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Hello from #PyBeach/#PyBeach2026! There's at least three people who know things about #NBPy around, so come ask us why you might want to visit us in Petaluma next year! Or follow this account thingy?

ok, here's the email with a lot more details about our 10th anniversary year and our triumphant-ish return to downtown petaluma https://buttondown.com/northbaypython/archive/19-20-june-2027-save-the-date-for-north-bay-python/

the ink is dry but chris has to get a day of work in before he can write an email and updating a website so feel free to pencil in june 19 and 20! back in summer (but in a venue with proper insulation) so you can enjoy more of downtown petaluma. we're excited.

so very pleased to announce that we'll be so very pleased to announce something real soon now we promise okay bye

It's been a few weeks since #NBPy 2026, and now you can watch all the talks we recorded, and relive all of the scheduled parts of an amazing weekend. Linky link: https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaeNpBNgqQWsb59zqc_mng1OqG9XdFCiH

This blog post from @pythonbynight captures so much of what we try to do at #NBPy: a tech conference about people, a schedule that gives presenters the time they need to tell their story, speakers who are just another part of the audience. I love that what we're trying to do shines through with […]

I blogged about my recent experience at North Bay Python. Probably more of the same if you followed the chatter over the weekend. A summary and video of my talk are elsewhere. Here I reflect on some of my inner thoughts before/during my talk, a reflection on a few talks that seemed connected to […]

I keep meaning to post about stuff I've been up to lately and then forgetting to... A few things I might post about: - Figuring out how to vote in the primary, such ascalifornia governor... - Some adventures with home automation and @homeassistant - Sorta kinda rolling my own linux distribution […]

Watching all the videos by @NorthBayPython and really getting flashbacks of the #eurucamp days and that vibe 🥰. If you need some good vibes and want to learn stuff, the talks are all amazing. I know I am repeating myself, but it is all just *sooo goood*.

RE: https://hachyderm.io/@pythonbynight/116483341040156048 This is a must see! And all other talks kn @NorthBayPython are also great. And that is coming from someone who barely ever wrote python code 🥰

... and conference talk recordings are now going live! https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLaeNpBNgqQWsb59zqc_mng1OqG9XdFCiH Thanks to the speakers for rapidly reviewing and approving their videos, and shout out to @andrew for doing phenomenal work stepping up to do in-house video recording […]

For your viewing pleasure, our time lapse video of the community strike. One frame every 10 seconds. As always, thanks so much to everyone who could stick around and help! It means we as organizers get to go enjoy dinner with all you fabulous people rather than spend many hours on cleanup. #NBPy

This weekend at @NorthBayPython was wonderful. The talks and, more importantly, the people I met were incredibly interesting and inspiring. What’s even better is that I’m now connected to a lot more people here that I have met in real life. #nbpy

That's another #NBPy in the books. We'll be back next year for the 8th edition and our 10th anniversary. From the bottom of our hearts: thanks for being the kind of community that speaks truth to power, instills hope for the future, and makes each […] [Original post on social.northbaypython.org]

If you've enjoyed the #NBPy parade, please donate! Help us run the conference we all want to attend. https://nbpy.link/donate

#NBPy 2026 ran at a loss this year. It's a public service and we'll be back in 2027, but we could use your help closing the budget gap. Donate at https://nbpy.link/donate

98% of ticket purchasers actually claimed a badge, and the one other person had a good excuse [shows an x-ray of a fractured bone]. 👏 #NBPy

It’s been a day. #NBPy

And that's a wrap for the talks! Thank you for bearing with me for this liveblogging experiment; I hope I got those edits to add the hashtags in quickly enough that those of you filtering were not spammed :). #NBPy

Closing out #NBPy 2026 💖

*YOU CANNOT CONTRIBUTE IF YOU NEVER REST* (emphasis mine) #NBPy

After you do your part, remember that "the laser pointer does not own you" and you can crawl into a bag, curl up in the sun, or otherwise recharge. "You cannot contribute if you never rest." "You are not alone in trying to change the world" - @baconandcoconut at #nbpy

