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2024-04-24

  219: Building Django Apps & SaaS Pegasus - Cory Zue

I'm starting a SaaS project using Django, and there are tons of decisions right out of the gate. To help me navigate these decisions, I've brought on Cory Zue.   Cory is the creator of SaaS Pegasus, and has tons of experience with Django.Some of the to...
  Brian Okken author
2024-04-18

  218: Balancing test coverage with test costs - Nicole Tietz-Sokolskaya

Nicole is a software engineer and writer, and recently wrote about the trade-offs we make when deciding which tests to write and how much testing is enough.We talk about:Balancing schedule vs testingHow much testing is the right about of testingShould ...
  Brian Okken author
2024-04-11

  217: Podcasting / SaaS / Work Life Balance - Justin Jackson

If you've ever thought about starting a podcast or a SaaS project, you'll want to listen to this episode. Justin is one of the people who motivated me to get started podcasting. He's also running a successful SaaS company, transistor.fm, which hosts th...
  Brian Okken author
2024-03-11

  216: ruff, uv, and Astral: Python tooling, much faster, with Rust

Charlie Marsh and team are using Rust to make Python tooling faster.Ruff can take the place of Flake8, isort, and Black, and so much more.uv can take the place of pip, pip-tools, and virtualenvAstral is Charlie's venture backed company, and what they h...
  Brian Okken author
2024-02-25

  215: Staying Technical as a Manager

Software engineers that move into leadership roles have a struggle between learning leadership skills, maintaining technical skills, and learning new leadership and technical skills. Matt Makai went from individual contributor to developer relations to...
  Brian Okken author
2024-02-07

  214: Python Testing in VS Code

If you haven't tried running automated tests, especially with pytest,  in VS Code recently, you should take another look.The Python for VS Code interface for testing, especially for pytest, has changed recently. On this episode we discuss the change wi...
  Brian Okken author
2024-01-19

  213: Repeating Tests

If a test fails in a test suite, I'm going to want to re-run the test. I may even want to re-run a test, or a subset of the suite, a bunch of times.  There are a few pytest plugins that help with this:pytest-repeatpytest-rerunfailurespytest-flakefinder...
  Brian Okken author
2024-01-13

  212: Canon TDD - by Kent Beck

In 2002, Kent Beck released a book called  "Test Driven Development by Example".In December of 2023, Kent wrote an article called "Canon TDD".With Kent's permission, this episode contains the full content of the article.Brian's commentary is saved for ...
  Brian Okken author
2023-12-15

  211: Stamp out test dependencies with pytest plugins

We want to be able to run tests in a suite, and debug them in isolation, and have the behavior be the same.  If the behavior is different in isolation vs in a suite, it's a nightmare to debug. In this episode, we'll talk about: Causes of dependence Tes...
  Brian Okken author
2023-11-30

  210: TDD - Refactor while green

Test Driven Development. Red, Green, Refactor.  Do we have to do the refactor part?  Does the refactor at the end include tests?  Or can I refactor the tests at any time? Why is refactor at the end?  This episode is to talk about this with a an example...
  Brian Okken author