Ride the Snake: reddit keynote @ PyCon 09

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“NOOOOOOOOO!!!11!” ~ Paul Graham

Coincidence???

reddit: made possible by you • Paste • Pylons • SQLAlchemy+ Psycopg • Python Image Library (PIL) • BeautifulSoup • Babel • Cssutils • Chardet • flup

( Applaud now )

That’s an X-Ray

nearly 1 year later...

+ CSS =

Reddit C55 Compiler (beta) • Because CSS sucks • Variables • Functions • Nested styles • Based on PLY (Python Lex-Yacc)

body { background-color: $reddit-lightblue; } .rounded { $roundedcorner(10); } .reddit { background-color: $reddit-blue; .rounded { $roundedcorner(5); } }

body { background-color:#c7def7; } .rounded { -moz-border-radius:10; -webkit-border-radius:10; } .reddit { background-color:#369; } .reddit .rounded { -moz-border-radius:5; -webkit-border-radius:5; }

Automatic Thumbnail Generator !!Steve, put something witty here before the presentation

Random observations (because we have a captive audience)

Random observations If you write a crawler, don't lie about your user-agent. You spamming motherfucker.

Random observations ctypes is really cool. What the hell am I supposed to do with a core file anyway?

Random observations 9-11 was an inside job!!!!!

Random observations Relational databases are a really good solution to problems we don’t have. Bummer.

Random observations You don’t have to be original.

Random observations Elections should never be decided using reddit.

Questions?

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