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PyPI has completed its first security audit
The audit was conducted by Trail of Bits, a cybersecurity firm, and it focused on the Warehouse codebase and the cabotage container orchestration framework. The auditors found 29 advisories, but none were classified as high severity. The PyPI team has remediated all of the advisories that posed a significant risk.

Articles, Tutorials and Talks

What the Heck Are Monads?

Monads are a well-known concept in functional programming languages like Haskell, but are they useful in other contexts? Stay tuned, and by the end of this video, you will understand what monads are.

Let’s create a Python Debugger together
Have you ever wondered how debuggers work? What happens when you set a breakpoint and hit it later? Debuggers are tools that we as developers use daily in our work, but few know how they are actually implemented. Here is a 4-part series on writing a Python debugger from scratch.

A quick look at destination-driven code generation
Picture this: you’re sitting there, writing a compiler, when all of a sudden you have to generate assembly. You have some intermediate representation (IR) but now you have to turn virtual registers into machine registers. This is called register allocation. Register allocation is tricky. It’s also slow. Even very fast register allocators like linear scan can dominate compile time. So let’s skip it. Let’s write a silly compiler in Python and see if we can improve the generated code without going full regalloc.

Querying every file in every release on the Python Package Index
This is an article about querying a dataset of Python package information. It discusses how to download the dataset and what information it contains. The dataset can be used to answer questions about Python package trends. For example, it can be used to track the adoption of new packaging metadata standards.

Adding Full Text Search to Your Django App with django-watson
Learn how to supercharge your Django app with full-text search using Django-Watson. Dive deep into Postgres magic and boost search functionality.

Diving into PyPI package name squatting
This post discusses the issue of PyPI package name squatting and how it can be exploited by attackers to distribute malicious code.

Deobfuscating World of Warships' Python Scripts
An in-depth analysis of how World of Warships obfuscates its game scripts and how to mostly deobfuscate them.

Property-Based Testing in Python

Zac Hatfield-Dodds, the Assurance Team Lead at Anthropic, speaks with host Gregory M. Kapfhammer about property-based testing techniques and how to use them in an open-source tool called Hypothesis. They discuss how to define properties for a Python function and implement a test case in Hypothesis. They also explore some of the advanced features in Hypothesis that can automatically generate a test case and perform fuzzing campaigns.

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

MonkeyPatch
The easiest way to build scalable LLM-powered applications, which get cheaper and faster over time.

Movis
Video Editing as a Code.

dpoint
Open-source digital stylus using camera tracking and inertial measurements.

narrator
David Attenborough narrates your life.

mirror
Hackable AI Powered Mirror on your laptop.

filequery
Query CSV, JSON and Parquet files with SQL.

bulk_transcribe_youtube_videos_from_playlist
Easily take an entire YouTube playlist and turn it into high quality transcripts using Whisper.

vimGPT
Browse the web with GPT-4V and Vimium.

multi-object-tracking-in-python
Implementation of multi object tracking algorithms including PMBM (Poisson Multi Bernoulli Mixture filter) in Python.

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Matching Patients to Clinical Trials Using Neo4j Vector Search

Python Milano Meetup November 2023
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Kubernetes Operators: the Pythonic Way
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Retrieval Augmented Generation (RAG) In Practice

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Fleet Monitoring: Building a Scalable Cloud App with Django and Plotly Dash

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Trends and Challenges in LLM Systems
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Intro to FastAPI: Tips and Tricks for ML
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