Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

Recorded March 15, 2018

Topics

• WavePHP CFP are closed
• mysqli
• (17) Cryptocurrencies: Last Week Tonight with John Oliver (HBO) - YouTube
• Stephen Hawking, science's brightest star, dies aged 76 | Science | The Guardian
• ACME v2 and Wildcard Certificate Support is Live - Issuance Policy - Let's Encrypt Community Support
• Alas, Digg Reader is shutting down at the end of March – TechCrunch
• alevchuk/vim-clutch: A hardware pedal for improved text editing in Vim
• Welcome to the new TechCrunch | TechCrunch
• Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2018
• Financial Services: New restricted financial products policy (June 2018) - Advertising Policies Help
• Automated Website Testing and Monitoring - Ghost Inspector
• Buildkite
• Amazon.com: Roav VIVA, by Anker, Alexa-Enabled 2-Port USB Car Charger for In-Car Navigation, Hands-Free Calling and Music Streaming (Spotify Available Soon). iPhone Users: Update to the latest iOS (11.2.6).: Cell Phones & Accessories
• A startup is pitching a mind-uploading service that is “100 percent fatal”
• Laravel is Hiring Again – Taylor Otwell – Medium
• Meet the Raspberry Pi 3 Model B+ | Opensource.com

Topics covered in this episode:

• pynb: Jupyter Notebooks as plain Python code with embedded Markdown text
• Microsoft’s quantum computing language is now available for macOS
• * pytest talk in Spanish*
• StackOverflow Developer Survey Results 2018
• demoshell
• * Clear statement on Python 2 EOL*
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/69

Recorded March 8, 2018

Topics

• SDPHP Meetup
• I did mob programming every day for 5 months. Here’s what I learnt.
• Signing commits using GPG - User Documentation
• Why GitHub Won't Help You With Hiring
• (12) ReBoot: The Guardian Code Official Trailer - YouTube
• Implode.io
• Thanks to Dmitry Stogov, garbage collection in 7.3 won't... • r/PHP
• Geek Squad's secret spying on behalf of the FBI went on for a decade and involved constant, ongoing collaboration
• Twitter may eventually let anyone become verified - The Verge
• DivineOmega/password_exposed

In this episode, Host Jon Skeet takes the reins along with Jay, Jess, Ilana, and special guests Casey Ashenhurst (SO Inclusion Manager & Senior People Ops Partner) and Cassie Montrose (SO Executive Assistant) to chat about hitting a million rep on Stack Overflow; Jon's thoughts on feminism and inclusion and how those have evolved over the years; and a rant about a regrettable Applebee's experience in Times Square. You should'a known better, Jon...

Collins Onuegbu is the Nigerian Founder of Signal Alliance as well as a Director of the Lagos Angel Network. In this conversation with Andile Masuku - taped at Africa Tech Summit Kigali 2018 (https://www.africatechsummit.com/kigali/) - Collins frames the massive business opportunity that is Nigeria, explains the difference between business angel investment efforts and less disciplined traditional angel funding activities, and unpacks why he believes that Africa’s early-stage startup scene would be best served by indigenous money.

Back on the show for the first time since contributing his fair share of involuntary hot takes on Episode 109 entitled "Investor Bias Debate 2.0 + Should Africa Embrace Uberisation?" (http://bit.ly/investorbias) Tapsnapp Founder, Vije Vijendrenath assumes co-hosting duties in Musa Kalenga’s absence. Andile Masuku chats to him about the workarounds he's deployed to secure funding for two startups that he previously struggled to get investors to take seriously-- namely, www.tapsnapp.co and www.youbabyandi.com. Then, joining Andile and Vije on the show for a deep dive into South Africa's mobility scene is Obakeng Morapeli Matlhoko, the Founder of AftaRobot-- South Africa's ambitious "Uber for minibus taxis". Obakeng shares trench insights into his company’s audacious attempt usher in a new paradigm for the country’s notoriously fragmented minibus taxi industry. Music Credits: Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Music licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Recorded March 1, 2018

Topics

• Widdershin/programmers-oath
• Tom is a dirty pirate
• Scrutinizer
• GitHub Survived the Biggest DDoS Attack Ever Recorded
• Amazon Alexa’s head AI researcher has left for Google — Quartz
• The Definitive PHP 5.6, 7.0, 7.1, 7.2 & HHVM Benchmarks (2018)
• php-school/cli-menu

Topics covered in this episode:

• dumb-pypi
• Requests-HTML: HTML Parsing for Humans
• A phone number proxy
• * Notebooks galore part 1:* Datalore
• bellybutton
• Notebooks galore part 2
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/68