pycon 2024
Friday 17 May 2024
- https://fb.me/pycon2024
- https://bit.ly/pycon-ai -> https://discuss.streamlit.io/t/pycon-us-2024/67516
- https://developer.ansys.com/
- aka.ms/PyCon24 -> https://github.com/microsoft/pycon/tree/main
- pycon chair https://fosstodon.org/@mariatta https://mastodon.social/@mariatta@fosstodon.org
- 1k talk proposals
- 57 first time speakers
- Pittsburgh Convention Center DLCC is very nice and apparently the staff is good to work with
- #pyconUS
- https://fosstodon.org/@ThePSF/112410312121059376
- ice cream theme lol https://us.pycon.org/2024/about/pycon-us-challenge/
- Nvidia sponsor pitch guy cool
- AWS sponsor pitch https://x.com/spotfoss?lang=en https://www.linkedin.com/in/spotfoss/ https://github.com/spotaws aws funded security role at psf, Mike, “report project as malware” https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2023/08/announcing-our-new-pypi-safety-security.html https://psisecurityservice.com/director-of-security-management/ evaluating the malware reporting process…
- Fastly sponsor talk, developer.fastly.com https://www.fastly.com/documentation/developers/
- Fastly sponsor talk, run wasm on fastly, platform is called Compute https://www.fastly.com/resources/datasheets/edge-compute/fastly-compute https://docs.fastly.com/products/compute https://www.fastly.com/documentation/guides/compute/ fastly python 10yr
Jay https://us.pycon.org/2024/about/keynote-speakers/#jay-miller keynote good.
- worklife balance ? story - not want to pickup bag because aaa. 31 black devs at pycon 2023. reference to https://us.pycon.org/2023/about/keynote-speakers/ “start small and scale” 4 ppl to 400 ppl. http://blackpythondevs.com/ gnome foundation nonprofit. https://foundation.gnome.org/ a very human talk
- https://platform.sh/ reference
- “turn it into something that can get you sued really quickly”
https://github.com/vmg/rinku ruby autolinking
beeware talk https://beeware.org/project/projects/libraries/toga/ https://github.com/beeware/toga https://beeware.org/project/projects/tools/briefcase/ https://github.com/beeware/briefcase doing a mobile app on cellphone android and ios no mods didnt update slides???? “dydata global 2023” https://matplotlib.org/ https://kivy.org/#home “currently cant deploy to device from commandline, just need someone to make a PR, know how to fix it…” niiiice demo. “not available because no fortran compiler for ios” sensor data support, nice on mobile. permissions, nice. permissoins on desktop as well. cross level permission abstractions btu also fine grained support for platform speciifcic. frure work. typo on slide PEP738. nice ot not need to be patches. packaing ecosystem, pypi wont host binaries for ios and android, calid. malcom and russ workong on the rest of the year. beeware.org/bee/join has a discord, ticket trackers on github. challenge coins! lots of first time contrib issues. Q: with rust? A: yes but cruypto library uses dl.open
gotta find it. Q: tensorflow? A: havent tried. data size will be the issue. android play store has a hard limit of 512Mb for app bundle, gotta backchannel download. better to have as an api. Asterisk: maybe watch this pace when on-device models are announced by ios and android
lunch - good food. fancy people at table, cpython. saw guido in the distance.
conf talk - bluegreen deploys code strategy in gjango. it’s interestingly different than rails. https://github.com/jazzband/django-waffle x.com/vbmendes https://github.com/vbmendes https://www.linkedin.com/in/vinciusmendes
https://roadmap.sh/software-architect https://github.com/madd86/awesome-system-design https://www.goodreads.com/book/show/56977420-understanding-distributed-systems
healthtech meetup!
- data scientist from Medtronic
- NashBio dev working on deidentifying patient data, EKGs and more. Brentwood has the HCA headquarters. The Frist family is rich, the Ingram family - is that why there’s so much healthtech there?
