This weekend is PyCon US 2023, one of the biggest Python conferences worldwide.
As developers, it is always challenging to keep track of the industry. It seems every two years everything gets outdated and replaced with something else. In my opinion, one of the best ways to keep track is to follow the content from conferences like these. You don't need to learn every topic, thats impossible. But quickly going through summaries of the sessions gives an idea of what is going on in Python and maybe pick a topic or two to go further in depth.
With that in mind, we have been hard at work covering various sessions from the conference. The coverage is available as twitter threads over at @playfulpython. This page will be collecting all the threads so that you can easily scan the sessions, pick the ones that are interesting for you, and dive into the corresponding twitter thread for coverage of that session.
Note that we are still organising session reports, so there will be more additions to the page all through the coming week.
Enjoy! ❤️
Main Stage
Day 1 Keynote - Ned Batchelder
@nedbat is doing the opening keynote for the 20th anniversary of PyCon #PyConUS2023
— Playful Python (@playfulpython) April 21, 2023
Day 2 Keynote - James Powell
@dontusethiscode is now going to do the keynote for Day 2. Talk is titled "I don't want to be a Python expert" #PyConUS2023
— Playful Python (@playfulpython) April 22, 2023
Day 3 Keynote - Margaret Mitchell
Day 3 keynote: @mmitchell_ai on Bias and Ethics in AI #PyConUS2023
— Playful Python (@playfulpython) April 24, 2023
Closing Keynote - Carol Willing
Time for the closing keynote: @WillingCarol on "Python: The People's Programming Language" #PyConUS2023
— Playful Python (@playfulpython) April 24, 2023
Special Guest - Guido van Rossum
Finally, special guest @gvanrossum is going to give a 20 year lookback retrospective of PyCon #PyConUS2023
— Playful Python (@playfulpython) April 24, 2023
Python Steering Council
Day 2 of #PyConUS2023 kicks off with the python steering council. @brettsky is on stage now explaining how the steeing council works. PEP 13 has details.https://t.co/cBxSO7wVzg
— Playful Python (@playfulpython) April 22, 2023
D&I Panel
D&I panel is next. @marlene_zw @iqbalabd @pydebb & Georgi Ker are on stage. Marlene is explaining what the D&I group does for the community. Showing how the PSF board has diversified over the years #PyConUS2023 pic.twitter.com/B4QXaZRohf
— Playful Python (@playfulpython) April 22, 2023
PSF Update and Community Service Awards
Executive director of PSF @baconandcoconut is next on stage to talk about PSF and community service awards. #PyConUS2023
— Playful Python (@playfulpython) April 24, 2023
Many are not aware of the existence of PSF, or what PSF does. PSF makes sure that Python remains an open source language that anyone can participate in
Talks
How Python is Behind the Science of the James Webb Space Telescope (Erik Tollerud)
At pycon last year, @SaraIssaoun spoke about how python was used to image a black hole. This year, @eteq is speaking about the role of python in the James Webb space telescope. Erik is a coordinator of Astropy #PyConUS2023 https://t.co/3CQHC0Atxt
— Playful Python (@playfulpython) April 21, 2023
How to Monitor and Troubleshoot Applications in Production using OpenTelemetry (Ron Nathaniel)
When you deploy python apps in microservices environments, you will need some form of observability. Ron Nathaniel is talking on using Open Telemetry with Python #PyConUS
— Playful Python (@playfulpython) April 21, 2023
Build Yourself a PyScript (Nicholas H Tollervey, Paul Everitt)
Nicholas Tollervey and @paulweveritt speaking on "Build yourself a PyScript"
— Playful Python (@playfulpython) April 22, 2023
This talk is about how to write your own pyscript. Do what it does, starting from scratch. #PyConUS2023
PyScript and the magic of Python in the browser (Fabio Pliger)
@pyscript_dev was the hot announcement of last year's PyCon US. What has changed over the last year? Lead developer @b_smoke is going to be explaining "<PyScript> & the magic of python in the browser" #PyConUS2023
— Playful Python (@playfulpython) April 23, 2023
Introducing incompatible changes in Python (Victor Stinner)
@VictorStinner is doing a session about "Introducing incompatible changes in Python" Given how painful the Python 2 -> 3 transition was, I'm curious how these will be handled going forward. #PyConUS2023
— Playful Python (@playfulpython) April 23, 2023
PS: Slides are here - https://t.co/JjFoJhkijw
10 ways to shoot yourself in the foot with tests (Shai Geva)
@shai_ge is going to talk about a favourite topic of mine. Shooting yourself in the foot with tests 😆
— Playful Python (@playfulpython) April 23, 2023
"10 ways to shoot yourself in the foot with tests" #PyConUS2023
Why you should care about open source supply chain security
@nnja is going to talk about supply chain security. Just recently PyPI took steps to start dealing with this. What more needs to be done? Thats the topic of this sessionhttps://t.co/JvgXymB4TP
— Playful Python (@playfulpython) April 23, 2023
Did you like this article?
If you liked this article, consider subscribing to this site. Subscribing is free.
Why subscribe? Here are three reasons:
- You will get every new article as an email in your inbox, so you never miss an article
- You will be able to comment on all the posts, ask questions, etc
- Once in a while, I will be posting conference talk slides, longer form articles (such as this one), and other content as subscriber-only