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… Continue reading What I have learned from an open-source project
Articles on Learning
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
Are you overwhelmed by tutorial paralysis?
By Bob Belderbos on 30 July 2021
Tutorial Paralysis, information overload, hoarding and never completing online courses (How large are your Udemy and Coursera libraries?)… This is the pain we’re increasingly hearing about in conversations with developers and it’s more common than you may realise. It’s real, it’s crippling and it can make you feel like you’re going nowhere. Even if you do manage… Continue reading Are you overwhelmed by tutorial paralysis?
And now for something completely different… MicroPython!
By Cedric Sambre on 2 April 2021
What if you could control a little circuitboard with a bunch of IO’s, integrated WiFi and a camera slot on board?
Talking to API’s and goodlooking tools
By Cedric Sambre on 24 February 2020
I recently ran into a tool called VTScan that uses the VirusTotal API to scan a file and print the results. I figured I could write the same, and add some functionality!
The Pythonic Fast Lane, Digest of a 30 Min Mentoring Session
By Bob Belderbos on 12 February 2020
The other day I had an awesome mentoring session with a beginner Pythonista, amazing what 30 min of screen sharing can do. Read on to learn more …
From Webscraper to Wordcloud
By Cedric Sambre on 27 November 2019
After going through the web scraping learning paths, I decided to get my hands dirty and apply my freshly gathered knowledge on a real life project. I explain some difficulties you might encounter while scraping and I also show some libraries that can help you visualizing data you have obtained.
How I Followed my Heart, Conquered Fear and Became a Public Speaker
By Mridu Bhatnagar on 4 September 2019
In this guest post Mridu shares with us how she got into public speaking, conquering fear and imposter syndrome. What did she learn? And what does she recommend for people starting out? Let’s hear from Mridu!
The First Step in Contributing to Open Source Projects
By Marc Falzon on 20 June 2019
Have you ever wanted to contribute to open source but weren’t sure how to get started? Marc found himself in just that situation. Sometimes it all comes down to taking that first step.
Generating Beautiful Code Snippets with Carbon and Selenium
By Bob Belderbos on 26 February 2019
Did you notice our Python tips lately? They looks more sexy, don’t they? That’s thanks to Carbon which lets you create beautiful images of your source code. As much as I love its interface though, what if we can automate this process generating the image for us? That’s what we did and posting new tips to Twitter is now a breeze. In this article I will show you how using a bit of BeautifulSoup and selenium. Enjoy!