Nicky Ringland

We're thrilled to announce that PyConAU's Education Track will once again feature a dedicated Student Showcase, giving Australian high school students the chance to present their Python projects on the conference stage.

In the good ol' days, we worried about individual maintainers becoming overburdened, or ripple effects from surprise deletions in dependency graphs. Now, with the power of AI, we get to worry about these things on a much bigger scale: on repeat, across entire ecosystems! As AI agents outpace...

Number 5 will shock you! Forget what you think you know about robust dependency graphs, the security gains of living at Head, and those supposedly solid requirements.txt. We'll get down to the nitty-gritty of open source security, giving you real-world large-scale insights to understanding...

How many dependencies does your software project have? How much confidence do you have in them? We sometimes say in open source there is safety in ‘eyes on the code’, but with supply chain attacks on the rise, who is really watching? Most software is built with hundreds if not thousands of...