@baconandcoconut on turning down $1.5M from the US gov: "We're definitely doing DEI over here, just so you know"
#PyConUS
The stage is PACKED with people promoting other PyCons and cousin conferences
#PyConUS
"When people feel welcome to show up as their whole selves, they take bigger swings, they ask bigger questions, and they keep showing up"
Lots to learn from the #PyConUS closing keynote about the Djangonaut Space mentoring program. Making space for people and making them aware there *is* space for them to be authentically themselves is so important!
>50% first-time attendees at #PyConUS ๐
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"Do people like gruel? No. Okay. How about mining on a dusty planet for someone with tentacles?"
@baconandcoconut commenting on navigating capitalism tech as a community
Thrilled that @pathunstrom is giving a talk on CSS to update my knowledge over 20 years of "I have not bothered to learn this" progress
Name-dropping the Old Magicks (GeoCities, Neopets, LiveJournal), and a moment to refer to "On Contempt Culture", since CSS and Python are surely no strangers to the contempt described by that talk
Thomas Wouters on Rust in CPython:
"It's going to be a multi-year project even to decide not to do it"
"Let's say you are some sort of galaxy-brained individual"
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