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Notes from a Python core developer, community builder, and serial conference organizer. Mostly writing about open source, community, and the small tools I build along the way.
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An Audience of One I gave a talk at a regional conference this past weekend. I prepared for it the same way I prepare for any other talk or keynote: rehearsed it multiple times, reviewed the material, …
As a community leader, 9x serial conference organizer, public speaker, and open source maintainer, I often get asked by community members for a time to meet. Here’s the thing: asking me for a …
This is a follow up to my previous post, Travel Planning with AI. One of my parting thoughts in that post is about travel budgeting and spreadsheets. Having a budget is important part of our travel …
Travel Planning with AI I have started planning my family’s travel with the assistance of Claude Code. It resulted in a website that contains information about our travel destination, potential …
Looking Back at the Year of the Snake It’s already March 2026, you might think it’s too late for anybody to share a recap of the year 2025. Well, the good news is that we are still in the …
Django allauth Django allauth is a popular third party package that provides a lot of functionality for handling user authentication, with support for social authentication, email verification, …
Stop Using Forms (or spreadsheets) for Event RSVPs If you’re organizing an event, and you’re still using a form or a spreadsheet to collect RSVPs, stop. This is 2025, and there are better …
Core Dev Story This video game lets you play as a CPython core developer. You can recruit more core devs to join your project, develop new features, fix bugs, write documentation, and more. As you …
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