Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

This month the team discusses privacy and the lack of it, in our current government

Other topics include

• Friend of the show TJ Miller docker trick to reference back to your system to leverage services using the domain docker.for.mac.localhost
• Adobe to Acquire Magento Commerce
• Eric's shares his terminal alias for checking Bitcoin price from the command line alias bitcoin='curl rate.sx/btc'
• Mobile Giants: Please Don’t Share the Where — Krebs on Security
• Amazon Teams Up With Law Enforcement to Deploy Dangerous New Facial Recognition Technology
• Oakland passes “strongest” surveillance oversight law in US

Look out, Amsterdam! We're coming!

Topics covered in this episode:

• Packaging Python Projects
• gidgethub — An async library for calling GitHub’s API
• pystemd
• PyCharm 2018.2 EAP 1 includes improved pytest support
• 30 amazing Python projects (2018 edition)
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/80

Joel Macharia is the Founder and CEO of Abacus (https://abacus.co.ke), a Kenyan fintech firm that builds web and mobile software designed to help people anywhere in the world gain access to African financial markets. Joel previously founded and headed up the consumer financial news publication, PesaTalk.com, and prior to that, he served as the Africa Head of Product Development for the Mobile Money team at the Kenyan mobile commerce and payment technology provider, Cellulant. In this conversation with Andile Masuku, Joel provides insights into Kenya's dicey financial services regulatory environment and explains how Abacus is doubling down on providing safe, affordable micro investment options both for Kenyan citizens who might otherwise have been excluded from participating in securities markets, as well as more affluent Kenyan investors based abroad.

Recorded May 17, 2018

Topics

• SEC launch spoof ICO to warn naive ICO investors » Brave New Coin
• Solving a 43Mb favorites list
• OSMI Mental Health in Tech Survey 2018
• testing FTW
• New GitHub Desktop Application | Simple collaboration from your desktop
• GitHub Releases Desktop App Version 1.2 - Laravel News
• hangouts chat
• Amazon confirms that Echo device secretly shared user’s private audio | Ars Technica
• EFF Wins Final Victory Over Podcasting Patent | Electronic Frontier Foundation

Topics covered in this episode:

• pytest 3.6.0
• * Hello* Qt for Python
• MongoDB 4.0.0-rc0 available
• Pipenv review, after using it in production
• Pandas goes Python 3 only
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/79

In this conversation with Andile Masuku, TechAdvance CEO, Edmund Olotu, sketches Nigeria's digital payments infrastructure landscape and explains why he feels the time is right for his company to participate more actively in the discourses around the next wave of data analytics-driven tech in Nigeria. Listen in to hear Edmund unpack TechAdvance's ambitions to take the game to competitors like Interswitch and position to be the platform partner of choice for big corporate and government-owned enterprises looking to reduce payments friction, as well as newer fintech startups looking to deliver digitized financial services to the masses.