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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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. […]
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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 […]
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Listen here: This week we talk with Yujian, software developer and entrepreneur. We dive into: – His background. – Why he uses Python and the switch from Java. – His core Python focus these days + cool side projects he’s maintaining. – How entrepreneurship is fundamentally different from software engineering. – His viral post on certificates vs the reality of looking things up […]
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In our TIL Slack channel AJ shared a cool new find: Today I learned about sys.stdlib_module_names: a frozenset of strings containing the names of standard library modules. … AJ on the Pybites Slack – TIL (today-I-learned) channel So I thought to give it a little test drive, specifically checking for modules that were added and […]
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In this article I will give you 10 tips for cleaner code. Hope this helps improve your Python code. 1. Smaller units. Break long functions (methods) into multiple smaller ones that do one thing (SRP or “Single-responsibility principle”). This will make your code more modular and easier to test. For example, a function that parses […]