Category: 3-SometimeTechTalk

Today we welcome Jonathan Lipps, Dir. of Open Source at Sauce Labs, to chat (and sing) about some of the philosophies behind the tech that we all use every day. Also Stack Overflow PM Joe Friend is here to continue the conversation about improving the user experience on SO.

Michuki Mwangi is the Regional Development Manager for Africa at the Internet Society where he has worked in the African Regional Bureau to promote Internet growth and sustainability since 2008. As the Internet Society is celebrating its 25th year anniversary in 2017, Michuki reflects on the progress being made to enable more and more Africans harness the life-changing potential of the internet. Among other things, Andile Masuku asks him who can be trusted to help bring Africa online given the numerous political and commercial interests around the world who are keen to exploit the internet to advance selfish ambitions.

Recorded September 17, 2017

Topics

• Google annoyances
• Chrome to force .dev domains to HTTPS via preloaded HSTS
• Chrome’s Plan to Distrust Symantec Certificates
• 4-10% of encrypted web connections are man-in-the-middle and intercepted
• An open letter to the W3C Director, CEO, team and membership
• The Pirate Bay Website Runs a Cryptocurrency Miner (Updated) - TorrentFreak
• Episode 2: Embracing Change | php[architect]

Topics covered in this episode:

• Ten Malicious Libraries Found on PyPI
• * PyPI migration to Warehouse is in progress*
• Live coding in a presentation
• * Notable REST / Web Frameworks*
• tox
• * flake8-tidy-imports* deprecated imports
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/44

A few weeks ago, Africa's richest man, Nigeria's Aliko Dangote, baffled many pro-African investment proponents by telling Bloomberg that if things go the way he plans, come 2020, a significant chunk of his wealth will be deployed abroad. In this African Tech Round-up episode Andile Masuku and Musa Kalenga are joined by Bitmari co-founder and self-proclaimed "pre-racial thought leader", Sinclair Skinner, for an unfettered family-style straight-talk session which literally went all over the place-- including reacting to Mr Dangote's recent revelation. Beware the scorching candid views and unintentional hot takes on everything from Naspers' problematic links to South Africa's apartheid past and Tanzania's new drone delivery program, to the big ticket maneuverings happening in South Africa's fintech scene courtesy of South Africa's wealthiest black man, Patrice Mostepe. Music Credits: Music by Kevin MacLeod (incompetech.com) Music licensed under Creative Commons: By Attribution 3.0

We're back! In today's episode: Jay, David, Ilana, Jess, and special guest Abby Mars read mean tweets, discuss what we are doing to prevent further mean tweets, and wait, the iPhone X does what with your face? Warning: Explicit content

Recorded September 14, 2017

Topics

• dddcommunity.org | Domain Driven Design Community
• Data Centre » BOFH • The Register
• The Equifax Data Breach: What to Do | Consumer Information

Topics covered in this episode:

• future-fstrings
• The Fun of Reinvention
• Sound Pattern Recognition with Python
• PEP 550: Execution Context
• Intro to Threads and Processes in Python
• Alternative filesystems for Python
• Extras
• Joke

See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/43