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EuroPython 2023
Read more »: EuroPython 2023EuroPython in 2018 was my first international conference. After five years, I eagerly joined another EuroPython. I hopped on a night train and woke up with a view of beautiful sunflower fields near Prague. With the conference starting the next day, I had some spare time to explore the charming city. In the evening I…
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Indispensable pytest plugins
Read more »: Indispensable pytest pluginsI’ve been babbling on about testing for a decade now. Here’s a quick list of pytest plugins I use in most of my Python projects: pytest-cov – pytest integration for the wonderful coverage tool by Ned Batchelder. pytest-mock – pytest integration for the unittest.mock library. pytest-instafail – Print out the test failure as it…
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PyCon JP 2019
Read more »: PyCon JP 2019I’ve been to many conferences in my life, but this was my first time attending a PyCon. To me, what separates this conference from the others I’ve been to is the sense that people are there not so much to sell their products, but are just genuinely interested to hear how other people are using…
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Robust REST APIs with Pyramid
Read more »: Robust REST APIs with PyramidIt’s almost a year since we started working on a new project: WooCart. Up until that point, all our projects were “backend-monoliths”, i.e. the backend rendered all necessary HTML and served it to the user. Some templates had some jQuery or Vue.js sprinkled on top, but that was about as far as we were willing…
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PyConWeb 2018
Read more »: PyConWeb 2018PyConWeb is an international Python Web conference held in Munich. Its main purpose is to talk about Web tools and techniques to make the Web even more awesome. Attending this conference really feels different from the other non-German conferences. The conference is organised and prepared with German precision. Everything was taken care of and the only…
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Strings in Python 2 and Python 3
Read more »: Strings in Python 2 and Python 3The goal of this post is to show you how to properly use encode and decode in python 2 and in python 3. This post will be based on small examples that will (hopefully) make you better understand how strings work in python 2 and python 3. A bit of background on unicode and UTF-8:…
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Lessons Learned from PyMunich 2016
Read more »: Lessons Learned from PyMunich 2016At the end of October there was a Python conference in Munich (PyMunich). For a regional conference it was quite big in my opinion. There were 3 tracks and more then 40 speakers. As always I won’t cover all the talks just the ones that I found the most interesting and educational. After all this…
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A dev’s MacBook from scratch
Read more »: A dev’s MacBook from scratchI’ve been a long time Apple user. I hate a lot about the company’s policy and how they treat their power users, but I love the tight integration between their software and hardware. Another thing to love is their migration tools. You buy new hardware, you click Restore from backup and you are done. Safari…
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Lessons learned from EuroPython 2016
Read more »: Lessons learned from EuroPython 2016This was my first EuroPython conference and I had high expectations because I heard a lot of good things about it. I must say that overall it didn’t let me down. I learned several new things and met a lot of new people. So lets dive straight into the most important lessons. On Tuesday I…
