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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How Michael Knott used Python to enhance his sports coaching career
By PyBites Team on 2 February 2023
Listen here: Or watch here: Welcome back to the Pybites podcast. This week we have a wonderful chat with Michael Knott. We talk about the most valuable things about Michael’s Python journey, including what he achieved through our PDM program. We talk about:– Michael’s work as a fitness coach and how he got into Python as… Continue reading How Michael Knott used Python to enhance his sports coaching career
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
Building a 500 line API regression test suite
By Bob Belderbos on 15 December 2022
This article appeared as a Pybites email first. If you like it consider joining our friends list for weekly Python, developer and (!) mindset content … Last year I built a cool API to post code images using our pybites-carbon tool. It will store the tip code in a database and store the code image in an… Continue reading Building a 500 line API regression test suite
What I have learned from an open-source project
By Leonieke Paalvast on 17 June 2022
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
Fast Emoji Lookup from the Command Line
By Bob Belderbos on 7 May 2021
Today I wanted to share a little app I built the other day to search emojis from the command line.
How to Deploy Your Open Source Package to PyPI
By Bob Belderbos on 31 August 2020
In this post I share some useful things I learned deploying an open source package to PyPI.
DisAtBot – How I Built a Chatbot With Telegram And Python
By Rodolfo Ferro on 10 December 2017
Rodolfo recently joined our Code Challenges and built Disaster Attention Bot (DisAtBot), a chatbot that helps people affected by natural disasters. In this article he shows how he built this bot with Telegram and (of course) Python. Show him some love because who knows, this could be a life saver (pun intended)! We are delighted to have him show this interesting project he submitted for Code Challenge 43 which earned him a book on chatbots. /Rod please share …
Code Challenge 39 – Writing Tests With Pytest
By PyBites Team on 5 October 2017
Hi Pythonistas, let’s add some more challenges for October. Following our Python testing with pytest book review we let you write some tests with this awesome framework.