- Alexander Carfitz - pharma consulting
- MediGo organs tracking https://gomedigo.io/
- Przemek from a consultancy in Poland, doing some USA healthtech work despite HIPAA not allowing them to work directly with prod
- OMOP data format vs FHIR vs HL7 etc https://ohdsi.github.io/CommonDataModel/
- met https://www.linkedin.com/in/lauracathey/ from custom wound EMR https://www.nethealth.com/wound-care-software-solutions
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lighting talks
- how to give a lighting talk
- pycon japan cfp, reading kanji with python,
- PSF director Bae KwonHan https://www.linkedin.com/in/kwonhanbae
- reboot pyladies seoul in korea -
- budapest pyladies, handball and python, web scraping, calendar
- “all code is political” - book reference https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IBM_and_the_Holocaust https://www.pbs.org/newshour/tag/the-drone-papers
- cool things build with circuit python, @deshipu https://x.com/deshipu https://devforum.play.date/t/pewpew-python-games-on-playdate-wip/17379 very cute lil wallking 4leg robot
- national library of norway, image search w python
- llm and jobs? ai to make a travellogue. “ai takes jobs and hobbies” not super coherent
- “what is left for me to create?”
Saturday 18 May 2024
Sponsor chat from Bloomberg, Andy Fundinger, leader of python guild. Last month pytexas https://www.linkedin.com/in/andyfundinger
Keynote speaker, Simon Willison, created dataset library https://simonwillison.net/ talk on LLMs https://huggingface.co/spaces/lmsys/chatbot-arena-leaderboard https://github.com/simonw/llm mistrallocally pipe local files to mistral… retrieval augmented generation. answer questions about private docs? “I coined the term prompt injection, based on sql injection” googleio geminai gmail. didnt set a goal for when released by. security implications… xD geojson you can just say go better… need to sort line segments.. “i have no idea if that helped or not” tbh this is just debugging but with prompt injection slides cute trick, increment counter increment when say “artifical intelligence” the number increments cute. nice slides. how did he build them? vosk speech recognition. needs a wav file. vosk pyaudio time to functioning prototype 6min, ok wow encourages questionable side quests speeds you up increases your reach! https://pypi.org/project/vosk/ “enables all the projects i wouldnt have considered” “encourages questionable side quests” data jouralism. datasette for data jouranism,. adding llm powered features, trying to harnesss tech for that space. applying to journaism is risky because journalists want the trust. or so i thought. deal with untrustworthy sources. https://pypi.org/project/PyAudio/ ok this is making me kinda miss jouralism unstructured text like police reports and try to turn it into structured data to do thign siwh PSF board resolutions page! !!! plugin for datasette, extract data to table. https://datasette.io/ ethics, “slop” term of art” “helps you engage your brain- you need to engage critically- thats a good mindset in general” man i shoudl send this talk to my parents you can fact check code by running it he’s a very good speaker
talk on python GIL -> https://github.com/edgedb/memhive
talk on rust stuff https://github.com/woodruffw https://github.com/C2SP/x509-limbo https://blog.trailofbits.com/2024/01/25/we-build-x-509-chains-so-you-dont-have-to/ X.509 https://cabforum.org/working-groups/server/baseline-requirements/documents/ https://datatracker.ietf.org/doc/html/rfc5280 actually reading RFCs is a superpower https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Flame_(malware) http://www.pkiglobe.org/aki_ski.html
talked to usds booth
talked to datadog about rum
talk: https://duckdb.org/
talk: threads and looms https://us.pycon.org/2024/schedule/presentation/13/
lighting talks saturday
- crashing python interpreter. nice AOL shirt @psobot https://x.com/psobot lol good presentation style https://petersobot.com/
- supply chain security rambling / xkcd meme https://xkcd.com/2347/ was that a prodcut pitch? friendly indian guy
- soft skills by “trey’s wife” Menanie Arbor “catalytic skills” “professional skills” not “soft skills” https://www.linkedin.com/in/melaniearbor/ https://hachyderm.io/@melaniearbor
- Tyler Menezes CodeDay https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylermenezes/
- numpy2 coming sometime soon, 18 years in development??
- 5 hacks in 5 minutes
- data visualization
- Ludovico Bianchi notebooks as peer reviewed sciecnce notebooks works for Lawrence Berkely as a research engineer
pyladies auction
Sunday 19 May 2024
chatting with people in the hallway
job fair has people
poster session cool posters, using TurtleThread was my fave https://github.com/TurtleThread/TurtleThread https://www.turtlestitch.org/ https://github.com/EmbroidePy/pyembroidery
talk: https://us.pycon.org/2024/schedule/presentation/7/ https://www.law.cornell.edu/wex/intended_beneficiary
talk: https://circuitpython.org/ https://us.pycon.org/2024/schedule/presentation/15/
talk: https://us.pycon.org/2024/schedule/presentation/128/ guido asked a “question” at the end