🇧🇪🇩🇪🇮🇹 All booked for Brussels, Berlin and Bologna!
Anyone else off to @fosdem, @FOSSBackstage or @pycon Italia?
(Also going to skip PyCon US this year, already decided before the latest.)
I gave a lightning talk at a bunch of conferences in 2025 about some of the exciting new things coming in Python 3.14, including template strings.
One thing we can use t-strings for is to prevent SQL injection. I illustrated this with xkcd 327 aka “Little Bobby Tables”.
I localised most of the slides for the PyCon I was at, including this comic. Here they are!
https://hugovk.dev/blog/2026/localising-xkcd/
#Python #python314 #xkcd #PyCon #PyConItalia #PyConGreece #PyConEstonia #PyConFinland #PyConFI #PyConSweden
Closing the second day of @pycon 2026 as talk manager for @BajoranEngineer keynote.
After a long day, I’m tired but genuinely happy to help Dawn on stage. Years ago, she helped me when I gave my first talk abroad at @djangoconeurope 2019 in Copenhagen. It feels special to return the favour.
Her keynote, "Stop Being a Generalist", explores why going deep on a domain can be more valuable than trying to do everything.
This afternoon at PyCon Italia 2026 I’m serving as talk manager in the “Gnocchi” room 🎤🍝
Right now I’m helping Aastha Asthana prepare her talk “Beyond Caching: Supercharging Python with Redis Data Structures”.
It’s always nice to help other speakers feel comfortable on stage, especially people giving one of their first talks, just like many others helped me years ago with mine ✨
Did anyone take a photo of Deb Nicholson pineapple pizza slide? 🍍🍕
As an Italian, I was too shocked to react quickly enough and capture it myself 😭
Today was Beginners Day at @pycon 2026 🐍
Me and @carlton used the morning to run Django Off The Med: a small @django sprint, far from the sea but with the same spirit of Django on the Med.
Beginners, first-time contributors, and more experienced people worked together on issues and pull requests.
A productive and very nice way to start the conference 🙂
#PyCon #PyConItalia #Django #DjangoOnTheMed #DjangoOffTheMed #DotM
At #PyConItalia, @cheukting_ho is telling us about free-threaded #Python. Since the screenshot was taken, we're now up to 208 / 360 of the top PyPI packages ready for free threading! 🚀🧵
https://hugovk.dev/free-threaded-wheels/
#PyConIT
One thing I always appreciate about PyCon Italia is that part of the schedule is in Italian, making the conference accessible to people who may not be comfortable following talks in English 🇮🇹🐍
This morning I’m attending Juna Salviati’s talk, “L’essenziale è invisibile agli occhi (ma non a Python)”, an introduction to steganography and the art of hiding messages in plain sight. Very interesting topic and a great example of how broad the Python ecosystem can be ✨
Just like every year, one of the best parts of PyCon Italia was meeting so many people from the community 🐍✨
Thank you to everyone who stopped for a chat, shared a story, an idea, or simply a few minutes together.
And an extra thank you to all the people who kindly agreed to be part of yet another one of my conference selfies 😄📸
Here are some of today's!
Tonight was the PyCon Italia 2026 social dinner 🍝🍷🐍
A lovely opportunity to share good Italian food, meet new people around the table, catch up with old friends, and enjoy conversations that rarely fit between talks and conference sessions.
Sometimes the best part of a conference is simply sitting down together and talking for a few hours ✨
