# News

PyGrunn 2024

PyGrunn is a super cool “Python and friends” developer conference that I’ve had the pleasure of attending twice now. 🐍

This year's event was in Groningen (one of my favorite cities in the Netherlands, hint: I’m from the area), and I had the honor of being a guest speaker. I shared my experience working with large language models in an interactive coding session.

The best part was meeting many of you face-to-face and snapping some selfies! (Tag me in your photos on social media; I’d love to see them.) 📸

Thanks again to PyGrunn for having me!

This Week’s Blog Posts

This Monday, I took a look at the command design pattern, which helps developers turn scattered function calls into well-organized, manageable, and extendable commands. You can read the full post here. 📝

Additionally, on Thursday, I revisited the power of Python generics. Discover how generics can make your code more reusable and compatible with different data types while catching potential issues early! 🐍 You can read more about them here.

# Community

MissArticulatePython, one of our community moderators, recently sparked an interesting discussion in the #💾software_development channel about design patterns!

Here's the gist: Over time, some design patterns become outdated as they're integrated into programming languages, while new patterns emerge to tackle specific problems. However, many of these new patterns don't have "official names."

MissArticulatePython asked: "What would you call these new patterns?" and "What problems are they designed to solve?"

Jump into the conversation in the #💾software_development channel now!

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