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

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.

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 👏👏

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

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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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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?

Not the onion. Just irony.

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

Why does the USA need an "inauguration fund"?

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.

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. 😞

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 just submitted a tutorial to PYCON 🐍 US 🗽2025. You can learn from the creator (me) how to write a Python browser app using PyScript's Reactive LTK (pyscript.github.io/ltk/?tab=3). This includes UI, events, CSS styling, and third-party calls to OpenAI to create content. Pittsburgh, here I come! ✈️

Amsterdam Rijksmuseum is always amazing.

I will present "PyScript, Python in the browser" at FOSDEM 2025, a free OSS event to meet, share ideas, and collaborate in Brussels, February 1-2. No need to register—just turn up and join in! Hope to see you there and learn how you are contributing to open-source.

Bluesky desperately needs identity verification. I have a hard time believing this actually is the famous actor, singer, athlete, and musician Peter, who is reaching out to me...

🎉🍿Announcing Bluesky Cinema 🍿🎉 Focus on your feed content by zooming in on one post at a time. Use the keyboard to like and go to the next post quickly. Check out the source at github.com/laffra/bsky-... and install the Chrome Extension now: chromewebstore.google.com/detail/blues...

🐍🎧 Episode #226 of the Real Python Podcast: “PySheets: Spreadsheets in the Browser Using PyScript” #pyscript #C4E #python #podcast

The Amsterdam Founder's Dinner last month was a great experience. I am so glad I went. I made new friends, got helpful advice, and saw inspiring demos of new startups at the Amsterdam Startup Meetup. It was packed, with people even standing outside in the cold. Cool!

If you watched my recent PyData Global tutorial in real-time, thank you for attending! You can still watch the recording at Airmeet, if you registered for the conference. For all others, the recording will be uploaded to YouTube early next year.

Why you should read my C4E book, according to Yigit Yilmaz:

"All bad things in Python come from Guido" - at Guido's Dijkstra Award ceremony at CWI in Nov 2019. These three pictures were taken by David Beazley, Guido himself, and me.

Here is my setup for today's #PyData Global tutorial on writing Python applications in the browser using #PyScript-LTK. let's Go!

For my upcoming PyData Global tutorial, I create slides with Google Slides, convert them to PNGs with pymupdf, and render them with PyScript LTK. See github.com/laffra/slides. Here is the process in a nutshell:

Five more days until my 90-minute tutorial at PyData Global on how to quickly write your own Python application that runs entirely in the browser using Reactive LTK.

Privacy transparency is hard. Even for Bluesky, apparently... www.theverge.com/2024/11/25/2...

Pretty soon, tech toys will finally be cheaper in Europe than in the US. No need to fly to San Francisco anymore to buy a new Macbook M4 Pro Max!

There are lies, damn lies, and then there are 1-billion nested loops. 🤡

Join me on Dec 4 at #PyDataGlobal to learn about Python, PyScript, LTK, MicroPython, PyOdide, WebAssembly, JavaScript, OpenAI, HTML, and CSS.

At #PyDataGlobal 2024, I am teaching a 90-minute tutorial on how to write a Todo app in the browser using PyScript LTK. Join me and learn how to write reactive UIs, and call OpenAI. All that in only 100 lines of Python and zero lines of JavaScript! 🚀 I hope to see you online on Dec 4.