

Python Bytes
Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken
Python Bytes is a weekly podcast hosted by Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken. The show is a short discussion on the headlines and noteworthy news in the Python, developer, and data science space.
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May 12, 2018 • 21min
#77 You Don't Have To Be a Workaholic To Win
Topics covered in this episode:
Why Senior Devs Write Dumb Code
GeoAlchemy 2
You Don't Have To Be a Workaholic To Win: 13 Alternative Ways To Stand Out
Project Beeware AppStore
Extras
Joke
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May 4, 2018 • 31min
#76 Goodbye zero-versioning
Topics covered in this episode:
Unlearning toxic behaviors in a code review culture
Flask 1.0 Released
How to have a great first PyCon
Extras
Joke
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Apr 28, 2018 • 20min
#75 pypi.org officially launches
Topics covered in this episode:
numba
pip 10 is out!
* Pandas only like modern Python*
Extras
Joke
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Apr 19, 2018 • 25min
#74 Contributing to Open Source effectively
Topics covered in this episode:
* Contributing to Open Source effectively*
Jupyter, Mathematica, and the Future of the Research Paper
Depression AI
Extras
Joke
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Apr 12, 2018 • 19min
#73 This podcast comes in any color you want, as long as it's black
Topics covered in this episode:
Set Theory and Python
Trio: async programming for humans and snake people
black: The uncompromising Python code formatter
gain: Web crawling framework based on asyncio
Generic Function in Python with Singledispatch
Unsync: Unsynchronizing async/await in Python 3.6
Extras
Joke
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Apr 5, 2018 • 23min
#72 New versioning: Episode 0.0.7.2 (with 72 releases)
Topics covered in this episode:
ZeroVer: 0-based Versioning
GitHub Security Alerts Detected over Four Million Vulnerabilities
Markdown Descriptions on PyPI
Concurrency comparison between NGINX-unit and uWSGI
Loop better: A deeper look at iteration in Python
Misconfigured Django Apps Are Exposing Secret API Keys, Database Passwords
Extras
Joke
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Mar 28, 2018 • 24min
#71 We can migrate to Python 3, careful please
Topics covered in this episode:
The Conservative Python 3 Porting Guide
World-Class Software Companies That Use Python
Stop Writing Classes
PyPi.org is alive
pygame on pypy usable
Extras
Joke
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Mar 23, 2018 • 16min
#70 Have you seen my log? It's cute!
Topics covered in this episode:
Online CookieCutter Generator
cutelog – GUI for Python's logging module
wagtail 2.0
peewee 3.0 is out
Machine Learning Basics
Cerberus
Extras
Joke
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Mar 18, 2018 • 24min
#69 Digging into StackOverflow's 2018 survey results
Topics covered in this episode:
pynb: Jupyter Notebooks as plain Python code with embedded Markdown text
Microsoft’s quantum computing language is now available for macOS
* pytest talk in Spanish*
StackOverflow Developer Survey Results 2018
demoshell
* Clear statement on Python 2 EOL*
Extras
Joke
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Mar 6, 2018 • 19min
#68 Python notebooks galore!
Topics covered in this episode:
dumb-pypi
Requests-HTML: HTML Parsing for Humans
A phone number proxy
* Notebooks galore part 1:* Datalore
bellybutton
Notebooks galore part 2
Extras
Joke
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