l33tminion | PyCon Talks and Two Weeks' Travels

The weekend before last, I was out of town at PyCon. It was fun representing Google at the career fair, and I enjoyed the talks I attended. I was able to work from the Montreal office that Monday before heading home. I see why people are so happy at that office, it's a neat little space with a small engineering team. Plus Montreal seemed like a pretty interesting and friendly city.

Some talks of note:

Gary Bernhardt gave a talk on the history of JavaScript from 1995 to 2035. It is amazing.
Julie Pagano (a fellow Googler) gave a talk on battling impostor syndrome in the tech industry, with advice more broadly applicable to developing your career and fostering participation in your workplace in general (with a shoutout to Hacker School's code of conduct, which is really good stuff).
Hynek Schlawack gave a timely look at the state of SSL.

A larger set of talks and tutorials is up here.

This weekend was marathon weekend, yet another weekend when all the things happen at once. Bergamot serves an amazing Easter brunch.

Getting ready for wedding season. DJ and Michelle are getting married in two weeks, my cousin Ben's wedding is two weeks after that.

The situation in Ukraine continues to be messed up.