If you have not been to #Excavacon you are missing out.
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Bad: Dealing with annoying CAPTCHAs.

Good: At least Google knows I was at #ExcavaCon last weekend and gave me an easy one.

Funny how when you come back from a convention like #ExcavaCon, you start noticing the topics of the talks all around you.

It seems this week I get to enjoy the home version of #excavacon…

@glyph “that would explain why this venue is so much bigger, #ExcavaCon used to be in a barn”

@glyph @chrisjrn I mean, they mined enough steel in Pittsburgh that I think the excavator angle is still valid. Plus I don’t know what the #ExcavaCon equivalent would be otherwise, and that was the most important part of the talk by far.

I keep trying to actually follow the advice of other successful speakers and write talks that can be delivered more than once so that I can get practice delivering them and select among several recordings and just generally do less work for equivalent impact, but then I go and add load-bearing lines like "then why are we in a barn" and that's very hard to replicate in a nonspecific tech-conference context #ExcavaCon

The #ExcavaCon tag is possibly the funniest thing that has happened to me on social media and I very much appreciate everyone posting to it

My talk “Or Else! An exploration of obscure control flow” from North Bay Python is up!

If you have even a passing interest in exploring better alternatives for structuring your code to improve readability — and especially if you enjoy unexpected stunts in the process — then you should give it a watch:

https://youtu.be/jRIkhLVGq9o?si=sn8oBU6sqaRi8CCx

#NBPy #ExcavaCon

Please enjoy the talk I delivered this weekend at #ExcavaCon 2025 — it is now live on YouTube: https://youtu.be/lcj0-VrJbXQ

Hey, @glyph , we just saw a hydraulic earth mover on the way home from #ExcavaCon !

The @NorthBayPython logo lives! #NBPy #ExcavaCon

And there were some “awards” of various dubiousness. #NBPy #ExcavaCon

@treyhunner *cough* #ExcavaCon *cough* #NBPy

It's now sunny enough that I need sunglasses outside the barn. 🌞 #NBPy #ExcavaCon

@chrisjrn @glyph @NorthBayPython Jokes aside, I was telling someone it would be fun to have a collection of post-conference shirts. For NBPy we could have North Bay Fortran, North Bay Basic, now #ExcavaCon, etc. Doing it as a pre-order might net a few bucks, if there are enough inside joke lovers attending… 😅

Very pleased to have spontaneously inspired the #ExcavaCon hashtag

"Oh, this is a Python conference?" @glyph realizes this is not #ExcavaCon as this slide with Brian David Gilbert singing "this song is not a metaphor" pops up. #NBPy

And if you're busy writing your talk submission for #PyOhio, you should absolutely make sure you're checking in on the awesome @NorthBayPython conference and #nbpy tag, the conversation is amazing!

Great conferences make for great fun in many ways, and can spawn many surprising turns!

Notably: it appears that there's a new con happening: #ExcavaCon!

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