#61: Free software, free people
Talk Python To Me30 Touko 2016

#61: Free software, free people

How often do you read some news headline about free speech denied and human rights being suppressed and think that sucks but there is nothing I can do about it from my distant perspective. I guess you could vote slightly differently in the next election and maybe, just maybe, it will have a small impact in 4 years time.

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#69: Write an Excellent Programming Blog

#69: Write an Excellent Programming Blog

Do you have a blog? How many articles have you written for it? Do you find it hard to keep writing or hard to get started doing technical writing? We might be able to help you out with that this week.

26 Heinä 201657min

#68: Crossing the streams with Podcast.__init__

#68: Crossing the streams with Podcast.__init__

Have you listened to the other major Python podcast hosted by Tobias Macey and Chris Patti? It's called podcast.__init__ and, like this show, they have some excellent stories from the Python ecosystem...

20 Heinä 20161h 2min

#67: Property-based Testing with Hypothesis

#67: Property-based Testing with Hypothesis

Let's talk about your unit testing strategy. How do you select the tests you write or do you even write tests? Typically, when you write a test you have to think of what you are testing and the exact ...

13 Heinä 201658min

#66: Faster Python Programs: Measure, Don't Guess

#66: Faster Python Programs: Measure, Don't Guess

Python is a wonderful programming language that is often underestimated because it's so clear and simple. Oftentimes people mistake this simplicity for being too simple for real-programs. After all, y...

7 Heinä 20161h 4min

#65: Jump on the real-time web with RethinkDB

#65: Jump on the real-time web with RethinkDB

Long gone are the days of the web acting as just linked documents and glorified brochures. Web apps of today are just that, rich interactive applications. But unlike desktop apps of old, these are app...

29 Kesä 201659min

#64: Inside the Python Package Index

#64: Inside the Python Package Index

What is the most powerful part of the Python ecosystem? Well, the ability to say "pip install magic_library" has to be right near the top. But do you what powers the Python Package Index and the peopl...

24 Kesä 201659min

#63: Validating Python tests with mutation testing

#63: Validating Python tests with mutation testing

Do you think it's a good idea to test your software? Do you write unit tests or other automated verification for code? I think most of us do these days. A key question is how do you know whether your ...

16 Kesä 201659min

#62: San Diego Technology Immersion Group Learns Python

#62: San Diego Technology Immersion Group Learns Python

What's it like to learn Python? Yes, some of you may have just picked up the language while others have lived and breathed it for years. Either way, you may have some hindsight bias towards the experi...

7 Kesä 20161h 9min