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2024-11-05

  From React to a Django+HTMX based stack

Have you heard about HTMX? We've discussed it a time or two on this show. We're back with another episode on HTMX, this time with a real-world success story and lessons learned. We have Sheena O'Connell on to tell us how she moved from a React-Django a...
  Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy) author
2024-10-29

  Reflex Framework: Frontend, Backend, Pure Python

Let's say you want to create a web app and you know Python really well. Your first thought might be Flask or Django or even FastAPI? All good choices but there is a lot to get a full web app into production. The framework we'll talk about today, Reflex...
  Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy) author
2024-10-24

  Pre-commit Hooks for Python Devs

Do you struggle to make sure your code is always correct before you check it in? What about your team members' code? That one person who never wants to run the linter? Tired of dealing with tons of conflicts and spurious git changes? You need git pre-c...
  Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy) author
2024-10-17

  Python Opinions and Zeitgeist with Hynek

Hynek has been writing and speaking on some of the most significant topics in the Python space and I've enjoyed his takes. So I invited him on the show to share them with all of us. This episode really epitomizes one of the reasons I launched Talk Pyth...
  Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy) author
2024-10-09

  Ahoy, Narwhals are bridging the data science APIs

If you work in data science, you definitely know about data frame libraries. Pandas is certainly the most popular, but there are others such as cuDF, Modin, Polars, Dask, and more. They are all similar but definitely not the same APIs and Polars is qui...
  Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy) author
2024-10-06

  Designing Effective Load Tests for Your Python App

You're about to launch your new app or API, or even just a big refactor of your current project. Will it stand up and deliver when you put it into production or when that big promotion goes live? Or will it wither and collapse? How would you know? Well...
  Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy) author
2024-09-25

  When and how to start coding with kids

Do you have kids? Maybe nieces and nephews? Or maybe you work in a school environment? Maybe it's just friend's who know you're a programmer and ask about how they should go about introducing programming concepts with them. Anna-Lena Popkes is back on ...
  Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy) author
2024-09-20

  Awesome Text Tricks with NLP and spaCy

Do you have text that you want to process automatically? Maybe you want to pull out key products or topics of conversation? Maybe you want to get the sentiment? The possibilities are many with this week's topic: NLP with spaCy and Python. Our guest, Vi...
  Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy) author
2024-09-04

  Unified Python packaging with uv

A couple of weeks ago, Charlie Marsh and the folks at Astral made another big splash with a major release of uv called "uv: Unified Python packaging" which has many far reaching features. We had to have Charlie on the show to give us the inside look in...
  Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy) author
2024-08-24

  Python Language Summit 2024

Every year the core developers meet to discuss and propose the major changes and trends in Python itself. This invite-only conference of about 50 people happens inside PyCon in the US. Because it's private, we rarely get detailed looks inside this even...
  Michael Kennedy (@mkennedy) author