Test & Code

In Python, before dataclasses, we had attrs. Before attrs, it wasn't pretty.The story of attrs and dataclasses is actually intertwined.  They've built on each other. And in the middle of it all, Hynek...

7 Juni 202232min

Will McGugan has brought a lot of color to CLIs within Python due to Rich.  Then Textual started rethinking full command line applications, including layout with CSS. And now Textualize, a new startup...

17 Maj 202235min

When you are teaching someone web development skills, when is the right time to start teaching code quality and testing practices?Karl Stolley believes it's never too early. Let's hear how he incorpor...

13 Maj 202240min

Being productive is obviously a good thing. Can we measure it? Should we measure it? There's been failed attempts, like lines of code, etc. in the past. Currently, there are new tools to measure produ...

12 Maj 202251min

Django has a handful of console commands to help manage and develop sites.  django-rich adds color and nice formatting. Super cool. In a recent release, django-rich also adds nice colorized tracebacks...

11 Maj 202221min

Twisted has been supporting asynchronous / event driven applications way before asyncio. Twisted, and Glyph, have also been encouraging automated tests for a very long time.Twisted uses a technique th...

21 Mars 202240min

Ryan Cheley joins me today to talk about some challenges of managing software teams, and how to handle them. We end up talking about a lot of skills that are excellent for software engineers as well a...

17 Mars 202247min

Don't you just love technical interviews, with someone who just saw your resume or CV 5 minutes ago asking you to write some code on a whiteboard. Probably code that has nothing to do with anything yo...

8 Mars 202247min