Alexandre B A Villares 🐍

PT: Educador de tecnologias e artes, pesquisa práticas artísticas que se valem de meios computacionais e ensino de programação em contextos visuais. Imagen do perfil grade de bolinhas a partir de foto minha dando aula. Cabeçalho é animação abstrata com módulos wireframe em 3D.

EN: Tech and art educator, researching artistic work that makes use of computational means and how to teach programming in a visual context.

#SãoPaulo #Processing #Python #py5 #ForaBluetooth #CreativeCoding #FLOSS

site: https://abav.lugaralgum.com
links page: https://abav.lugaralgum.com/links
My Domestika course, please share this link:: https://www.domestika.org/pt/courses/4307-design-com-python-programacao-para-um-contexto-visual/a_b_a_villares
pronouns / pronomes: EN:he/him PT:ele/o

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2026-05-02 11:08:41 UTC

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in Brasil we would quip: "How come he doesn't have a single friend to tell him to stop!"

2026-04-27 14:52:33 UTC

Julia Evans is just the best!
https://wizardzines.com/comics/
#WizardZines #comics #linux #ComputingEducation

2026-04-16 15:08:35 UTC

So... I managed to put together some hacky scripts and get out of my dependency on GitHub Pages, I can now publish my stuff elsewhere... now I want to slowly move repos to #codeberg
I'm still thinking on how to preserve the huge number of images from sketch-a-day without burdening the codeberg repo...
Also, I think I want to move my open teaching materials (material-aulas) from this precarious markdown rendering script to something clever and robust like #zensical

2026-03-17 00:20:33 UTC

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em algum momento você vai escrever sobre esses bichos estranhos que são as recentes versões do Python "freethreading", sem GIL?

2026-03-02 18:10:14 UTC

Amigos, me ajudem por gentileza a divulgar meu curso *online* promovido pelo Museu de Arte Moderna de São Paulo (MAM-SP) que começa agora em março e estão prestes a se encerrar as inscrições:
https://mam.org.br/curso/desenhando-com-codigo-programacao-criativa-2/
É um curso introdutório, sem pré-requisitos, de #ProgramaçãoCriativa usando #Python com #py5, minhas ferramentas prediletas.
https://media.ciberlandia.pt/ciberlandia-media/media_attachments/files/116/160/904/485/352/975/original/821f1b470d5f5415.jpg

2026-03-02 11:32:49 UTC

#Manjaro help needed! My laptop is old and I'm having trouble updating things because I inadvertently got some Nvidia drivers and I can't find a way of removing them... It seems the main issue comes from this https://archlinux.org/news/nvidia-590-driver-drops-pascal-support-main-packages-switch-to-open-kernel-modules/
And I'm unable to correctly replace the drivers :(

2026-02-16 20:12:58 UTC

As @npub1fdr…lvhs wrote: "AI is asbestos in the walls of our tech society, stuffed there by monopolists run amok. A serious fight against it must strike at its roots" https://www.theguardian.com/us-news/ng-interactive/2026/jan/18/tech-ai-bubble-burst-reverse-centaur
https://cyberplace.social/@GossiTheDog/116080909947754833
#note1vxe…4qqt

2025-12-23 21:06:30 UTC

A cool new open/free #book on #CreativeCoding by Stig Møller Hansen is out!
https://stigmollerhansen.dk/resume/learning-creative-coding/

2025-12-12 18:41:01 UTC

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Manjaro as a compromise?

2025-11-19 14:06:41 UTC

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I love this message #PythonForEveryone! Sometimes some people forget this, and think Python is just for professional software developers. Let our community never forget this message.
https://media.ciberlandia.pt/ciberlandia-media/media_attachments/files/115/576/742/052/764/796/original/2fd277b9f1eb0d7b.png

2025-09-28 12:38:01 UTC

Atenção atenção!
Vocês sabem que é possível ler de graça a versão em português do Python Fluente do Luciano Ramalho, não é mesmo?
(https://pythonfluente.com)
Agora, se você sonhava com uma edição em papel, ajude o @npub1elh…7vqz a fazer ela acontecer contribuindo no:
https://www.catarse.me/pythonfluente
#Python #PythonFluente #Livro

2025-08-29 11:40:43 UTC

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can you please clarify for me if dicts of dicts are not possible on Swift? Or I got the wrong impression reading this (it was just an explanation of what hash tables inside hash tables are).

