2026-04-25 –, Barn
One of the benefits of having a partner in (code) crime is developing a rapport and asking dangerous questions that lead to unfortunate code.
Follow along as we admit our sins, crack wise about the methods of our madness, and reveal some truly powerful (if probably inadvisable) ways you can make Python do your bidding.
From cursed struct implementations to abusing runtime type hinting for great power to bending the import system to its breaking point we'll try to amuse you while talking about what magic might be too much magic.
Perennial developer and occasional professional, Jamie is co-founder of Teahouse Hosting, maintainer for PursuedPyBear, and xore emeritus for Xonsh.
Piper is a pythonista, game enthusiast, and web developer. You might know her from her talks given at conferences around the United States, a local tech meetup, or her open source work. She speaks on community building, game development, CS education, and trans identity in tech. She's been involved in the Python community since 2014 with previous experience as an organizer in the NYC Python user groups. You can follow her work at piper.thunstrom.dev