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We’re coming up on six years of Conference Chats.

I’ve just returned home from attending DjangoCon US 2025, and it was everything I’d hoped it’d be.

The Conference Scrapbook: one of those things I always intend to find time for during a conference and rarely follow through on.

I think a lot about conference organizing, so it’s unsurprising that I see parallels to conference organizing from other fields.

A while back, I bought an Olympus WS-853 digital audio recorder.

I frequently use the phrase “stacking chairs” as a metaphor for all sorts of community volunteering actions.

The Python Software Foundation and the Django Software Foundation both have notions of “memberships” that allow people to vote in their organizations’ respective board elections (and may include other benefits).

Do you know someone whose work meets the criteria for Python Software Foundation Fellowship Membership?

I’ve had a 3D printer for a few years now, but 3D printing has not become a hobby for me.

I once again find myself nostalgic for video (rental) stores, and I’m trying to figure out what I would actually want from that experience today aside from the nostalgia itself (hard to live up to those expectations and rarely a recipe for a viable busine…

Every now and then, an oft-repeated joke rubs me the wrong way, and I feel the need to play joke police.

I am excited to announce that I’ve recently stepped up as the new maintainer for PyVideo.

In October 2019, I put out a call for conference organizers to join a discussion group.

I’ve heard this question a lot this past year with regard to community tech conferences.

My old Thinkpad X260 had some graphics issues, so it was time for a new laptop.

What’s a homelab?

Overall Review I enjoyed this movie.

Sponsoring a conference can be really beneficial to an organization.

With conference season upon us, I want to share some tips for conference sponsors.

I wrote this in response to a tweet.

The history of fire companies1 dates back millennia, but their current form is relatively new, just a few hundred years old.

Flake8 is a linter for Python source code.

What is requirements.txt?

A few months back, I gave a talk on the good and bad parts of Google App Engine.

Check out my post over at the Fancy Hands blog about how we get around payment provider outages.