Sad Python Girls Club

By Sad Python Girls Club

This podcast brings refreshing insights of the VS Code Python team, with authentic perspectives on the Python ecosystem and how VS Code fits in it, as seen from a software engineer view and a product ... more

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How many episodes does Sad Python Girls Club have?

The podcast currently has 25 episodes available.

Sad Python Girls Club episodes:

December 06, 2024S2 Episode 6 - Denny Perez on her journey into the Python community
🎙️ Welcome to the final episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast for 2024! ✨
In this special episode, we had the pleasure of speaking with Denny Perez, a Software QA Analyst and PSF Board Member. Denny shares her remarkable journey from the world of accounting to the realm of IT, and eventually into the Python community. Her story is one of transformation and inspiration, as she has become a trusted mentor for many aspiring contributors to a more diverse and inclusive Python ecosystem.
We also discussed our favorite Python-related news from the past year, reflecting on the highlights and milestones that have shaped the community in 2024 -- make sure to tune in! 🎧
Links and Resources:
Denny Perez @ GitHub: https://github.com/DennyPerez18

The Python Software Foundation (PSF): https://www.python.org/psf-landing/

Results from 2024 PSF elections: https://discuss.python.org/t/psf-board-election-proposed-bylaws-changes-results-announcement/58465

PyCon US: https://us.pycon.org/2025/

PyCon Charlas: https://us.pycon.org/2025/speaking/charlas/

PyCon Charlas contact e-mail: [email protected]

Pyladies Con 2024: https://conference.pyladies.com/

Octoverse: Python is the top language in GitHub: https://github.blog/news-insights/octoverse/octoverse-2024/

The Python Sofware Foundation receives the Wonderfully Welcoming Award from GitHub: https://pyfound.blogspot.com/2023/11/psf-wonderfully-welcoming-award-github.html

Savannah Ostrowski is officially a Python Core Developer: https://discuss.python.org/t/vote-to-promote-savannah-ostrowski/70302

Someone like you by Adele: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=hLQl3WQQoQ0

Corazón Multicolor by Luis Fonsi: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5c6T5kyR86g

Another sad love song by Toni Braxton: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=2yQ0Fll_9pM

Intro Song: Pastel
Producer: Blue.P
Music provided by LogSquare
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31min
September 06, 2024S2 Episode 5 - Vinicius Stock on Ruby & Python: Beyond the Code
If we ask you what the similarities between Ruby and Python are, it's likely that the answer will be they're both dynamically typed interpreted languages. But did you know there's a lot more than just that? 👀 In the 5th episode of season 2 of the Sad Python Girls Club podcast, Vinicius Stock, Staff Developer at Shopify, joins us to
explore the similarities between Ruby and Python, extending beyond technical aspects to their vibrant communities ✨
Tune in to learn more about how Ruby support in VS Code works, and how it relates to
our team’s efforts to support diverse scenarios for Python 🐍💎

Links and Resources:
Vinicius Stock @ GitHub

VS Code Ruby extension

VS Code Ruby LSP extension

Ruby Sorbet (type checker) VS Code extension

VS Code Ruby documentation

Ruby LSP repo

VS Code Ruby design and roadmap doc

VS Code Python's new setting, "python.locator" which can be set to "native" or "js"

Estranged by Guns N' Roses

Intro Song: Pastel
Producer: Blue.P
Music provided by LogSquare
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31min
August 02, 2024S2 Episode 4 - Charlie Marsh on Astral tools
We are over the moon 🌜 to announce a new episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! 🎉 This time, our co-hosts Dawn Wages and Luciana Abud are joined by Karthik Nadig, Senior Software Engineer at Microsoft. And, as a special guest, we have Charlie Marsh, Founder of Astral and the mind behind the popular Python tools Ruff and uv. 🐍✨
In this exciting episode, we dove into the backstory and motivation behind Charlie's creation of Ruff and how
that paved the way for Astral. We explore the inner workings of his team and how they manage their awesome tools, and we get an exclusive sneak peek into
their future plans. 🚀
It's a super fun episode featuring tech insights and open source learnings, so make sure you don't miss it!

Links and Resources
Charlie Marsh @ GitHub

SPGC's S1 Episode 3 - Karthik Nadig

Astral announcement

Astral.sh

Ruff: An extremely fast Python linter, written in Rust

uv: An extremely fast Python package installer and resolver, written in Rust

Rye: a Hassle-Free Python Experience

"Rye grows with uv" blog post

VS Code Ruff extension

Ruff language server announcement

GitHub Copilot

Holocene by Bon Iver
Intro Song: Pastel
Producer: Blue.P
Music provided by LogSquare
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49min
May 03, 2024S2 Episode 3 - Courtney Webster on being a PM for Python in VS Code
This is the 3rd episode of season 2 of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast, and we couldn't be more excited about it! 🥳 We had an awesome chat with Courtney Webster, Product Manager II at Microsoft working on the Python development support in Visual Studio Code and Visual Studio 🐍. She’s also the esteemed author behind our monthly release blog posts for the Python extension in VS Code 📰. Dive in with us as we learn about Courtney’s contributions to the Python community, her work to streamline the "getting started" experience for Python in VS Code, her efforts in package management support and educational initiatives, as well her approach to experimentation 🧪 and data-driven development 📈.

