Welcome to the 15th episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! 🐍 We're excited to have Alice Li, Senior Researcher and the tech lead for the Copilot Model Improvements team at GitHub, as our guest this time around. With all the buzz surrounding OpenAI and ChatGPT, it's an honor to have her with us to discuss her work on GitHub Copilot, and get her take on the Generative AI trend, and whether it will replace humans in the future 🤖

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Get ready for an exciting episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast, episode #14! It's the first episode of 2023 🎆 and we're kicking off the new year with a blast! 💥 Our special guest this time around is the one and only Savannah Ostrowski, Senior Product Manager at Microsoft. Savannah is going to take us on a journey as she shares her experience transitioning from Software Engineering to Product Management while building Pylance from the ground up 🐍. You won't want to miss this episode as Savannah dives into the main challenges her team faced, the lessons their learned and all about her new role as the product lead of the Azure Developer CLI! 👩‍💻

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Welcome to the last episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast for 2022! Just in time for the new year, in this episode your hosts Kim-Adeline and Luciana reflect over a few of the 2022 highlights in the Python world 🐍, and share their personal and professional goals for the upcoming year. Join us on a (short) memory lane ride over conferences, talks, feedback, survey insights and new releases, and find out what we're looking forward to and planning for 2023 📝.   We'd like to thank you so much for listening to and following our podcast over this past year, and we hope you'll join us again in 2023. Above all, we wish you all a happy new year! 🎆

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Welcome to this new episode of the Sad Python Girls Club podcast! In this episode we are having a blast with Dawn Wages, who's not only the Python Community Product Manager at Microsoft, but also a PSF director, DjancoCon organizer, Wagtail CMS core team member, and boundless reservoir of energy 🔋

"I feel like it's people, who are the solution to all of the world's woes, and code is but a tool." Dawn's powerful statement summarizes this episode, where we talk about the evolution of Django and DjangoCon, shaping codes of conduct while being mindful of ethical questions, and a few thoughts and avenues on how to make communities more welcoming 🤝

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Welcome to another episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! This time our special guest is Graham Wheeler, the Principal Group Software Engineering Manager for the Python runtime team at Microsoft 🏃

In this episode we talk about how Graham first got started with Python, how Pylance originated, and even how Microsoft ended up with an entire team working on making CPython faster ⚡🐍

One small correction from our conversation: the Python performance improvements mentioned around the 19-minute mark is/will be available on Python 3.11 and Python 3.12.

This episode was recorded on September 9th, 2022.

A few links and resources:

Graham Wheeler @ GitHub

Player pianos 

Transcribing player piano rolls with Python

Pylance for VS Code

Pyright

Typing in Python

Python type checking @ Real Python

Type checking mode and other settings with Pylance

Typeshed

Microsoft's Python Type Stubs

Pandas stubs

Try Python inlay hints in VS Code

Jay Miller's video on Python inlay hints

Python Community News (now with 15+ episodes already!)

More about the CPython performance team work

Python in Minecraft

Python @ the Windows store

Kissing by Bliss

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This is the 10th episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast, and we're excited to have Erik De Bonte as our special guest! Erik is a Principal Software Engineer working on Pylance, the default language server for Python in Visual Studio Code 🐍. In this episode, he shares his learnings and work on typed Python and a bit about what it was like ramping up on Pylance while also writing a PEP for the first time 🤯

To celebrate the release of our 10th episode, we also made a bingo card that you can use to cross-off things that may happen in each of our episodes 😝. Check it out!

As usual, here are a few of the resources and references we mentioned throughout the episode:

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Welcome to the spookiest episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! 🎃👻

Just in time for Halloween, in this episode your hosts Kim-Adeline and Luciana share some scary stories related to ☠️security ☠️ in the tech world (I know, terrifying topic, right?) and even to the Python extension for VS Code 🐍

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Welcome to another episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! 🐍 This time we're thrilled to host Don Jayamanne, the creator of the Python extension for Visual Studio Code! 🥇 In this episode Don talks about his journey, from creating what's now the most popular extension for VS Code, to being a software engineer at Microsoft now working on the Jupyter extension (as well as becoming one of the most popular VS Code extension creators/publishers out there in the Marketplace 😎).

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Here's a new episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! 🐍 This time we're with Soojin Choi, the Product Manager for the Jupyter Notebooks 📒 extension for Visual Studio Code. In this episode we talk about the new features the Jupyter team has been working on, how it's like being a PM, and resilience while working in tech 🧑‍💻.

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Welcome to another episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! This episode is full of end of summer vibes 🌥️, featuring Anthony Kim talking about the end of his summer internship on the Python extension for Visual Studio Code 🐍! Come learn all about his project, some tips on how to get started with contributing to the Python extension and how you can actually make more money 💵  with Python 👀

Here are some of the things we referenced in this episode:

- Anthony Kim @ GitHub

- Anthony's PR for rewriting unittest execution

- yahoo-finance package on PyPI

- Python @ Microsoft blog website, where we will post our release updates featuring Anthony's work

- Kiss the rain by Yiruma

- Sad Python Girls Club playlist on Spotify! 🎶

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