Well. It was here, and now it's gone. The Idaho State Teen Association Convention, or STAC - as we fondly call it, has come and gone. It was a great week of little sleep, much excitement, and lots of smiles; but what's more, is that we had some technology wins and losses to talk about. Thank you, Python!

Seems that, these days, there's an endless number of things that need to be automated for an "all-out" home-automation system. But how should we bring all of that stuff together? Well, I think I've got an idea...

So if you're gonna use Python to help bring photos from youth together; how, exactly, do you do it? This article will look at how we're using Lychee, Python, FastAPI, and React.js to make an ultra-simple, highly effective photo upload service for a youth conference.

We know that I don't like to do anything that computers can do for me. We also know that I like Python, and am not a huge fan of Java. So how am I going to get PlantUML integrated into my blog without actually needing to install the Java packages? Let me show you...

How do you get nearly one-hundred high-school age youth to collect nearly as many photos for a competition at a youth conference? Facebook? Google-Drive? How about Python...?

Python's telnetlib library doesn't like null-characters, SEL protocol does, that makes for some interesting challenges.

I'm pretty lazy... We've covered that already, but wouldn't it be exceptionally nice if I could make GitHub automate Python package releases for me? Lets do that...

I've been going a bit crazy with the web-app craze lately. Let me show you what I've been up to...

Wait... What? There's an API for VoiceMeeter? And there's already a Python API for it? Sign me up!

When things get sticky, leave it to Python to keep the wheels greased!