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Day 3 - [MID-DAY UPDATE]

We need 2 more donations today to hit our goal for the day! Y'all are doing great!

https://blackpythondevs.com/support

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I wanted to share the events we've sponsored this year. You can find them at

http://blackpythondevs.com/events

That sadly doesn't include the other 14 EVENTS that we're still trying to work through whose total request amount is $22,600. That's almost twice what we've raised in corporate sponsorships and more almost 2/3 what we've raise with individual contributions in the last 2 years combined!

This is what you're helping us to support!

It's Day Three of the 7 * 7 * 31 Challenge.

Our goal was $1519 ($7, 7ppl/day, 31 Days)

We're already 2 donations in to start this morning.

You can donate at https://blackpythondevs.com/support

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Day 2 y'all came through again in a major way!

We saw 11/7 donations! And raised the total contribution to over $800. That's more than we raise all of last month.

We've had 7 requests this year that that donation amount could cover.

RE: https://mastodon.social/@kjaymiller/116850466964037700

Still stuck on 4 for donations for @blackpythondevs - 7*7*31 campaign...

I'm looking for 3 more people today to donate $7 to Black Python Devs

PyCon APAC Videos are up! This includes my keynote.

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PLCBCxsuKTqkCJyfFur_0pN4s-Pz49yNTr

https://kjaymiller.com/microblog/pycon-apac-2026-videos.html

Hey y'all! PyCon US Videos just dropped (I don't think the Keynotes are up yet... but maybe I'm bad at youtubing).

https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL2Uw4_HvXqvYg5fYUg9tzVrY3zCT7W7Y7

https://kjaymiller.com/microblog/pycon-us-2026-vods.html

We're halfway to our goal of 7people $7 for Day 2! Yes 3.5 people have donated! (4 people)

I was told (thanks Dan!) the link was cutoff from my microblog post so here is the link.

https://blackpythondevs.com/support!

ALSO: Y'all have already raised about half the sponsorship cost of a PyDay Event sponsorship in a small Western African Country! Keep it Up!

Day one complete! But yall can keep donating!

So far we’re doing good! See you tomorrow!

Of course you don’t have to wait till tomorrow to donate because it’s already tomorrow on the other side of the planet (if you’re in the US) https://mastodon.social/@kjaymiller/116846850230495598

I want to try something for July.

For the month of July, each day, can I get 7 donations of $7 to Black Python Devs every day. I'll start with a week donation.

Success would be over $1500 donated. That covers 1-2 events in South America or Africa.

https://kjaymiller.com/microblog/7-7-31.html

I learned recently about zizmor which audits your GH Actions.

TIL there is a GH-Action for it but it updates the GH Security Section with findings! 🤔

https://github.com/zizmorcore/zizmor-action#usage-with-github-advanced-security-recommended

https://kjaymiller.com/microblog/zizmor.html

doing streaming again... this time I'm making all the corrections to the labs that AI made for me. This should be fun...

https://youtube.com/live/e-yKDdsMiso?feature=share

rough demo of using it: https://youtu.be/h2kwzpY5-sA

I prompted a new thing into existence for Zellij. It's called zj and it's a smart session picker/switcher.

https://github.com/kjaymiller/zj/tree/main

Happy to announce that we're sponsoring at local gaming workshop with Kids Next Code!

https://www.eventbrite.com/e/youth-and-teen-game-design-gamified-learning-program-ages-8-16-tickets-1990242130789

#events #gaming

A great recap and explainer for why PyCon US means so much to us as Black Python Devs!

https://blackpythondevs.com/blog/pycon-us-2026-recap.html

https://kjaymiller.com/microblog/pycon-us-recap.html

The challenge of sending physical atoms across the world to some countries is utter madness. This is why we support initiatives like Books for Techies!

https://notesbylex.com/shipping-a-laptop-to-a-refugee-camp-in-uganda

https://kjaymiller.com/microblog/notesbylex-shipping-to-uganda.html

I used AI to help with a problem and it gave me two good answers and a bad one. I wasn't sure which to use so I used AI to help evaluate the options.

https://kjaymiller.com/blog/using-ai-to-consider-the-options.html

The photos from PyCon Asia are live! This was my favorite conference of the year!

https://photos.google.com/share/AF1QipMt-0LmSQFsEn46gF7Y8_n1GXSejneo38tMrxR11Pr9gzn6pF9wyhMZ9R71XULFmQ?pli=1&key=aFN6bzgtNzZEVU44MFE0YkczbXFJWUZDVDgwYTZR

https://kjaymiller.com/microblog/pycon-asia-2026-photos.html

AAAAAAND IT'S GONE!

Looks like we didn't order nearly enough Jackets and have already sold out.

This was an experiment and y'all passed. We'll try to keep the jackets (and maybe some new designs) available for purchase in limited amounts. For now, the 10 folks that have one. Y'all are super awesome and thank you!

#pyconus2026