Christopher Neugebauer

Python – like many languages – lets you do things that are completely inadvisable. Many of the features that (left unchecked) allow you to do inadvisable things were used to achieve things that have since become necessary and defining features of Python. Python – unlike many languages –...

The Golden Era of Open Source, in whose late stages we currently exist, has been defined by early decisions to release code with no expectations around who uses our code, and what happens when people abuse the gift they’ve been gifted. Little thought was given to what consequences an extractive...

Often I hear people lamenting that Python has too many features and that older versions of Python were better for that exact reason. To make those people happy, we're going to pick apart the features of Python that enable the async / await syntax, layer by layer, until we happen upon a working...

I’ve played Wordle most days since late 2021. Maybe you have too? One thing I wonder after solving the puzzle for the day is whether I made a bad choice of words. Should I have chosen SMASH, or STASH? Just how lucky was I to solve a puzzle? This talk will explore how to implement a Wordle...

Quoth the Zen of Python: “Simple is better than complex”. The Python community has long celebrated simplicity as a virtue, but Python has grown, the features that make Python simple in small programs don’t matter as much. In this talk, we’ll explore how the Python community used to think about...

Ruby has blocks. JavaScript has blocks. Swift has blocks. Python doesn’t have blocks.In this talk, we'll look at _why_ Python doesn't have blocks, and recent programming techniques that have developed in languages that _do_ have blocks. Then we'll look at what we – or Python – can do about it!