
Barry Warsaw - OG Python, Bass Guitar, Tai Chi
08/05/23 • 46 min
Barry Warsaw has been with Python almost from the beginning, and is still at it.
- The early days of Python
- The tone and feel of the Python community came from Guido
- Tai Chi
- Meditation
- Bass Guitar
Stick around until the very end of the show for a special treat, Barry Warsaw and The Zen of Python.
Links from the show:
- Cheng Man-ch'ing
- Barry's soundcloud
- Barry on YouTube
- Barry is the official Python FLUFL
- The Zen of Python, put to music
The Complete pytest Course
- Level up your testing skills and save time during coding and maintenance.
- Check out courses.pythontest.com
Barry Warsaw has been with Python almost from the beginning, and is still at it.
- The early days of Python
- The tone and feel of the Python community came from Guido
- Tai Chi
- Meditation
- Bass Guitar
Stick around until the very end of the show for a special treat, Barry Warsaw and The Zen of Python.
Links from the show:
- Cheng Man-ch'ing
- Barry's soundcloud
- Barry on YouTube
- Barry is the official Python FLUFL
- The Zen of Python, put to music
The Complete pytest Course
- Level up your testing skills and save time during coding and maintenance.
- Check out courses.pythontest.com
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Brett Cannon - Core Python, Fountain Pens
Topics:
- “I don't know about the rest of you... I came for the language, but I stayed for the community." Brett Cannon, Python Core Dev, Pycon US 2014 Opening remarks
- Public speaking
- Being encouraging to others
- Why Canada
- Meanings of Back Bacon, Toque, and Pop
- Walking in Vancouver
- Snowshoeing
- Philosophy and thinking logically
- Proving the existence of God
- Rewriting code. “You’re probably going to have to write this 3 times before you’re happy with it.”
- 1 week per month on technical debt.
- Fountain pens
- Writing a gratitude journal
- Books
- “What goes on in your brain is not the same as everyone else’s.”
- "Steeped in the world of tea." - nice pun
Links from the show:
- Podcast interviews
- Tim Urban’s TED talk which is about procrastination and not public speaking, so I have no idea what Brett is talking about. Good talk though.
- Brett’s PyCascades talk: Python's Syntactic Sugar
- Brian’s PyCascades talk: Sharing is Caring: Sharing pytest Fixtures
The Complete pytest Course
- Level up your testing skills and save time during coding and maintenance.
- Check out courses.pythontest.com
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We talk about:
- The history of Pybites
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- Coaching and now even growing the team of coaches
- Spain
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Links:
★ Support this podcast on Patreon ★ and you can hear your name on the show. How cool is that?
The Complete pytest Course
- Level up your testing skills and save time during coding and maintenance.
- Check out courses.pythontest.com
Python People - Barry Warsaw - OG Python, Bass Guitar, Tai Chi
Transcript
Well, I'm excited to have Barry Warsaw here. So welcome, Barry.
BarryThanks, Brian. Glad to be here. You
Brianyou've been with Python for a long time. That's the beginning. Right?
BarryNot quite the very beginning, but pretty soon after, I sort of discovered Python around 1994.
BrianIf you like this episode you’ll love
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