S1 Episode 3 - Karthik Nadig

Sad Python Girls Club

This is the third episode of the Sad Python Girls Podcast, and we're excited to be featuring another special guest: Karthik Nadig, the dev lead of the Python extension for Visual Studio Code! In this episode Karthik shared a bit of his experience and expertise on rewriting 🔃 and working on the Python extension, debugpy 🐛🥧 and debuggers in general, as well as dad jokes 🙃.

Here are some of the fun things that we referenced in this episode:

• Debugpy: https://pypi.org/project/debugpy/


• Auto reload configuration when debugging files: https://code.visualstudio.com/docs/python/debugging#_autoreload


• Jump to cursor feature when debugging: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-in-visual-studio-code-february-2020-release/#in-case-you-missed-it-jump-to-cursor


• Black formatter extension: https://aka.ms/vscode-black-formatter


• Pylint extension: https://aka.ms/vscode-pylint


• isort extension: https://aka.ms/vscode-isort


• Python extension release blog posts: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python


• Firestarter by The Prodigy: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=wmin5WkOuPw


• Klondike, the card game not the ice cream: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Klondike_(solitaire)

Intro Song: Pastel
Producer: Blue.P
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