Lightning Talks 1

Speaker 1 [02:17]

Considering the amount of late we're getting, this seems like an Italian conference, not German conference. All right. All right. Okay. The next host is almost coming to stage. Johannes, waiting for you, please. All right. Thank you, folks. Welcome to what I think, in a very unbiased way, the best session of the conference, Latin Talks. What is this chaos? Five minutes, one slide per deck. Well, that's not really. Zero mercy. Anyone can sign up. Any topic, Python, data, kittens, the universe, whatever you want to talk about. Five minutes timed, the bell will judge you. Beginners very, very much encouraged. Be fast, be loud, be you. I just want to introduce the two very unreliable hosts for the session today. We have Johannes, the timekeeper, keeper of the five minute bell. The timer is sacred, is merciless, timer is Johannes. And then we have Lisa, the torchbearer of Django Girls. the Django girl Storch into the lighting storm, and here to cheer the loudest when a first-time steps on stage. And we also have two special guests from the future. Let me introduce you, Andy and Laura, visiting us from the future. Andy and Laura? Andy is visiting from a timeline where Python 4 is a rumor, and Laura is muggled in a talk title that hasn't been invented yet. Do you want to introduce yourself? Sure. Oh, yeah. On mic. Hello, everybody. Thank you for having us in your timeline. I would like to tell you that we're here because we're doing anthropological research. And we're witnessing history. One of you in this room prevents the AI apocalypse. But the temporal prime directive prevents me from saying which one it is. But you know who you are, so thank you. And we will be providing notes from the future, which will be interspersed with the talk. So you'll get a little note from us. Fabulous. Thank you very much, Andy and Laura, for joining us. Just to give you a bit of context for those of you who haven't submitted a Lighting the Hook proposal, every speaker today was dealt a secret card during submission. Each card is a tiny, harmless, quote, unquote, rule they had to weave into their talk. Some are obvious, some are sneaky, some are absolutely unhinged. Your mission in the audience is to try to guess which constraint each speaker was dealt and clap louder if you spot it, cheer if it's weird. The winner receives absolutely nothing, just pure smug satisfaction. Just a few samples of those cars, very randomly selected, no kidding, the hidden word, work the words pineapple, pizza into your talk at least once, and then an Italian would die. The number, mention number 42 at least once and briefly explain why. haiku. Include one slide that contains only a haiku 575 related to your topic and the live gamble. Include a moment of genuine randomness. Roll a die. Let fate decide something. All right. Warning to all of you. Shenanigans may occur today and tomorrow. All right. Let's get striking. A huge round of applause for those of you who submitted community announcements. If you want to do your talk, this is the moment. So you have to come up on stage, and I'm going to hand your slides for you. Do you want to do that? No? Nobody come here for the events? We have a Python BarCamp, PyData London conference, Swiss Python Summit, PyTest development, Python Camp, EuroSciPy, BarCamp, and bring Python test to the lab. Are you happy now? All right. I have Python bar come first. Who's Python bar come? All right. Come on up. Oh, no, sorry. This is what I have. I thought you said Python bar come. No, I said Python bar come. Kazru? Yeah, go ahead. All right. Two minutes. Two minutes. up. Hello Python people and welcome. We would like to invite you to the next Python Barcamp in Karlsruhe, but first of all, what is a Barcamp and what makes it so special? You can think it's like a PyCon, but compact and small, and you might expect everything revolves around Python, but what really makes it stand out is the format. Because of the small group size you can talk to other people connect to other people talk about interesting topics and yeah and honestly it's absolutely worth that worth attending once you've been there you will come always back and I'm living proof of that thank you for your attention and I hope to see you around March or April at the bar camping cards with Sorry, slides are not opening. I'm going to show you your slides later. I don't know why. Why they're not getting it. Right. Next, coming up, we have Pydata London. Let's see if we have slides first. Can we have it projected, please? I'm showing my full screen here for that specific reason. Can we have that? Why are you getting the extended version? Okay. I have an idea. Yeah, I figured. Of course, in future, Pydata London is underwater. I'm sorry, guys. It's a great diving trip, though. If I... Is the mic over here? I don't know, which one do you prefer, Lauren? London or Neo-London? I feel like when they rebuilt it, they got a lot of things better. Yeah, I know, because I could see that. Right. Thank you. It's one of the Muppets, actually. Hi, everyone. I hope you're enjoying the conference so far. I just want to quickly draw your attention to another conference that I'm sure you're going to enjoy just as much, PyData London. It's happening in about one and a half months from now. And the program is already out there live. so please feel free to go and check out the schedule. If you were there last year and loved the venue, I have good news for you, because it's going to be at the same location. It's just by the St Paul's Cathedral. Really nice square, really nice pubs around, although they close a bit early, so that might be an issue. But I don't think we're going to be running out of pubs in London. the tickets are selling fast so make sure to grab yours convince your boss to get your tickets and if you're the boss themselves I guess you know what to do and yeah I'll hope to see you there soonish, thank you wonderful thank you okie doke so in the meantime I set up the next one which is Swiss Python Summit. I just want to share the slides that hasn't been seen before, which is Python Barcom Karsuru. At least you get the information here. February, March, 1987, that's the QR code. In time, if you're interested, go there. That's Swiss Python. All right. Coming up. Wow. That was easy. It looks nice in this timeline. Imagine, indeed, you could have a Python conference at a nice place like that. Yeah. Just go down. Or like that. So clearly the