Pybites Podcast

Welcome back to the Pybites podcast. Today Julian's shares a personal story of something that happened to his 6 year old son at school. It made us pause and reflect also linking it to the workplace. We also share an important coding / scratch-your-own-itch win and talk about books we're currently reading: Architecture Patterns with Python and The Internet of Money . Hope you enjoy this e...

In this podcast episode Bob interviews Alex Wulff and Russell Helmstedter from Ventura Unified School District . These guys are doing something really special for their students: they integrate math, computer science, Python and physical objects into a practical, holistic and super engaging learning experience. In our interview we dive into their curriculum, the backstory how they built it out, wh...

Today we discuss how detrimental it is to compare yourself to others, be it on social media, in the workplace or just life in general. What does this have to do with Python developers? A lot actually. Comparing yourself seriously increases anxiety and imposter syndrome so we hope this episode gives some perspective. If you fall into this trap, we also hope it helps you get out of it so that the on...

Sometimes we feel like we need to put up a façade, especially in front of our leaders. Showing up as your authentic self is so important though and the benefits are immense. In this episode, Hannah Kook, a Senior Communications Manager at AWS, shares her story and tips on what it is to be your authentic self at work. If you muster up the confidence to step into the ring, people will see that you h...

Welcome back to the Pybites podcast. This week we had the pleasure of interviewing Jesse Brink about his transformation from school teacher to professional software developer. In this interview he shares valuable insights what he did to get there. There was the technical part, but there were also strong marketing and mindset components we dig into. We hope you enjoy this episode and leave us a rat...

In this episode we introduce our new logo and share the backstory how it came about and its meaning. We think it better aligns with our mission of creating well-rounded developers and growing people's careers. What we're currently reading: - Bob: Antifragile: Things That Gain from Disorder (+ on reading list: The Nineties: A Book ) - Julian: Create Space: How to manage time and find focu...

Today we have Thomas Gaigher (creator of pypyr ) back on the show to talk about debugging. We hit on various important areas: - Visualization. - The debugging process. - Tracking and tracing. - Preventative measures. We even unexpectedly (and interestingly) spoke about design patterns. We hope you enjoy the show. Mentioned resources: - A debugging tale PyBites article - Thomas' first appearan...

In this episode we talk about The Great Resignation and the responsibility of companies and employees to seek improvement in this regard. It might be a bit soapboxy , but it's an important trend we wanted to cover on our podcast. We hope it's helpful. Books mentioned: - Writing Solid Code - Search Inside Yourself (Btw these links go to our PyBites Books app, a nice and simple way to trac...

This week we have Tim Gallati on our podcast to talk about his Python journey and a very interesting search database he developed: QuietLinks.com We discuss the problem his solution solves, the stack it uses, and some of the challenges he faced when developing this app. He talks about the importance having an MVP (Minimal Viable Product), which is in line with our philosophy of shipping soon and o...

This podcast episode is based on this article . Additional resources: - 10 Tips to Write Better Functions in Python - Linting tools: flake8 , black and pre-commit on which we have a training: Increase Python code quality with pre-commit - Mentioned Vim plugin I use to disallow save if there are syntax errors - Two exception handling articles: 7 Tips to Improve Your Error Handling in Python and Err...

This week we talk with Josh Engroff about his Python and career journey. We talk about how he landed a developer job, what he does day to day, learning technical skills, job interviewing, the mindset of a successful developer, and more. We hope you enjoy this episode. Connect with Josh on LinkedIn and PyBites Slack . -- If you want to land a software developer job, get a promotion, increase your c...

This week we talk about the challenge of changing jobs and that a lateral move is sometimes strategically smarter for your longer term goals. Main take aways of this episode: - Being in a certain role for too long you might become too comfortable and in order to grow you'll need to become uncomfortable again. - Take advice from others with a grain of salt, keep a varied group of "advisor...

