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NEXT EVENT
CHIPY __MAIN__ MEETING
When: Oct. 9, 2025, 6 p.m.
Where: American Planning Association (APA)
200 E Randolph St Suite 6900 Chicago IL 60601
Directions:
Directions to Aon Building (69th Floor) - You’ll receive your guest pass by email on the day of the event. - Scan the pass at the lobby turnstiles. - Use the lower-level elevators (odd floors) to reach the 69th floor.
Attendance:
In Person Pythonistas: 7
TOPICS FOR NEXT EVENT
Automating Large-Scale CD Archiving with Python, Docker, and Observability
Ripping and archiving thousands of music CDs for personal use can be a daunting task—especially when you care about safety, automation, and system reliability. In this talk, I’ll share how I built a secure workflow using Python, shell scripts, and Docker to ingest and organize a large CD collection into a Plex server. I’ll demo the Nimbie disc autoloader (“the hopper”), explain how containerization helps isolate untrusted media, and show how I monitor throughput and reliability using Datadog metrics. This …
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