most beautiful place for a Python conference right next to the Zurich Lake. So you can even go for a swim, I guess. And it's quite close to here. In fact, if you would rate Python conferences based on how far you would need to travel from here, then this year's EuroPython is clearly far off. Last year's EuroPython is better, but SwissPython Summit clearly is best. So it's near Zurich, but at the other end of the Zurich Lake, you have to train every half an hour or so from Zurich. It's quite convenient to get there. And it will be on October 22nd and 23rd. One day with general Python topics, one day about data science. The call for proposals is open right now until the end of May. Yearly bird tickets should open very soon. There is a pull request open as soon as someone merges it. I think ticket sales are open. And you'll find more at pythonsummit.ch. All right. Fabulous. Thank you, guys. Then we have PyTest development sprints. You again. And that is indeed me again. Could you raise your hand if you have used PyTest before? Nice. They're all pretending to test their code, no worries. So there will be a development sprint where PyTest core developers but also other interested people will work on PyTest for a full week. It's the week after EuroPython. I'm very sorry for people who want to go to EuroSciPy, it's in the same week, but that was the day that worked best for PyTest core developers. It will be hosted in a village with a couple of hundred people or so in Klaus, Austria, very close to the Swiss border, so you can get there from Zurich airport in like two hours. You can also get there nicely from Munich, for example, in around three hours. And PyTest has some funds to pay for travel and accommodation for a limited number of interested people. There is nothing more than the date so far, but I have linked there to a GitHub repository where you can subscribe to discussions, and we will have more information there. Thank you. Fabulous. Of course, I was joking, but the thing is, it's so awesome to see so many things happening at the same time. It means there's plenty we can choose from, and the next coming up is PythonCamp, Rugen. Yes. All right. Yeah, sure. Yeah. That's it. Oh, oh, oh. Too fast. Okay. However. Sorry. I broke your joke. Okay, however. Sorry, I broke your joke? There are more than one places to have a beautiful Python conference. And I'd like to add another one. And this year, for the fourth time, we will have the Python camp on Rügen again at the end of September. I can highly recommend it. And in case that you wonder about where Rügen is, it's a nice island in the Baltic Sea. To the north, you see Copenhagen. to the West Hamburg, where Stettin is in Poland, and a little bit to the south, not visible here, is Berlin. Yes, and we can zoom in a little bit to the island. Here we see, it's a nice shape, by the way, of the island. We see the small town of Lietzow, where we have our location for the bar camp in Rügen. And to reach Lietzow, you can do that by car. As you can see, there's a nice road there. and to the upper left there is a location and accommodation because you can stay overnight at the venue. And Rügen has also a train station. So you can reach the location by train. Here to the left you see the train station. But don't get fooled. You get every hour a connection to Stralsund and from there to Berlin, to Hamburg, and to every major location in Germany. So it's really good connected. And to the right, you see an impression from the location itself. On the next slide, you see some more impressions from the location, including some basic beverages. And so you get well served, yes, in every direction. and yes, also in this, a nice eastern word for here you can eat something. And so in the end, remember yes, pythoncamp.de that's the internet address for our bar camp and remember the date, 26th and 27th of September this year. Hope to see you there. Alright. Thank you. You're a sci-fi. Take it away. Okay, you may have heard about EuroSciPy, which is a Python conference dedicated to science. So it's a very multi-science conference, all kind of things, not only data science, a lot of other scientists will be there. And this time it's different because we're in Krakow again, and we're kind of back-to-back with EuroPython, so we have joined Sprint. So EuroPython ends, EuroSciPy starts, and we overlap two days of Sprint. So if you want to go there, you can have two weeks in the beautiful city of Krakow and we have two days of talks two days of tutorials so tutorials are very strong at Europython and we also have posters so the call for talks is closed but you still have the chance to get in a poster I guess so if you want to come when you want a presentation you can do a poster presentation otherwise the main thing is you can meet a lot of core maintainers of NumPy, Pandas, MetaTip and other values scientific packages and if you want You can sprint to them and talk to them. It's a very nice, interesting conference if you're in this circle of scientific Python. All right. Thanks. I guess BarCamp is still you? Yet another one. So you might know about the BarCamps. We've been to them already. So BarCamp, it's a kind of somebody, some people call it unconference. So we don't have a fixed program. We just come together. Then you have a proposal, but you want to talk. And then we vote on it, and then if enough people like it, then you can give a presentation, it can be a presentation, it can be a talk, it can be reverse things like teach me something, so of course there has to be somebody able to teach you, otherwise it doesn't work. But it's very interesting, very interactive, and most people, all people I've talked to so far say it's great, because you can learn a lot, and it's a very intensive thing. It's usually a smaller kind of, not as big as this one, wouldn't work, but it's very interesting. And if you want to come to the city of Leipzig, which is a very interesting city, all the people being there, they like it. You're invited there in the first weekend of August. And we have two days of intensive discussion. Thanks. And for the last one, I don't think this is an event announcement. I screwed up. So I looked at the a web page, and it said, yeah, blah, blah, blah, blah, doesn't matter. If you have slides, I'll put them here. I mean, sure, upload slides. Then I come on the stage now, and I'm like, wait, these are all events. I look at the page, heading says, if you have an event, if you want