Listen here: Welcome back to another Pybites podcast episode. In this episode we talk about common pitfalls you want to avoid when becoming a Python developer: Pitfall #1: Tutorial paralysisPitfall #2: Improper sequencingPitfall #3: Obsessing over Pythonic codePitfall #4: Going on your own for too long … after that we look at the 80/20 (aka […]
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What preceded it I like the Carbon images that appear on Twitter from Pybites. Out of curiosity, I took a look at the code on GitHub, but it was pretty overwhelming and intimidating, so I quickly moved on to something I did “understand.” I often follow a tutorial or collect items I might need one […]
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**The official Pybites T-Shirt** This week we talk about an important topic: how to prevent yourself as a programmer from getting into tunnel vision when coding. We have a nice practical example we’ll share how we hit this last week (and many times more for that matter) in one of our solutions and also relate […]
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In this article I will show you how to make a beautiful yet simple graph using Django + Chart.js. The code for this project is here. Getting the data We are going to plot the number of Bite exercises that get completed per month on our platform. For this I exported the live data from […]
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Listen now: In this episode we talk about the gift of time. Are you intentional in how you spend time with people? We talk about several advantages, why it’s so important for your career, personal growth and life / well being. And the best thing: it takes relatively little effort and time if you know how […]
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I was asked to help parse a JSON file that is delivered by the iTunes Store Customer Reviews API JSON endpoint. It is not so important how this API works or if there are better APIs for this. Instead, let’s assume that we found our favorite API to work with and that our request makes […]
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Listen now: Whether you like it or not we are emotional species so you have to manage your motivation, it’s not a given! In this week’s podcast we feature two segments from our productivity course: motivation and procrastination. We teach you various techniques to keep your motivation high: – Desire breathes motivation. – Go back […]
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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 … […]
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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. […]
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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 […]