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Podcast.__init__ Episode 46 - Functional Python with Alexander Schepanovsky and Matthew Rocklin

Entertainment — Functional programming in Python
Entertainmentest. 2016
■ Inactive
Verdict from HTTP liveness real
last probed Aug 26, 2026
Pulse 0.0 · 1/4
0.0
Pulse Index
1/4 families · real
0.0
30-day Δ
pulse momentum · real
17
HTTP probes
liveness history · real
3
Functional tags
observed attributes · real
Risk read derived from observed signals

Observed dead: the site no longer answers as a live product. Pulse has been flat over the last 30 days. Observation is liveness-only: no tracked press, repository, or traffic rank — existence is confirmed, momentum is unobserved.

HTTP liveness

real
17 probes · Jun 16, 2026Aug 26, 2026aliveredirecteddeadunverified

Signal telemetry

4 families · 1 observed · observed only
Liveness probereal
alive in 0% of 17 probesavg response 2188 ms
Developer tractionchecked · none
No public repository linked — GitHub signals are not tracked for this product.
Press & sentimentchecked · none
No coverage found in the tracked press corpus. Absence of press is itself a signal at this stage.
Web footprintreal
resolved host
pythonpodcast.com
edge
direct origin
server
Microsoft-IIS/10.0
Tranco rank
unranked
Domain age & certificate data not yet collected

Analyst read

generated from the observed metrics above · no external narrative

Podcast.__init__ Episode 46 - Functional Python with Alexander Schepanovsky and Matthew Rocklin's site returned a hard-dead response when we last probed it on Aug 26, 2026, so we mark it inactive. It has fewer than two observed signal families, so no Pulse Index is composed — the evidence strip shows what is and isn’t present. Observed footprint: 3 functional tags. It has no curated competitive-alternative edges yet, so the comparable set below is functional tag-similarity — read it with the confidence flags.

Comparable set

curated alternatives → functional tag-similarity
CompanyBasisOverlapPulse30d ΔStatus
Podcast.__init__ Episode 37 - The PEP Talkentertainmentsimilar80%0.00.0■ inactive
Frontside the Podcast - #37: Ember CLI Mirage feat. Sam Selikoffentertainmentsimilar75%8.00.0— unverified
Test & Code ep 21: Terminology, test fixtures, subcutaneous testing, end to end testing, system testingdev-toolstag-overlap75%0.00.0■ inactive
Python past, present, and future with Guido van Rossum [audio]educationtag-overlap75%45.50.0● live
Hack To Start - 99: Mahdi Yusuf, CTO, Gyroscopeentertainmentsimilar75%40.00.0● live
The Cynical Developer Podcast: EP 27 - Sephia mail and Hyperlambdaentertainmentsimilar75%40.00.0● live
Mumbly Hour - San Franciscoentertainmentsimilar75%8.00.0— unverified
That Podcast– 27: A Little Less Grumpyentertainmentsimilar75%0.0-8.0■ inactive

Confidence reflects source and category coherence: curated = an editorially linked alternative; similar = strong functional tag-overlap in the same category; tag-overlap = shared tags only and may be noisy. Overlap is the shared functional-tag ratio (Jaccard) for tag-matched rows. Pulse is the observed-activity index real and 30d Δ its signed month change; a dash means insufficient observed history, never zero.

Structure

observed attributes
Business modelunknown
Liveness tiersunset
Competitive alternativesnone linked
Open sourceNo
Public APINo
Free tierNo
Enterprise tierNo

Funding & team

not in source

No disclosed funding in our sources. Funding data covers only ~1% of the corpus (462 rounds across 79K products), so absence here is unknown, not zero— we don't estimate a number we can't source.

RAW TELEMETRY last 14 probes
PROBEDHTTPORIGIN → RESOLVEDSERVERMSVERDICT
2026-08-26 12:05Z404pythonpodcast.comMicrosoft-IIS/10.02461dead_404
2026-08-18 13:13Z404pythonpodcast.comMicrosoft-IIS/10.03311dead_404
2026-08-11 00:10Z404pythonpodcast.comMicrosoft-IIS/10.02326dead_404
2026-08-08 06:00Z404pythonpodcast.comMicrosoft-IIS/10.02188dead_404
2026-08-05 18:21Z404pythonpodcast.comMicrosoft-IIS/10.02569dead_404
2026-07-30 17:35Z404pythonpodcast.comMicrosoft-IIS/10.01394dead_404
2026-07-18 15:30Z404pythonpodcast.comMicrosoft-IIS/10.02641dead_404
2026-07-16 09:41Z404pythonpodcast.comMicrosoft-IIS/10.01864dead_404
2026-07-10 10:29Z404pythonpodcast.comMicrosoft-IIS/10.01864dead_404
2026-07-04 09:19Z404pythonpodcast.comMicrosoft-IIS/10.02867dead_404
2026-06-23 13:38Z404pythonpodcast.comMicrosoft-IIS/10.01810dead_404
2026-06-21 21:55Z404pythonpodcast.comMicrosoft-IIS/10.01715dead_404
2026-06-20 20:03Z404pythonpodcast.comMicrosoft-IIS/10.01654dead_404
2026-06-19 15:17Z404pythonpodcast.comMicrosoft-IIS/10.01968dead_404
Full redirect chains, response headers, and DNS records are not captured by the current probe.
Launch Sentinel tear sheet · Podcast.__init__ Episode 46 - Functional Python with Alexander Schepanovsky and Matthew Rocklin · as of 2026-08-28 · launchsentinel.com/reports/podcast-__init__-episode-46-functional-python-with-alexander-schepanovsky-and-matthew-rocklin · liveness, pulse and press figures are observed data with provenance shown per panel.