Links and Resources
Courtney Webster @ GitHub

Python extension for VS Code blog posts & release notes

Python in Visual Studio

Microsoft's Privacy Statement

How to disable telemetry in VS Code & extensions

Microsoft's Experimentation Platform

VS Code experimentation client

How to opt in, opt out or disable Python extension experiments

A look into workflow tools - package management in the Python extension for VS Code, by Courtney Webster @ discuss.python.org

PEP 722 - Dependency specification for single-file scripts [rejected]

PEP 723 - Inline Script Metadata [accepted]

PEP 722 and PEP 723 User Study Discussion by Courtney Webster @ discuss.python.org

Python extension's Create Environment command

Quick Start Guide for Python in VS Code

Microsoft Learn

Python Trainings @ Microsoft Learn

PyCon US 2024

DjancoCon US

DjangoCon Europe 2024

EuroPython 2024

SciPy 2024

CFP: EuroScipy 2024 (Poland), open until May 26th, 2024

CFP: PyCon India 2024, open until May 31st, 2024

CFP: PyCon France 2024, open until July 21st, 2024

CFP: PyCon APAC 2024 (Indonesia), open until August 1st, 2024

What a Time by Julia Michaels ft. Niall Horan

Intro Song: Pastel
Producer: Blue.P
Music provided by LogSquare
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39min
February 16, 2024S2 Episode 2 - Eleanor Boyd on Python Testing in VS Code
Welcome to episode 2 of the second season of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! This time we had the pleasure to chat with Eleanor Boyd, Software Engineer at Microsoft, about her work on improving testing support for Python in VS Code 🧪🐍
Join us for an episode full of geeky tech talk 🤓 as we peel back the curtain on a major refactoring mission that is enabling the development of new testing features to come (😉😉 Django folks).

Links and resources:
Eleanor Boyd @ GitHub

pytest

Pytest plugins

unittest

Python Packaging repository

Feature request @ vscode-python to support Django unittests (from November 2017)

Coverage.py

VS Code's Test Coverage API proposal

Python testing in VS Code documentation

Episode 214 of the Python Test podcast, featuring Eleanor Boyd and Courtney Webster talking about their work on rolling out the changes on testing support for Python in VS Code.

Intro Song: Pastel
Producer: Blue.P
Music provided by LogSquare
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30min
January 12, 2024S2 Episode 1 - New Year, New Season! 🎉
We're ✨ thrilled ✨ to back with another episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! "New Year, New Season" is a celebratory episode marking the beginning of Season 2 of our podcast, this time hosted by Luciana Abud and Dawn Wages. In this episode, we look back at some of the amazing things that happened in 2023 in the Python community 🐍 as well in our teams here at Microsoft (featuring a yearly review on the Python updates for VS Code!). So grab your favorite ice cream 🍦, put on your headphones 🎧 and join us for an episode full of highlights and hopes for an even better 2024 🚀

Links & resources:
S1 Episode 12 of the Sad Python Girls Club podcast with Dawn Wages

Python 3.12 updates

PEP 602 - annual release cycle for Python

The Python Pulse, happening every second Friday of every month, at 11am PST

VS Code Channel on YouTube

Meet the Python for VS Code team at the Python Pulse

Wonderfully Welcoming Award from GitHub to the PSF

Python People podcast

Brett Cannon at the Python People podcast

Mariatta Wijaya at the Python People podcast

Hidden Figures of Python podcast by the Podcats team

Test discovery and execution rewrite update in VS Code

Automatic conversion of f-strings with Pylance

Code navigation on strings that contain module names with Pylance

Move symbol refactoring with Pylance

Show Type Hierarchy with Pylance

Migrating Python tools to VS Code extensions

Data Wrangler extension for VS Code

Aka.ms/Python: the new Python at Microsoft website

Python in Excel

GitHub Copilot extension for VS Code

Azure OpenAI Service

PyCascades 2024

PyCon US 2024

DjangoCon US 2024

The Christmas Song by Nat King Cole

Home by Stephanie Mills

Intro Song: Pastel
Producer: Blue.P
Music provided by LogSquare
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26min
June 23, 2023S1 Episode 19 - Jay Miller
Get ready to be captivated by one of the most inspiring episodes of the Sad Python Girls Club podcast, featuring the incredible Jay Miller! Join us as we delve into Jay's Python journey, starting with attempts to "pythonize" their way out of a job to their unwavering dedication to the vibrant Python community 🐍. Tune in for an episode full of Python, productivity and music talk 🎶 and discover the incredible work Jay and other passionate folks have been doing to enhance representation of Black and People of Color in our beloved Python Community, featuring some invaluable advice on how we can all become better allies and foster an inclusive and welcoming space to all 🤗🌈

