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Maybe there are others of you out there who are still ruminating on your PyCon US experience (you animals 😁 )... Among other things, I've been pondering the concept of "twiddling" from Doctorow's keynote (@pluralistic).

Since I'm not sure I'll quite have the bandwidth to travel to the bay for ehat[.]fyi, I decided to "have a take" via my blog...

Proceed with caution, as my uninformed opinion abounds...

pythonbynight.com/blog/twiddli

Twiddling, Or Something Like ItTwiddling, Or Something Like ItTech companies manipulate applications to exploit users. What if we could do that to them?

I wrote up my tips for teaching Python with GitHub Codespaces, based off what I shared during the #PyconUS Education Summit session:
blog.pamelafox.org/2025/06/tea

(It's actually a lot about how to set up dev containers with Dockerfile/docker-compose, which is helpful even if you're not teaching)

blog.pamelafox.orgTeaching Python with Codespaces Whenever I am teaching Python workshops, tutorials, or classes, I love to use GitHub Codespaces . Any repository on GitHub can be opened...