May 19, 8am
summary
Forty minutes of rapid updates and six lightning bites: a global list of regional PyCons with dates and venues; practical layoff recovery that boils down to “ask for help” after dozens (127) of job applications; swordfighting analogies stressing hydration, reading manuals, getting in armor fast, and maintaining headspace; three concrete R’s for introducing Python at non-Python workplaces — reproducibility + relative paths and PyInstaller executable; debugging distributed systems with OpenTelemetry traces to see full transactions; and teens building hardware and software like the open-source sprig gaming console.
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chapters (8)
- 0:00Start
- 1:45Local & Regional PyCon Conferences around the world
- 18:50Adam Silkey - I've been laid off, what do I do?
- 24:00Anne Decusatis - Stay hydrated: Similarities between swordfighting and Python programming.
- 27:35Nena Beecham - The three Rs of using Python in non-Python workplace
- 32:50Shivay Lamba - Experience Sharing: What I learnt from attending PyCon US for three years in a row and how it has helped become better in every way
- 39:25Israel Blancas - 3 dogs. 1 problem. A distributed systems story
- 44:50Gaurav Pandy - Hacking in High-School








