Earlier this year, the Python Software Foundation announced the creation of the Developer in Residence role. The first Visionary Sponsors of the PSF have provided funding for this new role for one year. What development responsibilities does this job address? This week on the show, we talk to previous guest Łukasz Langa about becoming the first CPython Developer in Residence.

We talk about how the first months in this role are shaping up. Łukasz discusses the need to address the backlog of open issues and pull requests. He also talks about how he is working to help the project’s volunteers move their contributions forward.

We cover his PyCon 2021 talk about generating real-time FM audio synthesis in Python. He also shares his experience developing a similar synthesis engine for an embedded hardware project.

Course Spotlight: Speech Recognition With Python

In this course, you’ll cover the fundamentals of speech recognition with Python. You’ll learn which speech recognition library gives the best results and build a full-featured “Guess The Word” game with it.

Topics:

00:00:00 – Introduction
00:01:51 – PyCon 2021 talk
00:20:54 – CPython Developer in Residence: Why did you want the role?
00:29:23 – Sponsor: DataStax Astra DB
00:29:55 – What were the expected responsibilities of the role?
00:35:47 – Working through BPO issues and GitHub pull requests
00:42:14 – Moving to migrate the systems
00:51:10 – Video Course Spotlight
00:52:26 – What trends can you see currently?
00:57:28 – Do you feel the amount of activity is increasing due to the role being in place?
01:03:46 – What skills would you look for in a person in this role?
01:07:26 – If there was a team of people how would things be different?
01:11:00 – How to follow along with the journey?
01:13:35 – Gathering and sharing data about the process
01:18:45 – What are you excited about in the world of Python?
01:25:04 – What do you want to learn next?
01:26:41 – Shout outs and plugs
01:31:36 – Thanks and goodbye

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