to suggest. So sorry for the mishap. Stay around for my lightning talk if it happens, and see you soon. All right. Bye. That's fine. All right, so this means we can crack on with lightning talks, actually. Sounds good. But we forgot to tell the audience about their job. Oh, yeah. Your job out there is to watch the clock. And when it gets to zero, you start clapping so that the speaker knows that it's time for them to stop. Also, Valerio, you forgot one thing more. I forgot, of course, right? Yes. Time for the next generation, maybe? Yes. Okay. I said to some of you that when you go on stage you get special edition cards made by our wonderful experience team for the schnitzel yacht I have them here after when you come up on stage you can choose either one yes one is with Valerio one is with me pictures from last year all right so we can do this lecture now, we can probably go for two rounds, because we have two wonderful pods here, which means we know in advance and we try to minimize as much as possible the speaker change. So the next coming up on stage. I know who it's going to be. We have Zia. Zia, lead a German data team at now. Xia, are you here? Fabulous. Great. Huge round of applause, please. And right after that, you can already set up on the right side is Jasper with how I stopped worrying and started loving the burpee. Right. Okay. you setting up. Yes. Fabulous. All done. Yes. Now, yes, just like extend everything. So the video team is happy. I think it should be fine. Jesper is getting ready for the next one. All right. Take it away. Okay. Thank you. Hello, everyone. My name My name is Xia. Actually, I'm not living at now, but at Engovay, because, you know, we are in Germany. So what Engovay stands for? I worked for Engovay already more than two years, so it's still very difficult for me to remember. So, I will try. National Organisation Wasserstoff und Brennstoffzellertechnologie. Wait. Wait. Yeah. Finally, after two years, I remember the name. And this year, my colleagues come to me, you know, it got a new name. It's still called NOA. And, yeah, I don't know, because then I bring here. Now we have here, Nationalorganisation für die Wander in der Mobilität, eight words. So yeah, my life at NOVA, yes, start hard with the German language. And I have a native German speaker team. And I moved to Germany 12 years ago with zero German language. And what we are doing, before 19th century, Benz invented the first car in Germany. And our vision, our mission is to make sure that it reaches zero emissions. And my team called data on cloud. I was wondering why it's not worker if you already have data. It's always the thingish. Anyway, I find it sweet. And as a manager, and I'm not dealing with the people, but I play the game every day. So I want to play with you today. You just say it loud. Do you know, anyone know Python, D, D, DAS? No, actually, we have already a higher chance. Actually the correct is DARE, but DUDEN allows also D over 30 years, surprise! And the next word is cloud. Ah, that's easy. Fantastic. Because of feminine, like a powerful thing. And the last word is ETF, because I'm data engineer, was before. That's, yeah, that's easier, I think. Okay. So, as a data engineer, you know, I was debugging the pipelines. I was also doing this. Fortunately, I didn't need to, but I'm dealing with the people at the moment. And, yeah, and recently also one of my colleagues came to me, and I received this piece of feedback that I inspired him. I was, what, really? I was not confident at all. and maybe he just wants to make me comfortable because I'm the only one who speaks always broken German. But anyway, I accept it because I really appreciate the feedback and that motivates me further. And so the takeaway is don't be afraid to make mistakes and I'm not perfect at all. You don't need to see two layers to lead German native teams. So just do it and laugh at yourself first also. And that's all. Thank you, and don't ask me what Ango is then. Thank you. Thank you for your wonderful talk. Which one do you want to have? Okay. I guess while we wait up for Jasper to set up, and please come to the right. There. You can set up there. going to draw the next person who can set up while Jasper talks at this stage, and it will be Ruud van der Haan, ISTR, Strings You Can Count On. So tell us, does German have these articles in the future? Yeah, there's 25, actually. Oh, no. But we all have brain implants, so it makes it much easier. That's such a relief. But everyone speaks Neo-Chinese, so that's pretty good, too. It's more Z-Zer than D-Der. Yeah. Depending on how you do it, if you have the direct brain link, you can also use infinite pronouns. Wow. It's just a continuous space of pronouns. It's 127,000 dimensional. Nice. Nice. But that's for the direct link only people. I don't know. Some people think it ruins parties. Jesper, are you ready? Yes. Try. He's just building the anticipation. I think we just have to present like this because I was, that's not me, that's me, so I tried to write this right before this and then I was expecting to talk over there about a different project and my slides didn't compile in time so now we're presenting out of VS Code. My talk is how I stopped worrying and started loving the burpee. last year a couple of people already like met me and I was a little bit besides myself because I just finished my third burnout in a row in one year and that I'm sorry almost killed me and the thing that kept me around is working out so right now I didn't really want to submit a talk here because I only want to talk about sports and Catherine upstairs said well why don't you so I figured this is a lightning talk so sports is where I as a non-binary person feel most embodied which is ironic because sports is ridiculously gendered mostly because men really don't like being outperformed by women and so we have a women's chess league because that is a very physical sport but I realized that when I'm in a running group or in a community workout, no one really cares anymore. They just care that you don't hurt yourself because that's really annoying and they have to stop and like help you and like that you keep up. So yeah, you push your limits, you suffer together, you grow, you make friends and community is a big thing that pulled me out of burnout and I really love it. structures. Like I said, the trans question that people always talk about, like, should women be allowed to compete with women is kind of