Annotated Notes

A static website of interactive presentation slides paired with detailed speaker notes and annotations. Inspired by Simon Willison's annotated talks.

Talks

• Error Culture — PyCascades 2025. What the heck are all of these error emails for anyway? An exploration of error monitoring, alert fatigue, and building a healthy error culture in your development team. (pycascades-2025/)
• Contributing to Django — DjangoCon US 2023. How I learned to stop worrying and just try to fix an ORM bug. A journey through contributing to Django for the first time, from intimidation to implementation. (dcus-2023/)

Structure

.
├── index.html          # Landing page linking to each annotated talk
├── styles.css          # Shared styles for the landing page
├── pycascades-2025/    # "Error Culture" slides + notes
└── dcus-2023/          # "Contributing to Django" slides + notes

Viewing locally

It's plain static HTML — open index.html in a browser, or serve the directory:

python -m http.server

Then visit http://localhost:8000.

License

See LICENSE.

Made by Ryan Cheley.