FOSDEM 25

FOSDEM, a Conference different from any other I've been to before. I'm very happy for the opportunity to talk, share knowledge and chat with the fellow devs there. I also met old and new friends in Brussels, and learned a little bit more about the nice Belgian beer culture. 😀

The FOSDEM event is free and you don't even register to attend (only speakers do that in a call for speakers process). Just come by the University Campus, located not far from the center of the Inner City.

I travelled towards Belgium with the Night Train from Stockholm, Sweden, and arrived the next morning in Hamburg, Germany. From there, I took the DB ICE Train to Köln/Cologne. At some point, the top speed was about 250 km/h. That's fast! From there, another fast train to Brussels.

The variety of topics and the amount of tracks at FOSDEM was mind blowing, with thousands of participants. The overall vibe was very friendly & laid back. I joined Rust focused talks, JavaScript and UX/Design talks. And, of course, the Python room talks.

My talk was in the Python room and was about Python Monorepos and the Polylith Developer Experience. Everything Python related was on FOSDEM Day 2 and I think my presentation went really well! There was a lot of questions afterwards and I got great feedback from the people attending.

The next day I went back the same route as before. I got a couple extra of hours to spend in Hamburg before onboarding the Night Train back home to Stockholm. A great Weekend Trip!

Here's the recording of my talk from FOSDEM 25:

^{The video was downloaded from fosdem.org.
Licensed under the Creative Commons Attribution 2.0 Belgium Licence.}

Resources

• The FOSDEM 2025 website
• The Python tools for the Polylith Architecture at GitHub

nordic.js reflections

nordic.js - like a two day Spa experience. Starting at the registration line, with fellow JavaScript geeks, on a foggy morning in Stockholm. The boat took us to the lovely place of Artipelag, welcoming all of us with soap bubbles. Lots of soap bubbles. Now that's how to start a conference! Good job, nordic.js folks. By lunch I actually had time to stroll by the board walk and the woods (yeah, trees & sh*t).

Suddenly, from nowhere, I heard weird sounds. Was someone singing? Was there a bird or something? A gnome? I don't know, but it inspired me to record a smart phone arty short film. No, I wont quit my day job. Promise.





What about the talks? Well... Douglas Crockford was there. That was worth every swedish kronor.

I wanted to call out: "- I Love You, Douglas Crockford!!!!!", but I'm swedish, so I laugh by exhaling air from my nose really fast.

There are some talks left today, but I want to thank the team of really creative people that arranged the nordic.js conference. You paid attention to details and the big picture, making this a nice experience. Next time I hope there will be more of live coding, passion and less code-on-powerpoint on stage. After all, we're all geeks that love code!