Here is a blog post with links and references to accompany my closing keynote today at #PyConUS , on stories from a few years working on #Python packaging.
Glad so many people enjoyed my #PyConUS keynote sharing stories from several years working on #Python packaging infrastructure.
http://harihareswara.net/posts/2024/references-pycon-us-keynote/ has a bunch of links and other references, and I hope to post a fuller transcript with slides within the next few weeks. If there is anything you particularly want sooner than that - or anything you want to tell me you really liked! - please let me know.
"But other parsers know too much about HTML. They choke on or try to rewrite bad markup. They assume you care about the whole document. A pirate might make you walk the plank, but only a parser would make you walk the whole tree."
Happy 20th birthday to the #Python screen-scraping library Beautiful Soup by @leonardr .
Is there a copy shop near-ish the venue that is open tomorrow (Sunday)? I'd like to make (or ask a friend to make) about 40 copies of a single-page item, and missed my window today while things were open.
Really enjoying the roof deck at #PyConUS. Probably chitchatting up here till at least 5pm.
So great to have an outdoor space, shielded from the sun, with plenty of seating and tables, and a gorgeous view of river, bridges, trees, and skyline.
The "Cons are not industry newsletters" part is particularly interesting, as I also think about it through the lens of public professional recognition and public mastery validation, and how culturally discouraged it is in our subculture to say "I am seeking the professional respect of my profession."
"Pastwatch: The Redemption of Christopher Columbus" is an alternate history scifi novel by Orson Scott Card that asks: what could time travelers have done to prevent the colonization of the Americas? and .... it's like the letters Julia Sand wrote to Chester A. Arthur, getting him to live up to who he could be. Sort of.