title	conference	date
pathlib: why and how to use it	PyCon US 2026	2026-05-13
Argues that pathlib.Path replaces stringly file handling with a concrete type, shows methods like read_text and mkdir(parents=True), demonstrates joining with… Talk on
Tutorial Sneak Peek: "Lazy Looping in Practice..."	PyCon US 2026	2026-05-13
Claims that Python for loops only iterate a single iterable and that common helpers are what enable indexing, reversing, and parallel looping; inspects the… Talk on
Variables and objects in Python: it's pointers all the way down	PyCascades 2026	2026-03-21
Demonstrates five gotchas about Python references: assignment never copies, mutations change shared objects, function arguments are just bindings so in-place… Talk on
Decorators Demystified	PyCon US 2025	2025-05-16
PyCon US 2025 tutorial explains what @ actually does, walks through decorator call mechanics, and builds function and class decorators from scratch. It runs… Talk on
"Keynote: Brains Are Beautiful Liars"	PyOhio 2024	2024-07-27
Brains constantly model the world and routinely misleads via cognitive shortcuts: shows sunk cost bias with a 30‑minute failed edit vs a <30‑minute re‑record… Talk on
May 17, 6pm	PyCon US 2024	2024-05-15
A rapid-fire set of five-minute projects and lessons: a web app that uses morphological analysis plus jaconv and text‑to‑speech to segment Japanese and read… Lightning on
Intro to Python for Brand New Programmers	PyCon US 2023	2023-04-19
Starts at the basics and shows actual code: live use of the python REPL, building and running scripts (greetings.py, rand.py, die.py), surprising big integers… Talk on
Python Oddities Explained	PyCon US 2022	2022-04-27
Examples and concrete outcomes decide whether to watch: loop variable ends up as 8 after for x in numbers but a list comprehension leaves x at 0 in Python 3… Talk on
Hands-On Regular Expressions in Python	PyCon US 2021	2021-05-14
A hands‑on walkthrough uses Python’s re module to show wholegood details: re.search/re.sub and re.findall/re.finditer behavior, raw strings r'...', anchors… Talk on
Comprehensible Comprehensions	PyCon US 2020	2020-04-15
Explains when comprehensions are the right tool and when plain loops or builtins like dict() or list() are clearer, shows concrete translations by copy/paste… Talk on
Python Trainers Summit - Hatchery 2020	PyCon US 2020	2020-04-15
A practical summary of what actually happens and what to expect: live coding often uses a terminal mirroring setup (tmux) so students see only one window while… Talk on
Lazy Looping: The Next Iteration	DjangoCon US 2019	2019-09-22
Shows that iterators are lazy single‑use iterables and that generator functions and generator expressions are the practical ways to build them, with concrete… Talk on
Python Oddities Explained	PyCon AU 2019	2019-08-02
Covers concrete behaviors: Python 3 only scope rules (for-loops leak loop variable, comprehensions do not), assignment versus mutation (assignments make… Talk on
Meaningful Mentoring Moments	PyCascades 2019	2019-02-23
Practical coaching moves: prompt active recall by asking what’s your guess? instead of quizzing, actively encourage making mistakes and try solutions together… Talk on
Easier Classes: Python Classes Without All The Cruft	DjangoCon US 2018	2018-10-14
Builds concrete Month and point class examples and shows which helpers actually implement dunder methods for you: namedtuple gives immutability and repr but… Talk on
Easier Classes: Python Classes Without All the Cruft	PyOhio 2018	2018-07-28
Shows how to get rid of boilerplate by using dataclasses (Py3.7), attrs, and namedtuple instead of hand‑rolled classes, demonstrating concrete code for string… Talk on
Python 2 to 3: How to Upgrade and What Features to Start Using	PyCon 2018	2018-05-11
Python 2 reaches end of life in 2020 and upgrade strategy choices—gradual (support 2 and 3), sudden (switch at once), or rewrite—are compared with concrete… Talk on
Loop better: a deeper look at iteration in Python	PyCon AU 2017	2017-08-03
Shows that a generator like squares gets exhausted (tuple(squares) produces the numbers but sum(squares) after that returns 0) and that testing membership can… Talk on
Comprehensible Comprehensions	PyCon AU 2017	2017-08-03
Explains that list comprehensions are a concise tool for transforming one iterable into another and nothing else, shows how to copy/paste a for-loop into a… Talk on
Lightning Talks	DjangoCon US 2016	2016-07-17
A sequence of rapid updates and asks: the DSF fundraising sits at $69,000 of $200,000 (34.5% funded) with a push to hit $100,000 by Friday; Django REST… Lightning on
Readability Counts	DjangoCon US 2016	2016-07-17
Advocates concrete rules: prefer 60-character text width and place line breaks to show logical structure, use trailing commas with a closing parenthesis on its… Talk on
Lightning Talks - Part 2	DjangoCon US 2015	2015-09-06
Demos hit concrete details: a PyCharm demo shows PyCharm managed console, autocomplete for manage.py tasks, Django template debugging and a test run… Lightning on
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