#502: Django Ledger: Accounting with Python

We all know that privacy regulations are getting more strict. And that many of our users no longer believe that "privacy is dead". But for even medium-sized organizations, actually tracking how we are...

1 Apr 20231h 8min

In recent years, there has been a lot of experimenting how we work with dependencies and external libraries for our Python code. There is pip, pip- tools, Poetry, pdm, pyenv, pipenv, Hatch and others ...

24 Mar 20231h 2min

If you're like most people, the simplicity and easy of getting started is a big part of pytest's appeal. But beneath that simplicity, there is a lot of power and depth. We have Brian Okken on this epi...

18 Mar 202356min

The great power of Python is its over 400,000 packages on PyPI to serve as building blocks for your app. How do you get those needed packages on to your dev machine and managed within your project? Wh...

12 Mar 20231h 6min

So you know about dependencies and testing, right? If you're talking to a DB in your app, you have to decide how to approach that with your tests. There are lots of solid options you might pick and th...

3 Mar 202359min

Clean code is one of those aspects of your programming career that's easy to put on the back burner (sometimes by management more than yourself). But it's important in the short term for writing more ...

20 Feb 20231h 4min

Imagine a world with free and unlimited clean energy. That's the musings of a great science fiction story. But nuclear fusion (the kind that powers the sun) has always been close at hand, we see the s...

13 Feb 20231h 4min

When you think about processing tabular data in Python, what library comes to mind? Pandas, I'd guess. But there are other libraries out there and Polars is one of the more exciting new ones. It's bui...

8 Feb 202358min