What if you could control a little circuitboard with a bunch of IO’s, integrated WiFi and a camera slot on board?

Naughts and Crosses (Tic-Tac-Toe to some audiences) is a popular skill game often played by children. It can also be usefully employed to distract dial up computers, at NORAD for example, rather than allowing the ’playing’ of Global Thermonuclear War. Would you like to play a game?

In this post we share our favourite lessons from basketball coach Wooden: enjoy the game (more than the result), many small improvements compound over time, your actions reveal your character, stay humble, and keep emotion and ego in check.

A workplace career thought for you to consider today.

The sure way to feel less fulfilled and increase imposter syndrome? Comparing yourself to others ...

Here are 10 things we learned writing pytest code that might come in handy.

In this article we give you some tips on How to become a content provider, an essential skill to develop in order to succeed in your career.

In this article Alessandro provides an overview of Abstract Syntax Trees (ASTs), introduces a few use-cases, and showcases the ast module in the Python Standard Library. The content is structured in a top-down fashion, starting from general notion about an AST, and digging deeper up to the point of...

In this article Jesse shares how he used Python to leverage his daughter’s homework assignment ...

Have you ever wondered how to get Python source code quickly? It turns out the Standard Library can do this pretty effortlessly. Here is some code to read more Python source.

I finally managed to get scikit-learn running on the platform. On the way, I learned a lot about AWS Lambda Layers, AWS cli, and AWS cloud infrastructure in general. And now it’s time I share this knowledge with you. In this article you will learn about creating your own AWS Lambda Layer to support...

Machine Learning is super powerful if your data is numeric. What do you do, however, if you want to mine text data to discover hidden insights or to predict the sentiment of the text. What, for example, if you wanted to identify a post on a social media site as cyber bullying. In this article we...

Here are some things we picked up from code reviews that when addressed can make your code a lot cleaner.

In this post I share some useful things I learned deploying an open source package to PyPI.

According to the Zen of Python, There should be one-- and preferably only one --obvious way to do it. It’s a good principle for designing a program: the more ways there are of doing something, the more confusing the software becomes, along with a host of other problems. In reality, though, there...

AWS Lambda is awesome, but sometimes it can be hard to get external libraries working in this serverless environment. No worries, we learned a lesson or two which I will share in this article. Ready to run almost any Python library in the cloud? This should excite you and even trigger your...

Freezegun is a library for mocking Python datetimes. It does one thing, does it well, and lets you get on with your life.

One moment I was solving a pandas challenge, next I was analyzing real world covid-19 data with python...

It’s useful to test for exceptions exceptions in your code. A handy feature of pytest makes that fun and flexible

Proper error handling can make your Python code simpler, more readable, and idiomatic. Here are 7 tips to help you.

Mentoring children is a whole new challenge, and one that served to help me think about my own communication and empathy skills at work too.

If there is one career book we could recommend you it’s So Good They Can’t Ignore You . In this article some of the main takeaways for me.

Knowing the difference between mutable and immutable types in Python is important. In this article I will give you some practical examples of both and show you some of the advantages of using immutable types. We even look at JS React functional programming a bit towards the end.

Delve into the why and the how of writing command-line tools using Python.

When people come to Python one of the things they struggle with is OOP (Object Oriented Programming). Not so much the syntax of classes, but more when and when not to use them. If that’s you, read on. In this article I will give you some insights that will get you clarity on this.

Building my first Django Site and learning so much more than Django

Have you ever wanted to create awesome stuff with Django like making your own blog or any other app but don’t know where to start? Or are you tired of taking lazy tutorials?

Refactoring is all about making your code more maintainable. In this article I will provide you with Python and generic software tips to write better code.

In this article you will learn how to setup a project in GitHub and to use boards to organize you issues using agile methods.

We hear it so often: I need to ace algorithms to land a SW job. To a certain extent yes. You surely need to understand what data structure to use and make efficiency trade-offs.

If you work in data engineering, then the chance are high that you are using or have used Apache Airflow.

Finding differences in excel files using Pandas

Last week I did a couple of shared screen sessions debugging and teaching. I paused and reflected on the tools I used and how I sharpened my sword over the years.

There is just too much stuff out there when it comes to being more productive. I am reading The Ultimate Sales Machine (Chet Holmes) and it offers what is probably the most concise time management system I have seen so far.

How are you progressing with your Python? What could be holding you back? I gave it some thought and identified 4 issues we commonly see that hold people back from becoming a proficient Pythonista and programmer.

Today a wanted to share a neat trick that might save you some headache: debugging a hanging test.

In this week’s post a quick digest of Adam Grant’s interview on the Tim Ferriss podcast.

This week I’m looking at how fear can help you be more productive and, no I don’t mean the fear of not delivering on time... although that is a good motivator right? Actually no, that’s a terrible motivator. This is all about empowering you to break down fear barriers by getting uncomfortable then...

Last week I learned about lagging and leading indicators and why it’s important to focus on the latter.

Hello Everybody In this article I’ll run through the procedure of using git and github to submit a guest article to PyBites.

This article is all about getting you closer towards your goals. This weekend I picked up Deep work again. Every time I read it is a revelation. The better you manage your time, the more successful you will become. It all comes down to the amount of value you can produce. And for that deep work is...

I recently ran into a tool called VTScan that uses the VirusTotal API to scan a file and print the results. I figured I could write the same, and add some functionality

The following things are relatively easy to do, but also easy not to do. Do them consistently and they can change your career and life.

The other day I had an awesome mentoring session with a beginner Pythonista, amazing what 30 min of screen sharing can do. Read on to learn more ...

In this article I’m going to break down what a function is and how you can use them to be a better coder.

imagine what an extra 2-3 hours a day can give you. Reading consistently for an hour a day in your field can change your career for the better. An hour of Python coding a day can land you a developer job over time. What about spending more time with your family?

A while back we launched our Test Bites. In this follow up article Harrison explains the MutPy mutation testing tool in depth and how we use it to verify test code on our platform. Enter Harrison.

There are many ways to tackle a Bites of Py exercise, try them all

After going through the web scraping learning paths, I decided to get my hands dirty and apply my freshly gathered knowledge on a real life project. I explain some difficulties you might encounter while scraping and I also show some libraries that can help you visualizing data you have obtained.

Writing test code is an essential skill. As PyBites we believe writing code is the only solution to becoming a master (Ninja) at programming. The same applies to test code. For that reason we extended our regular exercises with Test Bites. In this article you will read about the feature showcasing...