Pamela Fox (31)
Yes, I will find any excuse to wear my llama ears at #PyconUS.
Look at the amazing earrings I won at the PyLadies #PyconUS Auction!
1,674 glass beads arranged to represent a Python program.
Should I wear them to my poster session for everyone to check out?
Learnt a ton from @crazy4pi314 in their "Snakes in a Grid" tutorial at #PyconUS about how we can use Python to work with Excel spreadsheets:
* Use pandas read_excel() to turn an XLSX into a dataframe, and to_excel() to turn a dataframe to an XLSX
https://github.com/crazy4pi314/snakes-in-a-grid/blob/main/2_work-with-pandas.ipynb
* Use openpyxl to create a spreadsheet from scratch, complete with working formulas and charts!
https://github.com/crazy4pi314/snakes-in-a-grid/blob/main/3_work-with-openpyxl.ipynb
Learnt about t-strings from @davepeck and @pauleveritt at #FlaskCon-
the formatting is the exact same as f-strings, but the return type is a Template object with a mix of strings and interpolated values.
I stopped by @pydantic AI booth to say hi, and it turned into a debugging session with @samuelcolvin to figure out when/why SLMs fail to handle agentic function calling flows. Determined that SLMs like llama3.1:8b can handle a single tool call, but they don't handle a multi-turn conversation with previous tool call responses very well. Reliability drops drastically.
Want to geek out on vector embeddings?
Come check out my poster at #PyconUS, from 10am-1pm today!
Spoilers: Here's the digital version for anyone not here:
https://tinyurl.com/visual-vectors-poster
I wrote up my tips for teaching Python with GitHub Codespaces, based off what I shared during the #PyconUS Education Summit session:
https://blog.pamelafox.org/2025/06/teaching-python-with-codespaces.html
(It's actually a lot about how to set up dev containers with Dockerfile/docker-compose, which is helpful even if you're not teaching)
I was so excited to meet the creator of the earrings that I won from the #PyconUS #PyLadies auction -- and discover she made a pair for herself, too!
If you squint hard, you can kind of read the Python program in the earrings...
#PyConUS talks are going up on YouTube now, wooot.
I co-presented the sponsored session for Microsoft with my colleague Rohit, where we walked through a development flow from VS Code to Azure, using a *ton* of VS Code extensions plus the Azure Developer CLI.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=k6Vm2hakkV4
Repo:
https://github.com/rohit-ganguly/rag-postgres-openai-python
