Listen here: This week we have Christo back on the show to talk about his experience in the data engineering field. He shares some valuable tips how to become a more effective data engineer which, surprisingly or not, increasingly requires a well-rounded Python developer skill set. Enjoy and feel free to reach out to Christo below … Christo’s website: https://www.christoolivier.com… Continue reading Data engineering involves more Python than you might think!
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Common Python developer pitfalls and the 80/20 that really matters
By PyBites Team on 23 June 2022
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… Continue reading Common Python developer pitfalls and the 80/20 that really matters
Is it time to step back and look at the greater design?
By PyBites Team on 17 June 2022
**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… Continue reading Is it time to step back and look at the greater design?
The gift of time
By PyBites Team on 10 June 2022
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… Continue reading The gift of time
How to stay motivated and beat procrastination
By PyBites Team on 2 June 2022
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… Continue reading How to stay motivated and beat procrastination
The hidden cost of pursuing a higher salary
By PyBites Team on 27 May 2022
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
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
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
Do You Have a Brag Doc?
By PyBites Team on 5 August 2021
We received a reply from one of our community members the other day reminding us of an incredibly powerful technique that we use to maintain motivation and build our confidence: the Brag Doc. A brag doc, wins doc, success wall (whatever you call it), is quite simply a document that you create for yourself detailing all of your wins… Continue reading Do You Have a Brag Doc?
PyBites Website 2.0 is here
By PyBites Team on 27 July 2021
Hey, what just happened to the pybit.es site?! After 4.5 years of content updates, products and growth, the site just got outdated, unmanageable and even confusing. The pain was real and we needed a fix! The site was first created using Pelican, a (Python) static site generator + GitHub pages and we were happy with… Continue reading PyBites Website 2.0 is here