Sad Python Girls Club

Sep 06 2024 24 ep. 27 mins 42

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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.

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S2 Episode 5 - Vinicius Stock on Ruby & Python: Beyond the Code

Sep 06 2024 30 mins

If we ask you what the similarities between Ruby and Python are, it's likely that the answer will be they're both dynamically typed interpreted languages. But did you know there's a lot more than just that? 👀 In the 5th episode of season 2 of the Sad Python Girls Club podcast, Vinicius Stock, Staff Developer at Shopify, joins us to explore the similarities between Ru

S2 Episode 4 - Charlie Marsh on Astral tools

Aug 02 2024 48 mins

We are over the moon 🌜 to announce a new episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! 🎉 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. 🐍✨ In this exciting episode, we dove in

S2 Episode 3 - Courtney Webster on being a PM for Python in VS Code

May 03 2024 38 mins

This is the 3rd episode of season 2 of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast, and we couldn't be more excited about it! 🥳 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 🐍. She’s also the esteemed author behind our monthly release blog posts for the Python extens

S2 Episode 2 - Eleanor Boyd on Python Testing in VS Code

Feb 16 2024 29 mins

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 🧪🐍 Join us for an episode full of geeky tech talk 🤓 as we peel back the curtain on a major refactoring mission that is enabling the develop

S2 Episode 1 - New Year, New Season! 🎉

Jan 12 2024 25 mins

We're ✨ thrilled ✨ 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 🐍 as well in our teams

S1 Episode 19 - Jay Miller

Jun 23 2023 38 mins

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 🐍. Tune in for an episode full of Python, productivity a

S1 Episode 18 - 1 Year Anniversary 🥳

May 05 2023 20 mins

Can you believe it's already the first podcastversary of the Sad Python Girls Club? Neither can we! 🎂 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! 🎶 In this episode we discuss whether AI tools can be considered mainstream or not, the Copilot X conversational featur

S1 Episode 17 - Sarah Kaiser

Apr 07 2023 29 mins

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 👩‍🔬 with a PhD in Quantum Computing, and in this episode she talks a bit of her professional journey from academia 🎓 to software engineering 💻 and now to advocacy 👩‍�

S1 Episode 16 - Isidor Nikolic

Mar 10 2023 27 mins

Welcome to the 16th episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! 🐍 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! 🤯 In this episode, Isidor shares his experience working as a Softwa

S1 Episode 15 - Alice Li

Feb 10 2023 26 mins

Welcome to the 15th episode of the Sad Python Girls Club Podcast! 🐍 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 tr