Listen now: This week we welcome Hugh Tipping, our newest Pybites Developer Mindset (PDM) Coach, to the podcast! These 34 minutes are packed full of inspiration and insight into Hugh’s motivations as a coach. Hugh shares his thoughts on many of the concepts that we actually address within PDM so if you’ve been wondering what… Continue reading Technology and Mindset with new PDM Coach Hugh Tipping
Technology and Mindset with new PDM Coach Hugh Tipping
By PyBites Team on 18 October 2022
Become a more effective learner with Russell Helmstedter
By PyBites Team on 10 October 2022
Listen now: This week we have Russell Helmstedter (@rhelmstedter) on the show to talk about a book about learning that will blow your mind: Learn Better We talk through the six facets of learning the book discusses: Value Target Develop Extend Relate Rethink … and link them back to Pybites, specifically our platform. Expect a lot of… Continue reading Become a more effective learner with Russell Helmstedter
Practical Django with Antonio Melé
By PyBites Team on 29 September 2022
Listen here: This week we have Antonio Melé on the show, CTO & co-founder at Nucoro and author of Django 4 by Example. We talk about: – His day to day at Nucoro. – Why he chose Django as a web framework and how he uses it at the company. – What inspired him to write a… Continue reading Practical Django with Antonio Melé
Help, I need to refactor a mega class! Here are 5 tips …
By PyBites Team on 24 September 2022
Somebody asked the other day for tips on how to refactor a mega-class? It was actually one of the first tasks on the new job, ouch! A single class, several thousands lines of code, no tests available 😮 You might scratch your head and say WTF?! After all, good developers decouple code into manageable pieces… Continue reading Help, I need to refactor a mega class! Here are 5 tips …
Tips for Navigating the Job Hunt with Rhys Powell
By PyBites Team on 22 September 2022
Listen here: The job hunt is on! With so many people looking to change things up with work, whether it be a new role, a new company, remote work – you name it – we decided it was time to talk a little about the Job Hunt. This week, I.T veteran and long-standing Pybites Community… Continue reading Tips for Navigating the Job Hunt with Rhys Powell
Single or double quotes in Python?
By Bob Belderbos on 20 September 2022
Whatever you think about Twitter these days, it’s pretty handy for us developers to ask questions and get inputs 💡 Last week I asked about single vs double quotes in Python: I thought double quotes were a given, black – “The Uncompromising Code Formatter”, defaults to them and I personally find them pleasant to the eye.… Continue reading Single or double quotes in Python?
From Basketball Athlete to DevRel, Dropping the Fear of Failure
By PyBites Team on 15 September 2022
Listen here: This week we have Tonya Sims on the show to talk about her journey from athlete / basketball player to Python Developer Advocate / DevRel and entrepreneur. We talk about how she combines sports with Python, her business of helping parents of aspiring athlete kids and (of course) the unstoppable developer mindset. We hope you’ll enjoy… Continue reading From Basketball Athlete to DevRel, Dropping the Fear of Failure
A super simple Zettelkasten note taking system
By Bob Belderbos on 7 September 2022
Yesterday I found this amazing gist that got me running with Zettelkasten in no time 💪 Check out this short YouTube video where the author demos this workflow: As the Zen of Python wisely taught us: Simple is better than complex – and this is so true for what can easily be an overwhelming task… Continue reading A super simple Zettelkasten note taking system
What we learned from building our own CMS using Django
By PyBites Team on 6 September 2022
Django – The web framework for perfectionists with deadlines – indeed! We managed to get a simple MVP out in just 4 weeks using our JIT learning approach … In an effort to teach Julian Django, we figured we’d “eat our own dog food” and “learn by building”! As always though, the hard part is… Continue reading What we learned from building our own CMS using Django
Code == communication, on writing better variable names
By PyBites Team on 6 September 2022
Listen now: Naming things is hard! Hence in this episode we want to help you a bit with that and share 10 tips how to do this better so you will write more readable and meaningful variable names. Enjoy! Check out mentioned Pybites Developer Mindset program here. Having you build apps end-to-end and getting expert developer… Continue reading Code == communication, on writing better variable names