Chris Laffra 🤓🌷🚲

The view from my hotel room in Abu Dhabi as Trump was visiting the Royal Palace today.

YouTube video by PyData Chris Laffra - PyScript - Writing a Python application in the browser | PyData Global 2024

Watch this in-depth @pydata.bsky.social 2024 tutorial on how to write a web app in #PyScript. It highlights the use of #LTK and shows a couple of applications that leverage both #MicroPython and #PyOdide, use external JS libraries, and import packages from #PyPI.

Bluesky Cinema - Chrome Web Store Bluesky Cinema

This is why I wrote BlueSky Cinema. See chromewebstore.google.com/detail/blues...

PSF Distinguished Service Award Granted to Thomas Wouters Thomas Wouters, a longtime member of the PSF Board, has been recognized with the PSF’s Distinguished Service Award. Over the last 25 years, Thomas has been a steady, welcoming presence in the Python community, serving in countless critical roles—often behind the scenes.

The PSF is excited to share that Thomas Wouters has been awarded our Distinguished Service Award for his 25 years of service, dedication, and behind-the-scenes work which have helped shape the PSF and the #Python community into what they are today 👏👏

I paid for my hotel, PyCon registration, and flight from Amsterdam a while back, so the lost-cause syndrome is quite strong. I am also involved directly in some events, so I will go. My plane still has 120 empty seats. Hopefully, the PyCon organization will survive the situation financially.

I guess that's the underlying idea of duckdb.

MicroPython is only 240K and starts in 80ms.

PyCon US 2025 Keynotes (from left to right): The Marshall Project (Geoff Hing & Tom Meagher), Lynn Root, Cory Doctorow, and Dr. Kari L. Jordan

More exciting news from us? You bet! The #PyConUS 2025 schedule is officially live🗓️🎉

Head to us.pycon.org/2025/schedule/ for this year’s amazing lineup, meet our keynote speakers, and register for tutorials, summits & events!

All the details: bit.ly/3QFf45P

That's a power trio!

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Happy Ground-Hog Day!

I just finished my FOSDEM talk about #PyScript in the #Python dev room. As usual, people loved getting free copies of the C4E books just for asking questions at the end of the talk. Check out Lifesaver Coach if you want to become a Happy Engineer yourself.

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Here is my suggested update... 🤓

I have written a book and taught masterclasses called "Communication for Engineers." Next up is Lifesaver, a Chrome browser extension. Question for you: As an engineer, what features should the tool have? What problems are you facing the most in your career? How can Lifesaver help?

Hopefully, you can make it. It will be my first visit to FOSDEM, but not Brussels.

US announces $25m reward for arrest of Venezuela's Nicolás Maduro The increased reward was announced on the day Maduro was sworn in for a third six-year term as president.

Not the onion. Just irony.

Luca Berton on LinkedIn: #startupmeetup #networking #innovation #ai #automation #startups #amsterdam Had an incredible time attending the Amsterdam Startup Meetup yesterday! 🎉 The event was full of energy, innovation, and amazing people passionate about…

I gave a demo of Lifesaver yesterday—lots of enthusiastic reactions. 🎉

See also #PyScript #LTK. It is all Python, client-side rendering of interactive browser-based Python apps. pyscript.github.io/ltk/?tab=3

Why does the USA need an "inauguration fund"?

I once attended a masterclass on visualizations by Edward Tufte. His books are classics. I assume you know about them? Here is a quick overview: www.bravethewoods.com/blog/edward-...

Google URL Shortener links will no longer be available Understand how you will be impacted by our decision to turn off the serving portion of Google URL Shortener.

In August of this year, Google will shut down its goo.gl URL shortener. 1.6M URLs are using this shortener on GitHub, and they will all start failing 8 months from now.

A search on GitHub for "azureedge.net" returns 164K hits. Turn off your TVs on January 15, don't fly in a plane, don't drive a car, and don't use any computer! 🤓

One pack costs you 7 hours of your life. My mom was a heavy smoker. If she had not smoked that much, statistically speaking, she would still be with us this Holiday period. 😞

Using PySheets (pysheets.app), I had an AI convert the data in this report into a single picture. The trend: We increasingly use Python standalone and less together with other languages. What browser apps will you write in 2025 using #PyScript and LTK, github.com/pyscript/ltk? How can I help you?

This was fun to poke around: artexplorer.ai

Lovely use of embeddings space to explore works at the Rijksmuseum in Amsterdam.

My talk at FOSDEM 2025 has been scheduled in the Python track. See you in Brussels on February 2? fosdem.org/2025/schedul...

I wrote the "Communication for Engineers" book, chrislaffra.com/c4e.html. It does not really use Python, but I also wrote pyalgoviz.appspot.com, which has about 90 different algorithms written in Python and visualized in Python. 🤓