Sad Python Girls Club

🎙️ 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: pyconcharlas@gmail.com 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

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

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

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

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

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

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: PastelProducer: Blue.PMusic provided by LogSquare

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: PastelProducer: Blue.PMusic provided by LogSquare

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: PastelProducer: Blue.PMusic provided by LogSquare

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 🤖 Links and resources: Alice Li @ GitHub Alice Li @ LinkedIn GitHub Copilot GitHub Copilot VS Code extension TensorFlow PyTorch StyleGAN "This Person Does Not Exist" website GPT-2 GPT-3 DALL-E Stable Diffusion ChatGPT Tay (Twitter bot) Impostor syndrome Red Desert by Puce Mary Intro Song: Pastel Producer: Blue.P Music provided by LogSquare

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! 🎆 Links and resources: 2021 Python Developers Survey 2022 Stack Overflow Developer Survey Fast API What's New in Python 3.11 Inside the Faster CPython Team at Microsoft Graham Wheeler's SPGC episode GitHub Copilot GitHub Universe Day 1 keynote (Python bit ~8:40) GitHub Universe official website Harald Kirschner's talk at GitHub Universe After the matter update: Copilot cannot predict the future, as Argentina is the well deserved      winner of the 2022 World Cup! PyCascades 2023 in Vancouver Kim-Adeline's talk at PyCon US 2020 PyScript Experimental Python for Web De Diepte by S10 Home by Michael Bublé Intro Song: Pastel Producer: Blue.P Music provided by LogSquare

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 🤝 Links and resources: Dawn Wages @ GitHub Dawn Wages @ Twitter Dawn Wages' personal website Python Software Foundation Django framework DjangoCon US 2022 DjangoCon US Code of Conduct Panel Discussion: The State of Django @ DjangoCon US 2022  Wagtail CMS  Django Girls Django Girl handbooks The Contributor Covenant  The Land Before Time Dawn's first talk with dinosaur archetypes Fix You by Coldplay Intro Song: Pastel Producer: Blue.P Music provided by LogSquare

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

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: Erik De Bonte @ GitHub Pylance extension for VS Code Real Python (& their podcast!) Fluent Python by Luciano Ramalho Advanced Visual Studio Code for Python Developers by Anthony Shaw Pyright, the type checker that powers up the Pylance experience in VS Code Pyre PyType Typing sig mailing list Python Data Classes PEP 557 - Data Classes PEP 681 - Data Class Transforms The dataclass_transform decorator Python 3.11 (which is out now!) Descriptors in Python Is This Band Emo? website: isthisbandemo.com Nobody's Hero by Rush Intro Song: Pastel Producer: Blue.P Music provided by LogSquare

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 🐍 A few links related to the scary stuff that we talked about: Phishing attempt towards PyPI users Python Bytes episode #299, where they talk a bit more about the incident above Ransomware on PyPI incident Linux kernel incident npm package incident Open issue for auto indentation with Python in VS Code Decode by Paramore It's Almost Halloween by Panic! At the Disco Sad Python Girls Club playlist on Spotify! 🎶 Intro Song: Pastel Producer: Blue.P Music provided by LogSquare

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 😎). A few relevant links: Don Jayamanne @ GitHub Blog post announcement when Don joined Microsoft back in 2017 Sad Python Girls Club episode with Soojin Choi, the PM for the Jupyter extension Don's Git History extension Don's Python Environment Manager extension (and our blog post featuring it) All of Don's VS Code extensions Intro Song: Pastel Producer: Blue.P Music provided by LogSquare

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 🧑‍💻. A few links for the things we talked about in this episode: Soojin Choi @ GitHub Jupyter extension for VS Code How to connect VS Code to a remote Jupyter server VS Code on the browser Microsoft Leap program Imposter syndrome in Wikipedia Someone lilke you by Adele Dirty Little Secrets by All American Rejects

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

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

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