This contains the best Surfshark sponsored segment I've ever seen

PyCon UK is in a couple of weeks, and it won't be the same without Michael. RIP.

I’m petrified about today’s science news. Genetically modifying crabs to have cheetah genes? This could go sideways fast.

🚨 Funded PhD opportunity 🚨 Work with large-scale electronic health record data from #OpenSAFELY to optimise vaccine effectiveness estimation for respiratory viruses.

Apply here 👉 www.findaphd.com/phds/project...

🚨 Just a couple of days left until PyCon UK 2025 closes! 🚨

Got a great idea for a talk, workshop or Young Coders’ session? Share it with the community! 🌟🐍

Find out how and why to submit a proposal here 👉 buff.ly/PP9xos3

🗓️ CfP close: 23:59 (Europe/London) Sunday 11 May

#PyConUK2025 #Python #CfP

Simple way to reasonably run a background process in a docker container. Saves setting up s6 or similar.

Uses the run-one-constantly tool from the run-one package to keep it running, and the default docker init process to propagate signals to all child processes.

gist.github.com/bloodearnest...

You’re still arguing about tabs vs. spaces? May I present…

Ever wanted to boss me around?

We really enjoyed welcoming so many people to our OpenSAFELY Community Symposium in London last week. We're busy making videos of every session, so there'll be an archive for those of you that couldn't make it

While we work on that - here's a teaser :)

www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pv_Z...

#OpenSAFELY

My expansive pose

Just sympin'

If you've been wondering where I went: my team in Oxford (60 of us!) build beautiful tools for NHS data. We help researchers work on the whole nation's GP records while protecting - provably - everyone's privacy. It's big potatoes!

www.youtube.com/watch?v=GRjR...