Friday 17 May 2024

Jay https://us.pycon.org/2024/about/keynote-speakers/#jay-miller keynote good.

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!

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lighting talks

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

  1. crashing python interpreter. nice AOL shirt @psobot https://x.com/psobot lol good presentation style https://petersobot.com/
  2. supply chain security rambling / xkcd meme https://xkcd.com/2347/ was that a prodcut pitch? friendly indian guy
  3. 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
  4. Tyler Menezes CodeDay https://www.linkedin.com/in/tylermenezes/
  5. numpy2 coming sometime soon, 18 years in development??
  6. 5 hacks in 5 minutes
  7. data visualization
  8. 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