Do you find yourself or your team building internal apps frequently for your company? Are you familiar with the term "forms over data"? They are super empowering for your org but they can be pretty repetitive and you might find yourself spending more time than you'd like working on them rather than core products and services. I invited Jimmy Chan from Dropbase to tell us about their service who's tagline is "Build internal web apps with just Python." It's a cool service and a fun conversation. Episode sponsors Mailtrap Talk Python Courses Links from the show Build internal web apps with ju ..read more

We all know that tools like ChatGPT have really empowered developers to tackle bigger problems. Are you using TailwindCSS and need a login page? Try asking Chat "What is the HTML for a login page with the login username, password, and button in its own section in the center of the page?" It will literally give you a first pass version of it. But how far can you push this? Fred Tubiermont may have taken it farther than most. He built a functioning SaaS product with paying customers by only using ChatGPT and Python. It's fascinating to hear his story. Episode sponsors Mailtrap Talk Python Cour ..read more

What is the state of serverless computing and Python in 2024? What are some of the new tools and best practices? We are lucky to have Tony Sherman who has a lot of practical experience with serverless programming on the show. Episode sponsors Sentry Error Monitoring, Code TALKPYTHON Mailtrap Talk Python Courses Links from the show Tony Sherman on Twitter: twitter.com Tony Sherman: linkedin.com PyCon serverless talk: youtube.com AWS re:Invent talk: youtube.com Powertools for AWS Lambda: docs.powertools.aws.dev Pantsbuild: The ergonomic build system: pantsbuild.org aws-lambda-power-tuning: g ..read more

We've spoken previously about security and software supply chains and we are back at it this episode. We're diving in again with Charles Coggins. Charles works at a software supply chain company and is on to give us the insiders and defender's perspective on how to keep our Python apps and infrastructure safe. Episode sponsors Sentry Error Monitoring, Code TALKPYTHON Mailtrap Talk Python Courses Links from the show Pick a Python Lockfile and Improve Security: blog.phylum.io Bad Beat Poetry: blog.phylum.io PEP 665 – A file format to list Python dependencies for reproducibility of an applica ..read more

Do you know what custom GPTs are? They're configurable and shareable chat experiences with a name, logo, custom instructions, conversation starters, access to OpenAI tools, and custom API actions. And, you can build them with Python! Ian Maurer has been doing just that and is here to share his experience building them. Episode sponsors Sentry Error Monitoring, Code TALKPYTHON Neo4j Talk Python Courses Links from the show Ian on Twitter: @imaurer Mobile Navigation: openai.com What is a Custom GPT?: imaurer.com Mobile Navigation: openai.com FuzzTypes: Pydantic library for auto-correcting ty ..read more

Interested in data science but you're not quite working in it yet? In software, getting that very first job can truly be the hardest one to land. On this episode, we have Avery Smith from Data Career Jumpstart here to share his advice for getting your first data job. Episode sponsors Sentry Error Monitoring, Code TALKPYTHON Posit Talk Python Courses Links from the show Avery Smith: www.linkedin.com Data Career Jumpstart: www.datacareerjumpstart.com Data Nerd Site: datanerd.tech Write C# LINQ queries to query data: learn.microsoft.com A faster way to build and share data apps: streamli ..read more

Have you ever been wait around for pip to do its thing while installing packages or syncing a virtual environment or through some higher level tool such as pip-tools? Then you'll be very excited to hear about the tool just announced from Astral called uv. It's like pip, but 100x faster. Charlie Marsh from Ruff fame and founder of Astral is here to dive in. Let's go. Episode sponsors Neo4j Talk Python Courses Links from the show Charlie Marsh on Twitter: @charliermarsh Charlie Marsh on Mastodon: @charliermarsh Astral: astral.sh uv: github.com Ruff: github.com Ruff Rules: docs.astral.sh When ..read more

Have you heard of Quart? It's the fully-async version of Flask created by Philip Jones who is working closely with the Flask team on these parallel projects. The TL;DR; version is that if you want to take advantage of async and await and you're using Flask, you want to give Quart a solid look. We've spoken to Philip previously about Quart. This time around here's here to share his top Quart extensions and libraries you can adopt today. Episode sponsors Posit Talk Python Courses Links from the show Pallets Team on ExTwitter: @PalletsTeam Quart Framework: quart.palletsprojects.com Using Quar ..read more

Are you interested in contributing to Django? Then there is an amazing mentorship program that helps Python and Django enthusiasts, because contributes and potentially core developers of Django. It's called Djangonauts and their slogan is "where contributors launch." On this episode, we have Sarah Boyce from the Django team and former Djangonaut and now Djangonaut mentor, Tushar Gupta. Not only is this excellent for the Django community, many of other open source communities would do well to keep an eye on how this creative project is working. Episode sponsors Neo4j Posit Talk Python Courses ..read more

You've built an awesome set of APIs and you have a wide array of devices and clients using them. Then you need to upgrade an end point or change them in a meaningful way. Now what? That's the conversation I dive into over the next hour with Stanislav Zmiev. We're talking about Versioning APIs. Episode sponsors Neo4j Sentry Error Monitoring, Code TALKPYTHON Talk Python Courses Links from the show Stanislav Zmiev: github.com Monite: monite.com Cadwyn: github.com Stripe API Versioning: stripe.com API Versioning NOtes: github.com FastAPI-Versioning: github.com Flask-Rebar: readthedocs.io Djang ..read more