ridiculous. Which kid do you wear when you're like formed like me? Like, is it male? Is it female? Is it like, what kind of shirt do you have to buy? I literally had to ask Chachapiti where the difference between female and male running shoes are tell me when there are non-binary options please keep me keep me in but yeah basically there is feminist theory around this there's the glitch by legacy Russell and basically it is a form of resistance to well to basically not perform binary so earlier I was asked well if you're changing your gender? What are you doing with your beard? And I'm like, I don't know. I walk into like an Austrian restaurant and people basically say, ah, wo möchte die Dame denn sitzen? Because I have long hair. So it's not really new for me to not really conform to expectations. And in sports, my body is just what I can do, not who I am seen as, which is very nice. Let's see if I can even scroll in this. The brain. I have ADHD. I'm freshly medicated. It's really amazing. You saw me maybe sneak by almost on time this morning. And I love sport because sport is one of the ways that I can regulate myself. I work out up to three times a day, which some people find excessive. I find just enough. But getting to the sport is the hard part. Being on time, having your gear, blah, blah, blah it's rough time blindness executive function all that stuff and if I miss my workouts it's not just oh no I didn't go I'm missing my community I'm missing my recovery infrastructure I'm missing some important like brain stuff that then gets worse so yeah like I said I burned out three times I was disassociated from my body I was weighing around 30 kilos more than I weigh now I'm using medication for that I cannot take credit for this except for like keeping it going but yeah it was basically just a vessel carrying my brain through the work and the brain was in a bad soup basically so sport was my way back I didn't want to get fit I just wanted to feel again and yeah I was supposed to include like an old saying from my card and caring for myself is not self-indulgence, it is self-preservation, and that is an act of political warfare. From 1988, I hope that counts, because it's older than me. So sport isn't indulgence, it's infrastructure, and I'm actually using AI to help me with that, because I have to book a lot of stuff, like I said. Okay. While I'm going to set up the clock again for Ruth, Lisa is going to draw another one. Okay. Good evening. Just wait for... Please. Please. Ellen Koenig. How to talk to people at conferences. Ellen, come up here. Should work. Okay. Good. You can start now. There we are. I hope. Yeah. I wanted to talk a little bit about a open source, small open source project I've done recently and it's all about strings where we can count on and why would you like that so it's actually strings that also works as integers and you might think that's completely crazy but it's specifically useful for a type of puzzles that i use to to solve from new scientists and the Sunday Times, and that's quite often with letters that have to be replaced with digits, so like some cents plus more is money, and then you have to find the different values. Those puzzles are actually usually made to be solved by humans just with some reasoning, but there's a special interest group who does that always with code, and they're two ways to do it. The ones who want to do it as fast as possible, so minimize the runtime and I'm actually the one who wants to do it with the least code. And for that it's very useful to have a package where you can actually have strings that that works like if they are numbers. And it's also a lot of fun to make it holes and it may not be as spectacular as the discovery of America by Christopher Columbus but but still it's fun so how does it work well you can just define a string like you could also define another string so for instance you can say I string 12 you can also say string 12 but that's the same you can also do that with a string and then actually those those those variables a and B are actually strings and numbers so you can for instance do a plus a and the plus operator works as a as a number so oops and the slideshow is the rebellion starting no no that's not for a couple more years it's all good And something about critical Columbus, oops, what's all that? So it's actually just then the plus operator. So you can also do calculations, times, et cetera, and you can compare it with the number 12, but also the string 12, and both are true, which is quite special, of course. But if you want to concatenate two strings, which you usually do with a plus sign, that's not possible because that's the arithmetic plus operator. So in that case you have to use the pipe operator. They just behave like strings, but as well as integers. You can do comparisons based on those strings, so then the two, the string two is then actually smaller than 100, which is not the case with the string. That can also make string sorting quite a bit easier. We can convert those to convert intervals to strings, et cetera. And for those packages, they usually, those type of puzzles also have things like have to be a prime or a triangular number or a cube or those type of things. And it also supports all those kinds of things. So just a fun package for me to use, and there are some other users, not that many actually, but there are some. It's available on PyPI and on GitHub, and if you're interested, well, this is the link, and I will just say thank you for your attention. We have a little surprise for you before Alan talks. Valerio is going to come back out. Maybe just one question. So you were expecting that shenanigans were over, right? But there's plenty where this comes from. All right. I really, really need your help for something super important. I'll tell you in a second. So if, please, our video team could show up the page, they need to. I need you to go to a URL, either with your phone, scanning your QR code, I promise it's safe, it's been vibe coded, or going to scrying.pycon.de, please, I need to take a picture of everybody going like that. Please do that. Let's do this. Let's pretend you're connecting again. I love you folks. All right. So I really need your input for something super important. If you're all ready, we have 20 seconds to answer very important burning question I have. What's the best Python library for data science? Okay. This is working. Haven't been tested in production at all. sort