Do you want to look inside your Django request? How about all of your requests in development and see where they overlap? If that sounds useful, you should check out Kolo. It's a pretty incredible extension for your editor (VS Code at the moment, more editors to come most likely). We have Wilhelm Klopp on to tell us all about it. Episode sponsors Sentry Error Monitoring, Code TALKPYTHON Talk Python Courses Links from the show Wil on Twitter: @wilhelmklopp Kolo: kolo.app Kolo's info repo: github.com Kolo Playground: play.kolo.app Generating tests with Kolo: kolo.app Watch this episode on Yo ..read more

So you've created a web app with Python using Flask, Django, FastAPI, or even Emmett. It works great on your machine. How do you get it out to the world? You'll need a production-ready web server. On this episode, we have Giovanni Barillari to tell us about his relatively-new server named Granian. It promises better performance and much better consistency than many of the more well known ones today. Episode sponsors Neo4j Talk Python Courses Links from the show New spaCy course: talkpython.fm Giovanni: @gi0baro Granian: github.com Emmett: emmett.sh Renoir: github.com Watch this episode on ..read more

This episode dives into some of the most important data science libraries from the Python space with one of its pioneers: Wes McKinney. He's the creator or co-creator of pandas, Apache Arrow, and Ibis projects and an entrepreneur in this space. Episode sponsors Neo4j Mailtrap Talk Python Courses Links from the show Wes' Website: wesmckinney.com Pandas: pandas.pydata.org Apache Arrow: arrow.apache.org Ibis: ibis-project.org Python for Data Analysis - Groupby Summary: wesmckinney.com/book Polars: pola.rs Dask: dask.org Sqlglot: sqlglot.com Pandoc: pandoc.org Quarto: quarto.org Evidence frame ..read more

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