Sam Bishop

Every few years somebody swears the newest tool to magically avoid needing developers will boot developers out of a job. Yet here we are, still coding, still shipping. Come along for a quick tour from COBOL’s “English you can compile” to today’s LLM powered vibe coding agents and see why each...

Most of us learn testing by writing examples. Put some input in, check the output, move on. That works… until it doesn’t. Edge cases slip through, assumptions hide in plain sight, and the tests that felt thorough turn out to only cover the obvious cases. This talk is an introduction to property...

Join me for a retrospective on a reusable Django app for providing shared database multi-tenancy, complete with automatic tenant-specific queryset filtering, automatic tenant selection middleware, REST framework support, and comprehensive test coverage. This app, despite its sophistication, was...

In addition to its role as the scripting language of choice in the 3D graphics world, Blender one of the leading 3D art programs is built with Python and is packed full of ways you can use Python code to create 3D content both directly and through plugins that sometimes even have their own...