Lightning Talks
summary
A rapid set of concrete takeaways: PyPI traffic is quantified as 257 million requests per week and AWS funds a PSF security hire; an organizations feature for PyPI launches with free community orgs and paid corporate tiers. Education work uses GitHub projects for classroom orchestration and portfolios. A browser course runs on Runestone + Brython to avoid installs and supports sqlite and pygame. Practical hacks include PyAutoGUI + BeautifulSoup + EasyOCR plus fuzzy matching to scrape logged-in pages. Palindromic Python and game-based teaching experiments actually run.
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chapters (15)
- 0:00Conference kickoff
- 1:44Sprint orientation
- 2:05Conference announcements
- 13:59Lightning talks begin
- 14:20Python and education
- 23:48Python auction highlights
- 24:31Teaching Python online
- 29:33Palindromic Python code
- 35:11Learning Python through games
- 40:10Web scraping challenges
- 45:07Simplifying pandas
- 51:04Post-talks announcements
- 52:50AWS and PyPI security
- 57:23PyPI organizations feature
- 1:03:55Conference wrap-up
