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Michael Kennedy and Calvin Hendryx-Parker

Python Bytes is a weekly podcast hosted by Michael Kennedy and Calvin Hendryx-Parker. The show is a short discussion on the headlines and noteworthy news in the Python, developer, and data science space.

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  • #483
    June 9 · 28 min

    #483 Thanks Brian

    Topics covered in this episode: Vulnerability and malware checks in uv HTTP GET requests with the Python standard library Millions of AI agents imperiled by critical vulnerability in open source package alembic-git-revisions Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/483

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  • #482
    June 1 · 24 min

    #482 Mr. Beast's episode

    Topics covered in this episode: CVE-2026-48710: A Maintainer's Perspective daily-stars-explorer Markdown to pdf with pandoc and typst postman2pytest Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/482

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  • #481
    May 25 · 33 min

    #481 Ways to die

    Topics covered in this episode: Dumb Ways for an Open Source Project to Die How to create a pylock.toml lockfile https://github.com/facebook/Lifeguard Choosing a Python Logging Library in 2026 Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/481

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  • #480
    May 18 · 33 min

    #480 Proud Parents

    Topics covered in this episode: Using Django Tasks in production Co-authored with Claude? PyPI packages are increasing rapidly httpx2 Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/480

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  • #479
    May 11 · 35 min

    #479 Talking About Types

    Topics covered in this episode: httpxyz one month in Learn concurrency - a deep dive into multithreading with Python pip 26.1 - lockfiles and dependency cooldowns Python 3.15 sentinal values from PEP 661 Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/479

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  • #478
    May 4 · 40 min

    #478 Iodine tablets and potable water

    Topics covered in this episode: profiling-explorer Reverting the incremental GC in Python 3.14 and 3.15 VSCode AI Co-author defaults to on, then off django freeze Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/478

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  • #477
    April 20 · 45 min

    #477 Lazy, Frozen, and 31% Lighter

    Topics covered in this episode: Django Modern Rest Already playing with Python 3.15 Cutting Python Web App Memory Over 31% tryke - A Rust-based Ptyhon test runner with a Jest-style API Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/477

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  • #476
    April 6 · 32 min

    #476 Common themes

    Topics covered in this episode: Migrating from mypy to ty: Lessons from FastAPI Oxyde ORM Typeshedded CPython docs Raw+DC Database Pattern: A Retrospective Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/476

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  • #475
    March 30 · 40 min

    #475 Haunted warehouses

    Topics covered in this episode: Lock the Ghost Fence for Sandboxing MALUS: Liberate Open Source Harden your GitHub Actions Workflows with zizmor, dependency pinning, and dependency cooldowns Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/475

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  • #474
    March 23 · 45 min

    #474 Astral to join OpenAI

    Topics covered in this episode: Starlette 1.0.0 Astral to join OpenAI uv audit Fire and forget (or never) with Python’s asyncio Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/474

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  • #473
    March 16 · 46 min

    #473 A clean room rewrite?

    Topics covered in this episode: chardet ,AI, and licensing refined-github pgdog: PostgreSQL connection pooler, load balancer and database sharder Agentic Engineering Patterns Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/473

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  • #472
    March 9 · 28 min

    #472 Monorepos

    Topics covered in this episode: Setting up a Python monorepo with uv workspaces cattrs: Flexible Object Serialization and Validation Learning to program in the AI age VS Code extension for FastAPI and friends Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/472

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