Benno Rice
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- PyCon AU5 editions2010–2026
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- Tim Ansell13 talks
- Noah Kantrowitz16 talks
- Evan Kohilas14 talks
- Katie Bell11 talks
- Merrin Macleod7 talks
- Nick Moore11 talks
| title | conference | date |
|---|---|---|
| Productivity: a dialogue | PyCon AU 2026 | 2026-08-26 |
Clear examination of whether generative AI actually speeds up work: cites a 2025 result where developers perceive themselves 20% faster but are 20% slower… | ||
| State of Exception(s) | PyCon AU 2026 | 2026-08-26 |
Cloudflare returns many 500s from about 11:20 UTC to 17:06 UTC after a generated data file doubles expected size and exhausts memory causing process crashes… | ||
| Skill Issue | PyCon AU 2025 | 2025-09-12 |
Claims that large language models generate code without understanding it and that they require billions with a B of investment per year to train are central… | ||
| The Terrifying Longevity of Ideas | PyCon AU 2023 | 2023-08-18 |
Argues that what matters are concrete locks: C encodes PDP assumptions (in-order execution, flat memory) so CPUs spend decades masking that illusion and… | ||
| What UNIX Cost Us | linux.conf.au 2020 | 2020-01-13 |
Describes having rewrote libusb in Rust to talk to a USB product across Windows (WinUSB), macOS (IOKit plugin interfaces) and Linux (udev, sysfs, functionfs)… | ||
| The New COBOL | PyCon AU 2019 | 2019-08-02 |
COBOL remains a living spec (2018 spec) running billions of lines on mainframes, with real features like screen sections for record‑oriented forms and limits… | ||
| Don't Break It: Continuous Integration & Deployment | PyCon AU 2010 | 2010-06-26 |
Don't Break It: Continuous Integration & Deployment
Presented by Benno Rice
So you've developed your application, it appears to work and you may
even have… | ||
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