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PyCon US 2026 2026

Day 5 (109) SnoopJ ๐Ÿ”œ San Francisco (45)

@amcasari dropping truth in the Sunday keynote. And awesome space science nods (AGC, WMAP blobfoxheartcute )

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Larry Hastings is giving a repeat of his talk on multithreading with `blanket` in room 104 RIGHT NOW (1 PM) if anyone is interested

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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

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@baconandcoconut on turning down $1.5M from the US gov: "We're definitely doing DEI over here, just so you know"

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Fastly transferred 1.92 EXABYTES of data for PyPI in 2025 ๐Ÿคฏ

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โ€ฆand @miketheman points out that those numbers are *already* out of date in the PSF Security Update

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@miketheman also sharing a view of PyPI downloads of litellm during the attack earlier this year

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@sethmlarson takes over to talk about the rise in software vulnerabilities in the Python ecosystem (and elsewhere)

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"Let's say you are some sort of galaxy-brained individual"

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Now watching Mark Shannon present on memory management in CPython. TIL there are *20* flavors of freelist for the sake of tuples?!

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