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Lorena Mesa - E78

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One of the great strengths of the Python community is the diversity of backgrounds that our practitioners come from. This week Lorena Mesa talks about how her focus on political science and civic engagement led her to a career in software engineering and data analysis. In addition to her professional career she founded the…

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One of the great strengths of the Python community is the diversity of…

08 October 2016 | 00:42:23


Podbuzzz with Kyle Martin - E77

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Podcasts are becoming more popular now than they ever have been. Podbuzzz is a service for helping podcasters to track their reviews and imporove SEO to reach a wider audience. In this episode we spoke with Kyle Martin about his experience using Python to build Podbuzzz and manage it in production.

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Podcasts are becoming more popular now than they ever have been. Podbuzzz is a…

01 October 2016 | 00:38:36


PsychoPy with Jonathan Peirce - E76

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We’re delving into the complex workings of your mind this week on Podcast.init with Jonathan Peirce. He tells us about how he started the PsychoPy project and how it has grown in utility and popularity over the years. We discussed the ways that it has been put to use in myriad psychological experiments, the…

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We’re delving into the complex workings of your mind this week on…

25 September 2016 | 01:12:10


Sandstorm.io with Asheesh Laroia - E75

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Sandstorm.io is an innovative platform that aims to make self-hosting applications easier and more maintainable for the average individual. This week we spoke with Asheesh Laroia about why running your own services is desirable, how they have made security a first priority, how Sandstorm is architected, and what the installation…

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Sandstorm.io is an innovative platform that aims to make self-hosting…

17 September 2016 | 00:59:35


Python at Zalando - E74

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Open source has proven its value in many ways over the years. In many companies that value is purely in terms of consuming available projects and platforms. In this episode Zalando describes their recent move to creating and releasing a number of their internal projects as open source and how that has benefited their business.…

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Open source has proven its value in many ways over the years. In many companies…

10 September 2016 | 00:40:27


Alex Martelli - E73

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Alex Martelli has dedicated a large part of his career to teaching others how to work with software. He has the highest number of Python questions answered on Stack Overflow, he has written and co-written a number of books on Python, and presented innumerable times at conferences in multiple countries. We spoke to him about how…

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Alex Martelli has dedicated a large part of his career to teaching others how to…

03 September 2016 | 01:04:49


Dave Beazley - E72

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Dave Beazley has been using and teaching Python since the early days of the language. He has also been instrumental in spreading the gospel of asynchronous programming and the many ways that it can improve the performance of your programs. This week I had the pleasure of speaking with him about his history with the language and…

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Dave Beazley has been using and teaching Python since the early days of the…

27 August 2016 | 00:45:42


GenSim with Radim Řehůřek - E71

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Being able to understand the context of a piece of text is generally thought to be the domain of human intelligence. However, topic modeling and semantic analysis can be used to allow a computer to determine whether different messages and articles are about the same thing. This week we spoke with Radim Řehůřek about his work on…

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Being able to understand the context of a piece of text is generally thought to…

20 August 2016 | 00:53:28


Python on Windows with Steve Dower - E70

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In order for Python to continue to attract new users, we need to have an easy way for people to get started with it, and Windows is still the most widely used operating system among computers. Steve Dower is the build maintainer for the Windows installers of Python and this week we spoke with him about his work in that role. He…

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In order for Python to continue to attract new users, we need to have an easy…

13 August 2016 | 00:54:24


PyCon Canada with Francis Deslauriers and Peter McCormick - E69

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Aside from the national Python conferences such as PyCon US and EuroPyCon there are a number of regional conferences that operate at a smaller scale to service their local communities. This week we interviewed Peter McCormick and Francis Deslauriers about their work organizing PyCon Canada to provide a venue for Canadians to…

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Aside from the national Python conferences such as PyCon US and EuroPyCon there…

06 August 2016 | 00:46:01