉️ ti.to/scipy/scipy2... When people ask what SciPy is, it's tempting to say it's a conference about Python for scientific computing. But SciPy has always been much more than that.

If you played the Scroll Lock #puzzle at #PyCon US this year (or the Mother of Exiles last year) or did not but want to know more about what they are, I made a newsletter (old school, no privacy-invading features): buttondown.com/medianoche.org

"why use google?" webpage from 1999

📣 Join the pyOpenSci editorial team & support software peer review! We're looking for folks with expertise in: 🧬 bioinformatics ⚛️ physics/simulation 📊 sports analytics 🧪 computational chemistry 📈 time-series analysis 🔭 astronomy 🌍 earth science Flexible time commitment, full onboarding. 🐍

This needs too be normalized at conventions.

Hope those who found the Scroll Lock zine at PyCon US in Long Beach and pulled the loose thread had a good time. If you are stuck and need a hint, reach out to "help at 6041.link" and I can help! Or just reach out and tell us what you think about it. #pyconus #zine #puzzle

🚨🚨 We're still looking for #PyConUS volunteers tomorrow! We need session chairs, runners, info desk, and registration. Help us beat Friday's record for volunteer hours and sign up today via the volunteering page: us.pycon.org/2026/volunte...

Volunteering

PyCon US 2026

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If you found the #ScrollLock zine at the sticker table, read it carefully. There is a lot more hidden inside than it looks. Also, come to the Open Space session, today, Friday at 12:00pm on room 102C. #PyConUS #PyCon #zine #ARG #puzzle

hey folks, we're super short on volunteers tomorrow (May 15) at #PyConUS. We're seeing 50% empty shifts for green room volunteers, session runners and chairs. If you have a talk session to wish to see tomorrow, why not double up and help out by being a session chair for that time?

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PyCon US 2026

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Did you fall into the rabbit hole last year? Did you meet the Mother of Exiles? A zine is surfacing at PyCon US starting today. It can’t be bought, downloaded, or found online. To know what’s happening, find a copy. Then pull the loose thread. #PyConUS #zine #Risograph

The nice marks from the first cylinder master left on the second cylinder master. #Riso #zine printing time!

This painting, "Sidekicks II" by Michele Poirier-Mozzone, is an oil on canvas from her Massachusetts-based "Fractured Light" series, exploring water and sunlight's effects on humans. It depicts an underwater perspective looking up.

We are planning another mystery for #PyConUS 2026! If you missed the Mysterious Sticker last year keep, but want to know more about it read our recap post! medianoche.org/mother-of-ex...

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Check out Gate Crashing – EFF’s interview series where we talk to people who have used the internet to take nontraditional paths to break into the traditional worlds of journalism and creativity. Watch Episode 1 today in preparation for the release of Episode 2! www.eff.org/pages/gate-...

About the Series

There is a lot of bad on the internet and it seems to only be getting worse. But one of the things the internet did well, and is worth preserving, is nontraditional paths for creativity, journalism,

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My artwork for this month's bird whisperer bird, the spotted owlet! #birdwhisperer #birdart #birds #art #digitalart

For a very long time, I have been casually obsessed with a chapbook the band "Belle and Sebastian" published in the mid 1990s called "Ink Polaroids." This project is feels similar on a surface level and is also great.

Alt Text Selfies | Splash

An alt text selfie is any written self-portrait. This project takes a well-known practice—the selfie—and approaches it through a disability lens.

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a “Space Force”, if you will

derek guy@dieworkwear.bsky.social · 10mo ago

we need a department of kerning

Jason Limon

Your #opensource project’s most valuable contributors might never touch code. I’ve maintained All Contributors Bot for 2 months w/o a line of code—triaging issues, fixing CI, organizing work. That work keeps projects alive. What non-code contributions have you made? #science #openscience

Want your Python code to be installable + reusable? 🐍📦 Join pyOpenSci’s 2-hour workshop From Zero to Python Package (Nov 6). Build your first package, learn PyPI publishing, and automate with GitHub Actions. 👀 See the graphic for registration!

FUTURE COMPUTERS? (Source.)

“It’s fun to do something that’s not profitable—not something that has to be economical to be justified, but just because it’s fun to see people play it.” www.wired.com/story/pursui...

The Wild, Citywide Scavenger Hunt That Ate San Francisco

Twelve quests; 12,000 players. This is Pursuit, a real-world race to find clues scattered across the city, solve mysteries, and maybe make a few friends.

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"Photographer Jason Fulford, a friend and recipient of [Jason] Polan’s mail art, has edited The Post Office (Printed Matter), a collection of saved letters, cards and other ephemera from Polan’s fans and friends and the artist too."

The Daily Heller: Jason Polan Goes Postal – PRINT Magazine

Jason Fulford has edited 'The Post Office,' a collection of saved letters, cards and other ephemera from Polan's fans and friends.

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Tomorrow at 5pm UTC Python: The Documentary produced by @cultrepo.bsky.social premieres on YouTube! 🎬🐍 From a side project in Amsterdam to a language shaping the world— discover the story of #Python. Featuring Guido van Rossum & many more! www.youtube.com/watch?v=GfH4...

Python: The Documentary | An origin story

This is the story of the world's most beloved programming language: Python. What began as a side project in Amsterdam during the 1990s became the software powering artificial intelligence, data science and some of the world’s biggest companies. But Python's future wasn't certain; at one point it almost disappeared. This 90-minute documentary features Guido van Rossum, Travis Oliphant, Barry Warsaw, and many more, and they tell the story of Python’s rise, its community-driven evolution, the conflicts that almost tore it apart, and the language’s impact on... well… everything. Thanks to our sponsors for making this documentary possible: Anaconda: https://www.anaconda.com/ @AnacondaInc. Dropbox: https://www.dropbox.com/ @Dropbox Meta: https://opensource.fb.com/ @FacebookOpenSource OpenTeams: https://openteams.com/ @openteams PyCharm: https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/ @PyCharmIDE Quansight: https://quansight.com/ @quansight And to all the amazing people who are featured: Armin Ronacher, Barry Warsaw, Benjamin Peterson, Brett Cannon, Drew Houston, Guido van Rossum, Jessica McKellar, Ken Manheimer, Lambert Meertens, Lisa Guo, Lisa Roach, Mariatta Wijaya, Paul...

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