of working. All right. All right. All right. Oh, the winner is pandas. Thank you. That's it. Okay. Was it enough chaos already? Was it enough chaos already? Oh, absolutely Probably not. Never. Much more soon. Then we may pick the next talk. Yeah. So it's Travis Hathaway. We need a four-day workweek now. Please set up here to the left of me. If you love the four-day workweek, then the two-day workweek even better. I mean, we're up to zero days now. But that... You ready? Just until 2077. Yeah, I'm definitely all for the four-day work week. Then we have more talk, time to have fun talking to strangers at conferences. So I've been going to these PyData events and PyCon conferences since 2001, since the first one in Berlin. And I used to hate small talk at these events. And I always see these great talks about the hardware trackers, wondering what are these people doing? I don't know. recently I became a coach for a woman who wanted to drive in tech and basically now I get paid to sit in calls with mostly strangers and facilitate conversations that go deep quickly while still being light and fun. And I found these skills actually translate into small talk and that was a really cool realization for me. And then I also realized small talk is a lot more fun if everybody is having fun not just me. And so that's why I wanted to share these some tips about how we can all have more fun at this conference and any future conference you attend by having small talk. So one way to have more fun is to treat small talk like collaborative detective game. The goal is to discover topics together that you are all excited about. So whether you're talking one on one or in a small group, the goal is really how can we find that topic in conversation that we are really excited to talk about it and just talk about it. So that small talk is really the preamble to find that topic that we really want to talk about, all of us. And what I realized over the time is why is small talk usually boring and painful? It's basically because our nervous system is afraid of strangers, especially in groups. And then we shut down, and then we don't dare to talk about anything except for safe and basic and boring facts, like where do we work, and how was the trip to Darmstadt? And that's not really engaging, and it's not that entertaining. And eventually you get stuck there, and it's sad. so what I found and what I also learned in my coaching training is before we can open up and have really entertaining and inspiring conversation we need to establish trust and psychological safety and that goes for small talk as much as for coaching conversation therapists train this for years so don't feel bad if you don't immediately get it right but it's a good thing to practice and then it's quite empowering to learn and there are a few things that help with that First of all, some non-verbal basics, gentle eye contact, maybe smile, keeping a conversational distance, so being somewhere where people notice you and can hear you, but not too close and not too far. And that's a cultural thing, and it's a bit tricky sometimes to get right in intercultural contexts. Then good warm-up topics are things, common experiences. So if I talk about my job and you talk about your job, that's usually not a common experience. But as boring as it sounds, the weather or the food in the venue or the last talk you attended together can be, as long as everybody can really talk about the topic and have something to contribute, it's a good warm-up topic. But it's not so much about what you talk about, it's more about how you talk about it. And so try to understand what the others value about this topic, exchange your thoughts, opinions, feelings. So even though the topic might be really boring, it's a practice for exchanging basically the safety, that you're establishing the context and the game of, oh yeah, we can talk with each other. And then our nervous system relaxes, and then we can open up and go into more interesting topics. And the key here really is to appreciate each other rather than debate or argue. So it's very common, and it used to be a cliche with the tech flame war. So it's very easy to get into, oh, yeah, but I see you differently and you're wrong. That's not helpful in small talk. That's really the one thing to really pay attention to. It's really about, oh, what are you saying, and how can I add to this without contradicting you? And so once the conversation is flowing, it is safe to branch into more personal topics that might be more meaningful and more exciting. And then there's a small, that is kind of the game part. How do we jump from one topic to the next one and find out what is interesting to you? And you will feel immediately when you find a topic that's interesting to all of you, because then the conversation just takes off. And sometimes you don't find what you're looking for, and then maybe after 10 minutes realize, okay, find some different people to play with, briefly to excuse yourself politely, and just head off. There's no need to keep each other locked in boring conversations. That's also not helpful. So, let's make the conference more fun for us. Repeat after me. I will treat small talk like a joint quest to find topics we are curious and excited about. I will draw the next person to come up to the right of the stage. Neural linking sure did make small talk weird, didn't it? There was no hiding that. Johan, you have very messy handwriting. Let me help you. I love this talk title, though. Stop the slop. How to not be an annoyance to your colleagues. Welcome, everybody, to my little lightning talk, and I promise that this now does not stand for a German acronym, so no need to worry about that. But maybe to get everybody engaged, I'm going to say, when do we need a four-day work week? Now. When? okay so what I'm gonna say yeah so do you have the following problems you need more time for friends and family yeah do you need more time to pursue hobbies and education of course you do are you really burnt out and you're just tired of this job well my friend I have a solution for you and it's the four-day workweek but unfortunately right now as it is this four-day workweek isn't a reality for a lot of us but if you happen to live in Germany like I currently do we have a kind of a solution and this is the Teilzeit und Befristigungsgesetz and so this is the part-time and fixed-term employment act and so what this does is that it says that if you've worked at a