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PYCON UK 2023: Sunday Lightning Talks

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Lightningat PyCon UK 2023 · on Friday, 2023-09-22· [python]

speakers

name:Mark Smith
linkedin:bedmondmark
name:Sean Sabbage
bluesky:sgsabbage.bsky.social
name:Eileen Jacob
links:none on file
name:Andrew Mulholland
links:none on file
name:Sebastian Williams-Wynn
links:none on file
name:Dom Weldon
bluesky:domweldon.bsky.social
name:Julian zammit
links:none on file
name:Peter McGinty
links:none on file
name:Rhythm Patel
links:none on file
name:Michael Nicholson
linkedin:michjnich
name:Ben Nutall
links:none on file

resources

video:https://youtu.be/chxsC2WYNTE
slides:none on file

summary

Forty minutes of ten‑minute lightning shorts that actually give specifics: a brick‑by‑brick rebuild of Cardiff’s Vulcan Hotel taking ten years and remaking original tiles; PCT lessons that rivers kill more than bears and hikers rely on community reports; concrete teaching fixes like pausing every 20 minutes and dual coding visuals with speech; localization using gettext pot po mo workflow; SQLAlchemy ORM demo replacing raw JOINs; volunteering in prisons via IMBs and hiring-from-within with mentors and short, low‑risk trials.

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chapters (11)

  1. 0:00Intro
  2. 6:23The oldest pub in Cardiff
  3. 10:46Respect Rivers not Bears
  4. 16:00How to give a talk
  5. 22:23Sebastian Williams
  6. 36:19Djangocon Africa
  7. 40:06Anonymous Functions
  8. 44:32Your Next Python Hire is Hiding in Plain Sight
  9. 50:54SQL Alchemy
  10. 52:16Demo
  11. 55:24Michael Nichols

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