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Kevin Brown-Silva (76)

I enjoyed the diversity and inclusion panel at PyCon, and I especially appreciated the call for support at the end for the various groups they represented.

Berlin: berlin.pyladies.com
@pytexas: pytexas.org/sponsorship/friend
APAC: pycon.asia/
@apyb: apyb.python.org.br/
Ghana: linktr.ee/pyladiesghana

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"They weren't paying attention until we broke their ability to make money on something we provided for free." @brainwane at

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Very interesting to hear how much Hatch from has changed over the years. It looks like it's slated to become the app release tool to replace them all, taking on the responsibilities of Twine, Virtualenv, SetupTools, etc. All with a flexible plugin system for future extensibility.

hatch.pypa.io/latest/

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"It was a Friday, because it always is." @sethmlarson at the "Meet our Security Engineers" when talking about the recent XZ Utils attack.

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Just a reminder that we're running a rock, paper, scissors competition in Room 310/311 today at 11am! It's open to anyone and everyone and it's usually a pretty fun time.

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Sprints for Tuesday:

Room 308:
Route 309:
Room 310/311: (, tool), Strawberry GraphQL
Room 315: Packaging, Cloud Custodian
Room 316: @beeware, ,
Room 317: aio-libs, @ppb, @takahe, @micropython, @circuitpython, Robots
Room 318: Accelerated Python on GPU, Mesa (agent-based modeling + GIS)
Room 319:
Room 320: Core
Room 321: @pydantic, ,

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As an contributor, reader, and maintainer I loved the keynote by Kate Chapman at which found a fantastic way to connect all of that in a talk around community, technology, and goats.

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I love the idea of "slop" becoming the "spam" equivalent for LLM output.

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There are so many projects sprinting today at that I was not able to fit them into a single post. Here are the remaining ones:

Room 316: @beeware, , Pallets Projects
Room 317: aio-libs, @ppb, @pytexas,
Room 318: Accelerated Python on GPU, Plotly Python App Building, Mesa
Room 319: GDS Factory, CAD/3D Print/PCB Design
Room 320: Python Core
Room 321: @pydantic + ,

I look forward to seeing you all there!

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