PyCascades 2021
2021-02-19..2021-02-21
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[PyCascades 2019, PyCascades 2021, PyCascades 2022, PyCascades 2026]
who it's for
python developers, web developers, data engineers, open source maintainers, educators, technical authors, devops engineers, community organizers
topics
Django REST Framework patterns; FastAPI React MongoDB stack; PursuedPyBear game framework; unit testing Jupyter notebooks; CircuitPython LED animation; Elasticsearch with pandas and eland; urllib3 v2 and modern TLS; Cyberbrain value-flow debugging; podcast production for developers; writing technical Python books; Apache Flink Python pipelines; core Python development during COVID
| title | author | length |
|---|---|---|
| Welcome to PyCascades Remote | Seb Vetter, Nina Zakharenko | 19m |
Conference opens with logistics for a fully remote PyCascades run on the Venueless platform using a mix of tools, with closed captioning by Twilio and… | ||
| Making Games With PPB | Piper Thunstrom | 24m |
PursuedPyBear is an education-focused Python game framework that opens a window with two lines of code (import ppb; ppb.run). It uses sprites with attributes… | ||
| What You Should Know About Django REST Framework | Lacey Williams Henschel | 27m |
Covers concrete, usable DRF mechanics: how ModelViewSet composes five mixins to give six working CRUD endpoints from a few lines of code; how to override… | ||
| Your Name Is Invalid! | Miroslav Šedivý | 29m |
Explains why names fail: bytes vs str and how encode/decode and errors='replace' turn Š into ?; shows Python’s unicodedata for categories and… | ||
| Shipping Breaking Changes as the Most Downloaded Python Package | Seth Michael Larson | 21m |
urllib3 claims the title of most-downloaded Python package at about 2.3 billion downloads and is shipping a v2 that actually removes legacy support: dropping… | ||
| Enhancing Civics Data with Elasticsearch, pandas and Eland | Jay Miller | 30m |
Project consolidates San Diego "Calls for Service" across 11 separate datasets dating back to 2015, cleaning CSVs with pandas and helper scripts to standardize… | ||
| Unit Testing Jupyter Notebooks - testbook | Rohit Sanjay, Matthew Seal | 26m |
testbook is a unit-testing library that treats .ipynb files like .py modules by creating remote reference objects in the notebook kernel, injecting test code… | ||
| Let’s Rethink Debugging | laike9m | 24m |
Explains why common techniques (print, logging, debuggers) trade ease for information and claims no current tool is as effortless as print yet as informative… | ||
| Fireside chat about advanced Python development | Dustin Ingram, Łukasz Langa | 52m |
Covers concrete tradeoffs: emergency Python 3.8/3.9 release cadence after two CVEs and why one float bug is realistically a crash not full remote code… | ||
| Sparking Creativity in LED Art with CircuitPython | Debra Ansell | 31m |
Live demo shows CircuitPython driving a 12-LED strip in a baseball cap with drag‑and‑drop deployment and instant live edits to animation parameters (speed… | ||
| Closing Session | Seb Vetter, Nina Zakharenko | 29m |
Online PyCascades runs smoothly with unexpectedly high turnout, constant chat engagement, and roughly 50 volunteers keeping rooms and Q&A flowing; sponsors… | ||
| All About Podcasting: By the Hosts of Talk Python to Me, Test & Code | Brian K Okken, Michael Kennedy, Madison Swain-Bowden | 51m |
Two long-running Python shows explain how they actually produce episodes: multitrack remote recording (Skype or StreamYard), edit with Audacity/Logic/Adobe… | ||
| Introducing the FARM stack - FastAPI, React, & MongoDB | Aaron Bassett | 31m |
Builds a working async to‑do app using FastAPI + Motor + MongoDB Atlas with Uvicorn, Pydantic models that handle MongoDB ObjectId via ObjectId aliasing in… | ||
| Everything You Need to Know About Writing Technical Python Books | Al Sweigart, Harry Percival, April Speight | 53m |
Panel discussion distills actionable book-writing tactics: make code listings executable and kept in version control, run automated checks so every example… | ||
| Polaris: Open Source Machine Learning for Spacecraft Operations | Hugh Brown | 28m |
Polaris is an open source Python pipeline that fetches SatNOGS telemetry, augments it with orbital and space weather data via vinvelivaanilai, trains hundreds… | ||
| Giving the Perfect Intro to Coding Workshop...in Python! | Dawn Chandler, Jennifer Dai, Doris Chang | 22m |
Step-by-step recipe for an intro Python workshop with tested logistics: use Repl.it so no installs are needed, teach by alternating short demos and hands-on… | ||
| Worldwide Python Communities: Learn From Organizers in Zimbabwe, Indonesia, and South Korea | Marlene Mhangami, Dima M Dinama, Younggun Kim, Dan Mouris | 53m |
Organizers from Zimbabwe, Indonesia and South Korea report concrete tactics: a nonprofit teaching girls coding (ZimboPy), a Pan‑African PyCon that ran an… | ||
| Core Python Devs on how COVID has changed core Python development | Nina Zakharenko, Brett Cannon, Carol Willing, Guido van Rossum | 54m |
Core Python development shifts to remote rituals: weekly Steering Council meetings and virtual Language Summits and sprints replace in‑person collabs but… | ||
| Building a Python Data Pipeline with Apache Flink | Caito Scherr | 25m |
Combines Python and Apache Flink to run scalable, stateful stream pipelines using the PyFlink Table API and Pandas vectorized UDFs to cut serialization… | ||
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