📢 A reminder that we're looking for a Conference Director for PyCon UK 2027!

Applications are open until the end of June, and we aim to have a decision made by mid-July. Could it be you?

Full details here: https://www.linkedin.com/pulse/pycon-uk-2027-looking-conference-director-could-you-pycon-uk-buw5e/

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This year's PyCon UK has been cancelled, but we're looking for a Conference Director to make PyCon UK 2027 happen - could it be you?

Full details of what the role involves and how to apply here: https://buff.ly/j4cVItY

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I wrote a bit about what went on at the recent Python Core Sprint at #Arm in Cambridge, plus some bonus @PyConUK highlights.

https://hugovk.dev/blog/2025/python-core-sprint/

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🎭✨ 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 🐍

#Python #Community #Theatre #AdaLovelace #PyConUK 2025

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«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»

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CtrsssksCNU

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I'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.

https://youtu.be/7yfGMMei0b8?si=KKnkPhrotMHO1yZQ

Another 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.

https://youtu.be/7yfGMMei0b8?si=WjqgdEHudN7b6qVy

On 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