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Speaker: Justin Myles Holmes For 2 years, a family of three has traveled on a converted school bus from conference to conference, building tooling for the ro... (more…)

Here are three things that I see my non programming counterparts doing every single day. These really sum up so much of what folks do within an office. (more…)

PyMOTW-3 is a series of articles written by Doug Hellmann to demonstrate how to use the modules of the Python 3 standard library. It is based on the original PyMOTW series, which covered Python 2.7. See About Python Module of the Week for details includi... (more…)

A common situation in asyncio Python programs is asynchronous initialization. Some resource must be initialized exactly once before it can be used, but the initialization itself is asynchronous — such as an asyncpg database. Let’s talk about a couple of s... (more…)