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I'm Graduating Too
I just ran the last hot lunch of the year for my youngest son’s school. He’s graduating from middle school and will be going to high school in the next school year. Which makes me a graduating parent too. And it means that it wasn’t just the last hot lunch of the school year. It’s the last one I’ll ever run. I’ve been running it for the last three years…
Waitlisted for the Core Devs Sprint: When the Bad News was Also the Good News
Last week, I learned that I was one of 17 people waitlisted for the Python Core Devs Sprint at OpenAI this year. A waitlist that long realistically means I probably won’t get in. I was sad, of course. The sprint alternates between Europe and the US. Traveling to Europe is … hard and complicated. I couldn’t go to last year’s in Europe, because of the location and work…
Typo of the Day: dry-rub
Typo of the Day: Postgrrs
Typo of the Day: Where is the setting for enabling the Darn Mode?
Typo of the Day: Ice cream flash mom
Typo of the Day: Paint point 🎨🖌 (From my husband)
Typo of the Day: Discoed
Typo of the Day: travelong
Ice Cream Selfie @ GWU OSCON 2026
Soft Spot
PyCascades 2026 Recap
PyCascades 2026 Recap PyCascades 2026 took place in Vancouver this year. I only get to attend on the first day, because I had a 5 a.m. flight to Washington DC the morning after. Still, the first day’s talks were all very insightful and interesting. The talks have now all been published, so I can finally catch up on the ones I missed. You can watch the full PyCascades 2026 playlist on…
Typo of the Day: Dark ode vs Light ode
An Audience of One
An Audience of One I gave a talk at a regional conference this past weekend. I prepared for it the same way I prepare for any other talk or keynote: rehearsed it multiple times, reviewed the material, made adjustments so it would be relatable for this audience instead of giving the same speech everywhere. I looked up ice cream selfie locations in the area. Whether there would be anyone in the room…
Ice Cream Selfie @ LFNW 2026
Sirena Gelato
Typo of the Day: manage.py collectattic
Typo of the Day: what is the wife password
No More Scheduling Polls
As a community leader, 9x serial conference organizer, public speaker, and open source maintainer, I often get asked by community members for a time to meet. Here’s the thing: asking me for a time to meet is, itself, a waste of time. My calendar shifts constantly: work meetings, family activities, conference travel, PRs to review, all of the above. The back-and-forth to schedule a 30-minute…
Typo of the Day: envy vars
Typo of the Day: Trouble shooing
Typo of the Day: Trouble hooting
Travel Budgeting without Spreadsheet
This is a follow up to my previous post, Travel Planning with AI . One of my parting thoughts in that post is about travel budgeting and spreadsheets. Having a budget is important part of our travel decision-making. It helps us decide whether we could even afford the trip, or maybe we need to cut down on the number of travel days, things like that. The budget is also important to be tracked during…
Travel Planning with AI
Travel Planning with AI I have started planning my family’s travel with the assistance of Claude Code. It resulted in a website that contains information about our travel destination, potential activities we could take, hotel recommendations, restaurant suggestions, and even a checklist with timelines for me to keep track of the planning progress, all the information needed in order to plan…
Typo of the Day: source env/bi/activate
Typo of the Day: Expectartion
Typo of the Day: PyCascaded
Typo of the Day: Ice Cream Selfoe
Ice Cream Selfie @ PyCascades 2026
Bella Gelateria
Typo of the Day: Mojority
Year of the Snake Recap
Looking Back at the Year of the Snake It’s already March 2026, you might think it’s too late for anybody to share a recap of the year 2025. Well, the good news is that we are still in the beginnings of Lunar New Year. So instead of recap of 2025, let’s review my Year of the Snake instead. Last year was fun. I felt I was super busy with all the things, talks, conferences, but…