After my presentation on JSON freedom or chaos: how to trust your data, someone in the audience asked: “Why didn’t you use YANG instead?”

It caught me off guard. I had never considered it. Isn’t YANG about modeling network device configurations?

A decision shaped by context

A …

Can you trust your data?

In this talk we’ll take a real life use case where the flexibility desires and time have gotten the best of it. What happens when you deal with “freedom” data? How to go from this to a better future?

It is a technical talk how we recognise changes are …

Everyone says network engineers need to automate. Learn Python. Learn Ansible. Build a source of truth. Learn Git. Test your changes. Stop doing everything manually.

There’s just one problem: when?

At AutoCon 5 in Munich, Andy Lapteff sat down with Dutch network automation consultants Bart …

PyUtrecht is a Python community meetup in Utrecht — a gathering place for Python enthusiasts of all levels and backgrounds, from beginners exploring the language to seasoned developers pushing its limits.

I co-host PyUtrecht together with Marcelo Trylesinski, with a shared belief that learning …

In a world of non stop documents, contracts and other notifications in PDF or physical mail we easily get overwhelmed… And that is only the incoming information. Trying to find the information you need from 6 months or 2 years ago is almost impossible.

When owning your own company, it doesn’t become …

Can you trust your data?

In this talk we’ll take a real life use case where the flexibility desires and time have gotten the best of it. What happens when you deal with “freedom” data? How to go from this to a better future?

It is a technical talk how we recognize changes are desired, validation is …

When I encountered #uv I fell for it right away. I was already using ruff for a while and started looking into rye, which was the intermediate step before it became uv.

Creating a uv repo is easy, just run uv init $project and you are off to the races. Using it for new projects is easy if you are …

For those without children, you might never have realized that having a project is much like a child. At the same, for those with children, you may never have the time or piece of mind to realize it.

I’ll take you through a walk of life on ‘creating’ your child(ren), how to deal …

During the python meetup there was room for some 5 minute lightning talks. I stepped up and shared my findings on poetry and uv, and the challenging with migrating from poetry to uv. Because of this challenge I’ve written a tool to help with that migration. Allowing to pass in the current …