Building a URL Shortener, Debug Life, Pigeon Deterents, and More

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Build a URL Shortener With FastAPI and Python
In this step-by-step project, you’ll build an app to create and manage shortened URLs. Your Python URL shortener can receive a full target URL and return a shortened URL. You’ll also use the automatically created documentation of FastAPI to try out your API endpoints.
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Contributing to Open Source: rich #2073
Rodrigo decided he’d start contributing to Open Source and it began by being assigned bug #2073 in the rich library. This article goes into great detail on environment set up, how he found the bug, and what it took to squish it.
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Robotic Water Pistol as Pigeon Deterent
Max built a wifi-equipped water gun to shoot the pigeons on his balcony. It is controlled over the internet by a python script running openCV reading the camera image from an old iPhone. See all the details.
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Swiss Python Summit: Early Bird Tickets & Call for Proposals
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TensorFlow 2.9.0 Released
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The Real Python Podcast: Protobuf in Python
Would you like a way to send structured serialized data between different platforms and languages? What if the data was self-documenting, could automatically generate Python code, and would validate itself? This week on the show, Liran Haimovitch talks about protocol buffers and communicating with microservices through Remote Procedure Calls (RPC).
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Forget Jupyter, Showcase Your Data with Dashboards
Streamlit can be used as an alternative to Jupyter notebooks for sharing research data. Streamlit is a relatively new library for creating simple web apps and dashboards using just Python. Learn why it might be the right choice for your next data project.
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Tips That May Save You From the Hell of PyYAML
YAML is a data-serialization language that is widely used, but processing YAML, especially using PyYAML can be painful and full of traps. Learn some tips and code snippets that can make your life with PyYAML easier.
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Automate All the Boring Kubernetes Operations With Python
Kubernetes has become a de-facto standard in recent years, but many of the tasks in it are repetitive. Learn how to use Python’s Kubernetes Client library to automate all the boring Kubernetes tasks and operations.
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Pandas Tutor: Using Pyodide to Teach Data Science at Scale
Pandas Tutor is a data science education tool that visualizes how pandas code transforms dataframes. It was recently ported to Pyodide and this article describes the journey.
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Using Python Class Constructors
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A Dev’s Thoughts on Developer Productivity
Measuring developer productivity is a challenge and often done by those outside the group. This article talks about developer “flow state” and how interruptions disrupt productivity.
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Adding GraphQL to Your Django App
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