🎉 Lectern v0.1.0 is out — Markdown-to-slides CLI.

Assemble Markdown (transclusion, #1-3 ranges, partials) into one deck, render
via reveal.js, live-reload preview, and vector PDF handouts with speaker
notes.

📊 Embed live D3.js & WebGL as isolated pages — auto-captured to a still frame
for PDF.

♿ Accessibility built in: a11y audit, tagged PDF, forced-colors.

pip install lectern-slides

📦 https://pypi.org/project/lectern-slides/
🏷️ https://github.com/bsletten/lectern-slides/releases/tag/v0.1.0

#Python #a11y #dataviz #webgl #d3

I'm looking for work, please boost!

I'm a senior software engineer with 35 years of experience. I've worked across an unusually wide range of domains: mobile game backends, privacy-preserving data platforms, high-throughput COVID testing infrastructure, email and account systems, e-payment processing, job marketplace systems, and bioinformatics. I pick up new domains quickly and have a track record of doing it repeatedly. I understand how to turn business needs into engineering requirements.

I've worked remotely since the 1990s and can operate with minimal supervision. I don't need hand-holding to find the right problem to solve. Several of my most valued projects were self-directed: I identified the need, built the thing, and shipped it.

Some of the technologies I'm familiar with include: Python, Perl, TypeScript/JavaScript, Haskell, Go, C, Java. Postgres, MySQL, SQLite. Flask, SQLAlchemy. AWS (Lambda, S3, RDS, SQS, EC2). Docker, Git. Github and Gitlab.

I've also repeatedly picked up new languages and stacks as needed: Haskell for differential privacy research, TypeScript for a 24/7 AWS Lambda system, Flask for my most recent employer. I've become productive with new systems over and over, and I can do it quickly.

I'm also a published author (Higher-Order Perl, Morgan Kaufmann), longtime blogger, and conference speaker with a reputation for making complex ideas clear.

My résumé is at https://plover.com/~mjd/cv/Mark%20Jason%20Dominus.pdf

mjd@pobox.com

Thanks for your attention!

#OpenToWork #remoteWork #softwareEngineering #Python #backend #hiring

#fediHire #getFediHired

Release passagemath-10.8.5.rc5...

Does anyone happen to know if #PSF is processing contributing membership applications? Mine is stuck with no reply for almost 2 months now, and I'm wondering if it's just normal delay or something went wrong.

#Python

0 days since provenance checks protected us from [checks notes] another project starting to upload distributions via #uv.

#Python #security

What automation tool do you use? When do you go against the flow and choose something other than Ansible?

#python #ansible #rakulang #sparrow #perl #rex #salt #chief #ruby #puppet #linux #bsd #sysadmin #devops #automation

Release candidate 10.8.5.rc4 of passagemath, the comprehensive #OpenSource mathematics system in #Python, the pip-installable modularized portable compatible full-featured fork of #SageMath. passagemath-msolve wheels now ship #msolve version 0.9.5 and are more portable. github.com/passagemath/...

Release passagemath-10.8.5.rc4...

4 years, 65 versions, and now iroh 1.0. Here's to the next chapter and stability: a wire protocol you can depend on, with plenty of incremental features on the roadmap.

Dial keys, stay connected.

https://www.iroh.computer/blog/v1

#p2p #iroh #networking
#rust
#python #nodejs #kotlin #swift

Release candidate 10.8.5.rc3 of passagemath, the comprehensive #OpenSource mathematics system in #Python, the pip-installable modularized portable compatible full-featured fork of #SageMath. Updates #Macaulay2 to version 1.26.06. github.com/passagemath/...

Release passagemath-10.8.5.rc3...

Soy tan viejo que me acuerdo de cuando este era el logo de Python. El de ahora es mucho más formal, pero estoy seguro de que esta simpática serpiente nunca ayudaría a crear la IA ni a hacer nada malo. ¡Con ella, programar era todo diversión!

#Python

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Logo del lenguaje de programación Python de antes de 2005. Una serpiente pitón de ojos grandes azules en estilo pixel-art, sacando su lengua bífida.

I built pagevault, a tool that turns any file into a self-contained encrypted HTML page. PDFs, images, whole websites, encrypted into a single .html you can email or host anywhere. Decrypts in the browser via Web Crypto API, no backend needed.

Chunked encryption handles 100+ MB files without choking the browser. Each chunk gets its own script tag, decrypted sequentially, then removed from the DOM for GC.

#encryption #python #webdev #opensource

https://metafunctor.com/post/2026-02-13-pagevault/