2025-08-15 12:30:50 UTC

Galera, minha atividade aberta (presencial) de #Python no #SescAvPaulista está rolando às terças à tarde este semestre.
Todas as pessoas são bem-vindas, não precisa ter conhecimentos prévios, veja no link mais detalhes, um pouco do que vamos conversar (e tem alguns registros do que já conversamos):
https://hackmd.io/@sesc-av-paulista/estudos-em-python
#Sesc #SãoPaulo

2025-06-18 20:28:36 UTC

"The only way to learn is to try. The best way to learn is to have fun." —@npub1zl2…shy8

2025-06-06 16:34:59 UTC

Would you like to get started learning #Python? Or maybe you already know how to code but would like to see something completely different from your current work?
Would it appeal to you to start #drawing stuff, maybe colourful moving, interactive stuff? There is this thing called #CreativeCoding, and you can use a library called #py5
I've written some step-by-step instructions so you can install everything you need, Python, a code editor and py5. Check it out at https://abav.lugaralgum.com/como-instalar-py5/index-EN.html

2025-04-16 14:49:42 UTC

What are you using to edit #markdown locally? I write educational stuff with lots of images, I would like to see them in a preview...
I'm on Linux, and I'd like some #FLOSS tool #fedirecommend

2025-02-02 16:06:42 UTC

A friend has started a masters degree and I told her that friends don't let friends use Evil Elsevier™'s #Mendeley and to get #Zotero from zotero.org :) #TeamZotero

2025-01-29 19:40:30 UTC

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cc @npub1ue0…59wq [@K_REY_C](https://social.coop/@K_REY_C ) maybe you could bring https://us.pycon.org/2020/hatchery/artofpython/ back :D
(I know, lot's of work, not enough bandwidth)

2025-01-14 01:55:56 UTC

« Primeiro lote de ingressos para a Python Brasil 2025 está aberto!
Corra e garanta o seu lugar no maior evento Python da América Latina!
Esperamos por você em São Paulo, de 21 a 27 de outubro 🐍 ❤️ »
https://www.eventbrite.com/e/1051606111187/
#python #pythonbrasil #pybr2025

2024-12-29 13:46:42 UTC

#GameDev
Indicação de livro do @npub1elh…7vqz: #CodeTheClassics. Parece que são dois volumes, o volume I está oficialmente disponível de graça em PDF https://magpi.raspberrypi.com/books/code-the-classics1, o volume II está disponível "extraoficialmente" em PDF vocês podem imaginar, mas tem o código em https://github.com/raspberrypipress/Code-the-Classics-Vol2 Os textos são incríveis e tem também código #Python recriando os jogos (usando #PyGame, pelo que vi) além dos "assets".
Aproveitando o assunto (que não é a minha especialidade) @npub153c…fp8y comentou que está rolando muito legal a "engine em C" #raylib (https://raylib.com) e, eu se tiver a chance, quero olhar o wrapper em Python #pyray (https://pypi.org/project/raylib/) - tem um outro pyray no PyPI mas esse é o mais ativo e sincronizado com as evoluções da raylib.

2024-12-28 15:49:25 UTC

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poxa, acho que o nome minimalismo foi cooptado pra um monte de coisas né... Na origem, nas artes visuais, deu uns lances que eu curto bastante (Judd) e aí tem gente que aponta influência na arquitetura e eu também vejo coisas legais... De qualquer forma me interessou esse seu comentário ligando o minimalismo a ideia chatonildas... Quando a coisa vira uma imposição meio arbitrária de "tira tudo" é zoado né?

2024-12-03 03:23:07 UTC

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yeah, the pattern in Python is that if the method mutates the object it usually returns None. Like my_list.sort(), in place, and then sorted(my_list), gets you a new list.

2024-12-03 03:05:59 UTC

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these None returning functions are analogous to what we called "procedures" in Pascal, not really functions :)
On the other hand we have nice "comprehensions" borrowed from Haskell. https://docs.python.org/3/howto/functional.html#generator-expressions-and-list-comprehensions
By the way, have you heard of https://coconut-lang.org ?

2024-12-03 01:56:55 UTC

If you are coming to #Python from a language that doesn't have "mappings on your fingertips" you *must* learn about dictionaries (type dict):
https://docs.python.org/3/library/stdtypes.html#mapping-types-dict
(The other 3 essential containers are lists, tuples and sets)

2024-12-01 13:14:34 UTC

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If you missed my
#CreativeCoding with #Python and #py5 tutorial at @npub1xm9…pchm @npub1gfw…5x3y #PloneConf2024 #PythonCerrado2024, you can watch the tutorial recorded at #PyConUS24: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=h5t522FnAMc
(ou, em Português tem a minha apresesentação na #LiveDePython do @npub1szv…n8de https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=dAnIWmJ-2NI )
I'm no Plone Foundation or APyB but I also ask for donations :)))
https://abav.lugaralgum.com/links

2024-11-30 20:03:31 UTC

Goodbye @npub1xm9…pchm #ploneconf2024 adeus @npub1gfw…5x3y #pythoncerrado2024 it has been such a magical week! #CreativeCoding #python #py5
(Thanks @npub12vj…0ak3 for the picture!) #builtWithProcessing
https://ciberlandia.pt/system/media_attachments/files/113/573/680/102/751/257/original/2f78136e7d70b58d.jpg

2024-11-22 23:17:13 UTC

Amigues de #BSB (Brasília) chegando aí domingo para uma semana massa com #PythonCerrado2024 ...

