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Bite-Sized Python News & Updates |
Hey Pythonista,
Welcome back to our weekly newsletter.
What are you working on this week? Reply and let us know, as well as if you need help with anything.
We have 5 interesting items lined up this week, let's dive into it.
And if you have developers or Python interested people in your network, please have them sign up to this newsletter here - thanks!
Best,
Bob & Julian
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A powerful career transformation story 🚀 |
First of all, big shout-out to Rodrigo Medeiros for landing a dev job abroad.
> ... And today, after some freelance work and other experiences, I finally got a full-time position as a developer at a North American company. I'm very happy and feel like I've finally reached this milestone after years. Now I just need to move forward, keep studying and dedicating myself.
The reason we want to highlight this big win is that Rodrigo worked 5 years on his big goal, and it went with many ups and downs. In addition to our platform and coaching, it was a relentless mindset of putting in continuous effort and persistence when the going got tough that got him there.
So, kudos Rodrigo, we're really proud to see how far you've come!
This is timely news as well given the topic of our latest podcast episode:
187: Beyond the resume - how to stand out in the competitive world of tech
And speaking of the inevitable obstacles we will all find, this is a must-read stoic resource:
The Obstacle is the Way by Ryan Holiday
Finally, you also cannot miss this career staple book:
So Good They Can't Ignore You Cal Newport
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| Celebrate Rodrigo's success in our community
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Polars - a fast + elegant Pandas alternative |
Torben Windler is in the business of making data pipelines 100x faster with Polars 🐻❄️ 🤯
That's quite a claim and it piqued our interest so we invited him to present at our PDM code clinic last week.
We now understand the saying: "I came for the speed, but stayed for the syntax" 📈 because this Rust-powered tool is not only very 𝗳𝗮𝘀𝘁, but its design is also 𝗯𝗲𝗮𝘂𝘁𝗶𝗳𝘂𝗹 😍
Have you made the switch from Pandas to Polars? Let us know...
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| Discuss Polars
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Up your Python dev skills, build end-to-end apps with high accountability |
Becoming a proficient developer is as much about the syntax / knowing the language as it is about designing usable apps with clean, extensible code, and adopting an effective toolset. 💡
That's what I will teach you + coach you on in our upcoming 6-week cohort coaching programs next month.
As you can see below, we'll build something fun and relevant and we're passionate to have people reach a level where they will:
Build a real functional app with good design 😍
Organize their code and make it easier to test 📈
Have good test coverage 🚀
Use modern tooling like uv, pytest, ruff + pre-commit 😎
Spots are limited so make sure you sign up in time 👇
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| Up your Python skills joining our next cohort
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An underrated programming skill 💡 |
Code reading 💪
Great reminder by @mathsppblog
If you're not regularly diving into a piece of Python code, do yourself a favor this week and do so, then hit reply and let us know, or make a post in our community about it.
We even made a little tool to make this easier:
uv tool install pybites-pysource
uv run pysource -m tempfile |vi -
And keep your eyes open for our next Code Reading Club Session!
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Dev Humor Corner
This week we'll defer to Fay Shaw for some terrible and hilarious DS jokes, here is one:
Where do data scientists go unplanned camping?
In a random forest.
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