Show Notes
In this episode, Mike has Alex Clark on the show. Alex is the leading developer of the fork of the Python Imaging Library (PIL), known as Pillow. We chatted about the following topics: * The origins of Pillow * Lessons learned in open source development * Surprising use cases for Pillow * AI and Pillow * and much more! Show Links * Django - https://www.djangoproject.com/ * Wagtail - https://wagtail.org/ * Faker - https://github.com/joke2k/faker * django-allauth - https://allauth.org/ * django-extensions - https://github.com/django-extensions/django-extensions * django-sql-explorer - https://www.sqlexplorer.io/ * logfire - https://pydantic.dev/logfire * Pillow demo - https://github.com/python-pillow/pillow-demo * https://www.jeremykun.com/2012/01/01/random-psychedelic-art/ * python-pillow/Pillow#1888 * https://github.com/readme/featured/nasa-ingenuity-helicopter * Alex’s band - https://headstraight4life.com/
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