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Tetra: A Full Stack Web Framework That Doesn't Make You Write Everything Twice - Episode 369

July 3, 2022 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Tetra: A Full Stack Web Framework That Doesn't Make You Write Everything Twice - Episode 369

Building a fully functional web application has been growing in complexity along with the growing popularity of javascript UI frameworks such as React, Vue, Angular, etc. Users have grown to expect interactive experiences with dynamic page updates, which leads to duplicated business logic and complex API contracts between the server-side application and the Javascript front-end. To reduce the friction involved in writing and maintaining a full application Sam Willis created Tetra, a framework built on top of Django that embeds the Javascript logic into the Python context where it...

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Design Real-World Objects In Python With CadQuery - Episode 368

June 27, 2022 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Design Real-World Objects In Python With CadQuery - Episode 368

Virtually everything that you interact with on a daily basis and many other things that make modern life possible were designed and modeled in software called CAD or Computer-Aided Design. These programs are advanced suites with graphical editing environments tailored to domain experts in areas such as mechanical engineering, electrical engineering, architecture, etc. While the UI-driven workflow is more accessible, it isn't scalable which opens the door to code-driven workflows. In this episode Jeremy Wright discusses the design, uses, and benefits of the CadQuery framework for building 3D CAD...

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Intelligent Dependency Resolution For Optimal Compatibility And Security With Project Thoth - Episode 367

June 15, 2022 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Intelligent Dependency Resolution For Optimal Compatibility And Security With Project Thoth - Episode 367

Building any software project is going to require relying on dependencies that you and your team didn't write or maintain, and many of those will have dependencies of their own. This has led to a wide variety of potential and actual issues ranging from developer ergonomics to application security. In order to provide a higher degree of confidence in the optimal combinations of direct and transitive dependencies a team at Red Hat started Project Thoth. In this episode Fridolín Pokorný explains how the Thoth resolver uses multiple signals to...

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Take A Deep Dive On How Code Completion Works And How To Customize It - Episode 366

May 30, 2022 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Take A Deep Dive On How Code Completion Works And How To Customize It - Episode 366

Most developers have encountered code completion systems and rely on them as part of their daily work. They allow you to stay in the flow of programming, but have you ever stopped to think about how they work? In this episode Meredydd Luff takes us behind the scenes to dig into the mechanics of code completion engines and how you can customize them to fit your particular use case.

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Hunting Black Swans With Bees: Catching Up With The Inimitable Russell Keith-Magee - Episode 365

May 24, 2022 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Hunting Black Swans With Bees: Catching Up With The Inimitable Russell Keith-Magee - Episode 365

Russell Keith-Magee is an accomplished engineer and a fixture of the Python community. His work on the Beeware suite of projects is one of the most ambitious undertakings in the ecosystem and unfailingly forward-looking. With his recent transition to working for Anaconda he is now able to dedicate his full focus to the effort. In this episode he reflects on the journey that he has taken so far, how Beeware is helping to address some of the threats to Python's long term viability, and how he envisions its future...

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Take Control Of Your Digital Photos By Running Your Own Smart Library Manager With LibrePhotos - Episode 364

May 16, 2022 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Take Control Of Your Digital Photos By Running Your Own Smart Library Manager With LibrePhotos - Episode 364

Digital cameras and the widespread availability of smartphones has allowed us all to generate massive libraries of personal photographs. Unfortunately, now we are all left to our own devices of how to manage them. While cloud services such as iPhotos and Google Photos are convenient, they aren't always affordable and they put your pictures under the control of large companies with their own agendas. LibrePhotos is an open source and self-hosted alternative to these services that puts you in control of your digital memories. In this episode the maintainer...

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Making Investment Data Easy To Access And Analyze With The OpenBB Terminal - Episode 363

May 10, 2022 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Making Investment Data Easy To Access And Analyze With The OpenBB Terminal - Episode 363

Investing effectively is largely a game of information access and analysis. This can involve a substantial amount of research and time spent on finding, validating, and acquiring different information sources. In order to reduce the barrier to entry and provide a powerful framework for amateur and professional investors alike Didier Rodrigues Lopes created the OpenBB Terminal. In this episode he explains how a pandemic project that started as an experiment has led to him founding a new company and dedicating his time to growing and improving the project and...

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Accelerate Your Machine Learning Experimentation With Automatic Checkpoints Using FLOR - Episode 362

May 2, 2022 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Accelerate Your Machine Learning Experimentation With Automatic Checkpoints Using FLOR - Episode 362

The experimentation phase of building a machine learning model requires a lot of trial and error. One of the limiting factors of how many experiments you can try is the length of time required to train the model which can be on the order of days or weeks. To reduce the time required to test different iterations Rolando Garcia Sanchez created FLOR which is a library that automatically checkpoints training epochs and instruments your code so that you can bypass early training cycles when you want to explore a...

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Automatically Enforce Software Structures With Powerful Code Modifications Powered By LibCST - Episode 361

April 25, 2022 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Automatically Enforce Software Structures With Powerful Code Modifications Powered By LibCST - Episode 361

Programmers love to automate tedious processes, including refactoring your code. In order to support the creation of code modifications for your Python projects Jimmy Lai created LibCST. It provides a richly typed and high level API for creating and manipulating concrete syntax trees of your source code. In this episode Jimmy Lai and Zsolt Dollenstein explain how it works, some of the linting and automatic code modification utilities that you can build with it and how to get started with using it to maintain your own Python projects.

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Cloud Native Networking For Developers With The Gloo Platform - Episode 360

April 19, 2022 Tobias Macey Comments Off on Cloud Native Networking For Developers With The Gloo Platform - Episode 360

Communication is a fundamental requirement for any program or application. As the friction involved in deploying code has gone down, the motivation for architecting your system as microservices goes up. This shifts the communication patterns in your software from function calls to network calls. In this episode Idit Levine explains how the Gloo platform that she and her team at Solo have created makes it easier for you to configure and monitor the network topologies for your microservice environments. She also discusses what developers need to know about networking...

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