Hey ChiPy, We've got a great meeting planned for this month and it's coming up quickly! RSVP below and join us for some great Python talks. Thank you to Tegus for hosting us this month! See you there. *RSVP HERE* https://www.chipy.org/meetings/244/ *When*: Thursday March 14, 2024, 6 p.m. 6:00 pm *- *doors open; food 6:30 pm - talks start *Where*: Tegus <https://www.tegus.com/> 200 N. LaSalle Street. Suite 1100. Chicago, IL 60601 *Directions*: Building Entry: Upon arriving at Tegus HQ, attendees will be asked to provide a legal ID to the front desk to check-in. Event Location: Floor 11 - Millennium Park Conference Room. *Topics* - *Headless CMS with Wagtail and Nextjs* By: Josh Martin This talk will cover how to host a Wagtail/Django backend running on Digital Ocean with Dokku. And a Next.js frontend running on Vercel. This combination leads to an ultra-cheap solution for a scalable and fault-tolerant solution for personal projects or startups. - *Getting Started with Software Testing in Python* By: Paul Zuradzki The goal of this talk is to give you a roadmap on a journey to writing stronger code with software testing. How do you actually know if your code really works? How do you know that you didn't break something "over there" when you changed something "over here"? In this talk, we'll demonstrate common problems and solutions with respect to verifying code correctness and improving maintainability. Maybe you've already started trying to learn testing and some things are still unclear: - "What is the point of a mock?", - "What is the difference between patching with pytest vs unittest or using a with-block vs a decorator?" - "I get stuck writing a test as soon as I go to a nontrivial example." - *ChiPy celebrates Pi Day* By: Phil Robare The calculation of π to an insane number of digits is something that has an interesting history. This talk will look at historic algorithms for the calculation π and implementation of the algorithms in Python. And we will meditate upon how lucky we are to have computers to do the calculation. In doing this we will see things in the Python standard library that make it possible to calculate the crazy values needed in modern algorithms (e.g. one over a factorial cubed). The final demonstration is the calculation of π to 100 significant digits. Thank you very much to our sponsors including *Gold Sponsors:* SpotHero *Silver Sponsors:* Braintree, JFrog, and Zoro *Bronze Sponsors*: Foxtrot Please be aware of our code of conduct http://www.chipy.org/pages/conduct/ Engage with ChiPy Website: https://www.chipy.org/ Slack: https://joinchipyslack.herokuapp.com/ Meetup: https://www.meetup.com/_ChiPy_/ Github: https://github.com/chicagopython/chipy.org Twitter: https://twitter.com/chicagopython YouTube: https://www.youtube.com/channel/UCT372EAC1orBOSUd2fsA8WA