Python Conference

Again, I'll include some links to talks on this.

But I, I feel like, I don't know, five years ago or so when people would mention something like an SBOM, a lot of people were like shrug, like, "Oh, that's not of interest for me." One thing that I discussed with Seth is that at PyCon this year, they had a security track for a single day, and it was standing room only.

So that might show that there is a lot more interest in security and maybe what's happening with all this stuff.

So, uh, thanks again, Brett, for your work.

And I kind of like going back over Zen of Python things.

It's one of my favorite talks to give at PyCon and other conferences is something more around these initial tenants of Python and simplicity and why we love it.

And for those of you who don't know, you can go to your command line, you can type Python minus in this and you will see the little easter egg which is the zen of python that is in python everyone should print it out they should frame it and you should put it in your above your sink when you brush your teeth at night so you can read it every night and and you'll become a better human being instantly because you've got the zen of python there available to you but kyle took the zen of python and he actually put tech took kind of added into it like seven extra tenants for python simplicity So he took specifically the simple is better than complex tenant of Python, and then added these seven additional pieces that are about idiomatic code, data, pure functions being simpler than impure functions.

It kind of goes on like functions being maybe simpler than classes.

I took him up on it.

I think one of the first things he did was invited me to the language summit that they have at PyCon US.

I think I was one of the first folks that, you know, was in that room and wasn't necessarily a core developer and just kind of like dove in headfirst.

And then he did, I mean, he did start mentoring me.

many people still say this to me.

Like I gave some of these talks about my journey in core development years ago, right? And I'm always a bit taken aback that it mattered and had that much of an impact.

And except of the core development, you were also the chair of PyCon US for two years and you're also a member of the steering council.

How have those influenced your career?

And, like, the project, like, I hadn't actually heard of MicroPython when they asked me if I wanted to work on it, but I had done Python and I had just discovered Embedded, and I was just like s- I got super lucky with the whole thing.

So I think a lot of my, like, highlights are, are around that.

One highlight I thought of was actually the PyCons where we gave hardware away in the swag bags, um, just having a lot of people excited about it.

I think that because we're 10 years old, like, CircuitPython's quite mature now, so a lot of my experience right now, because I haven't been to conferences, is around, like, somebody just randomly saying like, "Oh yeah, I use CircuitPython for that." I'm like, "Wait, what?" [laughs] Like, my Makerspace used it for their, like, authentication, like let people in the room sorta stuff, and I was like, "Oh, really?" So I'm really surprised by that.

And then y- you had said, like, what I was most proud of as well, and I think what I'm proud of with CircuitPython is that a lot of the decisions that I had a lot of influence over w- when we first started have proven out to be good ones.

And part of that process was really getting involved with the Python community.

I was speaking at a bunch of PyCons, volunteered for the PSF, lots of different activities in the community, I would say, for a couple of years.

And then I switched over to developer advocacy because I was interested in that.

And again, was doing kind of big data systems at a company called Voltron Data.