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DjangoCon Europe 2024 CFP
Call for Participation for DjangoCon Europe 2024, inviting submissions for talks on various topics related to Django and Python development. The deadline for proposals is March 1, 2024.

Articles, Tutorials and Talks

Fastest Way to Read Excel in Python
Reading 500K rows in less than 4 seconds.

An Introduction to Coding In Rust for Pythonistas

This video explores coding with Rust for the first time, diving into its cool features and drawing comparisons with Python.

Microdot: Yet Another Python Web Framework
The post introduces Microdot, a Python web framework with features such as Flask-like syntax, compatibility with MicroPython and CPython, asyncio support, and a minimal web server for MicroPython, designed to address the need for a web framework in the MicroPython ecosystem. The post also outlines the history of Microdot's development and its recent release of version 2.0, which is fully asynchronous.

Fontimize: Subset Fonts to Exactly and Only Your Website's Used Characters
Fontimize is a Python library that enables the creation of font subsets containing only the specific glyphs needed for text or HTML, thereby reducing the initial download size of websites and optimizing bandwidth usage.

How to make LLMs go fast
This post is a long and wide-ranging survey of a bunch of different ways to make LLMs go brrrr, from better hardware utilization to clever decoding tricks.

Django: Detect the global privacy control signal
In this post, we’ll look at implementing GPC within a Django project with code samples you can adapt. Because GPC is simple but requires very situation-dependent actions, it would be hard to build any specific support into Django or a third-party package.

Committing without git
This article provides a hands-on tutorial using Python to create a branch with two commits, aiming to understand the main data structures in Git, known as "git objects," and their interrelationships. The post offers insights into the immutability of Git objects, their compression using the DEFLATE algorithm, and their referencing by the SHA-1 hash of their contents, while also cautioning against using the approach in production due to the safe checks and special handling performed by git commands.

Fine Tuning Python WSGI and ASGI applications for Flask, Django, and FastAPI
In this post, the focus is on examining best practices for configuring Python web servers such as Gunicorn, Uvicorn, and Hypercorn. The architecture of the components between Python code and users will be summarized, and verification methods like load testing will be discussed to ensure the configuration can withstand user traffic.

Candidate Generation Using a Two Tower Approach With Expedia Group Traveler Data
Modeling context and item features to improve traveler recommendations.

Python Gotcha: Modifying a list while iterating
Python makes it easy to modify a list while you are iterating through it's elements. This will bite you. Read on to find out how and what can be done about it.

AutoGluon-TimeSeries : Creating Powerful Ensemble Forecasts - Complete Tutorial
Amazon's framework for time-series forecasting has it all.

How do you ocr on a mac using the cli or just Python for free

An experimental pip subcommand for the Python Launcher for Unix

LLMs and Programming in the first days of 2024

Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

DocFlow
DocFlow is a powerful Document Management API designed to streamline document handling, including seamless uploading, downloading, organization, versioning, sharing, and more.

Jake
Effortlessly create and deploy your own one-link website on GitHub.

Paracelsus
Paracelsus generates Entity Relationship Diagrams by reading your SQLAlchemy models.

falco
Enhance your Django developer experience: CLI and Guides for the Modern Django Developer.

AnyText
Multilingual Visual Text Generation And Editing.

mixtral-offloading
Run Mixtral-8x7B models in Colab or consumer desktops.

UForm
Pocket-Sized Multimodal AI for content understanding and generation across multilingual texts, images, and video, up to 5x faster than OpenAI CLIP and LLaVA.

MotionCtrl
A Unified and Flexible Motion Controller for Video Generation.

semantic-router
Semantic Router is a superfast decision layer for your LLMs and agents. Rather than waiting for slow LLM generations to make tool-use decisions, we use the magic of semantic vector space to make those decisions — routing our requests using semantic meaning.

Autograd-from-scratch
Documented and Unit Tested educational Deep Learning framework from scratch, built with only Numpy.

MobileVLM
A Fast, Strong and Open Vision Language Assistant for Mobile Devices.

New Releases

Django bugfix releases issued: 4.2.9 and 5.0.1

Upcoming Events and Webinars

Virtual: Cleveland Python Meetup January 2024
There will be a talk, Building LLM powered Data Apps using Open Source Packages.

Python Milano Meetup January 2024
There will be following talks

Write Less, Test More - An Introduction to Property-Based Testing
Dagster: a Modern Data Orchestrator

PyData Toronto Meetup January 2024
There will be following talks

NumFOCUS - What's that?
PyTorch 2.0 - Why should you care

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