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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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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 […]
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Listen here: Welcome back to another podcast episode. In this one we answer a question that was asked by Shreyas: I would love to listen to how you and Julian manage your lives in terms of day time jobs + PyBites + families! I know you touch upon it a few times in the few […]
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Listen now: This week we talk with AJ Kerrigan (Twitter / LinkedIn) about Felienne Hermans’ The Programmer’s Brain, an important book we recommend every developer should read (at least once). Structure:After quickly discussing the gist of the book, we dive into some of the concepts it teaches:– Chunkability: for faster reading and comprehension of code.– Germane load: the work required […]
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In this blog post a quick script to plot the frequency of our blog articles in the terminal. It’s good to see that we’re getting back on track 🙂 The code gist is here. First we import the libraries we are going to use. As always we separate Standard Library modules from 3rd party ones […]
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Listen now: This week we talk about gratitude. Why? We spotted a trend that people are not saying thanks enough. We often suppose things are “just” working, forgetting that there is actually a lot of work involved to keep things running smoothly. Expressing gratitude takes relatively little effort, yet it can have a big impact […]
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Listen now: This week we have Will Frey on the podcast: ML engineer, Python “knowledge dictionary” and type hints fan & geek. We talk about his background, how he learns / keeps up with Python’s fast moving ecosystem and of course we look at Python’s type hints in-depth: why care and some of his favorite tricks. We […]
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Listen here: This week we talk about boundaries (again), specially at work. How can it be that 12 hour days are becoming the norm? This has to stop! And it’s insidious, because the extra work always seems to sneak in! First we look at where we think this is coming from. Then we offer some practical tips […]