June 30, 2025

#438 Motivation time

33 minutes

Topics covered in this episode:

* Python Cheat Sheets from Trey Hunner*

* Automatisch*

* mureq-typed*

* My CLI World*

Extras

Joke

Watch on YouTube

About the show

Sponsored by Posit: pythonbytes.fm/connect

Connect with the hosts

Michael: @[email protected] / @mkennedy.codes (bsky)

Brian: @[email protected] / @brianokken.bsky.social

Show: @[email protected] / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky)

Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 10am PT. Older video versions available there too.

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Brian #1: Python Cheat Sheets from Trey Hunner

Some fun sheets

Python f-string tips & cheat sheets

Python's pathlib module

Python's many command-line utilities

Michael #2: Automatisch

Open source Zapier alternative

Automatisch helps you to automate your business processes without coding.

Use their affordable cloud solution or self-host on your own servers.

Automatisch allows you to store your data on your own servers, good for companies dealing with sensitive user data, particularly in industries like healthcare and finance, or those based in Europe bound by General Data Protection Regulation (GDPR).

Michael #3: mureq-typed

Single file, zero-dependency alternative to requests. Fully typed. Modern Python tooling.

Typed version of mureq (covered in 2022 on episode 268)

Intended to be vendored in-tree by Linux systems software and other lightweight applications.

mureq-typed is a drop-in, fully API compatible replacement for mureq updated with modern Python tooling:

Type checked with mypy, ty, and pyrefly.

Formatted with black, no ignore rules necessary.

Linted with ruff (add these rules for mureq.py to your per-file-ignores).

Brian #4: My CLI World

Frank Wiles

Encouragement to modify your command line environment

Some of Franks tools

direnv, zoxide, fd, ack, atuin, just

Also some aliases, like gitpulllog

Notes

We covered poethepoet recently, if just just isn’t cutting it for you.

I tried to ilke starship, bit for some reason with my setup, it slows down the shell too much.

Extras

Brian:

Interesting read of the week: New theory proposes time has three dimensions, with space as a secondary effect

Michael's: New quantum theory of gravity brings long-sought 'theory of everything' a crucial step closer

Joke:

Brian read a few quotes from the book

Disappointing Affirmations, by Dave Tarnowski

“You are always just a moment away from your next worst day ever. Or your next best day ever, but let’s be realistic.”

“You can be anything you want. And yet you keep choosing to be you. I admire your dedication to the role.”

“Today I am letting go of the things that are holding me back from the life that I want to live. Then I’m picking them all up again because I have separation anxiety.”

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June 30, 2025

#438 Motivation time

33 minutes

Topics covered in this episode:

* Python Cheat Sheets from Trey Hunner*

* Automatisch*

* mureq-typed*

* My CLI World*

Extras

Joke

Watch on YouTube

About the show

Sponsored by Posit: pythonbytes.fm/connect

Connect with the hosts

Michael: @[email protected] / @mkennedy.codes (bsky)

Brian: @[email protected] / @brianokken.bsky.social

Show: @[email protected] / @pythonbytes.fm (bsky)

Join us on YouTube at pythonbytes.fm/live to be part of the audience. Usually Monday at 10am PT. Older video versions available there too.

Finally, if you want an artisanal, hand-crafted digest of every week of the show notes in email form? Add your name and email to our friends of the show list, we'll never share it.

Brian #1: Python Cheat Sheets from Trey Hunner

Some fun sheets

Python f-string tips & cheat sheets

Python's pathlib module

Python's many command-line utilities

Michael #2: Automatisch

Open source Zapier alternative

Automatisch helps you to automate your business processes without coding.

Use their affordable cloud solution or self-host on your own servers.

Michael #3: mureq-typed

Single file, zero-dependency alternative to requests. Fully typed. Modern Python tooling.

Typed version of mureq (covered in 2022 on episode 268)

Intended to be vendored in-tree by Linux systems software and other lightweight applications.

mureq-typed is a drop-in, fully API compatible replacement for mureq updated with modern Python tooling:

Type checked with mypy, ty, and pyrefly.

Formatted with black, no ignore rules necessary.

Linted with ruff (add these rules for mureq.py to your per-file-ignores).

Brian #4: My CLI World

Frank Wiles

Encouragement to modify your command line environment

Some of Franks tools

direnv, zoxide, fd, ack, atuin, just

Also some aliases, like gitpulllog

Notes

We covered poethepoet recently, if just just isn’t cutting it for you.

I tried to ilke starship, bit for some reason with my setup, it slows down the shell too much.

Extras

Brian:

Interesting read of the week: New theory proposes time has three dimensions, with space as a secondary effect

Michael's: New quantum theory of gravity brings long-sought 'theory of everything' a crucial step closer

Joke:

Brian read a few quotes from the book

Disappointing Affirmations, by Dave Tarnowski

“You are always just a moment away from your next worst day ever. Or your next best day ever, but let’s be realistic.”

“You can be anything you want. And yet you keep choosing to be you. I admire your dedication to the role.”

“Today I am letting go of the things that are holding me back from the life that I want to live. Then I’m picking them all up again because I have separation anxiety.”

...more