Hugo van KemenadeI wrote a bit about what went on at the recent Python Core Sprint at #Arm in Cambridge, plus some bonus @PyConUK highlights.
PyCon UK🎭✨ The world premiere of Ada — a rehearsed reading written by Emily Holyoake & performed by Chronic Insanity — is available to watch on YouTube!
Catch it here 👉 https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtrsssksCNU
Emily also shared her inspiration & writing process in a brilliant blog post:
You can find that here 👉 https://2025.pyconuk.org/2025/09/staging-ada-at-pycon2025/
💜 Huge thanks to Emily and the Chronic Insanity team for this extra-special event 🐍
MiikkaOne more #PyConUK post, this time on my blog, about my conference experience (it was great) and the talks I enjoyed: https://quanttype.net/posts/2025-09-29-pycon-uk-2025.html
Alexandre B A Villares 🐍[This happened already and was recorded. Description from the YT recording]
«This year at PyCon UK, you’re warmly invited to a world premiere: Ada, a brand-new play inspired by Ada Lovelace, written by Emily Holyoake, and staged as a rehearsed reading by Nottingham-based theatre company Chronic Insanity
'You may turn the handle, and I will whirr and calculate without error!'
Decades before the first computers are built, Ada imagines machines that can do anything, even compose beautiful pieces of music. Far beyond Ada’s future, a learning machine called Ginny breaks free of her routine and tests the boundaries of what ought to be possible.
Ada is an intricate re-telling of the life and legacy of Ada Lovelace, pioneer of computing, paralleling her history with a contemporary story about the potential of artificial intelligence.
Cast and Crew:
Ada: Ruth Page
Babbage: Jamie Richard-Stewart
Lady Byron/Anna: Lynne Payne
Ginny: Natalie Patuzzo
Jasper: Ben Gilbert»
PYCON UK 2025: Ada by Emily Holyoake, a rehearsed reading
Lucy BI'm a week late in posting this, but I had a great time at #PyConUK last weekend.
All of the talks are now online and worth checking out. In particular, my amazingly talented colleague, Katie, gave a talk about doing hard things as a junior engineer and how other engineers can provide support.
PYCON UK 2025: A junior's perspective why doing difficult things is good, Katie Bickford
Judy2kAnother highlight from #PyConUK!
Katie Bickford gives a junior's perspective on doing difficult things. Contains advice for both junior developers *and* (importantly) the senior developers working with them! This is a topic that doesn't normally get enough airtime.
PYCON UK 2025: A junior's perspective why doing difficult things is good, Katie Bickford
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Hynek SchlawackOn my way back from #PyConUK with the usual full heart/empty head that I tend to have after Python conferences.
My biggest fear was to give a keynote only for my friends so it was a big relieve that the positive feedback came truly from all sides. Different ages, experience, use-cases, … 1/4
Stefan Scherfke@PyConUK This was a very good talk. An important topic and very well and understandable explained. Thank you! :-)
PYCON UK 2025: Beyond lists why other collection types are often better, David Seddon
#PyConUK started a bit slow for me but ended up really good. Gave a talk on extending Python with Rust (with PyO3/Maturin/rustimport) and a lightning talk about an old blog post of mine. Met a number of Internet friends in person for the first time and a bunch of new ones.
What I really liked was the warm and welcoming community spirit - reminds me of the very special @heartofclojure conference.