Listen here: Or watch here: Happy New Year and welcome back to the Pybites podcast. This week Julian and Bob talk about setting goals for this year 2023:– How to set your goals this year.– When and where you begin to setting your goals– How to set realistic goals that are achievable and sustainable.– How… Continue reading Goal setting tips
Goal setting tips
By PyBites Team on 8 January 2023
PyScript, a first exploration
By Leonieke Paalvast on 6 January 2023
After watching a PDM Code Clinic demo of PyScript the other day I got a lot of inspiration of things I could do with this new technology. I always liked working with HTML and CSS because you instantly see the results, something I miss working with pure Python. However now with PyScript I can combine… Continue reading PyScript, a first exploration
Reflections on the Zen of Python
By Bob Belderbos on 21 December 2022
An initial version of this article appeared as a Pybites email first. If you like it join our friends list to get our valuable Python, developer and mindset content first … How following the Zen of Python will make your code better, a lot better. This epic set of axioms (triggered by typing import this in the… Continue reading Reflections on the Zen of Python
Pybites turns 6 today – 10 highlights + lessons learned
By PyBites Team on 19 December 2022
Today Pybites turns 6 years 🎉😎 We could never have envisioned that our end-of-2016 “Python blog side project” would grow out into a fully fledged business serving thousands of people worldwide! Here are 10 highlights / lessons learned from our journey so far: 1. Don’t procrastinate, implement We had been chatting for many years about ideas… Continue reading Pybites turns 6 today – 10 highlights + lessons learned
Building a 500 line API regression test suite
By Bob Belderbos on 15 December 2022
This article appeared as a Pybites email first. If you like it consider joining our friends list for weekly Python, developer and (!) mindset content … Last year I built a cool API to post code images using our pybites-carbon tool. It will store the tip code in a database and store the code image in an… Continue reading Building a 500 line API regression test suite
Cool data side projects and prolific content creation
By PyBites Team on 15 December 2022
Listen here: This week we talk with Kristen Kehrer about her journey as a data scientist, developer advocate and content creator. We dive into how she got into DS and what excites her about the field. We talk about her developer relations work at Comet ML, her journey from R to Python, and some really cool data… Continue reading Cool data side projects and prolific content creation
5 ways I use GitHub Actions
By Bob Belderbos on 14 December 2022
I am increasingly using GitHub Actions these days. If you’re new to this you might want to check out our article or video. In this article I will show you 5 cool ways I use it day to day. Run tests and linters The first and most obvious reason is to automate tooling. Although you probably want to… Continue reading 5 ways I use GitHub Actions
Coding with mindfulness
By PyBites Team on 7 December 2022
Listen here: Welcome back to the Pybites podcast. This week we have Andrew McLeod on the show to talk about mindfulness. We talk about:– Mindfulness as it applies to the tech industry and why it’s important to humanise tech.– How mindfulness humanises.– How to be more aware of different parts of the body – as opposed to… Continue reading Coding with mindfulness
How to create a self updating GitHub Readme
By Bob Belderbos on 21 November 2022
It was about time to give my GitHub profile a nice intro so inspired by Simon Willison’s blog post I decided to make an intro Readme that auto-updates. First I made a GitHub repo called bbelderbos, my username. That’s how it works: GitHub defaults to showing the Readme.md of your username’s repo on your profile page.… Continue reading How to create a self updating GitHub Readme
Loving the Journey towards your Goal
By PyBites Team on 21 November 2022
Listen here: Welcome back to our Pybites podcast. This week we talk about Loving the journey to your goal. We center our discussion about: 1. Setting Goals. 2. What can you do and how can you love the process? 3. Have that Confidence and discipline to achieve your goal. And self control to learn the… Continue reading Loving the Journey towards your Goal