Best Notation Podcasts (2025)

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#463 2025 is @wrapped 43:19

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Topics covered in this episode: Has the cost of building software just dropped 90%? More on Deprecation Warnings How FOSS Won and Why It Matters Should I be looking for a GitHub alternative? Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon S…

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Minisode: The Speed of Iteration in Venture 8:27

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Origins host Beezer Clarkson, LP at Sapphire Partners and co-founder of OpenLP, and Nick Chirls, GP at Asylum Ventures, dig into their recent conversation with Micah Rosenbloom, Managing Partner at Founder Collective. They discuss the EQ and self-awareness required to switch from operator to investor, how to separate signal from noise in venture cy…

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#462 LinkedIn Cringe 35:40

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Topics covered in this episode: Deprecations via warnings docs PyAtlas: interactive map of the top 10,000 Python packages on PyPI. Buckaroo Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Connect with the hosts Michael: @[email protected] / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) Brian: @[email protected] / @brianokken.bsky.social Show: @pythonbytes@fosstod…

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#461 This episdoe has a typo 28:50

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Topics covered in this episode: PEP 798: Unpacking in Comprehensions Pandas 3.0.0rc0 typos A couple testing topics Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @[email protected] / @mkenned…

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Staying Small Despite Billion-Dollar Backings with Micah Rosenbloom 44:57

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Micah Rosenbloom is a Managing Partner at Founder Collective, a firm dedicated to seed investing and, crucially, to keeping their fund sizes below $100 million. Micah talks with Beezer Clarkson, Partner at Sapphire Partners, and Nick Chirls, Partner at Asylum Ventures, to discuss Founder Collective’s philosophy of keeping their fund size small to a…

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#460 Overlooked Python Typing 24:28

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Topics covered in this episode: Advent of Code starts today Django 6 is coming Advanced, Overlooked Python Typing codespell Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @[email protected] /…

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#459 Inverted dependency trees 32:54

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Topics covered in this episode: PEP 814 – Add frozendict built-in type From Material for MkDocs to Zensical Tach Some Python Speedups in 3.15 and 3.16 Extras Joke About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @mkennedy@fosst…

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Minisode: What Early Stage Venture Can Learn from Crypto Traders 10:11

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Origins host Beezer Clarkson, LP at Sapphire Partners and co-founder of OpenLP, and Nick Chirls, GP at Asylum Ventures, dive into their recent conversation with Kyle Samani, Founder and Managing Partner of Multicoin Capital. They discuss their learnings on crypto, including why Nick is more bullish on bitcoin than Kyle, and how LPs conceptualize in…

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#458 I will install Linux on your computer 22:47

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Topics covered in this episode: Possibility of a new website for Django aiosqlitepool deptry browsr Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts Michael: @[email protected] / @mkennedy.codes (bsky) …

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Internet Capital Markets with Kyle Samani 43:54

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Kyle Samani is the Founder and Managing Partner of Multicoin Capital, a thesis-driven investment firm that invests in cryptocurrencies, tokens, and blockchain companies reshaping trillion-dollar markets. He joins Beezer Clarkson, Partner at Sapphire Partners, and Nick Chirls, Partner at Asylum Ventures, to discuss the philosophies that underpin Mul…

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#457 Tapping into HTTP 28:01

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Topics covered in this episode: httptap 10 Smart Performance Hacks For Faster Python Code FastRTC Explore Python dependencies with pipdeptree and uv pip tree Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with the hosts …

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#456 You're so wrong 25:46

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Topics covered in this episode: The PSF has withdrawn a $1.5 million proposal to US government grant program A Binary Serializer for Pydantic Models T-strings: Python's Fifth String Formatting Technique? Cronboard Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete …

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Minisode: Can LPs Diversify in an AI-Obsessed World? 9:44

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Origins host Beezer Clarkson, LP at Sapphire Partners and co-founder of OpenLP, and Nick Chirls, GP at Asylum Ventures, unpack their recent conversation with Sarah Tavel, Partner at Benchmark. Together they discuss their takeaways from Sarah’s recent decision to take a step back at Benchmark to fully focus on AI, getting into the lessons they can l…

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#455 Gilded Python and Beyond 38:53

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Topics covered in this episode: Cyclopts: A CLI library The future of Python web services looks GIL-free Free-threaded GC Polite lazy imports for Python package maintainers Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect …

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Becoming AI Native with Benchmark’s Sarah Tavel 42:27

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Eight years after becoming the first female partner at Benchmark, Sarah Tavel recently took on a new role as Venture Partner that allows her more time to fully immerse herself in AI, all while continuing to make new investments on behalf of Benchmark and serving her current portfolio. She sat down with Beezer Clarkson, Partner at Sapphire Partners,…

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3-D system for success 10:15

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If reaching your goals is important to you then you will want to listen to Marcus Gentry as he discusses in this short, the 3 part system for success that those who reach their goals use.By Marcus Gentry

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#454 It's some form of Elvish 29:07

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Topics covered in this episode: djrest2 - A small and simple REST library for Django based on class-based views. Github CLI caniscrape - Know before you scrape. Analyze any website's anti-bot protections in seconds. 🐴 GittyUp Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training T…

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#453 Python++ 36:17

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Topics covered in this episode: PyPI+ uv-ship - a CLI-tool for shipping with uv How fast is 3.14? air - a new web framework built with FastAPI, Starlette, and Pydantic. Extras Joke Watch on YouTube About the show Sponsored by us! Support our work through: Our courses at Talk Python Training The Complete pytest Course Patreon Supporters Connect with…

