Listen now: This week we talk about a “taboo” topic: the pursuit of chasing the bigger paycheque. We reflect on the (hidden) cost of this and what to take into consideration. As usual, we also share some cool wins and books we’re reading. Join our Facebook group:https://www.facebook.com/groups/pybites– Live training coming in a few weeks …… Continue reading The hidden cost of pursuing a higher salary
The hidden cost of pursuing a higher salary
By PyBites Team on 27 May 2022
Learn by building, how we built our own collaboration tool in Django
By PyBites Team on 19 May 2022
Listen now: In this episode we tell the story about Pybites CMS, our new powertool we use to better streamline our business. We tell why we built it, how it was an opportunity for Julian to brush up his coding skills, how we applied the PDM philosophy of learning by building, scratching your own itch.… Continue reading Learn by building, how we built our own collaboration tool in Django
Configure a Linux Development Environment on Windows with WSL and VS Code
By Heather Gray on 18 May 2022
About WSL It seems like everyone is using Linux or Mac for software development these days, but if you’re a windows user, you may have looked into what you needed to do to be able to use Linux on your PC and found that dual-booting or virtual machines sounded like too much trouble. But these… Continue reading Configure a Linux Development Environment on Windows with WSL and VS Code
Learn FastAPI through building a simple food tracker
By PyBites Team on 12 May 2022
If you’re doing any type of web development in Python, there’s a good chance you’ve heard about FastAPI by now. If not, go check it out now. It’s performant, intuitive and time saving (thanks to Pydantic / type hinting) and it supports API standards, e.g. OpenAPI (previously Swagger). You cannot leave this powerful framework out of your… Continue reading Learn FastAPI through building a simple food tracker
How to achieve more deep work
By Bob Belderbos on 11 May 2022
Listen now: How much deep work do you get done on a typical work day? In our case, we thought plenty. It turns out that lately it’s been less and less. As the authors of Practical Productivity with PyBites this came as quite a shock! But as you’ll learn in this episode, productivity is insidious. You can be… Continue reading How to achieve more deep work
Code Better with Type Hints – Part 3
By Michael Aydinbas on 8 April 2022
This is the third part of a series of articles dealing with the type annotation system in Python, type hints for short. The second part discussed a set of beginner examples and highlighted the benefits of using type hints. This article series is aimed at newcomers to type hints and wants to help you get… Continue reading Code Better with Type Hints – Part 3
Give It Just Five Minutes
By Hugh Tipping on 1 April 2022
You know those nights when you want to work on writing or your coding project or side gig? You want to grow outside of the confines of a day-to-day job but you feel like the job has taken everything out of you. You get tired. You feel like you’re on the last bar of the… Continue reading Give It Just Five Minutes
A debugging tale
By Bob Belderbos on 6 March 2022
I ran into an interesting issue debugging the other day … I used isort with pre-commit to automatically sort imports before committing my code. This is a huge time saver and I am very thankful for both tools, as well as black and flake8. They save a ton of time and they instantly boost the… Continue reading A debugging tale
10 Tips to Write Better Functions in Python
By Bob Belderbos on 19 January 2022
In today’s article 10 tips to improve the quality of your Python functions.
Facial Recognition with Python
By Lee Cullip on 1 September 2021
Identifying faces I was asked by Bob to write a guest article for the PyBites blog, so whilst this isn’t my first blog article, it is my first ever guest blog article of which I’m immensely proud and very pleased to have written for Pybites. In this article, I will detail how I used the… Continue reading Facial Recognition with Python