Links and resources:
Jay Miller @ GitHub

Python Community News

Conduit podcast

Jay Miller's YouTube shorts

Jay Milller's previous conference talks

San Diego Python Group

Melanie Arbor and Jay Miller's Keynote @ DjangoCon US 2022

Pyladies

PyCon Africa

AfroPython

Thinking bout you by Frank Ocean

Face Down by The Red Jumpsuit Apparatus

Intro Song: Pastel
Producer: Blue.P
Music provided by LogSquare
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39min
May 05, 2023S1 Episode 18 - 1 Year Anniversary 🥳
Can you believe it's already the first podcastversary of the Sad Python Girls Club? Neither can we! 🎂 Thank you again for listening to the podcast (and reading this description), let's get ready for another year of ice cream suggestions and emo songs! 🎶

In this episode we discuss whether AI tools can be considered mainstream or not, the Copilot X conversational feature in VS Code, and what's on the horizon for Copilot. 🔮

We also talk about the roadmap for the Python extension, and how the modular extension strategy fits into VS Code's vision of a snappy experience.

Links and resources:
GitHub Copilot X, the umbrella of Copilot technical previews that includes ChatGPT support in VS Code

Replit Ghostwriter

Amazon CodeWhisperer

Google Bard

Google Graveyard - Killed by Google

Zed

VS Code pets extension

Python extension's current & previous iteration plans

Python tools extension template

Nobody's Home by Avril Lavigne

Pity Party by Melanie Martinez

Intro Song: Pastel
Producer: Blue.P
Music provided by LogSquare
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21min
April 07, 2023S1 Episode 17 - Sarah Kaiser
Welcome to the 17th episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! Our special guest this time around is Dr. Sarah Kaiser, Senior Developer Advocate at Microsoft. Sarah is an experimental physicist 👩‍🔬 with a PhD in Quantum Computing, and in this episode she talks a bit of her professional journey from academia 🎓 to software engineering 💻 and now to advocacy 👩‍💻, with Python being there every step of the way.
This is a super fun and inspiring episode, where we dive into Sarah's passion for helping others working on scientific Python applications find and use the right tools to create amazing things. We also get a sneak peek into some of the amazing stories from her career, featuring some laser-shooting 💥 and a lot of Python 🐍.
This episode was recorded on March 24th, 2023.
Links and resources:
Sarah Kaiser's website

Sarah @ Mastodon

Sarah @ GitHub

Sarah @ LinkedIn

Pyladies

Quantum mechanics

Mathematica

Quantum key distribution devices: How to make them and how to break them, by Dr. Sarah Kaiser

PyCascades 2023

Sarah's talk at PyCascades, "Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Development Environment"

Dev containers

Duecredit Python package

NumFOCUS

SciPy community

Unitary fund

Soojin Choi's episode

VS Code extensions:
Live Share

Data Wrangler

Jupyter notebooks

VS Code Profiles

Anaconda

Python extension's Create environment command

GitHub Jupyter Notebook Rich Diff feedback discussion

GitHub Codespaces

To Zanarkand, part of Final Fantasy X Soundtrack

Intro Song: Pastel
Producer: Blue.P
Music provided by LogSquare
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30min
March 10, 2023S1 Episode 16 - Isidor Nikolic
Welcome to the 16th episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! 🐍 We're thrilled to have Isidor Nikolic, aka the VS Code historian, as our special guest this time around! Isidor not only holds the position of Senior Program Manager at the VS Code team, but he's also been working on the editor since day one! 🤯
In this episode, Isidor shares his experience working as a Software Engineer on the VS Code debugger 🪲, his journey to becoming a PM, his contributions to making VS Code more accessible, and all about how VS Code is managed and developed. Tune in and join us as we delve deeper into the story behind everyone's favorite code editor! 👩‍💻

Links and resources
Isidor Nikolic @ GitHub

Monaco editor

Vscode.dev

Github.dev

Find the current iteration plan for VS Code, pinned at the top of the repo

Latest VS Code update and release notes

Erich Gamma's Keynote on developing VS Code in the open

Debugging in VS Code

The Debug Adapter Protocol

The Language Server Protocol

LSIF

Accessibility in VS Code

You can't always get what you want by the Rolling Stones

Intro Song: Pastel
Producer: Blue.P
Music provided by LogSquare
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28min

FAQs about Sad Python Girls Club:

How many episodes does Sad Python Girls Club have?

The podcast currently has 25 episodes available.