Back to the real world…
Living at PyCon 24x7x365 would be so much fun.
PyCon, day 3
Daylight Saving Time is a gimmick and a crock and flipping stupid and I hate it.
Personality cults are odd. At a conference, I see this most often in the backchannels. Like on Twitter. If Fred tweets XYZ, it probably won’t be RT’d; and if it is, it’ll be RT’d at most twice. But if a community cognoscenti tweets the same thing, it’s RT’d 18 times as a gem of profound wisdom. That this phenomenon is so obvious only adds to its oddness.
PyCon, day 2
*Yawn*, I’m up. Great party last night.
I met someone who lives and works in the Galápagos Islands for the Charles Darwin foundation! We had a nice chat. He has fascinating challenges doing data crunching and providing web services down there.
“Pragmatic Unicode, or, How do I stop the pain” — Gah, shoot UTF-32 and UTF-16 in the head. That’d be my vote.
The Celery talk will be interesting. I’ve interacted with Ask online, never met him in person.
PyCon, day 1
The first day of the main conference! I’m anticipating syncing up with friends, like Andrew and Kirk. With tinges of loss and misery caused by Joe‘s and Ryan‘s absence…
Great Keynote speeches. Morning is metaclasses, classes, and subclasses. Should one run away from metaclasses, or view them as just another tool?(Apologies to Edward Teller‘s estate.) The subclassing talk taught me a thing or two.
“If your class has only two methods and one of them is __init__, it’s not a class. It’s really a function.”
Advanced security topics summary: We’re all doing it wrong and we’re all hoseheads.
Lots o’ good ideas and tips about context managers and decorators. I’m going to rip up some code when I return to work on Monday.
PyCon tutorials, day 2
PyCon tutorials, day 1
Up for day 1. A nice day in Santa Clara. A lime has no place in a breakfast fruit bowl. If I have anything cosmic to share, I’ll do it here.
WAKE UP!
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