Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

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

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.