Welcome back to the PyBites Podcast. In this episode we invited Ed Garcia to share his inspiring journey of becoming a Python developer. He joined PDM almost a year ago as a beginning Pythonista and has built a couple of projects end-to-end boosting his skills and with that his confidence. His latest app is a complete SAAS business idea turned into reality! He also contributed to PyBites OpenSourc...

This week we have Oli Bridge from Bonjoro on the show. Bonjoro lets you boost customer engagement with personal videos and we're big fans (ab)using the service (you might have gotten one or more videos from us already!) He goes into the backstory of Bonjoro and some fun ways people have used the service. He goes into the tech stack and the importance of Zapier integrations, their customer fir...

Welcome back to the PyBites Podcast and happy New Year! We kick this episode off with what we're going to focus on as PyBites this year.  We also discuss why "the ONE thing" and setting boundaries matter. Not only for reaching your goals, but also to keep a healthy sustainable balance (now more than ever!)  As usual we relate via some of our own stories.  Enjoy and hit us up if you...

In this special episode we celebrate 5 years of PyBites and 1 year of podcasting.  Some favorite moments and lessons learned.  Enjoy, thanks for listening, and more to come in 2022 ... Merry Christmas and Happy New Year!  

This week we talk about the stack we used for our new IronScribe service and some of the challenges we faced when building it.  We'll also write a more in-depth technical article about this which we'll link here when it's ready ... Links: Join our friendly / welcoming PyBites Slack Community . Do you want to build a Python app end-to-end, ranging from hobby project to fully fledged...

This week we talk about our PyBites Flashcards , what they are and why we made them. Not much else to say other than thank you as always for your support. We know that you'll get something out of these so if you do purchase them, please let us know what you think ! Links: PyBites Developer Flashcards: https://pybites.gumroad.com/l/pbflashcards PyBites Community: https://pybit.es/community/ Bo...

This week we talk with Martin Héroux about his learnings / teachings of writing clean, maintainable code . Join us and learn how to create more robust software, enjoy! And wow we're 50 episodes in, thank you everybody for your support! Marty's Bio: Marty trained as a physiotherapist before obtaining a PhD from Queen’s University (Kingston, Canada). He has worked at Neuroscience Research...

This week we speak to our fellow PDM-er, Pythonista and friend Ryan Austin about  The Payroll App he just released. What does the app do? How did he tackle coding such a complex app? What were some of the struggles? And what about the mindset he had to apply to get through it all? As usual we also talk wins and books of course. Enjoy and we hope this inspires you to build your own app / project /...

This week we talk about burnout which can be a serious productivity / health issue. We luckily have not had it but at times we've come close to it. Over the years we've learned how to pick up on signals that we're getting burned out and developed some tips to better prevent falling into its insidious traps. All of which we cover in this episode. Enjoy and we hope it helps you. Resou...

This week we talk about how to control your emotions specially when responding to heated situations, code reviews, feedback, etc. Some practical tips: - Ask (keep in mind) what problem are we trying to solve? - Don't reply to email directly, let your response marinate and/or review by somebody. Writing them in an editor might also help (be safer). - Choose the right medium, e.g.  a short meet...

In today's PyBites Podcast we look at 5 of our open source projects: - PyBites Tools - Git Stats - PyBites Alarm - Pysource - PyBites Carbon This is the first episode we put onto our YouTube , so if you want visuals, check it out here . There are still a few days left to finish your Hacktoberfest goal of four pull requests: - Watch our training - Contribute to one of our repos - Take one of o...

Today we talk about value systems and how they impact your work. Are you as happy in your job as you should be? Julian teaches us a valuable exercise to get to your core values. This can greatly influence what decisions you will make to better your career. To do this exercise yourself head over to our PyBites Value System Worksheet and fill it out. If the results surprise you / boost your effectiv...

This week we talk about the importance of building in order to really grasp not only Python, but any practical skill for that matter. We share some stories of our own how building and the use of deliberate practice really led to fluency in certain skills. The mentioned brag doc article is here . Books we're reading: - Pikachu's Global Adventure - Flipnosis - Más vegetales, menos animales...