Me: Do you like Superman? Sempi: No Me: How about Batman? Sempi: No Me: Who do you like? Sempi: Amma Me: Aww. Do you like Appa? Sempi: Yeah (matter of fact voice). Sempi: I like you when you’re at work. I don’t like you when you’re home. Me: o_O

Pycast - Weekly screencasts on Python and DataScience by Matt Harrison. Matt is bootstrapping pycast through kickstarter. I’m excited about it because I’ve attended Matt’s tutorials and came away feeling leveled up on my Python chops. Nearly 5 years ago I was getting started in Python and learning on my own by writing small scripts to automate silly stuff. I wasn’t writing anything adventurous and I was looking for a way to improve my skills....

Sempi insisted on doing laundry, helping put away the clothes and sweeping the floor. **Yoshi:**When did you become such a big boy? **Sempi:**Three minutes ago. Continues sweeping the floor with a big smile and a song. **Sempi:**I’m a street sweeper with a broom in my hand.  

I was in Montreal for PyCon 2015. I was told that Montreal was famous for it’s bagels. So I brought home half-dozen bagels. I made my son a delicious toasted bagel with cream cheese in the morning. He ate it with gusto and the following conversation ensues: Me: Sempi, did you like the Montreal Bagels. 2yo: It was ok (as he proceeds to lick his fingers clean). This kid is hard to impress....

I’m starting a project called mysql-cli. mysql-cli will be a command line client for MySQL, with auto-completion and syntax highlighting. An equivalent of pgcli for MySQL database. I’m raising funds for the project through kickstarter. The goal is to compensate for the development time and resources (hosting, testing etc) as well as motivate me to keep going. When I launched pgcli earlier this year I had high hopes for it. I anticipated that I might reach a hundred users and even a couple of contributions....