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Articles, Tutorials and Talks

Building a Data Center Inside Your Laptop  
Build a virtual switching network inside your own computer. Dr Richard G Clegg of Queen Mary University London demonstrates building a software network configured with Python.

One Database Transaction Too Many
A story about how I ended up sending hundreds of users messages saying they got paid when they didn't! In the process we've learned a valuable lesson about nested transactions and Django signals.

Reverse Engineering the M6 Smart Fitness Bracelet
A post on hacking the $6 M6 fitness tracker.

Introduction to Django Rest Framework 
In this tutorial series you are going to learn the basics about DRF: how to start a project, handle authentication, work with ViewSets and serializers.

How to Handle JWTs in Python
Learn how to create, parse and verify your JWTs in Python using PyJWT.

Alien Dreams: An Emerging Art Scene
In January 2021, OpenAI released the weights and code for their CLIP model, and since then various hackers, artists, researchers, and deep learning enthusiasts have figured out novel methods for combining CLIP with various generative models to create beautiful visual art from just a text prompt. This post documents the evolution of this new art scene and shares a bunch of cool artwork along the way.

How variables works in Python | Explained with Animations 
This video tries to explain how variables or name bindings work in Python and their internal representations like PyObject and PyVarObjects, using animations.

Taking my data back from Eufy
What drives me up the wall is when companies do not provide a mechanism to get your data. With the Eufy SmartLife app, I hacked my way around it.

Parameterizing and automating Jupyter notebooks with papermill
Jupyter notebooks are often run with different parameters, and the best way to automate setting parameters and running them is papermill.

Python Backend Web Development Course (with Django) 
This video is a full backend web development course with python. In the course, you will learn everything you need to know to start your web development journey with Python and Django.

The State of Python Packaging in 2021

How Black Handles Comments When Python's Grammar Ignores Them

Pyflyby: Improving Efficiency of Jupyter Interactive Sessions

Using Google Sheets As Database With Python


Interesting Projects, Tools and Libraries

Visual Python
Visual Python is a GUI-based Python code generator, developed on the Jupyter Notebook environment as an extension.

Tuplex
Tuplex is a parallel big data processing framework that runs data science pipelines written in Python at the speed of compiled code.

plotext 
plotext plots directly on terminal, it has no dependencies and the syntax is very similar to matplotlib. It also provides a simple command line tool.

WikipediaQL
Query language for efficient data extraction from Wikipedia.

Blockman 
A VSCode extension to highlight nested code blocks supporting multiple languages including Python.

Mava
A library of multi-agent reinforcement learning components and systems.

Box 
Box is a text-based visual programming language inspired by Unreal Engine blueprint function graphs.

pystitcher
pystitcher stitches your PDF files together, generating nice customizable bookmarks for you using a declarative markdown file as input


New Releases

Django security releases issued: 3.2.5 and 3.1.13


Upcoming Events and Webinars

Virtual: Austin Python Meetup July 2021
There will be following talks
  • Pyodide: CPython in the web browser
  • Click: command line interfaces with Python

Virtual: DragonPy Meetup July 2021
There will be following talks
  • Python -> R -> epigenetics -> magic
  • IPython AutoImport: importing the easy way
  • Practical closures

Virtual: Interactive Visualizations with Streamlit

Virtual: Cleveland Python Meetup July 2021
 
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