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Will McGugan has brought a lot of color to CLIs within Python due to Rich. 
 Then Textual started rethinking full command line applications, including layout with CSS.
 And now Textualize, a new startup, is bringing CLI apps to the web.

Links:

• rich
• rich-cli
• textual
• Textualize.io
• Rich Gallery
• Textualize Gallery
• Python Bytes Podcast

When you are teaching someone web development skills, when is the right time to start teaching code quality and testing practices?

Karl Stolley believes it's never too early. Let's hear how he incorporates code quality in his courses...

Being productive is obviously a good thing.
 Can we measure it?
 Should we measure it?
 There's been failed attempts, like lines of code, etc. in the past.
 Currently, there are new tools to measure productivity, like using git metrics.

Nick Hodges joins the show to discuss the good and the bad of developer and team productivity, including how we can improve productivity.

Django has a handful of console commands to help manage and develop sites.
 django-rich adds color and nice formatting. Super cool.
In a recent release, django-rich also adds nice colorized tracebacks to the Django test runner. 

Links:

• django-rich · PyPI
• episode 181: Boost Your Django DX - Adam Johnson
• django-crispy-forms
• Python Developers Survey 2020 Results 

Twisted has been supporting asynchronous / event driven applications way before asyncio. Twisted, and Glyph, have also been encouraging automated tests for a very long time.

Twisted uses a technique that should be usable by other applications, even those using asyncio or other event driven architectures...

Ryan Cheley joins me today to talk about some challenges of managing software teams, and how to handle them.
 We end up talking about a lot of skills that are excellent for software engineers as well as managers...

Don't you just love technical interviews, with someone who just saw your resume or CV 5 minutes ago asking you to write some code on a whiteboard. Probably code that has nothing to do with anything you've done before or anything you will do at the company.

No? Neither does Nathan Aschbacher. 
 So when he started building the team at his company, he decided to do things differently.

Hiring is one of the essential processes for building a great team...

We talk with Adam Johnson about his new book, "Boost Your Django DX". 

Developer experience includes tools and practices to make developers more effective and efficient, and just plain make software development more fun and satisfying. 
 One of the things I love about this book is that it's not just for Django devs. 
 I'd guess that about half the book is about topics that all Python developers would find useful, from virtual environments to linters to testing...

Lean TDD is an attempt to reconcile some conflicting aspects of Test Driven Development and Lean Software Development.

I've mentioned Lean TDD on the podcast a few times and even tried to do a quick outline at the end of episode 162.

This episode is a more complete outline, or at least a first draft.

If you feel you've got a good understanding of TDD, and it's working awesome for you, that's great. Keep doing what you're doing. There are no problems...

Exploratory testing is absolutely an essential part of a testing strategy.
 This episode discusses what exploratory testing is, its benefits, and how it fits within a framework of relying on automated tests for most of our testing.

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