Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

Topics covered in this episode:

• * Conference videos for DjangoCon 2017 and PyGotham 2017*
• * Python 3.6.3 released on Tue. All machines at FB are already running it (3 days)*
• Your technical skills are obsolete: now what?
• Visualizing Garbage Collection Algorithms
• pathlib — Filesystem Paths as Objects
• LUMINOTH: Open source Computer Vision toolkit
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/49

Electrical engineer, Yannick Lefang, is the Founder and CEO of Kasi Insight-- a research and advisory firm that provides African consumer data and actionable insights. Since 2013, Yannick's firm has been intent on empowering business leaders and entrepreneurs with the game-changing insight they need to tap into the continent's fast-growing markets. In this conversation with Andile Masuku - taped at Afrobytes Tech Conference 2017 - Yannick explains why even some of the most-quoted macroeconomic statistics published by leading NGO's and top-flight global consultancies can be misleading. He also gives some real-world examples of how research conducted by his firm has helped clients meet business objectives.

Recorded October 18, 2017

Topics

• Business fun - Penalized
• Upgrading my network to "normal"
• We fired our top talent. Best decision we ever made.
• You fired your top talent. I hope you’re happy. – Startups & Venture Capital
• Falling through the KRACKs – A Few Thoughts on Cryptographic Engineering
• Doctor's office post it note
• Mr. Robot, Corporations, etc
• Colorado Political Candidate Promises to Give His Seat to an App
• IRS: ‘Significant’ number of Equifax victims had already had info stolen
• Larachat Live

Sean Godoy is the Founder and Executive Director of Divercity Property Solutions. He has cross-sector experience in the property industry in both South Africa and the UK. In this conversation with Andile Masuku, Sean explains why he's excited about the global rise of real estate tech aka proptech. He believes that this trend could facilitate the democratisation of land and property ownership in Africa and help iron out the continent's complicated post-colonial land and property situation.

Topics covered in this episode:

• The Python Graph Gallery
• pynesis
• Things you need to know about garbage collection in Python
• * WSGI Is Not Enough Anymore,* part 1 and part 2
• Queues in Python
• Using Reflection: A Podcast About Humans Engineering
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/48

On today's episode we chat about the nature of VR and reality with IBM Watson's Michael Ludden, plus SO marketing manager Rachel Ferrigno stops by to present the NYC Dev Hiring Ecosystem report.

Recorded October 12, 2017

Topics

• Meetup
• Cloudflare ditches sites that use Coinhive mining code after classing it as malware
• Instagram post by Collin Cunningham
• Taylor Otwell 🐘 on Twitter: "What do you hope for in Laravel 5.6? 😺"
• Equifax website borked again, this time to redirect to fake Flash update
• All good things come to an end. On Dec 15, we'll bid farewell to AIM. Thank you to all our users! #AIMemories https://t.co/b6cjR2tSuU pic.twitter.com/V09Fl7EPMx— AIM (@aim) October 6, 2017
• The Future of HHVM
• NPR Story - Social Security Numbers
• Keybase launches encrypted git

Adebayo “Ade” Alonge is the Nigerian co-founder of RxAll, a platform which provides patients in the developing world with authenticated and verified medicines. Prior to this, Ade was a strategy consultant with the Boston Consulting Group, and before that, he spent eight years working a Sanofi, Roche, and BASF. In this absorbing, not-so-quick chat with Andile Masuku, Ade unpacks the state of play within Nigeria's pharmaceutical mass market, and explains how RxAll is enabling direct access to affordable, high-quality medicines while helping to reshape drug purchasing habits within markets rife with counterfeit product.

Topics covered in this episode:

• WTF Python?
• Python Exercises
• Exploiting misuse of Python's "pickle"
• A Complete Beginner's Guide to Django
• pypi-parker
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/47