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Lightning Talks - Friday May 15, PMPyCon US 20262026-05-13
Short, specific outcomes and working tools matter: a selfie-based contact app that generates LinkedIn QR photos and a tiny front-end repo; hiring fraud…
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Args: Amazing or Approaching?PyCon AU 20252025-09-12
History and mechanics of Python arguments get traced to concrete claims and fixes: defaults behave oddly because default args created at definition time…
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Lightning Talks - Sunday, May 18thPyCon US 20252025-05-16
Collection of concrete takeaways: use the phonenumbers package to parse and store phone numbers as E.164 and add a country dropdown to web forms; Python is…
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Who Tests the Testers? Making and Testing PipelinesPyCon US 20252025-05-16
Claim: pipeline changes can and should be tested before merge, and five concrete techniques are offered. The talk describes linters and GitLab validators…
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"Who tests the testers? Making and testing pipelines"PyCon AU 20242024-11-22
Shows a concrete failure: a one‑character typo in rules caused a needed job to skip, not failing tests. Describes using gitlab validators and linters (they…
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"DevOops Lightning talks"PyCon AU 20242024-11-22
A rapid back‑to‑back session of five minute talks enforces strict timing with an HDMI podium, a visible timer, and a last‑10‑seconds finger‑clap cue; overran…
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Python ate my Homework!PyCon US 20242024-05-15
A live notebook demonstrates using SymPy and Jupyter to replace handwritten math with code: using SymPy factorint to factor integers, unevaluated expressions…
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Refactoring for fun and profitPyCon AU 20232023-08-18
Refactors a messy Python side project that computes and annotates minimum paths for a train game into small classes and clear entry points, using Black for…
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Sunday Lightning TalksPyConline AU 20202020-09-04
Fourteen five-minute segments show what was actually done: a Spanish game‑dev Twitter bot (esgamedevbot with ~1,000 followers), a Python 2 SRF bypass…
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Hacking Playable Ads: What REALLY are they?PyConline AU 20202020-09-04
Examines real experiments intercepting Unity-based mobile ads over HTTPS using mitmproxy on a Raspberry Pi, reads auction JSON and mraid responses, and…
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Playable Ads: What REALLY are they?linux.conf.au 20202020-01-13
Uses a man‑in‑the‑middle proxy on a Raspberry Pi with an installed certificate to intercept Unity Ads auction JSON (device fields, cached ad hashes) and the…
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Decoding the Frustrations and Vulnerabilities of Modern Text ProcessingPyCon AU 20172017-08-03
Covers concrete failure modes and fixes: Python 3 treats text as Unicode so printing raw bytes breaks common exploit payloads and the pragmatic fix is…
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Lightning Talks - SundayPyCon AU 20172017-08-03
A rapid fire set of practical outcomes and gotchas: a custom CI (Beekeeper + Waggle) runs Docker on AWS ECS and cuts project CI to about $30/month vs $700–$800…
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