2025-09-26 –, Dahlia 1
What started as a mission to eat all the kakigori in Tokyo became a full-blown Python project to track and rate all of my dessert adventures across Japan. In this talk, I’ll walk you through how to discover and eat every cute dessert in Japan based on reviews from Tabelog. This app turns personal cravings into structured data and joyful visualizations with Google Maps API. You’ll use Python to celebrate small moments of sweetness.
This is a fun and interactive site that allows users to record their food adventures. It is heavily inspired by a personal trip to Japan and my own experience of using Tabelog each day to explore a new neighborhood and support small cafes and shops.
Diane enjoys taking trains to different neighborhoods in search for the best and highly rated dessert spots according to locals. She wants to show how technology can be used in a fun and creative way to help you on your travels. This is based on a personal project that helps keep track of memories created in the fast paced lifestyle in Tokyo.
Knowledges and know-how the audience can get from your talk:This talk is for beginners who want to build their first real Python project, or intermediate devs looking for creative ways to use Flask or APIs. This web application is for anyone who loves travel, food, journaling, or kawaii culture and wants to use tech to build tools for their niche interests. It will demonstrate how to use fun data to create an illustrative and interactive webpage, building Flask apps from scratch, and learning how to integrate multiple 3rd party APIs (Notion, Google Maps, etc) into an app.
Prior knowledges speakers assume the audience to have:Python and web development is beneficial but not required
Audience experiment:Novice
Language of presentation:English
Language of presentation material:English
Diane is a developer at LaunchDarkly. She loves to help beginner programmers get started on creative projects that involve fun pop culture references. In her spare time, she challenges herself to see how much ice-cream and kakigori she can eat in one day.