2024-11-18 20:01:28 UTC

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tente vir pra Python Brasil em São Paulo ano que vem! :)

2024-11-18 19:48:02 UTC

Contando as horas para a #PythonCerrado2024 #PloneConference2024 em Brasília na semana que vem :)

2024-11-03 03:33:48 UTC

via Paul Walter: “Introduction to GIS Programming,” offered at the University of Tennessee, Knoxville, during Fall 2024. #OpenCourseWare #GIS #Python https://geog-312.gishub.org/
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=qpxP18hb5VQ

2024-10-27 17:46:39 UTC

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and [@mxfraud](https://tabletop.social/@mxfraud ), thanks! The DH account is good, my brothers pages were at sub-domains of villares.org: joao.villares.org and alberto.d.villares.org. By broken I mean the pages don't load anymore. I think João's page was a WordPress install hosted at DH, and Alberto's was just a redirect to this page: http://www.lugaralgum.com/advn

2024-10-27 17:21:10 UTC

Cash-strapped, I moved one of my domains (villares.org) to the Cloudflare registrar which is cheaper, as a trial... So now I broke the websites I was hosting for my two brothers from my account on dreamhost... I don't have the energy and time to figure out how to make them work again (I suppose it's about DNS/certificates/redirections).
I'd like some help.
I can only offer creative coding lessons/tips/coaching and/or introductory Python lessons/tips/coaching in exchange...

2024-10-06 14:02:09 UTC

#py5 crew, we need some help!
Does anyone with some time and a Windows 11 machine can test the Thonny IDE installation (https://abav.lugaralgum.com/como-instalar-py5/index-EN.html) either with the py5-pre-installed portable or installing everything from scratch? You can report and bring insight into this issue: https://github.com/tabreturn/thonny-py5mode/issues/64#issuecomment-2395448176

2024-10-03 03:08:52 UTC

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hmm, how are the assets licensed? could we try curating a library for Inkscape?

2024-10-01 12:59:03 UTC

#PythonTips #Python has a set data structure with powerfully expressive operations.
https://ciberlandia.pt/system/media_attachments/files/113/232/261/791/792/718/original/fedcc6856e9c7727.png

2024-09-30 19:38:27 UTC

"A #ZXSpectrum in the Palm of Your Hand" https://www.hackster.io/news/a-zx-spectrum-in-the-palm-of-your-hand-0b22506cd244.amp via @npub1ruh…8p9a

2024-09-23 19:00:03 UTC

Adoro o cliente #moshidon para usar #Masrodon no celular! Obrigado @npub1rx6…pdar !
Se me permite um humilde (e provavelmente trabalhoso) "feature request" para um sublime e incerto futuro: uma interface para as "mensagens" com tem na interface web, que senão é difícil voltar para as conversas "mention only".

2024-09-15 15:41:13 UTC

Minha memória é ruim e eu sempre volto a procurar algumas das regras que aparecem nestas "Notas para os tradutores da versão pt-br [da documentação do Python]" compilada pelo querido @npub1elh…7vqz :
http://turing.com.br/pydoc/2.7/tutorial/NOTAS.html#notas-tradutores
https://ciberlandia.pt/system/media_attachments/files/113/142/313/144/911/924/original/e0cb6e778ab4cca4.png

2024-09-09 00:44:50 UTC

#hackerspace #SãoPaulo Segunda 9/9 19h - é só chegar, Venha conversar sobre Python, conhecer pessoas para aprender junto e compartilhar conhecimento também!
https://ciberlandia.pt/system/media_attachments/files/113/104/822/543/350/016/original/70870d8aa8b365ec.jpg

2024-09-03 23:26:35 UTC

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I'm afraid I might have reached the part where you don't want to be friends with me because I disagree :D

2024-08-30 16:17:12 UTC

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this might help you... it looks like it adds a toggle to the PDF inversion! https://github.com/tefkah/zotero-night

2024-08-30 14:39:04 UTC

I'm enjoying the new #Zotero interface! #TeamZotero
Follow and support @npub15et…uqzt #FLOSS #AcademicMastodon #AcademicFedi
https://ciberlandia.pt/system/media_attachments/files/113/051/459/973/542/042/original/2b97c28a76bf4095.png

2024-08-12 19:38:27 UTC

"To conclude, the conda ecosystem is a minefield since they changed their licence terms to prohibit commercial usage in April 2020. Review anything you use very carefully if you work in a commercial organization." :( #Anaconda https://stackoverflow.com/questions/74762863/are-conda-miniconda-and-anaconda-free-to-use-and-open-source