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#618 – FEBRUARY 27, 2024 VIEW IN BROWSER
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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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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
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PySimpleGUI 4 Sunsets in Q2 2024
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uv Another Rust Tool Written to Replace pip
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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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Unleashing the Power of the Console With Rich
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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.
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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.
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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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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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