Python • AI • Community Leader
Python • AI • Community Leader
Notes on engineering, AI, and the people it all affects.
I'm Lorena Mesa. Software engineer, PSF Fellow and Ex-Chairperson, PyLadies Chicago founder, and occasional Starfleet enthusiast. Abides by the motto to live long, Python, and prosper. 🖖
Patrick Stewart is gone, and a wave of first-time leaders just got elected. Waves don't fail at the ballot box — they fail in the months after. Here's the arithmetic of the next election nobody is talking about, and a small Python tool for the work that comes after.
read →A new audit of four leading AI models found they tell otherwise identical women to ask for less money, and for different things: childcare and flexibility instead of equity and advancement. Here's what the study found, why this kind of bias is so hard to see, and what to do about it.
GHC is canceled. The way we work, hire and learn in tech has changed, and how we invest in community is changing with it. Here's where the energy goes next, starting with PyLadiesCon on December 5–7.
Python 3.15 final shipped today. Here's what it actually looks like in production — lazy imports, frozendict, sentinel, a stdlib sampling profiler, and a 7-12% JIT — in EventLoop, a Chicago events chatbot on Python 3.15, uv, FastAPI and PydanticAI.
It's been a few years since I actively blogged. Over six years in fact, and in the ever changing world of tech that is a different era entirely. Back then …