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Hey Pythonista,
After almost 6 years, Pybites Community Code Challenges are back!
Sherry, our Community Manager, just kicked off our newest community code challenge:
Build a NASA Image Explorer app using NASA Open APIs 🚀
This challenge invites you to build a Space Image Explorer using NASA’s Open APIs, all powered by the lightning-fast Astral UV toolchain.
This is your chance to:
Practice building a NASA Explorer app in pure Python 🔥
Explore modern libraries and workflows like uv and pre-commit
Work with a real-world API (NASA’s public image archive)
Create something visually engaging and technically solid 🚀
This is a continuation of our previous blog code challenges where we encourage people to code and share together.
Hope you accept the challenge and have fun with it, good luck!
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How LLMs really work |
We're dropping a series of LLM Shorts Series where I (Bob) sit with Christo Olivier to break down how LLMs like ChatGPT really work (no fluff, just real dev insight).
🎬 Watch and subscribe on our YouTube Channel
👉 If enough interest, we’re planning a course to teach practical LLM skills.
Interested? Join the waiting list here.
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Sometimes a Shell Script Is All You Need ⚡️ |
Most I do in Python, but nothing beats a quick shell script. 💡
I wrote a quick one the other day: pull all repos of people in the current coaching cohort 📈 (notice `--no-edit` to not go into my default editor, making it hands-off)
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Elegant Dict Fallbacks Using ChainMap 🪄 |
Problem: you need to look up a key across multiple dictionaries in priority order — later groups should override earlier ones. Nesting `.get()`s works but becomes messy and hard to maintain. 😱
👉 `ChainMap` (from the awesome collections module 🐍 😍) gives you one logical view over multiple dicts — elegant fallback without nesting. 💡
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Looking for a place to network with other Python devs? |
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The Pybites Community continues to grow and increasingly become a place for people interested in Python to network with one another.
A few things we've spotted and heard lately:
People organised an in-person meet up at PyCon US 2025
Members in Boston chatting about meeting up for coffee to talk about Python
Devs connecting and working together to build OSS projects.
Devs hopping on calls to discuss job applications at companies they have history with.
This comes back to the concept of making an effort to connect with people. When you do, you never know where life will take you!
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"Software and cathedrals are much the same – first we build them, then we pray." – Anonymous
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