Hugh Evans

The legendary sky couch. On a ten and a half hour flight. I was giddy

Modding a record player on a warm Sunday

Get your tickets for PyData London Conference at https://ti.to/pydata/pydatalondon26

But but I don't want to go to America!

Headed home after a brilliant evening yesterday with the @pydata cornwall community on the latest leg of my tour of PyData UK Meetups. I really enjoyed my time in Newquay and now I'm looking forward to a quiet weekend before heading off to SF for @aiven's streaming the future event and the community tooling hack day in london next week (places still available at both if you'd like to attend, links below!)

Rounding out a busy week with one final talk at PyData Wolverhampton this evening, sign up now via https://www.meetup.com/pydata-wolverhampton/events/314541420/?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=share-btn_savedevents_share_modal&utm_source=link&utm_version=v2&member_id=394028516

I'm halfway through my tour of UK PyData Meetups, next up PyData Glasgow at 6pm. Watch online via https://www.meetup.com/meetup-group-djhiglzd/events/314663681/?utm_medium=referral&utm_campaign=share-btn_savedevents_share_modal&utm_source=link&utm_version=v2&member_id=394028516

The latest edition of the Get Kafkanated Espresso is out. This month features an interview with "The Kafka Guy" Stanislav Kozlovski about Kafka costs, an update on the Apache Kafka 4.3 release, and more!

Read now via https://getkafkanated.substack.com/p/get-kafka-nated-espresso-may-2026

Get your tickets for PyData London Conference at pydata.org/london2026

Get your tickets for PyData London Conference at https://pydata.org/london2026

Me: West to East jetlag feels nowhere near as bad as East to West
Day two of W2E:

With hindsight after no fewer than three people in London sent me storm videos today I should have anticipated my flight home being delayed

Painting done, now onto vinyl and final assembly