| | | | McKinney on Improving the Data Stack & Composable Systems
How do you avoid the bottlenecks of data processing systems? Is it possible to build tools that decouple storage and computation? This week on the show, creator of the pandas library Wes McKinney is here to discuss Apache Arrow, composable data systems, and community collaboration.
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Introducing Flask-Muck: Building a REST API in 5 Minutes
Flask-Muck sits on top of a Flask/SQLAlchemy tech stack and uses a declarative and modular approach to replace huge amounts of boilerplate code by generating a full-featured set of standard CRUD endpoints for a resource. Learn how to use it by reading this post.
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Live Hack: Exploiting AI-Generated Code
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10 Years of Wagtail
Tom Dyson, a founding member of the Wagtail core team, shares some thoughts about how Wagtail CMS grew from a small, niche open source project into one of the most popular Python CMSs used by NASA, Google, the National Health Service, and many others.
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Astral Takes Stewardship of Rye
ARMIN RONACHER
PySimpleGUI 4 Sunsets in Q2 2024
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Discussions
uv Another Rust Tool Written to Replace pip
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Articles & Tutorials
BNF Notation: Dive Deeper Into Python’s Grammar
In this tutorial, you’ll learn about Backus–Naur form notation (BNF), which is typically used for defining the grammar of programming languages. Python uses a variation of BNF, and here, you’ll learn how to read it to get a better understanding of some language constructs.
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Thread Local Data in Python
The article introduces the threading module’s local() for storing thread-local values. Since threads in Python share the memory space of their parent process, you might need to define thread-specific variables for specific use cases to avoid unintended side effects.
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Blocked by Slow Code Reviews? Here’s How to Stop Waiting
 Code reviews are great - but they shouldn’t slow down your development. Sourcery can automatically review every one of your PR’s so your team can keep moving fast →
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Unleashing the Power of the Console With Rich
Rich is a powerful library for creating text-based user interfaces (TUIs) in Python. It enhances code readability by pretty-printing complex data structures and adds visual appeal with colored text, tables, animations, and more.
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Python Monorepo Visualization
Monorepos can be a bit overwhelming, containing all the code for all your projects. Thankfully, there are ways to visualize a Python monorepo. This blog post introduces you to one repo visualizer: Polylith
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Counting CPU Instructions in Python
Did you know it takes about 17,000 CPU instructions1 to print(“Hello”) in Python? And that it takes ~2 billion of them to import seaborn? Learn about the tools Matt used to find this out.
MATT STUCHLIK
The Broken Version Breakdown
Pypi is a real treasure box full of great Python tools. Unfortunately, released versions of most of them can suddenly be broken by a downstream dependency release.
IVO HOUBRECHTS • Shared by Ivo Houbrechts
Not Just NVIDIA: GPU Programming That Runs Everywhere
This article talks about wgpu-py, a GPU portable Python library. Ever want to use the GPU but use something other than NIVIDIA? This library might be for you.
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Add Versatility To AI Apps, Build With Popular Model Choices Like YOLOv8
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Floats Are Weird
This post attempts to demonstrate a calculus proof by applying floats, but of course the precision of floats get in the way. See what happens.
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Django REST Framework and Vue vs HTMX
Learn how the development process varies between working with Django REST Framework and Vue versus Django and HTMX.
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lockbox: Forward Proxy for Making 3rd Party API Calls
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rexi: Terminal UI for Regex Testing
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