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deborah ([personal profile] deborah) wrote2016-07-11 10:09 pm
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my own checkered cap

first she had on her own checkered cap, then a bunch of gray caps, then a bunch of brown caps, then a bunch of blue caps, and on the very top a bunch of red caps.

Apologies to Esphyr Slobodkina


(For those more in the loop of
  1. obscure fairy lore or
  2. Dungeons & Dragons baddies based on obscure fairy lore than on
  3. 76 year old picture books
the allusion was to me being a person who chooses to wear many hats. Any implication of being beleaguered by monkeys is purely coincidental.)

After several happy years at Safari Books Online working with Python, I'm moving on to other projects. For now, I'm moving on to a variety of open source projects. I hope to have the chance to talk about the bigger ones soon. As for the smaller ones, well. Expect pull requests from me soon!

Seriously, though. I'm trying to talk myself out of adding (imagine Allie Brosh-style self-insert here) Fix All the Accessibility Bugs! to my todo list. That seems like a Poor Life Choice.

Much love to all my Safari Co-Workers who've been mentors in my journey into Python Infested Waters. I'm sure I'll see most of you in my new spaces as well. Liza will be sad that I'm looking forward to having time for Perl projects again -- though probably happy to know that I'm a convert to the Python culture 100%, if only partially to Python-as-language. (You'll pry regexes out of my cold dead fingers, Liza. Well, pretty easily; you've seen my fingers. But out of my metaphorical fingers.)

W3C work isn't going away, especially not since my W3C colleagues have been making noises about increasing their demands on my time, you know who you are. And there's likely to be more children's and YA lit in my life soon, as well! More details will be forthcoming if that happens.


Further up and further in!
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[personal profile] libskrat 2016-07-12 11:37 am (UTC)(link)
Yay new horizons!

I used regex in Python a lot. What's better about them in Perl?

[personal profile] jazzyjj 2016-07-12 12:58 pm (UTC)(link)
Best of luck in your future endeavors. I've seen a lot of these open-source projects around, and they really seem to be taking off which is good. I'm including Dreamwidth here. In addition, I used a Windows-based screen reader that's open-source called Non-Visual Desktop Access. It was very good when I used it, and I've been reading about lots of great developments with that screen reader.
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[personal profile] brainwane 2016-07-12 03:08 pm (UTC)(link)
Best wishes in your new endeavors!
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[personal profile] azurelunatic 2016-07-12 04:40 pm (UTC)(link)
Hooray! Hope to see you soon? *crosses fingers*
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[personal profile] rantingnerd 2016-07-14 01:56 am (UTC)(link)
Congrats! Good luck with your next steps!
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[personal profile] in_parentheses 2016-07-30 11:36 am (UTC)(link)
This sounds like all kinds of exciting news! I hope to see you soon and hear the deets.
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