"The laser pointer does not own you" 😮‍💨 @baconandcoconut at #NBPy

"Most of us are not destined for the history books" and that leaves us the freedom to imagine something more likely for ourselves, whether it's just working to survive for now or a small piece of a big work. Some examples Deb does personally include putting a couple bucks in for somebody's […]

Plenty of people have been on the right side of every bad event in history! @baconandcoconut just listed a WHOLE bunch of examples of individuals who did big things AND groups of people who did smaller things within their centers of very local control at #nbpy

There's a lot of things going on where it feels like somebody ought to do something, and that's not necessarily always you. - @baconandcoconut at #nbpy

"What about the 'all this'?" "The time we live in… is… interesting…" [slide of dumpster on fire floating in flood waters] #NBPy

what if it *was* your circus and they *are* your monkeys? - Does it affect a lot of entities in your space? Reach out to form a team. - Ask for input *in places where you're likely to get useful feedback*. #NBPy

So what about when it is yours to reply to? Has it happened before, and if so can you do that again? Who else is impacted by this who you could ally with? If you're not sure who should be involved, pick a spot you expect good input and ask for help from other members of your community. - […]

How can you tell what you should care about though? - Who is saying it? Is this a person who hates everything? Who keeps saying the same thing? Who's unreliable? Maybe less actionable than a reliable source giving new feedback. - Does this sound plausible? Okay... this is a hard one lately, you […]

- when: is this coming with the heat death of the universe? maybe skip it. next week? pay attention. - where: is it happening in your ecosystem? sometimes reading 200 posts for some other unrelated project might not the best the next use of your time. - why: was it a huge malicious change that […]

How do we decide what's important? Let's ask ourselves: who, what, why, where, and how? - who: there are some people we don't have to pay attention to, and there are some people who are always saying the same thing. but if there's a source that's reliable, maybe that's somebody we should pay […]

You can also always ignore unfocused doom-tolling: it's the end of open source! the end of the Internet! the end of software! nahhhhhhhh, probably not- @baconandcoconut at #nbpy

"We love AI [and the buckets of money over there, whatever]" 😏 #NBPy

It is important to give people outlets to give you feedback, though! The PSF does lots of office hours for this. - @baconandcoconut at #nbpy

There are many things you don't have to care about: - somebody who doesn't work on your project thinks that you're doing it wrong - "you're a bunch of SJWs! code should not be political" [see previous advice re: bedspread] - "you removed my emotional support bug" Lots of stuff you just don't […]

People being angry about your project means they care! Try to focus on that part! There are some things you don't need to care about, too! Like people who aren't community members requesting something contrary to your goals or without a grain of useful thing. - @baconandcoconut at #nbpy

Whether it's code or squishy people stuff, try to slow things down. If it's a space you control, you can do that for everyone. If not, you can slow things down for yourself! Channel a cat and take a deep breath, do a big stretch, go outside, and maybe eat some grass to throw up on the bedspread […]

"[The PSF] is basically office hours as a service now" #NBPy

Is the wrongness on the internet in a place that you control? If so: - exercise moderation controls - slow down posting - "pew pew" (which I assume is the sound of a ban); people really love it when you do this on the internet if not: - take a deep breath - close the computer - go outdoors - […]

Zero finally getting his well-deserved time in the limelight. #NBPy

"Some of these people on the internet are so wrong. Like *so* wrong, that it makes you mad." Especially when they are discussing your project. But if someone is very wrong on the internet, someone *else* will tell them where to stuff it. So you don't have to! #NBPy

"Panic! At the project's disco: somebody is talking about your project on the Internet!" You don't always need to respond right away. Take some time to think about it because responding quickly makes it seem important (the Streisand effect) AND sometimes people are so wrong on the Internet that […]

as you might imagine from the title, I am really not going to do this talk justice without capturing the visual component #NBPy

The internet is full of things: - doom - misinformation - python libraries - cat pictures #NBPy

Now for something completely different: Cats!!! with @baconandcoconut at #NBPy