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NEXT EVENT
CHIPY __MAIN__ MEETING
When: June 11, 2026, 6 p.m.
Where: Expedia
500 W Madison St STE 700 Chicago, IL 60661
Directions:
Proceed to Security on the third floor by taking the escalators up. Security will provide a printed QR code, which you'll need to scan at the turnstiles and again in the elevator. After that, proceed to the 7th floor.
Attendance:
In Person Pythonistas: 14
TOPICS FOR NEXT EVENT
Mini Shai Hulud is no longer just an npm problem
Mini Shai Hulud is self-propagating malware that steals credentials from developer machines and CI/CD pipelines. It was first reported infecting npm packages in 2025, but as of May 2026, it has spread to PyPI. This talk will cover how Shai Hulud works and some of the mitigation strategies discussed at PyCon.
You're Not Being Replaced You're Being Multiplied.
Everyone has this deep rooted existential fear that AI are taking software developers / engineers jobs. Not only that epistologically when we write code with AI or when working with others they may introduce deficiencies, regressions and problems with readability of committed code. Â
We will address these fears and problems with going through techniques on writing a AGENTS.md file and other similar files like CLAUDE.md . These are guides for agents that work with your code and it introduces …
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