Thank to everyone who came along to our meetup yesterday and also to our hosts Helen!
We had two great talks:
🦍 Miikka Koskinen @Miikka - Compressing floating point data with Gorilla
🖥️ Heikki Ketoharju @heikkiket - Writing a native desktop app with Python and GTK
Plus three lightning talks:
⚡ Hugo van Kemenade @hugovk - Python 3.14 news!
⚡ Roman Abashin - itter.sh: social media for purists
⚡ Ivan Ignatev - SADT/IDEF0 as to-go project diagrams
🇫🇮🐍 Welcome to this month's meetup on Tuesday 27th May 2025 hosted by @mariadb_org!
Talks:
🪟 Jouni Seppänen @jks - Experiences with The PocketFlow LLM Framework
🗃️ Richard Bensley - "Python, the second best language for every problem" - A look at using @mariadb with Python in 2025 and beyond
🧑💻 Hackathon prize ceremony & demos from the winners!
⁉️ And the famous HelPy quiz!
https://www.meetup.com/helpy-meetups/events/306744088/
See you in Espoo!
If you’re confused by what @wendynather means by “helpy”, observe Corrie “helping” to hold down the stack of cards I’d really like to practice my calligraphy on.
#CatsOfMastodon #helpy
For example, telling someone a specific paragraph confused you & suggesting how to improve it. That is helpful not helpy. Or if you know of previous articles making the point better, do supply links which could be added to the post! Only suggesting these articles exist is '#helpy'. I deeply appreciate people being helpful. But 'helpy' is pure frustration. 2/2
Our April meetup is under way, thank you to Reaktor and @jks for hosting from their rooftop office!
On my way to speak at #HelPy meetup on exploratory unit testing. There is a theme to stuff I talk about now and it seems to be that the bar for ‘testing’ can be too low. I know weird things of things I’ve tested. Too many don’t know even the basics. Learning is at the heart of #ExploratoryTesting.
https://speakerdeck.com/maaretp/exploratory-unit-testing-with-and-for-genai
🇫🇮🐍 Welcome to this month's meetup on Tuesday 15th April 2025 at Reaktor!
Talks:
🧪 @maaretp - Exploratory Unit Testing with and for GenAI
🪈 Toni Vanhala - Stable and Observable: Celery Setup Essentials for SQL Pipelines
⁉️ And the famous HelPy quiz!
https://www.meetup.com/helpy-meetups/events/307043355/
See you there!
#HelPy #Helsinki #Python #meetup #testing #UnitTests #GenAI #Celery #SQL #Pipelines
For our May meetup (that's the one after the next one) we have @mariadb_org as a host and they are also organising a hackathon! There are a few €500 Verkkokauppa gift cards as prizes for the best use of their new vector extension to @mariadb.
Deadline for sign up is Monday (31st). Find out more details via their announcement blog post, and join up on our Discord via https://helsinki-python.github.io
#Helsinki #Python #HelPy #meetup #hackathon #Finland #MariaDB
Juhis speaking at #HelPy on why developers should blog. Loving this. Learning to write is essential!
🇫🇮🐍 Welcome to our next meetup on Wednesday 19th March 2025 at Taiste:
Talks:
✒️ @hamatti - Why developers should write blog posts
💉 Sakari Cajanus - Dependency injection in Python (or why Python is not Java)
🦀 Mislav Novakovic - Refactoring to Rust
And the famous HelPy quiz!
https://www.meetup.com/helpy-meetups/events/306522919/
Please also drop us a line if you’d like to give a talk in April or beyond ⭐
#HelPy #Helsinki #Python #meetup #writing #blogging #DependencyInjection #Rust
🇫🇮 🐍 Time for February's #HelPy meetup, kindly hosted by Hive Helsinki, the nonprofit coding school. Our first talk is from Szabina Korbai: "Towards a greener Python".
#Helsinki #Python #Finland #meetup
🇫🇮🐍 We had a great time at our last meetup with about 140 attendees! Thanks to #Wolt for hosting!
Our next meetup is on Wednesday 26th February 2025 at #HiveHelsinki:
🐍 Towards a greener Python by Szabina Korbai
🐼 Speeding up with Pandas vectorization by Thu Le
⚡️ Plumbing git squash merge by Alban King
And let's not forget the famous HelPy quiz!
Welcome along!
https://www.meetup.com/helpy-meetups/events/306131829/
@wendynather Okay I’m stealing that. #helpy
🇫🇮🐍 Kick off 2025 with the first #Helsinki #Python #meetup on Wednesday January 15th, hosted by our friends at #Wolt!
🗂️ Database Concurrency with MVCC by Stanislav Bashkyrtsev
🎢 Through the Ups and Downs: A Practical Approach to Site Reliability by Magdalena Stenius
👷 Subinterpreter Workers in AnyIO by Alex Grönholm
📰 Python news! by @hugovk
… and don’t miss the legendary #HelPy quiz!
Rumour has it that we’ll be treated with delicious hot dogs! See you at Wolt!
Thanks to everyone who came along, and especially our speakers:
Nazaal Ibrahim who told us about JAX for machine learning and numerical computation
Jussi Pakkanen @jpakkane for how he took inspiration from Knuth and wrote his own build system (Meson) and PDF library (CapyPDF)
Akseli Lukkarila for showing how easy it is to use Rust from Python and Python from Rust
And of course to #Nitor for graciously hosting us in their wonderful office!
Happy 🎅🎄❄️
🎄 Christmas is nearly here and that means it's time to join us for our December meet, hosted by #Nitor!
https://www.meetup.com/helpy-meetups/events/304793959/
❄️ Creating Python modules and libraries using #Rust, by Akseli Lukkarila
❄️ #Meson: a Build system in and for Python, by Jussi Pakkanen
❄️ #JAX: A Python ecosystem for machine learning and numerical computation, by Nazaal Ibrahim @nazaal
❄️ And did someone say something about a quiz?
🇫🇮 🐍 Our next meetup is next Thursday, 14th November, graciously hosted by #MavericksSoftware. The talks:
🌍 Disabling GIL: benefits we seek; consequences we get, by Daniel Vahla
💸 Data engineering for frugal people, by Alban King
🎄 How to have a good time in Advent of Code, by Jouni Seppänen @jks
✨ And your chance to win an exclusive HelPy mug in the famous quiz!
https://www.meetup.com/helpy-meetups/events/304284986/
See you there!
🍂🐍🇫🇮 The leaves are changing colour and that means it's time to join us for our October meet, hosted by Elisa!
Tuesday, 22nd October 2024
Talks:
* GIL: What's the hassle and... should I care? by @Unit03 Jacek Kołodziej
* Building large-scale distributed IoT system with Python by Tommi Nikula, Senior Software Developer, Elisa IDS
* And of course the famous HelPy quiz!