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A conversation with former members of The Notations 57:07

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Listen in on a conversation between former members of The Notations ( Marcus Gentry & Bobby Thomas) as they share how they became members of the group, memorable moments and what they are doing now. Actual video attached. https://youtu.be/BqPUbEkvZPM?si=5g0oCTIFx5tPN_66By Marcus Gentry

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#452 pi py-day (or is it py pi-day?) 40:36

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Topics covered in this episode: Python 3.14 Free-threaded Python Library Compatibility Checker Claude Sonnet 4.5 Python 3.15 will get Explicit lazy imports Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/452By Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken

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Minisode: Is It 2021 All Over Again? 7:57

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Origins host Beezer Clarkson, LP at Sapphire Partners and co-founder of OpenLP, and Nick Chirls, GP at Asylum Ventures, dig into their recent conversation with Alex Edelson, LP at Slipstream. They discuss whether a spate of recent 100X multiples means we’re living 2021 all over again, why that’s led people to deploy but not fundraise, and the level…

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Has you heart connection been interrupted? 5:47

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By Marcus Gentry

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Can you control someone else? 7:16

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Marcus "Dr. Respect" Gentry invites you to sit FACE to FACE with the VERY commonly accepted belief that you can not control others, or CAN you?By Marcus Gentry

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#451 Databases are a Fad 23:54

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Topics covered in this episode: PostgreSQL 18 Released Testing is better than DSA (Data Structures and Algorithms) Pyrefly in Cursor/PyCharm/VSCode/etc Playwright & pytest techniques that bring me joy Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/451By Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken

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Every conversation doesn't need you 6:46

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Marcus "Dr.Respect" Gentry says wisdom is required in knowing WHEN to use your communication skills and when to be quiet.By Marcus Gentry

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#450 At-Cost Agentic IDE Tooling 32:55

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Topics covered in this episode: pandas is getting pd.col expressions Cline, At-Cost Agentic IDE Tooling uv cheatsheet Ducky Network UI Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/450By Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken

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Fundraising as a Fund of Funds with Alex Edelson 49:23

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Alex Edelson’s Slipstream is a fund of funds that focuses on firms that are “difficult to find, evaluate and access.” Together with Beezer Clarkson, Partner at Sapphire Partners, and Nick Chirls, Partner at Asylum Ventures, Alex unpacks his strategy of investing in funds he believes can outperform, how to raise capital as an LP, and how to remain c…

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Do you know When to say when? 8:05

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Marcus Gentry discuses the challenge of setting limits for our own good based of where we are TODAY, NOT yesterday.By Marcus Gentry

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#449 Suggestive Trove Classifiers 31:29

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Topics covered in this episode: Mozilla’s Lifeline is Safe After Judge’s Google Antitrust Ruling troml - suggests or fills in trove classifiers for your projects pqrs: Command line tool for inspecting Parquet files Testing for Python 3.14 Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/449…

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Can I be honest with you? 7:31

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Mr. Gentry discusses Honesty from a close up perspective. Are you prepared to be honest?By Marcus Gentry

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#448 I'm Getting the BIOS Flavor 39:14

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Topics covered in this episode: prek tinyio The power of Python’s print function Vibe Coding Fiasco: AI Agent Goes Rogue, Deletes Company's Entire Database Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/448By Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken

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#447 Going down a rat hole 35:46

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Topics covered in this episode: rathole pre-commit: install with uv A good example of what functools.Placeholder from Python 3.14 allows Converted 160 old blog posts with AI Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/447By Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken

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Getting out of your own way 6:00

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The challenge to get out of our way may be harder than you thought once you discover how the brain works. Mr. Gentry dives into the subject. ( Nature added a little rain and thunder in the background)By Marcus Gentry

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Minisode: Curiosity, Chemistry, and Keeping Relevance Across the Partnership 14:10

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Origins host Beezer Clarkson, LP at Sapphire Partners and co-founder of OpenLP is rejoined by Nick Chirls, GP at Asylum Ventures to unpack her recent conversation with Sunil Dhaliwal and Mike Dauber of Amplify Partners. They discuss partner dynamics, the importance of maintaining relevance for the long haul, and the different ways curiosity can sho…

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Will you make the sacrifice? 8:18

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Mr. Gentry explores the levels of sacrifice for goal attainmentBy Marcus Gentry

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#446 State of Python 2025 31:24

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Topics covered in this episode: pypistats.org was down, is now back, and there’s a CLI State of Python 2025 wrapt: A Python module for decorators, wrappers and monkey patching. pysentry Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/446By Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken

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Are you in your right mind? 8:35

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Mr. Gentry introduces you to your other mind that protects and seduces.By Marcus Gentry

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#445 Auto-activate Python virtual environments for any project 29:46

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Topics covered in this episode: pyx - optimized backend for uv Litestar is worth a look Django remake migrations django-chronos Extras Joke See the full show notes for this episode on the website at pythonbytes.fm/445By Michael Kennedy and Brian Okken

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Backing Outliers in Venture with Sunil Dhaliwal & Mike Dauber 41:13

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Sunil Dhaliwal founded Amplify in 2012, and was joined by his longtime friend and colleague Mike Dauber in 2014. Beginning as one of the first solo GP, early-stage, sector-focused funds, Amplify has now grown to a team of 9 partners investing in the next generation of applications tools and platforms for developers, data teams, and ML engineers foc…

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Marcus Gentry reveals The Rest of the Story 7:42

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What are the actual steps to Maximize your Moments. In this short Marcus Gentry reveals how to A.I.M. and reach success daily.By Marcus Gentry