https://github.com/python-pillow/python-show-qa
https://github.com/python-pillow/python-show-qa
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- Host: GitHub
- URL: https://github.com/python-pillow/python-show-qa
- Owner: python-pillow
- Created: 2024-05-21T17:38:44.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Default Branch: main
- Last Pushed: 2024-05-22T13:14:08.000Z (over 1 year ago)
- Last Synced: 2025-03-05T15:53:30.770Z (10 months ago)
- Language: Makefile
- Size: 28.3 KB
- Stars: 0
- Watchers: 1
- Forks: 0
- Open Issues: 0
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- Readme: README.md
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README
# python-show-qa
## How did you get into programming?
- I programmed in Basic on Commodore 64 in the early 80s
- Didn't really think about computers for about 10 years
- Until I just happened to walk past the UNIX lab at Loyola University in MD in 1994
- Saw people working on Digital DECStations with 20 inch monitors
- Immediately switched my major from accounting to computer science
- Never looked back
## What are your favorite Python packages or modules?
- Django
- The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines
- https://www.djangoproject.com/
- Wagtail
- Create content that soars
- https://wagtail.org/
- Faker
- Faker is a Python package that generates fake data for you
- https://github.com/joke2k/faker
- django-allauth
- A free, secure, well integrated, reusable authentication solution for the Django framework, covering all functionality related to local and social user accounts, multi-factor authentication, in various configurations, with flows that just work
- https://allauth.org/
- django-extensions
- Django Extensions is a collection of custom extensions for the Django Framework
- https://github.com/django-extensions/django-extensions
- django-sql-explorer
- SQL Reporting that Just Works. Fast, simple, and confusion-free. Write queries in a delightful SQL editor, with AI assistance. Just works, no surprises.
- https://www.sqlexplorer.io/
- logfire
- Uncomplicated observability. From the team behind Pydantic, Logfire is a new type of observability platform built on the same belief as our open source library — that the most powerful tools can be easy to use.
- https://pydantic.dev/logfire
## How did Pillow come about?
- https://mail.python.org/pipermail/image-sig/2010-July/006423.html
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/pull/35 (2013)
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/issues/3469 (late 2018)
## What are some lessons you’ve learned while creating and maintaining Pillow?
- Open source does not have to be stressful, Pillow is one of the least stressful open source projects I've ever worked on
- There is a tremendous need to "pay the maintainers" and as such I am now a Tidelift Lifter Advocate in addition to being a paid Lifter
- Image processing!
- https://github.com/python-pillow/pillow-demo
## Are there any surprising use cases you have seen Pillow used for? Examples?
- https://www.jeremykun.com/2012/01/01/random-psychedelic-art/
- https://github.com/python-pillow/Pillow/issues/1888
- https://github.com/readme/featured/nasa-ingenuity-helicopter
## Do you think AI will replace Pillow? Why or why not?
- No
- I think AI can already write Python code that uses Pillow to do image processing
- I think if prompted, AI could also write code for Pillow development
- Beyond that, I think AGI could have some impact on Pillow but I don't know what it is. Maybe something to do with "human" tasks like scheduling releases, reacting to world events in realtime e.g. xz
## What non-technical hobbies do you enjoy?
- https://headstraightband.com
- Spotify, 0 monthly subscribers
- iTunes