#506: ty: Astral's New Type Checker (Formerly Red-Knot)

Do you have kids? Maybe nieces and nephews? Or maybe you work in a school environment? Maybe it's just friend's who know you're a programmer and ask about how they should go about introducing programm...

25 Sep 202454min

Do you have text that you want to process automatically? Maybe you want to pull out key products or topics of conversation? Maybe you want to get the sentiment? The possibilities are many with this we...

20 Sep 20241h 3min

A couple of weeks ago, Charlie Marsh and the folks at Astral made another big splash with a major release of uv called "uv: Unified Python packaging" which has many far reaching features. We had to ha...

4 Sep 20241h 12min

Every year the core developers meet to discuss and propose the major changes and trends in Python itself. This invite-only conference of about 50 people happens inside PyCon in the US. Because it's pr...

24 Aug 20241h 1min

Python performance has come a long way in recent times. And it's often the data scientists, with their computational algorithms and large quantities of data, who care the most about this form of perfo...

19 Aug 20241h 8min

Do you feel like ADHD is holding you back? Maybe you don't personally have ADHD but you work with folks who do and you'd like to support them better. Either way, how ADHD interplays with programming a...

2 Aug 20241h

This episode turned out to be a seminal one for me. After speaking with David about the Flask ecosystem, it finally convinced me to get moving and convert [talkpython.fm](https://talkpython.fm) to Qua...

26 Juli 20241h 1min

If you want to get better at something, often times the path is pretty clear. If you get better at swimming, you go to the pool and practice your strokes and put in time doing the laps. If you want to...

22 Juli 20241h 4min