PyTexas 2023: Day 1

Keynote: Walking the Line

Amazing keynote, and I will definitely watch it again when it’s uploaded to YouTube!

• Make small, incremental, and easy to understand changes.
• Test often and fail quickly.
• Orient yourself by checking an expected failure.

A Tale of Two Typings

• Legacy code is simply code without tests types.
• Define your types, don’t just inline them.

Trust Fall: Hidden Gems in MLFlow that Improve Model Credibility

The talk focused on machine learning, but I think this can still apply outside of that.

• Build trust through documentation and reproducibility.

Exploring Socio-technical Security Concerns in Critical Open-source Python Repositories

• Catalyst: Someone intentionally introduced bad code into Linux for a research paper.
• Pull requests power open source contributions.
• FOSS needs to be careful what gets merged in.

A BuildEngineer in a buildless lang

• Improve development by reducing stylistic diffs and increasing semantic diffs.

Recursion for Beginners: A Beginner’s Guide to Recursion

• All recursive solutions have an iterative solution.
• Unless you are dealing with trees, avoid recursion.

Improving code without losing your mind

• https://blog.alexewerlof.com/p/tech-debt-day/
• We tend to focus on getting features out the door.
• Like an artist, programmers should improve – refactor – their art.
• Set aside time to improve – refactor – your code.
• Make code understandable and obvious.

Lightning Talks

• Make code obvious. Otherwise, make it familiar. Otherwise, make it well-documented. Start by making it obvious!
• For demos/testing, you can pip install packages directly inside of the Python Interpreter!

>>> import pip
>>> pip.main(["install", "django"])