Title slide for Glyph’s next talk, Scaling Open Source Up and Down
Eagerly awaiting @glyph‘s announcement of the next conference hashtag #PyBay #ExcavaCon
Latest posts tagged with #ExcavaCon on Bluesky
Title slide for Glyph’s next talk, Scaling Open Source Up and Down
Eagerly awaiting @glyph‘s announcement of the next conference hashtag #PyBay #ExcavaCon
If you have not been to #Excavacon you are missing out.
https://mastodon.social/@glyph/114685332559057458
A Google reCAPTCHA pop-up asking the user to select all images with tractors.
Bad: Dealing with annoying CAPTCHAa.
Good: At least Google knows I was at #ExcavaCon last weekend and gave me an easy one.
Funny how when you come back from a convention like #ExcavaCon, you start noticing the topics of the talks all around you.
@glyph @chrisjrn I mean, they mined enough steel in Pittsburgh that I think the excavator angle is still valid. Plus I don’t know what the #ExcavaCon equivalent would be otherwise, and that was the most important part of the talk by far.
I keep trying to actually follow the advice of other successful speakers and write talks that can be delivered more than once so that I can get practice delivering them and select among several recordings and just generally do less work for equivalent impact, but then I go and add load-bearing […]
The #ExcavaCon tag is possibly the funniest thing that has happened to me on social media and I very much appreciate everyone posting to it
[Talk spoilers]
Stunts include:
Building “until” and “do while” loops from Perl into Python using *decorators* and open sourcing a new package so you can try it at home — pip install do-while !
Building a text adventure game engine from a generator function state machine, playable at home […]
My talk “Or Else! An exploration of obscure control flow” from North Bay Python is up!
If you have even a passing interest in exploring better alternatives for structuring your code to improve readability — and especially if you enjoy unexpected stunts in the process — then you should give it a […]
Please enjoy the talk I delivered this weekend at #ExcavaCon 2025 — it is now live on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lcj0-VrJbXQ
Photo of two bright green, grassy hills with lush trees under a blue sky with fluffy clouds.
The @NorthBayPython logo lives! #NBPy #ExcavaCon
Slide of “social media awards”, including the live posting MVP Margaret Fero, the most engaged intro post for Maddy Muscari, and the second most popular hashtag for ExcavaCon.
And there were some “awards” of various dubiousness. #NBPy #ExcavaCon
Very pleased to have spontaneously inspired the #ExcavaCon hashtag