Lightning Talks
summary
Eleven five‑minute demos pack concrete takeaways: a live coded music demo that runs in the room; porting CPython to CircuitPython (csv, functools.cache) shows real modules adapted to microcontrollers and explains what’s impossible (type annotations); Shiv: zipapps bundling dependencies claims runnable single‑file apps with third‑party libs; a bytecode trick forces qualified imports; advice to apply for jobs even without exact years; an agent‑first multi‑terminal UI for orchestrating LLM agents; practical hydroponics setups that actually work (DWC, ebb‑and‑flow); accessibility docs and sign‑language glossary that produced real keynotes; MacroPython runs MicroPython on m68k Macs; Wagtail demo builds a site live; meaning‑typed prompting (Jacklang) generates game levels; BERTopic gives modern, LLM‑enhanced topic models; a Python superset proposing AI‑native abstractions.
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chapters (14)
- 0:00Intro
- 1:29Making Music with Code by Jessica Garson
- 7:50Porting CPython to CircuitPython by Alec Delaney
- 13:47The Beauty of Zipapps by Joe Kaufeld
- 17:48Goodbye to From by Christopher Neugebauer
- 23:01I AM NOT A PYTHON DEVELOPER by JR Rickerson
- 29:10My Agentic Coding UI by Ben Patch
- 35:28Hydroponics: Laziness, Hubris, Impatience by Elizabeth
- 42:30Import Accessibility as Default by Destiny O'Connor
- 49:10"Micro Python" - New Python for Vintage m68k Macs by Jeff Epler
- 51:46Wagtail - The #1 Python CMS by Vince Salvio
- 54:46Prompting without Prompting by Jayanaka Dantanarayana
- 1:03:54The BERT Advantage: Modern Topic Modeling by Mehul
- 1:09:25Super-setting Python for AI by Jason Mars
