Nik Kantar
nik@nkantar.social
<p>Hi, I’m Nik. 👋</p><p>Los Angeles, California ☀️, wife ❤️, cats and dogs 🐾.</p><p>Software engineer (Python 🐍), <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@pybeach" class="u-url mention">@<span>pybeach</span></a></span> founder 🏛️, <span class="h-card" translate="no"><a href="https://fosstodon.org/@socalpython" class="u-url mention">@<span>socalpython</span></a></span> organizer 🎤.</p><p>CrossFit 🏋️♂️, indoor rowing 🚣♂️, bicycles 🚴♂️, motorcycles 🏍️, writing 🖋️, podcasts 🎙️, masking 😷 because COVID isn’t over 🦠</p><p>I often put bonus content in media alt text 🖼️.</p><p>He/him/his. ♂</p>
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I tried booking a house tour and referenced “Saturday” in the note.
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It’s raining today. I forgot what a pain in the ass that is with dogs who don’t enjoy rain. 🥲
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The last time I remember for sure going to the DMV was years ago, and I arrived an hour before opening only to get into a line that already had 20 people in it. Today I arrived 50 minutes before opening and there’s no one here. :facepalm:
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Hehehehehehehehehehehehehehehe
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So, uhh, I think I want to get off this pricey and unnecessary domain for my presence here, and thus need a suitable subdomain on nkantar.com. Feel free to chime in. :thank_you:
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After 300 miles of riding around SoCal this weekend, two house rental applications are in. 🤞 I hope this housing market doesn’t kill me before we actually get one. 😬
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Every email notification now triggers “omg, is it a rental application result?!” 😅
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First rental application rejection received, but fortunately for the less preferred of the two we applied for, so I’m still holding out hope that this will have been unreasonably easy. 😅
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New moto key tag!
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Booth 726, come say hi! #PyConUS
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Hard to keep up with #PyConUS whilst being busy with attending… 🤔
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Driving to #PyConUS daily was probably a mistake. Lesson learned for next year.
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&gt; “Don’t lick it.” &gt; — @itsthejoker on resin at the #PyConUS 3D printing open space
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Attending my first actual talk: “From Graveyard to Glory: Production Python in the Browser” by @mahmoud! #PyConUS
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RE: https://fosstodon.org/@jong0uld/116581269311132636 This is the kind of stuff that makes me love this community. Sorely needed in this market. ❤️ #PyConUS
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RE: https://fosstodon.org/@socalpython/116184371044198589 I’m sadly not at #scale23x, but some awesome humans are. ❤️
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A happy ending in two photos. (Neighbors left town for a bit, cleaned up their balcony, and it looked like they moved away.)
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My brain still keeps reading cloudisland.nz as “cloud is land dot en zee” and at this point I think that’s nonnegotiable.
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I wrote a little bit about this year’s @NorthBayPython, which was fantastic. Shoutout to all the organizers, volunteers, speakers, attendees, and sponsors. :yay: #nbpy https://nkantar.com/blog/2026/05/nbpy-2026-afterfeels/
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Today I got my 3D printer working again by swapping out the gnarly hotend with a fresh one. It was a great example of postponing something for a month and then needing less than an hour to actually do it. 😐
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neurodivergent : neurospicy = neurotypical : neurobland I will not be taking questions on this matter.
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Due to how this model was designed, only 1.23 g of one color will be used for the print, and 105.73 g will be wasted on support, purging, and tower. 🥲
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Courtesy of @cianmm: https://red-squares.cian.lol/ 10/10 would lawl again.
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Tempted to put something like “I didn’t know what to write here so I wrote this.” on my #pyconus badge…
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So glad @pycon will require masking, but so disappointed by the complaints about that. With the overlap of the marginalized and the immunocompromised, this can reasonably be seen as an inclusivity issue, making this sentiment effectively “inclusive, but only if convenient”.
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#nbpy, I love you. ❤️
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&gt; [paraphrased] @chrisjrn: “What we’re feeling is the fallout of never having defined what software engineers actually do.” &gt; One of the clouds pinned to the backdrop of the #nbpy stage falls down.