Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

Topics covered in this episode:

• Dan Bader takes over Real Python
• * Still more Python GUIs*
• Python’s misleading readability
• warp2 access
• Help! My tests can’t see my code!
• Cement - Framework for CLI
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/62

Recorded January 18, 2018

Topics

• Graham Linehan confirms The IT Crowd is set for US remake
• Upgrading Ubuntu
• Wine 3.0 Released
• App LegalFling creates contracts for consensual sex | Daily Mail Online
• The end of Silex (Symfony Blog)
• Can releases please be properly tested? · Issue #22833 · laravel/framework
• The end of symfony 1 (Symfony Blog)
• Confirmation emails are the perfect example of why email needs an update.

Kola Aina is the Founder and CEO of the Nigerian-based pan-African seed-stage fund and accelerator, Ventures Platform. The firm's portfolio includes well-publicised Nigerian rising startup stars like Paystack and Printivo, as well as promising, lesser-known ventures like the Cameroonian wifi entertainment platform, Viva. In this conversation with Andile Masuku, Kola unpacks his firm's investment thesis and their Y Combinator-esque approach to startup incubation and acceleration. He also shares his concern about what he considers to be a deep-seated tendency to underestimate the value of African capital and local context.

Recorded January 11, 2018

Topics

• Ruby Still isn't dead
• Tom's first sober presentation - Cats and OOP
• Pay scale for remote workers - How do you determine your worth
• Ninth Circuit Doubles Down: Violating a Website’s Terms of Service Is Not a Crime
• The Internet's Own Boy: The Story of Aaron Swartz | full movie (2014)
• Playing with docker
• PHP 7.3 will include a new hrtime() function to provide a high-resolution monotonic timer and overcome the limitations of microtime() https://t.co/CRhMnAtFry (more about monotonic clocks: https://t.co/DlS2cPF0hE) pic.twitter.com/opnwlAb2VK— Symfony News (@symfony_en) January 8, 2018
• Roave/FunctionFQNReplacer
• Github is monitoring package-lock.json and package.json for security vulnerabilities
• Kodak soars on crypto-currency plans
• Upcoming Events | Bots, Tots, and Lunchboxes: Learn with Your Kids (San Diego, CA)
• Our Meetups - SDPHP and PeakPHP
• Southeast PHP Conference
• Write a quantum program

Topics covered in this episode:

• PEP 412's dict key sharing for classes
• Python Hunter
• Ten Things I Wish I’d Known About bash
• Snakefooding Python Code For Complexity Visualization
• On Being a Senior Engineer
• * Python UI frameworks*
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/61

In the first full African Tech Roundup podcast of 2018, Andile Masuku mulls over Gefira Solutions Founder and CEO Bert Bruggeman's assertion that we can't just "app our way" to solving all of Africa's problems. Then, he ponders which hybrid investment approaches might prove successful in fueling African startups in 2018, and echoes the questions posed by Seyi Fabode’s blog post entitled: “Is It Time To Dump The ‘Lean Startup’ Approach?” Also, in this episode, Andile gives a quick update on the #NotOurManifesto dumpster fire that Co-Creation Hub Nigeria co-founder Femi Longe lit late last year and shares some encouraging news regarding the https://africamanifesto.com initiative that was subsequently launched. Music Credits: Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Music licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

Bert Bruggeman is the Belgian Founder and CEO of the Silicon Valley-based technology advisory firm, Gefira Solutions. Bert has an impressive 25-year track record of successful technology product development and C-level leadership in a broad range of high-tech industries. Gefira Solutions is keen to act on their expansion agenda within Africa's hardware development and innovation space. In this conversation with Andile Masuku, Bert unpacks his organisation's vision and explains why Africa can't simply "app its way" to solving all its problems and achieving digital transformation goals.

Topics covered in this episode:

• Who's at nine?
• Retiring Python as a teaching language
• Don't dismiss SQLite as just a starter DB
• Chalice: Python Serverless Microframework for AWS
• Fastest way to uniquely a list in Python >=3.6
• * PyTexas and PyCon AU vidoes are up*
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/60