Mariatta 🤦🏻♀️ 
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My experience at the US Pre-clearance checkpoint at YUL (Montréal airport). Canadian passport + Nexus card holder.
Got selected for random pat-down from top to bottom, front and back by a lady agent. Had to take off my shoes and show the bottom of my feet to her.
At the passport control checkpoint, the agent told me to look at his webcam. Then he asked two questions: Where am I going (Pittsburgh), and anything to declare (no).
And then I was good to go.
#PyConUS 2025 will be a special personal celebration for me, celebrating 10 years since my first ever PyCon and how far I've come since then.
PyCon US 2015 was one of the turning point in my life that sets the path to where I am now.
Part of me just thinks that I'm just the same person all along, but at the same time I know I'm a better version now compared to before.
The conference is gonna be great, and I'm looking forward to be surrounded by the Python community for the next week.
All of my #PyConUS proposals got rejected Oh well 🙈
Congrats to the accepted speakers!
🤫 Sharing my favorite secret offsite lunch spot at #PyConUS
Sree's Foods just a short walk away from the conference venue. It's basically Indian food takeout counter: curries, biryani, samosa, etc. They're only open at lunch time and on weekdays. Food is tasty, affordable, and they have lots of vegan options. Just in case you're looking for something other than conference lunch during the tutorials/sprint days.
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Bad: It's gonna be a red eye overnight flight
Good: Got upgraded to Business Class with lie flat seat 💅🏻
⚠️ Pro tips for any Summit presenters at PyCon US 2025: (hatchery, language, maintainer, community organizers, etc)
1. Light mode for your slides
2. Use big fonts
3. Share presentation link to your audience so they can follow along in case your slides are not readable
We're at the Python Language summit and we just made a presenter change their slides from dark mode into light mode, and also Guido had to move his seat to be right in front of the projector in order to read the slides.
✅ Presentation done at Python Language Summit
I shared updates and news from Python docs Editorial board and beyond. A big focus of discussions today is about official Python docs translations into various languages, how we can help and support translation.
Slides: https://www.canva.com/design/DAGl84h7oyQ/Q4wJt-M3OFrPmW3Vf3jflg/view?utlId=h3db8290065
I'll be presenting at the Python Language Summit today to share news and updates from the Python Docs Editorial Board.
#PyConUS
