(Probably) a retrospective for Secateur
This talk will serve as a retrospective on this little django side project that over the course of it's life grew to 70,000 users, made somewhere around four billion Twitter API calls, and was supported by several in the NZ/AU Python community.
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I want a ticket!In 2019 I released Secateur, a tool designed to protect people from online harrassment on Twitter by giving a user the ability to block an attacker and all their followers for a set period of time. Now, in 2023 the new management of Twitter has decided such tools aren't desirable.
This talk will serve as a retrospective on this little django side project that over the course of it's life grew to 70,000 users, made somewhere around four billion Twitter API calls, and was supported by several in the NZ/AU Python community.
I might be able to throw in a few tales of weird accused-international espionage, too.
Tom Eastman has been building things, occasionally rather weird things, in Python for over twenty-two years. He's worked as a system administrator, developer, and security consultant. Tom is a developer for Kraken Technologies.
Tom has been a regular speaker at PyCon AU for ten years now, and hopes that y'all aren't too bored of him yet :-)