Saturday, June 7, 2025

PyCon inspiration

One thing going to PyCon did for me was to really inspire doing some work on my own.  

I'm taking a quarter off from classes at OSU and going to concentrate on my job search and building out a few small web apps for my portfolio.

Listening to so many people who got into using python through sheer luck is such a great motivator.  It reminds me that we can take the time we need to learn what we need.

There was also a very grounded sense of use around A.I. and the outlandish claims being made by the technocrats.  Everyone I met was very knowledgeable about how machine learning could help us, but never replace us.  


Class defined

I finished my latest class at Oregon State on my way to my CompSci degree.  I'm taking a quarter off to concentrate on job searching, an...