Sad Python Girls Club

Sad Python Girls Club

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  • S1 Episode 5 - Not a Summer Break 🏝️

    This is the 5th episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast, and this time Kim-Adeline and Luciana have a nice and lightweight chat about Kim-Adeline's new job at GitHub 🐙😺 and Luciana's presence at EuroPython 2022, which happened mid-July in Dublin, Ireland 🍀. We now also have a playlist on Spotify with all of the sad songs 🎶 we mention in our episodes -- check it out! 


    Here are some of the things that were mentioned in this episode:

    - GitHub Copilot

    - EuroPython 2022

    - Microsoft at EuroPython 2022 

    - EuroPython's YoutTube Channel, where Jeffrey Mew's talk on "Revolutionizing the way you do data science" will probably be posted in

    - Luciano Ramalho's book: Fluent Python

    - Python Brasil

    - Sad Python Girls Club playlist on Spotify! 🎶

    - Bad Day by Daniel Powter

    - Summertime Sadness by Lana Del Rey


    Intro Song: Pastel

    Producer: Blue.P
    Music provided by LogSquare

    15 min
  • S1 Episode 4 - Kartik Raj

    Welcome to the 4th episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! This time we are chatting with Kartik Raj, one of the software engineers working on the Python extension for Visual Studio Code 🐍. In this episode we talk about Kartik’s journey on the team (including a funny story on the first time he met Brett Cannon 👀), his work on improving the discovery of Python environments and what’s coming next in that area ⏭️.

    A few links for the things we talked about in this episode:

    • Using Python environments in VS Code: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/environments
    • Feature request to no longer store interpreter path on settings.json: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/issues/2125
    • Discussion on the proposed design for environments API: https://github.com/microsoft/vscode-python/discussions/18888
    • Pylint extension: https://aka.ms/vscode-pylint
    • Summer of 69 by Bryan Adams: https://youtu.be/9f06QZCVUHg



      • Intro Song: Pastel

      Producer: Blue.P
      Music provided by LogSquare

      23 min
    • S1 Episode 3 - Karthik Nadig

      This is the third episode of the Sad Python Girls Podcast, and we're excited to be featuring another special guest: Karthik Nadig, the dev lead of the Python extension for Visual Studio Code! In this episode Karthik shared a bit of his experience and expertise on rewriting 🔃 and working on the Python extension, debugpy 🐛🥧 and debuggers in general, as well as dad jokes 🙃.

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

      • Debugpy: https://pypi.org/project/debugpy/

      • Auto reload configuration when debugging files: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/debugging#_autoreload

      • Jump to cursor feature when debugging: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-in-visual-studio-code-february-2020-release/#in-case-you-missed-it-jump-to-cursor

      • Black formatter extension:  https://aka.ms/vscode-black-formatter

      • Pylint extension:  https://aka.ms/vscode-pylint

      • isort extension:  https://aka.ms/vscode-isort

      • Python extension release blog posts: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python

      • Firestarter by The Prodigy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmin5WkOuPw

      • Klondike, the card game not the ice cream: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_(solitaire)




        • Intro Song: Pastel
        Producer: Blue.P
        Music provided by LogSquare
        24 min
      • S1 Episode 2 - Brett Cannon

        In this episode we have a very special guest. He's a member of the Python Steering Council and also the Engineering Manager for Python in VS Code: the one and only ✨ Brett Cannon ✨ ! Come learn more about Brett's background before he joined the VS Code team 🎓, how you can get more involved in the Python community 🐍 and even where the sorting algorithm for Java ☕ came from (spoiler alert: it has to do with Python).

        Here are a few links related to things we talked about in this episode:

        • Brett's Twitter account: https://twitter.com/brettsky

        • Brett's blog: https://snarky.ca/

        • Black formatter extension: https://aka.ms/vscode-black-formatter

        • Pylint extension: https://aka.ms/vscode-pylint

        • Isort extensions: https://aka.ms/vscode-isort

        • Pyodide: https://pyodide.org/

        • WASI: https://wasi.dev/

        • The Sweater Song by Weezer: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LHQqqM5sr7g

        • Perfect by Simple Plan: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RUi54JTgL5s

        • Wake Me Up When September Ends by Green Day: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NU9JoFKlaZ0




          • Intro Song: Pastel
          Producer: Blue.P
          Music provided by LogSquare
          36 min
        • S1 Episode 1 - Origin Story 📖

          Welcome to the Sad Python Girls Club podcast! In this first episode we will be talking about our origin story 🌠, a little bit of what it is like to work on the VS Code Python team at Microsoft and PyCon US 2022! 🐍  

          Here are a few of links related to what we talked about in this episode: 

          • Kim-Adeline's talk at PyCon US 2020

          • Wordle demo for PyCon US 2022 -- if you don't know what wordle is, watch Trevor Noah's accurate and relatable description 

          • Our Twitter account @sadpythongirls

          • Brett Cannon (aka Tall, Snarky Canadian)'s blog post




            • Intro Song: Pastel

            Producer: Blue.P
            Music provided by LogSquare

            19 min

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          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…