Talk Python To Me

Weekly interviews with Python developers on packages, tools and projects AI summary

Michael Kennedy Visit website › Technology · EN · 567 episodes · latest 2026-11-03

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Talk Python to Me is a weekly podcast for Python developers, data scientists, and AI builders, hosted by developer and entrepreneur Michael Kennedy. We dive deep into the packages, tools, and people shaping Python, from web development and data science to AI and LLMs. If you're new to Python, you'll quickly learn the ins and outs of the community by hearing from its leaders. And if you've been Pythoning for years, you'll hear about your favorite packages and the hot new ones coming out of open source.

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Latest episodes

  1. 2026-11-03 · 1 hr 2 min · Episode 568

    Where does your Python code actually run? A server in Virginia? A container in Frankfurt? Pyodide put Python into the browser. Cloudflare put the browser into the server. Combine the two and you get Python Workers, now…

  2. 2026-10-27 · 1 hr 7 min · Episode 567

    The most popular Python project you've probably never heard of has 252,000 GitHub stars and merged over 1,800 pull requests in a single week. It's Hermes, a self-hosted AI agent you program just by talking to it. And it…

  3. 2026-10-17 · 1 hr 5 min · Episode 566

    Which of your Python tools would you still pick if you started fresh today? For a long time, the answer was easy. The stack felt settled. AI has reopened almost every one of those choices. Some tools got faster. Others…

  4. 2026-10-02 · 1 hr 28 min · Episode 565

    Do you know what's actually slow in your Python app? Or are you guessing? Until now, profiling Python meant a tracing profiler that made your code 2 to 3 times slower. Or a third-party tool that broke with every new…

  5. 2026-09-22 · 1 hr 8 min · Episode 564

    Every ship in EVE Online eventually undocks and leaves the station. This time, it's the whole game. EVE has run on Python 2 since it launched in 2003, all 2.4 million lines of it, on a custom Stackless interpreter that…

  6. 2026-09-16 · 1 hr 11 min · Episode 563

    Lint the entire CPython code base from scratch. It takes 0.3 seconds. Three blinks of an eye. That is ruff, and it is written in Rust. So are Pydantic, Polars, uv, and Granian. Rust shows up in Python three ways: tools…

  7. 2026-09-10 · 1 hr 11 min · Episode 562

    How many files does your query read before it reads any data? On some data lakes, you go through JSON and metadata files first, just to learn which Parquet files matter. DuckLake asks one SQL question instead. The…

  8. 2026-09-04 · 1 hr 16 min · Episode 561

    How many cores does your machine have, 10, 18? Your async Python code uses just one of them. That isn't a bug in asyncio. That's the design, and optimizing event loops to be faster by 20% doesn't change it. So Giovanni…

  9. 2026-08-26 · 1 hr 3 min · Episode 560

    In 2020, a gastroenterologist in Glasgow did the math on his new research study and came up with 30,000 samples, arriving over two years from three cities and a dozen hospitals. He asked around about how researchers…

  10. 2026-08-19 · 1 hr 8 min · Episode 559

    Your site is down. It's 3am. Is it a bug, a bill, or a breach? You can't tell yet, and everyone is watching you find out. Matt Lea has spent fifteen years being the person companies call when an outage is costing them…

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03/2015 · over 11 years
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1 hr 2 min
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