Listen here: Or watch here: Welcome back to the Pybites podcast. This week we have a very special guest: Blaise Pabon. We talk about his background in software development, how he started with Python and his journey with us in PDM. We also pick his brains about why Python is such a great language, the importance of… Continue reading Blaise Pabon on his developer journey, open source and why Python is great
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Teachers aren’t the only ones who teach. As a developer you’re expected to do so too …
By Bob Belderbos on 2 March 2023
This article appeared first as a Pybites email. To receive this kind of content first, subscribe to our weekly newsletter. For a long time, I thought I should not make mistakes when teaching other developers. I would hide behind slides because they were “hardcoded”, safe, or I’d do a lot of editing of my coding… Continue reading Teachers aren’t the only ones who teach. As a developer you’re expected to do so too …
Resources to stay focused and positive
By PyBites Team on 13 January 2023
This content appeared as a Pybites email first. If you like it, subscribe to our friends list here to get weekly emails about Python / Developer / Mindset related topics. Let’s be honest, there is a lot of uncertainty these days. As Pybites we want to help you progress, even more so when things are… Continue reading Resources to stay focused and positive
It’s not you – it’s me
By Ian Pritchard on 9 January 2023
Every so often I get convinced that a challenge test suite is wrong or Python is somehow giving me the wrong results. “It’s You”! I checked and quadruple-checked my code. I walked through every single line in the IDE debug mode noting how the variables changed as the code branched through. I printed everything printable… Continue reading It’s not you – it’s me
Pybites turns 6 today – 10 highlights + lessons learned
By PyBites Team on 19 December 2022
Today Pybites turns 6 years 🎉😎 We could never have envisioned that our end-of-2016 “Python blog side project” would grow out into a fully fledged business serving thousands of people worldwide! Here are 10 highlights / lessons learned from our journey so far: 1. Don’t procrastinate, implement We had been chatting for many years about ideas… Continue reading Pybites turns 6 today – 10 highlights + lessons learned
Finding new and removed Python 3.11 modules in 8 lines of code
By Bob Belderbos on 9 November 2022
In our TIL Slack channel AJ shared a cool new find: Today I learned about sys.stdlib_module_names: a frozenset of strings containing the names of standard library modules. … AJ on the Pybites Slack – TIL (today-I-learned) channel So I thought to give it a little test drive, specifically checking for modules that were added and… Continue reading Finding new and removed Python 3.11 modules in 8 lines of code
Help, I need to refactor a mega class! Here are 5 tips …
By PyBites Team on 24 September 2022
Somebody asked the other day for tips on how to refactor a mega-class? It was actually one of the first tasks on the new job, ouch! A single class, several thousands lines of code, no tests available 😮 You might scratch your head and say WTF?! After all, good developers decouple code into manageable pieces… Continue reading Help, I need to refactor a mega class! Here are 5 tips …
PyCon ES 2019 Alicante Highlights
By Bob Belderbos on 8 October 2019
Last weekend it was Pycon time again, my 6th one so far. This time closer to home: Alicante. I had an awesome time, meeting a lot of nice people, watching interesting talks and getting inspired overall to keep learning more Python. In this post I share 10 highlights, but keep in mind this is a selection only, there are quite a few more talks I want to check out once they appear on Youtube …
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!
PyCon Australia 2019
By Julian Sequeira on 5 August 2019
PyCon Australia 2019 was bigger and better than I could have imagined. Here are my takeaways.