Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

Topics covered in this episode:

• Debugging with f-strings in Python 3.8
• Am I "real" software developer yet?
• Debugging with local variables and snoop
• New home for Humans
• The Backwards Commercial License
• Switching Python Parsers?
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/141

Now-a-days, people are introduced to software development through multiple avenues. And it’s pretty amazing how many other industries parallel the thinking and creative process of writing code – teaching, project management… even music. Sean Washington took an unconventional route into software, through writing music and graphic design. Since then he has been sprinting forward, as a full stack web developer and tech podcast host. His most recent adventure has been becoming the CTO and lead developer of the Design Kollective – giving him the opportunity to not only learn the platform – but to make it his own and define the vision for how to up level the product.

Today’s sponsor: DevMountain.com (https://devmountain.com)

Links:

• https://seanwash.com/
• https://designkollective.com/
• https://spec.fm/podcasts/does-not-compute
• Design Patterns (by the Gang of Four)

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Topics covered in this episode:

• Becoming a 10x Developer: 10 ways to be a better teammate
• quasar & vue.py
• Regular Expressions 101
• python-diskcache
• The Python Help System
• Python Architecture Graphs
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/140

In this in-studio taping of the African Tech Roundup podcast, Andile Masuku is joined by the Kenyan digital money analyst Michael Kimani and the South African crypto entrepreneur Simon Dingle to discuss how Libra and the proposed Calibra network stacks up against existing cryptocurrency concepts like Bitcoin, and to establish whether or not Facebook's digital currency might be good for Africa. It's safe to say that the world hasn't been quite the same since Facebook and its high-powered corporate collaborators - Visa, MasterCard, Uber, Spotify, South Africa's PayU and several others - revealed plans to re-imagine global finance using a digital coin called Libra— an idea that, according to the Libra whitepaper, is set to be backed by a reserve of actual currencies and assets. This show was taped prior to US President Donald Trump forcefully panning cryptocurrencies in a public statement earlier this week. His provocative sentiments came in the wake of lawmakers in the US and Europe demanding that The Libra Association's plans be placed on hold pending formal investigations. Meanwhile, in Africa, policymakers will also need to grapple with many of the concerns being raised about Libra abroad. In this episode, Andile, Simon and Michael delve into issues that African lawmakers would do well to apply their minds to. Listen in to hear the trio unpack why Libra is potentially an ingenious innovation that - if permitted by regulators - could do much to advance financial inclusion on the continent, but, equally, a potentially hazardous vehicle which could enable Facebook & Co. to wield unprecedented economic control over Africa's future. Image credit: Maksim Shutov

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