A recap of the main events and posts throughout the year that is ending.
This year I attended some conferences overseas, where I presented talks. First,
in June, I went to the beautiful city of Prague for PyCon CZ 2017. At first, I
got only one talk approved, Discovering Descriptors, which was a new
topic I was presenting. A few days before the conference started, another
speaker had to step down, so I was asked to fill in the slot, to which I agreed
by proposing my talk of clean code in Python. That meant I presented one the
first two days of the conference, and then attended the workshop on the last
day (Saturday).
The conference was nice, and as always, a great opportunity for networking and learning.
July was the month for EuroPython, a conference that is always awesome. This
year, I did not have a talk scheduled beforehand, as I did last year, but
surprisingly enough, on the lightning talk sessions of Monday they announced a
free slot for the Tuesday, to which I volunteer by submitting my new talk,
“Discovering Descriptors”. So, once again, another unexpected (but glad),
opportunity that I had to present a talk at a good conference.
On other topics, I attended several meetups of Python and Go, and became more
involved in distributed systems.
It was also a good year to work more with Docker, and started to learn more
about Kubernetes.
Regarding contributions to open source, I released new versions of most of the
projects I have on GitHub, but there is more. I sent the first successful
patch to CPython in GitHub (important note: at the beginning of this year, the
CPython project moved to GitHub). It was a simple change on the documentation,
about descriptors, that got quickly merged, but a good head start.
Another nice contribution is that, during the sprints at EuroPython, I worked
along the pypy team, and sent some commits fixing changes for Python 3.6. It
was an amazing experience to learn more about the project, and about CPython
itself. Certainly something I look forward to continue doing.
For the new year, I expect more contributions to open source, mainly on the
same projects (CPython and pypy), and release more open source libraries.
Also more conferences, and as always, room for the best which is usually the unexpected.