Brett Cannon - Core Python, Fountain Pens

Topics:

• “I don't know about the rest of you... I came for the language, but I stayed for the community." Brett Cannon, Python Core Dev, Pycon US 2014 Opening remarks
• Public speaking
• Being encouraging to others
• Why Canada
• Meanings of Back Bacon, Toque, and Pop
• Walking in Vancouver
• Snowshoeing
• Philosophy and thinking logically
• Proving the existence of God
• Rewriting code. “You’re probably going to have to write this 3 times before you’re happy with it.”
• 1 week per month on technical debt.
• Fountain pens
• Writing a gratitude journal
• Books
• “What goes on in your brain is not the same as everyone else’s.”
• "Steeped in the world of tea." - nice pun

Links from the show:

• Podcast interviews
  • Django Chat - 20 Years of Python - Brett Cannon
  • The Changelog - There’s a whole PEP about that - Brett Cannon
• Tim Urban’s TED talk which is about procrastination and not public speaking, so I have no idea what Brett is talking about. Good talk though.
• Brett’s PyCascades talk: Python's Syntactic Sugar
• Brian’s PyCascades talk: Sharing is Caring: Sharing pytest Fixtures

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