Show threadGarth KiddAug 31, 2023
V asked me for a photo of Constantine while I was still at #PyConAu2023. I've just found out why: she wanted to make Constantine a card to welcome Constantine to the family.
attacusAug 25, 2023

I am so damn proud of how PyCon AU 2023 went.

It's really exciting to see all the videos of talks come up online as the speakers approve them. I'm looking forward to getting the chance to watch them properly, as that isn't usually something you get to do at the time as an organiser.

There were certainly things that didn't go smoothly, and a whole pandemic that threw out our very careful planning, but there was so much more that exceeded my expectations.

The core team had each others' backs the whole way. The attendees - both old-timers and newcomers - embraced the spirit of the event. It was a lot of long hours, but it was totally worth it to be told by one person that attending the event had set them on a new path in life (no kidding!) and to see the joy people had in interacting with the community face-to-face for the first time since 2019.

You're all a bunch of marvellous weirdoes and it has been a total privilege to get to be part of making a space for you to be yourselves together, to share, and to learn.

Shoutout to @minxdragon @floreani and @benno for your plenary sessions, which I *did* get to see and which I am pleased we could put on our stage.

Lots of love to @daisy @libbyberrie @sauramaia @yaakov @freakboy3742 @nic_and_chips and @mattcen for being such charming co-conspirators.

Many thanks to @chrisjrn @glasnt @rjones and so many others for your advice and support.

You can watch this year's talks at https://www.youtube.com/@PyConAU/videos

#PyConAU #PyConAU2023 #Python
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PyCon AU

PyCon Australia is the national conference for the Python Programming Community. PyCon Australia brings together professional, student and enthusiast developers with a love for developing with Python. PyCon Australia informs the country's Python developers with presentations, tutorials and panel sessions by experts and core developers of Python, as well as the libraries and frameworks that they rely on. To find out more about PyCon Australia, visit our website at http://pycon-au.org or e-mail us at [email protected].

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Garth KiddAug 24, 2023

For months I've been mulling over the design and architecture of a Markdown and Bash-oriented notebook for run-books. On the plane to #PyConAU2023 I wrote down enough to get cracking during the sprints, but I ended up working on something else.

@benno just found https://runme.dev/, and I’m both glad someone else did the work and gutted I didn't. That would have been fun, y’know?

Infrastructure Workflows Built with Markdown

Runme turns your documentation into interactive notebooks for operating cloud infrastructure. Put another way, you can use your docs the way you use your terminal, instead of just as a reference that tends to go out of date.

Craig AskingsAug 24, 2023

I was 50/50 on if I should have gone to @pyconau for the first time. I wasn’t sure if my current programming and python skills would high enough to make it worthwhile.

Watching the talks has they come up on YouTube, I know that I really should have. At least I know for next year. #pyconau #pyconau2023

whatnickAug 23, 2023
Spent my hackday in #pyconau2023 sprints, coding in Go to wire up my Clickhouse database scraped from Austender. How else shall we keep track of the consulting billions : https://github.com/ClickHouse/clickhouse-go
GitHub - ClickHouse/clickhouse-go: Golang driver for ClickHouse

Golang driver for ClickHouse. Contribute to ClickHouse/clickhouse-go development by creating an account on GitHub.

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Garth KiddAug 21, 2023
HAIL WTF stay safe all! #PyConAu2023 #PyConAU
whatnickAug 21, 2023
I am learning some Go+HTMX at #pyconau2023 sprints. Have the least funky form displaying for aggregating government spend on consultants from Austender. I think I will leave it there for now and go learn some WebAssembly.
Show threadAxman6 | 🇦🇺Aug 20, 2023

@kosmikus I hope you’ll give it a try, I just got back from #pyconau2023, where all the talks were half an hour long. My colleagues and I all agreed that the biggest problem with the conference was the talk length, so many topics took 10-20 minutes to introduce, and were then cut short just as they got to the interesting bit. 45 minutes with 15 for questions is probably sufficient to satisfy the curiosity of more experienced developers like me, and I’ve always found that as a beginner, talks which push beyond my current understanding were the most useful and gave me ideas to remember and come back to later in my career. (I’ll never forget @kmett’s talk on discrimination, where most of the audience got lost by the depth of the topic, but those of us who paid attention got the amazing take away that most Haskell data types can be sorted in linear time 🤯). I know it takes more of yours and Edsko’s time to do, so it is a big ask, but I feel the community will benefit.

I’d also love a schedule that meant that I could just the live stream, but I know that’s definitely asking too much!

Regardless, I really love you work Andres, on the Unfoldr and the podcast (and everywhere else!), so a big thanks from me.

Jonathan CarrollAug 20, 2023

#PyConAU2023 was a lot of fun - I met some new people plus I caught up with some I've met in other circles. I have a lot of new things to go and learn more about and try for myself.

I might be a little jealous that some languages I know don't have a mascot.

whatnickAug 20, 2023
Winding up at #pyconau2023 , consider speaking, sponsoring or volunteering next year. Otherwise come along.