Better performance by optimizing Gunicorn config - Building the system - Medium
Advice on how best to configure Gunicorn for Django applications.
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Python End of Life
The end-of-life status and versions for Python.
New version of Textual adds CSS support
Announcement of Textual 0.2.0 on reddit.
Asks the Textualize developers anything : Python
AMA for Textual.
Doom in Blender VSE · Aras' website
DooM. In Blender. In Python.
Also a side-discussion about performance and Python.
Remove the "Authority" from Packaging - Packaging - Discussions on Python.org
Turns out the A in PyPA, meaning "authority", was originally intended as a joke. TIL.
The Inner Workings of Python Dataclasses Explained
Everything you ever wanted to know about Python's dataclasses. And probably more. And probably stuff you didn't care to know. And probably stuff you didn't know you'd ever want to know, or not.
Braindrop: A terminal-based client for raindrop.io
Braindrop is a terminal-based client for the raindrop.io bookmaking service.
It has support for:
- Adding, editing and removing raindrops
- Searching and filtering with tags and free text
- Checking if a link is available in the Wayback Machine
- And more
The application is under active development and will have more features added as time goes on.
TypeIs does what I thought TypeGuard would do in Python
Handy explanation of the difference between TypeGuard and TypeIs. The docs aren’t exactly clear, but this really is.
The AT Protocol SDK
Python SDK for working with the protocol that underpins Bluesky.
Welcome to Pytest-BDD’s documentation! — Pytest-BDD 7.3.0 documentation
A BDD plugin for use with pytest.
Dispelling Information Asymmetry
Tim Peters' take on his suspension from CPython development.
How Instagram scaled to 14 million users with only 3 engineers
Instagram scaled from 0 to 14 million users in just over a year, from October 2010 to December 2011. They did this with only 3 engineers.
They did this by following 3 key principles and having a reliable tech stack.
LaunchFlow - Docs
Another IfC solution; native to Python.
A Complete Guide To Behavior-Driven Testing With Pytest BDD
A comprehensive guide to getting started with BDD testing with pytest.
Rye and uv: August is Harvest Season for Python Packaging
Blog post about the state of Python packaging in 2024, with a particular emphasis on how uv is going (and in part rye too).
Python Magic (AKA Dunder, Special) Methods
List of Python dunder methods.
Squish migrations in Django
Helpful answer on stackoverflow that outlines out to squish down migrations in a Django system.
Remi - Python GUI library
Python library for developing GUI applications
Write yourself a git
Learn how git works, by writing a git.
How to Create Custom Django Management Commands
Good background to making management commands for Django applications, includes information on how you add your own arguments.
Starting off in Bioinformatics — DNA Nucleotides and Strands
Introduction to DNA nucleotides,strands, etc.
Starting off in Bioinformatics — Turning DNA sequences into Protein sequences
Article that describes how DNA is turned into protein sequences.
Pairwise Sequence Alignment using Biopython – Towards Data Science
Short introduction to pairwise alignment using BioPython.
Emacs bulk indent for Python - Stack Overflow
How to indent a region in Emacs, ignoring the current mode's indentation rules. I'm often needing to do this in Python and keep forgetting how.
Why I'm not collaborating with Kenneth Reitz — njs blog
Blog post about problems behind the funding of requests3, plus serious issues with the author. Chimes somewhat with the questionable behaviour I have seen in pipenv issues.
GitHub - sdispater/poetry: Python dependency management and packaging made easy.
Possible replacement for pipenv. Seems to do a lot of what I would need, and perhaps some more; but also appears to be missing some things I do find useful about pipenv.
For example: I do like how pipenv sweeps up the whole venv thing in what feels like a sensible way. poetry doesn't appear to handle that sort of thing (by design, as far as I can tell).
Migrate zsh history to fish
Handy little tool to help migrate a zsh history to fish.
Various intersphinx mappings for Python libraries.
Handy list of intersphinx mappings for various popular Python libraries.
A Failed Experiment with Python Type Annotations – Musing Mortoray
Blog post that does a good job of outlining some of the issues I have too with type checking in Python.
See the following for some correction of what's said: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=20159153