Is PyCon 2018 your first PyCon?

Is PyCon 2018 [https://twitter.com/pycon] your first PyCon? Then you must have had a sleepless night. You must be thinking “I will be lost in the gathering of 3500 people.” There should be a lot of mixed emotions and anticipation. Are you the only one who is thinking…

PyLadies at PyCon

In 2013, I was going through PyCon photos. The album was full of pictures of very serious looking geeks engrossed in their favorite back and green screen. Suddenly I saw the photos of people laughing, enjoying and joking . Many of them were women. Dazzled by the beautiful ladies, I asked…

Setting up my own server

A long, long time ago a mortgage lawyer started to write her blog, just to get familiar with several crazy newfangled things called computers and the internet by using them to do something she liked, writing. So she started writing a blog using something called Wordpress [https://wordpress.com]. The…

The mistakes I did in my blog posts

Today we will be discussing the mistakes I did with my blog posts. I started (seriously) writing blogs a year back. A few of my posts got a pretty nice response. The praise put me in seventh heaven. I thought I was a fairly good blogger.But after almost a…

Blocking of archive.org in India

My morning starts with the quick look at twitter. Yesterday some tweets drew my attention - The Internet Archive over at http://web.archive.org has been blocked in India. There was a long thread going on, and people were asking, updating thoughts and opinions on the matter. Ok, this…