A few folks have asked about a link between my PyCon talk and Shanley’s writing, specifically her essay 10x Engineer, which you can find in her essay collection, Your Startup Is Broken.

Shanley’s writing (and the work she publishes in Model View Culture) has influenced and inspired my thinking about the tech industry in many ways. Shanley’s writings on tech and feminism have informed and inspired me, and have definitely helped shape my thinking. I’m sorry I didn’t directly address this source of inspiration in my talk. I’ll try to be better about making these influences clear in the future.

Overheard at PyCon:

• James Tauber: “Reinventing the wheel is great if you’re trying to learn more about wheels.”
• Adrian Holovaty: “Having Python produce JavaScript is like using a motorized wheelchair because you’re too lazy to walk.”
• Titus Brown: “I don’t do test driven development. I do stupidity driven testing… I wait until I do something stupid, and then write tests to avoid doing it again.”
• Simon Burton (introducing RPython): “Who here would like your Python code to run thirty to forty times faster? [Raised hands, applause]. Well, it’s not going to happen.”
• Simon Burton (a few moments later): “You can either take drugs of try RPython.”

For anyone looking for the Django stuff I showed off at PyCon:

• Slides from my presentation (PDF version [9 MB])
• The Sudoku app I demonstrated
• Source to the Sudoku app