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Michael #1: I asked 100 devs why they aren’t shipping faster. Here’s what I learned

by Daksh Gupta (via PyCoders)
What’s stopping you from shipping faster?
- Dependency bugs
- Complicated codebase
  - >There is so much undocumented in our service, including poor records of new features, nonexistent or outdated info on our dependencies, or even essential things like best practices for testing, a lot of time is wasted in syncs trying to find the right information
QA Loops
Waiting for spec
- > At Amazon? Meetings, approval, talking to 10 different stakeholders because changing the color of a button affects 15 micro services
Writing tests
Deployment/build speed
Scope creep
- > The human tendency to stuff last-minute items into the crevices of their luggage minutes before leaving for the airport manifests itself at software companies as scope creep.
Unclear requirements
Excessive meetings
Motivation
- >honest answer is i was on ads
- >and that’s a very old / complicated / large stack (edited)
- >and i didn’t understand it
- >my friends on younger teams seemed happier, i was miserable
DORA metrics

Brian #2: Python 3.13.0 beta 1 released

"Python 3.13 is still in development. This release, 3.13.0b1, is the first of four beta release previews of 3.13.”
New REPL, featuring multi-line editing, color support, colorized exception tracebacks
Cool GIL, JIT, and GC features
Typing changes, including typing.TypeIs .
- See last weeks episode and TypeIs does what I thought TypeGuard would do in Python
Some nice dead battery removals
and more
But seriously, the REPL is cool. Just ask Trey
- The new REPL in Python 3.13 - Trey Hunner

Michael #3: A theme editor for JupyterLab

by Florence Haudin
A new tool for authoring JupyterLab themes
To lower the bar for customizing JupyterLab we created a new tool providing a simple interface for tuning the JupyterLab appearance interactively.
See jupyterlab-theme-editor on github

Brian #4: rich-argparse

“Format argparse and optparse help using rich.”
“rich-argparse improves the look and readability of argparse's help while requiring minimal changes to the code.”
They’re not kidding. 2 line code change.from rich_argparse import RichHelpFormatterparser = argparse.ArgumentParser(..., formatter_class=RichHelpFormatter)

Extras

Brian:

pytest course is now switched to the new platform.
- I sent out an email including how to save their spot on the old site and mark that spot complete on the new site.
- There’s now comments on the course now. Trying that out. If you’ve got a question, just ask in that section.

Michael: