Test & Code

30 August 2022 · 43 min 14 s

193: The Good Research Code Handbook - Patrick Mineault

I don't think it's too much of a stretch to say that software is part of most scientific research now. From astronomy, to neuroscience, to chemistry, to climate models. If you work...

6 August 2022 · 42 min 28 s

192: Learn to code through game development with PursuedPyBear - Piper Thunstrom

The first game I remember coding, or at least copying from a magazine, was in Basic. It was Lunar Lander. Learning to code a game is a way that a lot of...

1 July 2022 · 46 min 4 s

191: Running your own site for fun and absolutely no profit whatsoever - Brian Wisti

Having a personal site is a great playground for learning tons of skills. Brian Wisti discusses the benefits of running a his own blog over the years. Special Guest: Brian Wisti.

21 June 2022 · 51 min 18 s

190: Testing PyPy - Carl Friedrich Bolz-Tereick

PyPy is a fast, compliant alternative implementation of Python. cPython is implemented in C. PyPy is implemented in Python. What does that mean? And how do you test something as huge as...

7 June 2022 · 32 min 24 s

189: attrs and dataclasses - Hynek Schlawack

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...

17 May 2022 · 35 min 37 s

188: Python's Rich, Textual, and Textualize - Innovating the CLI

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...

13 May 2022 · 39 min 49 s

187: Teaching Web Development, including Front End Testing

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...

12 May 2022 · 51 min 8 s

186: Developer and Team Productivity

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...

11 May 2022 · 20 min 56 s

185: Python + Django + Rich + Testing == Awesome

Django has a handful of console commands to help manage and develop sites. django-rich (https://pypi.org/project/django-rich/) adds color and nice formatting. Super cool. In a recent release, django-rich also adds nice colorized tracebacks...

21 March 2022 · 41 min 17 s

184: Twisted and Testing Event Driven / Asynchronous Applications - Glyph

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 that should...