Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

Recorded December 28, 2017

Topics

• How we handle our kids exposure to the internet
• System76 now accepting bitcoin
• Using a tablet/ipad and not needing a full desktop anymore
• AWS Cloud9 – Cloud Developer Environments | AWS News Blog
• Up | Deploy serverless apps in seconds
• Edward Snowden made an app to protect your laptop
• Meltdown and Spectre exploit critical vulnerabilities in modern processors

Topics covered in this episode:

• gc.freeze() and Copy-on-write friendly Python garbage collection
• SpeechPy - A Library for Speech Processing and Recognition
• PyBites Code Challenges: Bites of Py
• How big is the Python Family
• Dramatiq: simple task processing
• Controlling Python Async Creep
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/59

Montserrat native Kenfield Griffith is co-founder and CEO of mSurvey-- a data analytics SaaS startup based in Nairobi Kenya. In 2012, Kenfield partnered with Kenyan Louis Majanja to launch the business following an extended visit to Nairobi to conduct some research for his MIT PhD on the use of technology as a means to improving communication. In this conversation with Andile Masuku, Kenfield explains why he's bullish on 2018 and unpacks how mSurvey's data analytics platform is delivering solid business results for an impressive roster of big-name clients in East Africa, the US and the Caribbean.

Recorded December 28, 2017

Topics

• Holiday recap
• SDPHP/SD Laravel year in review
• 2017, the year of Laravel?
• Symfony 4.0.0 released
• PHP 7.2 released
• Visual Studio Code for PHP Developers
• The Future of HHVM
• https://github.com/sebastianbergmann/phpunit/wiki/Release-Announcement-for-PHPUnit-6.0.0
• MongoDB Apocalypse Is Here as Ransom Attacks Hit 10,000 Servers
• PHP 5 is switching to security fixes only
• In Memoriam

Rich Tanksley is the Senior Vice President of Special Projects at the Nigerian-American consultancy, NeuBridges. Formerly the CEO of Pulse.ng, Rich continues to be the Ringier-owned online media platform's brand ambassador. Prior to that, he spent three years working at the Meltwater Entrepreneurial School of Technology (MEST) in Ghana as a senior faculty member and headed up Africa operations for Seedstars. In this conversation with Andile Masuku - taped at Afrobytes Tech Conference 2017 - Rich speaks on some of the gaps he perceives within Africa's innovation culture and factors in on issues that he reckons make doing business in Africa a tricky proposition for naive outsiders. He also comments on the massive growth potential of Nigeria's commercial digital media scene.

Recorded December 21, 2017

Topics

• https://trello.com/c/TwPrpboS/866-diegodev-holiday-party
• Buy, sell, send and receive Bitcoin Cash on Coinbase
• Apple Being Sued for 'Purposefully Slowing Down Older iPhone Models'
• hodlmoon | Fully-Knit Ugly Bitcoin and Ethereum Sweaters
• creating separate libs consumed via composer
• Say Farewell to Putty as Microsoft adds an OpenSSH Client to Windows 10
• The Uber "Bug Bounty" payout
• How a Dorm Room Minecraft Scam Brought Down the Internet

Topics covered in this episode:

• Instagram open sources MonkeyType
• cachetools
• Going Fast with SQLite and Python
• * The graphing calculator that makes learning math easier.*
• Installing Python Packages from a Jupyter Notebook
• Videos from PyConDE 2017 are online
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/58