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Will McGugan

Will McGugan's DataTalks.Club podcast discussions, organized for topic exploration.

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Will McGugan

Background

Will is a software engineer and author, living in Edinburgh Scotland. He is an enthusiastic developer of Open Source software, and is the creator of some very popular Python packages, including PyFilesystem, Rich and Textual. The latter led to him founding Textualize, a company dedicated to producing software for terminals.

Podcast Discussions

From Developer to Startup Founder: Building a Career Through Open Source. Discussed: Guest Introduction: Will McGugan, Python Open Source Maintainer; Career Path: From Video Games to Textualize Founder; Early Open Source Tools: BBCode Parser & Chess Libraries; PyFilesystem: Virtual File System Abstraction (fs). Related topics: open-source, startups, career growth, entrepreneurship.