company for more than six months and the company has at least 15 employees you have the legal right to request a reduction in your working hours, and your employer has to agree unless they have serious operational reasons not to, and yes, this is a real law, and this is actually, and you have a little checklist to see if you qualify, you've been employed for six months, sorry, this slides were made by AI, so that's why it's repeating itself, but yeah, and I made this like 10 minutes before the talk, so bear with me, and yeah, you haven't made a similar request in the last two years. So that's also important. But what's really cool is that, let's see, right. And so I wanna share with you how you actually do the request itself. So first you have to write it, you have to get it in writing, and then you submit it to the employer. So you can do this via their ticketing system. And then next you have to negotiate with your employer to see which schedule you want. And then, yeah, and the thing is is that actually I did this myself. And what I did is you have to pick, like, a firm day, so, yeah, Monday, Friday, Saturday, or not Saturday, excuse me, but, yeah, maybe Wednesday. And then, yeah, then you have to decide, and then your employer has to give you a respond in writing a month before. And then the other thing is that if you don't get a response from your employer, it actually gets automatically approved. This would be hilarious to see if this has ever actually happened. If it has, please come talk to me. And so, yeah, I'll talk to you a little bit about my story. so I sent a formal request, and then also, too, the other thing is I had an honest conversation with my manager, so we sat down, and I didn't blindside anybody about this. I had a serious conversation, said, hey, I really would like to reduce my working time, and this was actually very interesting, because my manager is in the United States, and in the United States, they don't have this law, and there's actually many countries around the world where they don't have this law, so we're really lucky to have this in Germany, and then what I did is I proposed a schedule. And for me, I'm working Monday through Wednesday and Friday. And funny enough, what I had to do is, because I asked, hey, if I have Fridays off, what happens if there's a holiday on that Friday? Well, they said, oh, well, you still have to work four days that week. And I'm like, okay. So this sounded like an optimization problem. So obviously I wrote a Python script to basically find the optimal day. And this optimal day was Thursday. So it was really cool. Yeah. And then after that, the employer agreed because, hey guess what they have to and yep so now not everyone could do this though and the thing is is that this also meant that I had to take a 20 pay cut luckily in my situation I was able I had the financial resources that I could afford this but not everybody can and I think that this is a being able to work four days a week should be a right for everybody and they should be able to earn 100 income and so I think that going forward we need to normalize this and hey guess what AI is making us more productive, so why aren't we reaping the benefits of this? Yeah, and let's demand this from the lawmakers and all that good stuff. So yeah, four-day work week right now! Okay, cool, thanks everybody. Are you ready for the next round of MATLAB? Same link, scrying.pykin.de. Another burning question I have, what's the most overrated tech password? I think we have a clear winner. I would have said blockchain, I think. What do you think? And we can pick up in the next speaker in the meantime, just in the interest of time. All right. We have a winner, I think. AI, the crowd has spoken. Who's the next up? Well, that's funny, because the next speaker to come up and take the podium here is Kai from Mnemonic, talking about agentic AI workflow with game development as a case study. KAUSTEN LINDENBORG- Mm. Oh, that's nice. Was this prepared? No, please be Are you here? Oh fantastic. Brilliant. All right, take it away. But now Johan is gonna start his talk Hi Stop the slop a five-minute call for action on the AI assisted workplace AI slop is now officially a term and it's not only an arbitrary term, but it's the word of the year in 2025 Low quality digital content produced usually in large quantity by means of AI It's essentially like the same thing like spam, but it's coming from your own team from your own colleagues Yeah, so There's no filter anymore. You have to deal with it. Like there's no way around this you are confronted with this And it's coming from your colleagues. You will read it in your own put requests. You have it in the tickets You have it in the chat. Nobody is safe anymore. Yeah So what do we do about this first the numbers? How staggering is this 40% of workers? Received a I slop in the past months hands up who has received a I slop in the last month. Oh My goodness, I'm with you. I Myself also who of you guys produce a I slob or sending it around unreflected That's even more people. Awesome. I didn't expect this. 15% of all content received at work is AI stop. I think it's much more. 9 million per year is lost in lost productivity for a 10K person organization. Oh, my goodness. 61% of people hide their IUs from colleagues. I think this is 100%. Let's be honest. 55% pass off AI output as their own work. Two-thirds never check AI output before sending it. I've experienced this. It's worth noting that AI should save time, but now we are drowning in this content. So some case studies, like some concrete examples. There's the curl ragequit. So there is this guy, his name is Daniel Stenberg. He's the maintainer of the curl library. So the curl library is a shell library with which you can download content on the command line and connect to servers and stuff. And apparently they have bounties so that people would fix it and then they got bombarded with AI slop content and AI slob pull requests and then he would be saying we ban every reporter instantly who submits a I slob we are effectively being DDOS eat curls security TXT now reads we will ban you and ridicule you in public if you keep wasting our time and they were drowning in submissions they couldn't keep up with this they were not enough reviewers for all that stuff and then they made a study with more than 1,000 developers? Great question. Let's delve into this. Devs ship faster. Reviewers and the community pay the price. So there