Hosted by Kim-Adeline Miguel and Luciana Abud, 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 manager lens.
We are over the moon ๐ to announce a new episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! ๐ 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. ๐โจ
In this exciting episode, we dove into the backstory and motivation behind Charlie's creation of Ruff and howthat 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 intotheir future plans. ๐
It's a super fun episode featuring tech insights and open source learnings, so make sure you don't miss it!
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This is the 3rd episode of season 2 of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast, and we couldn't be more excited about it! ๐ฅณ 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 ๐. Sheโs also the esteemed author behind our monthly release blog posts for the Python extension in VS Code ๐ฐ. Dive in with us as we learn about Courtneyโs 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 ๐งช and data-driven development ๐.
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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 ๐งช๐
Join us for an episode full of geeky tech talk ๐ค as we peel back the curtain on a major refactoring mission that is enabling the development of new testing features to come (๐๐ Django folks).
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We're โจ thrilled โจ 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 ๐ 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 ๐ฆ, put on your headphones ๐ง and join us for an episode full of highlights and hopes for an even better 2024 ๐
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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 ๐. Tune in for an episode full of Python, productivity and music talk ๐ถ 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 ๐ค๐
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Can you believe it's already the first podcastversary of the Sad Python Girls Club? Neither can we! ๐ 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! ๐ถ
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. ๐ฎ
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.
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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 ๐ฉโ๐ฌ with a PhD in Quantum Computing, and in this episode she talks a bit of her professional journey from academia ๐ to software engineering ๐ป and now to advocacy ๐ฉโ๐ป, 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 ๐ฅ and a lot of Python ๐.
This episode was recorded on March 24th, 2023.
Links and resources:
VS Code Profiles
Anaconda
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Welcome to the 16th episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! ๐ 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! ๐คฏ
In this episode, Isidor shares his experience working as a Software Engineer on the VS Code debugger ๐ชฒ, 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! ๐ฉโ๐ป
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Welcome to the 15th episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! ๐ 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 ๐ค
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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 ๐ and we're kicking off the new year with a blast! ๐ฅ 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 ๐. 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! ๐ฉโ๐ป
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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 ๐, 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 ๐. 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! ๐
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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 ๐
"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 ๐ค
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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 ๐
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 โก๐
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 ๐. 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 ๐คฏ
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 ๐. 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! ๐๐ป
Just in time for Halloween, in this episode your hosts Kim-Adeline and Luciana share some scary stories related to โ ๏ธsecurity โ ๏ธ in the tech world (I know, terrifying topic, right?) and even to the Python extension for VS Code ๐
A few links related to the scary stuff that we talked about:
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Welcome to another episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! ๐ This time we're thrilled to host Don Jayamanne, the creator of the Python extension for Visual Studio Code! ๐ฅ 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 ๐).
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Here's a new episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! ๐ This time we're with Soojin Choi, the Product Manager for the Jupyter Notebooks ๐ 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 ๐งโ๐ป.
A few links for the things we talked about in this episode:
Welcome to another episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! This episode is full of end of summer vibes ๐ฅ๏ธ, featuring Anthony Kim talking about the end of his summer internship on the Python extension for Visual Studio Code ๐! 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 ๐ต with Python ๐
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! ๐ถ
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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 ๐๐บ and Luciana's presence at EuroPython 2022, which happened mid-July in Dublin, Ireland ๐. We now also have a playlist on Spotify with all of the sad songs ๐ถ 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! ๐ถ
Bad Day by Daniel Powter
Summertime Sadness by Lana Del Rey
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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 ๐. In this episode we talk about Kartikโs journey on the team (including a funny story on the first time he met Brett Cannon ๐), his work on improving the discovery of Python environments and whatโs coming next in that area โญ๏ธ.
A few links for the things we talked about in this episode:
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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 ๐ and working on the Python extension, debugpy ๐๐ฅง and debuggers in general, as well as dad jokes ๐.
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)
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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 โจ Brett Cannon โจ ! Come learn more about Brett's background before he joined the VS Code team ๐, how you can get more involved in the Python community ๐ and even where the sorting algorithm for Java โ 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
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Welcome to the Sad Python Girls Club podcast! In this first episode we will be talking about our origin story ๐ , a little bit of what it is like to work on the VS Code Python team at Microsoft and PyCon US 2022! ๐ ย
Here are a few of links related to what we talked about in this episode:ย
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
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