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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! ๐Ÿฅณ 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 ๐Ÿ. Sheโ€™s also the esteemed author behind our monthly release blog posts for the Python extension in VS Code ๐Ÿ“ฐ. Dive in with us as we learn about Courtneyโ€™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 ๐Ÿงช and data-driven development ๐Ÿ“ˆ.


    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

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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 ๐Ÿงช๐Ÿ

    Join us for an episode full of geeky tech talk ๐Ÿค“ as we peel back the curtain on a major refactoring mission that is enabling the development of new testing features to come (๐Ÿ˜‰๐Ÿ˜‰ 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.

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  • We're โœจ thrilled โœจ 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 ๐Ÿ 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 ๐Ÿฆ, put on your headphones ๐ŸŽง and join us for an episode full of highlights and hopes for an even better 2024 ๐Ÿš€

    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

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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 ๐Ÿ. Tune in for an episode full of Python, productivity and music talk ๐ŸŽถ 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 ๐Ÿค—๐ŸŒˆ

    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

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  • Can you believe it's already the first podcastversary of the Sad Python Girls Club? Neither can we! ๐ŸŽ‚ 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! ๐ŸŽถ


    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. ๐Ÿ”ฎ


    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

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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 ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ”ฌ with a PhD in Quantum Computing, and in this episode she talks a bit of her professional journey from academia ๐ŸŽ“ to software engineering ๐Ÿ’ป and now to advocacy ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป, 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 ๐Ÿ’ฅ and a lot of Python ๐Ÿ.

    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

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  • Welcome to the 16th episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! ๐Ÿ 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! ๐Ÿคฏ

    In this episode, Isidor shares his experience working as a Software Engineer on the VS Code debugger ๐Ÿชฒ, 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! ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป

    Links and resources

    Isidor Nikolic @ GitHub Monaco editor Vscode.dev  Github.dev Find the current iteration plan for VS Code, pinned at the top of the repo Latest VS Code update and release notes Erich Gamma's Keynote on developing VS Code in the open  Debugging in VS Code The Debug Adapter Protocol The Language Server Protocol LSIF Accessibility in VS Code You can't always get what you want by the Rolling Stones

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  • Welcome to the 15th episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! ๐Ÿ 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 ๐Ÿค–

    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


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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 ๐ŸŽ† and we're kicking off the new year with a blast! ๐Ÿ’ฅ 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 ๐Ÿ. 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! ๐Ÿ‘ฉโ€๐Ÿ’ป

    A few links and resources:

    Savannah @ GitHub Pylance extension for VS Code Announcing Pylance Announcing Pylance as the default language server for Python in VS Code Savannah's work on using qualitative and quantitative methods to improve the unresolved imports experience in VS Code Azure Developer CLI Awesome AZD Templates I'm not ok by My Chemical Romance Three Cheers for Sweet Revenge by My Chemical Romance

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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 ๐Ÿ, 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 ๐Ÿ“.   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! ๐ŸŽ†

    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 Bublรฉ

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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 ๐Ÿ”‹

    "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 ๐Ÿค

    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

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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 ๐Ÿƒ

    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 โšก๐Ÿ

    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 ๐Ÿ. 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 ๐Ÿคฏ

    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 ๐Ÿ˜. 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

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  • Welcome to the spookiest episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! ๐ŸŽƒ๐Ÿ‘ป

    Just in time for Halloween, in this episode your hosts Kim-Adeline and Luciana share some scary stories related to โ˜ ๏ธsecurity โ˜ ๏ธ in the tech world (I know, terrifying topic, right?) and even to the Python extension for VS Code ๐Ÿ

    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! ๐ŸŽถ

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  • Welcome to another episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! ๐Ÿ This time we're thrilled to host Don Jayamanne, the creator of the Python extension for Visual Studio Code! ๐Ÿฅ‡ 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 ๐Ÿ˜Ž).

    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

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  • Here's a new episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! ๐Ÿ This time we're with Soojin Choi, the Product Manager for the Jupyter Notebooks ๐Ÿ“’ 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 ๐Ÿง‘โ€๐Ÿ’ป.

    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
  • Welcome to another episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! This episode is full of end of summer vibes ๐ŸŒฅ๏ธ, featuring Anthony Kim talking about the end of his summer internship on the Python extension for Visual Studio Code ๐Ÿ! 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 ๐Ÿ’ต  with Python ๐Ÿ‘€

    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! ๐ŸŽถ

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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 ๐Ÿ™๐Ÿ˜บ and Luciana's presence at EuroPython 2022, which happened mid-July in Dublin, Ireland ๐Ÿ€. We now also have a playlist on Spotify with all of the sad songs ๐ŸŽถ 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! ๐ŸŽถ

    - 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 ๐Ÿ. In this episode we talk about Kartikโ€™s journey on the team (including a funny story on the first time he met Brett Cannon ๐Ÿ‘€), his work on improving the discovery of Python environments and whatโ€™s coming next in that area โญ๏ธ.

    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

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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 ๐Ÿ”ƒ and working on the Python extension, debugpy ๐Ÿ›๐Ÿฅง and debuggers in general, as well as dad jokes ๐Ÿ™ƒ.

    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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