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. 🖖
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.
read →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 …