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 →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.