was this example, an AI agent hallucinated external services and then mocked them out. A robust, internally consistent hallucination, smiley. They're literally using you to critically evaluate their AI slop. They're using you. imagine this and give it to the next prompt. So you're, as a reviewer, you're basically now one of the lower caste people. You have to provide the others the input. You have to provide the AI the input that they need to keep on working. Isn't that disgusting? As a developer, let's unpack this. Two-prompt rule. Second attempt bad, write it yourself. Game changer. So you should, if it's not working after the second prompt, you should try, you should just disregard it and do it yourself. Second, keep generations small. Can't explain it, reject it. This is key. Be transparent, genuinely underrated. Don't dump AI plans, don't just copy and paste it. Pasting a cloud plan into a ticket with thoughts is honestly asking to do your work. As a team, a holistic overview should be the same as understanding. I cannot stress this enough. Name it. You should say, this looks like a slop to me. So be open, be frank, be direct. Foster a culture of accountability. Rule of thumb, you cannot defend it yourself, so you shouldn't submit it. paradigm shift, establish best practices, you should leverage DSPI, that is meant seriously, look up DSPI. In this timeline, they're gonna soon find out that the economy is also a robust, internally coherent shared hallucination. Can you all do me a favor and cry out loud for Valerio for the next round of Matlib? Me again, sorry. I really have something important to ask you. What do you shout when your code finally compiles? I really need to know that. Code compilation. So cute. What a funny idea. You're the best audience ever, anyway. Fabulous. We have a winner. Why does this work? All right. Thank you. Can I take it away? Oh, we have the next sub coming up. No, not for you. For the audience. Because after Kai's talk, we will have Jamie Rodriguez, external packaging, metadata, PEP 725 and 804. Are you up there? Okay. Come to me, please. Kai, you're good to go. Take it away. Test, test. Okay. It's hard for me to believe this is not planned ahead of time. I'm now in the really hot political debate, I feel. But for today, what I'm going to share is a project that I did during the Easter time. You know, I'm living in Norway. I have two kids at home during holiday time. We didn't go to ski holiday. But so this time we stayed at home and the kids play Roblox all the time. Then as a developer, certainly I want to get their interest into the development. And game development is one area that I'd like them to get more understanding of. Turns out I spend most of time on this instead. So as a disclaimer, I'm a noob when it comes to game development. And also, the knowledge I'm sharing today regarding the AI workflow is all based on my own experience. So you can criticize me after this talk, please. And I'd like to tell the story using the One Piece, how the journey of the AI workflow for myself has been involved over the time. So in order to reach the one piece for AGI in the end, replacing myself, so I need some help. And in order to get help, I take the devil's fruit. In this case, I talk with Chajibiti. So my idea is to be able to make keys-friendly, open-world Genshin Impact-style game and with AAA and TGA award potential. That's a minimum. And also AI agree with me. This is a strong direction. I like it so much Thank you guys, so what's recommended is called dot engine. I haven't heard about it from their website Their marketing is amazing. Look at this design. Look at every animation you can do and every control you can do on it It is it so we chose it and then And as Luffy, the level two, the level one, what I did is to chat on an application, a website, to get answers. If you're coding, that means you have to copy-paste the codes around, like most of us when we start using AI. And the second part, the second phase you usually get into is to be able to let IDE, Cursor, Copilot Chat, or Codex, or things, to be able to manage your code base for the projects. And that I did. and it managed to do that and to create a code base using the GD script and things. But then I found the GoDaddy engine is another runtime. So the AI is not able to know how to rewrite a mistake into the script itself. So in this case, I need to go to the Geo3. I need to be able to break through the wall between the application runtimes so that AI be able to talk to the GoDaddy engine. In that way, able to see what kind of errors the scripts it just made has mistake with. so I can iterate on that. And surprisingly, for top 15, there are top 15 Godot MCP servers. It's really hard for me to choose which one to use. This should be another topic about choosing and creating MCP servers, but not today, so I paid for a commercial one in the end. And now with MCP server, it's able to talk to Godot engine, and since everybody's talking about skills these days, This make you super strong and powerful. And I started using that. By doing that, I'm actually able to create many, many skills, in this case, 16 of those, covering different areas of game development, from simple as keyboard control and complex as a compact system with different stage change and things, not made by me, by AI, just by talking to it. And of course, I validate, hopefully. And in the end, I'm thinking, why should I keep talking to it? Why can't it figure out itself, the AI I'm in? So the AI should just make me the TGA award in the end. I don't want to wait. I don't want to talk to it, help it debugging things, telling it to do the next task and things like that. So then, quite quickly, you start looking at this kind of autonomous agentic protocol, basic, some prompt or agents.md that you define the agent itself. What you usually do, you're going to define the role. There are managers, there are developers, there are testers, and AI needs to have clear understanding of different role difference, the boundaries of responsibilities, and of course what are the task graphs for them to delegate the work together, and how to make decisions, it's like a human team, and very important with code-based roles, the memory management is a key part, and many, many things else. All of this generated by AI again. So it works great. It's actually able to make to-do lists like that. I just tell you are the manager, you make me a TGA game by that open world, keys-friendly game. I'm just, sorry. I'm just sitting there. It's a perfect dream. That's my One Piece. And it's already late in the night. But what I got... No, no, no, no, no. It looks... Wait a second. Oh, sorry. Because we don't have so much time, we will have now yet another round of Mad Libs, but No, I don't think we should pick another one. The time is up. The time is up. Best conference souvenir. And while the people vote, we are putting back the box. For those of you who submitted today and haven't been picked up, rest assured, those submissions will stay in the box. You have chances to come up on stage tomorrow, if you want to. All right, we have a winner. Branded talks. I like that. All right. Take it away. Last talk for today. Jamie. Hello. Am I on screen? Yeah. That's me. My name is Jaime. You can follow my handles there. You are on Duolingo. Beating my streak. Who here has packaged something in Python? Raise your hand. Was it your package or somebody else's? Somebody else's? Oops. I'm so sorry. I also hate myself. So the problem, sometimes you will need to package things with Python that are not Python things. There was a talk about this today. How do you annotate what you're packaging? It's a problem with supply chain, and if you ever want to build it again, how do you know? The answer is documentation. Documentation that tends to drift and fall out of date. So we should have more structured metadata for this so we can build our packages in a safer and better way. Compilers, C or C++ libraries, things that are not Python in general, like node packages that are part of Jupyter lab extensions. I'm so sorry if you're working any of those interfaces. There's a problem. Let's find a solution. have PyProjectOML these days, so why not put it in there? That's exactly what we're trying to do with PEP 725. It's simple in a way. You just need to add one more table to your PyProjectOML. It's not a tool.table, it's a new top-level key, external. Has several categories, but the idea is that depending on how your build dependency or runtime dependency is used, you will know where to put it, or if not, we will teach you. Each string is a sort of a P-U-R-L, if you know this from SBOMs, these P-K-G column addresses. It's a way of expressing package names. Once you have that, we can use it, and that's where the other PEP, PEP 804, comes into place. This handles the part where we take one of those DEP strings and map it to your package manager of convenience. I work in Conda a lot, so I have an example here for how the generic zblib library would look like for CondaForge. And it's simply zblib. We didn't go very far there. We have mappings for many other ecosystems, like Ubuntu or Debian or Windows, Homebrew, all of that. It's an example, the idea is that the community will take on this and maintain the mappings. Each target ecosystem will maintain their mappings. You are seeing QR codes, I didn't talk about them. Basically they are linking to the pep drafts, so if you want to check a deeper look, that's where they are. And we have some examples on what we can build with these peps. The leftmost is the library that handles this table and produces and maps all the dependencies for you. Then there's a demo of a CI build that uses this table to build all the compiled libraries in the top 100 packages of PyPI. And there's also the mappings repository where you can explore how these mappings look like. And I put a little streamed it up as well if you want to see how this dependency is expressed in different ecosystems. Super technical. I hope that no one here needs this ever. But know that there's a downstream package somewhere dealing with this for you. So yeah, I hope you never use it. But if you want to get in touch, that's my contact, okay? Thank you so much. Thank you. Which card do you want to pick? All right, we're getting there to the end of the session, sadly. I just have one last burning question for you. Your go-to excuse for missing deadlines. And while you can choose it, I can tell you what is standing on the card the people on stage got. Lightning talk. You get your chance in the spotlight. You entertained the masses and got approval for your performance on stage by Valerio. Good job. All right. I didn't know any of that. All right. We have a winner. The requirements changed. Okay. That's fair enough. All right. So are you now curious to know why I've been asking you questions? Yes. Did you say anything? Yes. All right. Let's see. Avanti, yeah, that's the new motto, isn't it? All right. Let's see what we have contributed to. It happened without warning. The Wi-Fi died. A collective gasp rippled through the conference hall. Valerio, the chance caster, made roll of his enchanted dice, froze. This is no ordinary outage, he whispered. Someone has unleashed a pandas upon the router. Johannes, the timekeeper, checked the watch. Check it again and announce with clockwork precision we are up exactly 12 minutes before the next talk. Someone must go below. You thrust a glowing AI into the nearest volunteer's hands. Take this. You will need it. Down in the server dungeon, the hair hummed with cursed packets. The volunteer found the source, a tangled corrupted cables and a glowing room that pulsed with eldritch light. an ancient sysadmin ritual, they type why does this work into the terminal and held a breath. Lisa, leader of team other, appeared from the shadows, oh, yes, she said, examining the blinking lights with a knowing look. I have seen this before. The router needs branded socks. Do not ask how I know. I lead the other team. She smiled mysteriously and vanished. While trembling hands, the volunteer applied the fix, leaned close to the dying router, he whispered, the requirements change. A hum, a flicker, the Wi-Fi returned, 500 developers reconnected simultaneously and the Internet groaned under the weight of their stack of the flow tabs. But as the lights faded, a new message blinked across every screen in the building. Those lights were never yours, the quest begins tomorrow. But later the chance casters looked up from his dice and murmured, well, that is not good. To be continued tomorrow. And with that, thank you so very much for staying with us. Thank you to the wonderful Lisa and Johannes hosting the session, and Eulora for being with us, all the speakers coming up on stage. Thank you. Have a good night. See you tomorrow. The best thing is, we are almost on time. We're almost on time. Almost on time. Yes.