Calvin Spealman: One Game A Month: Off And On Again
Off And On Again is a series of light puzzles. You must turn all the lights on, but you must do so by flipping them in patterns. If you turn one light on or off, you'll be flipping lights around it,...
View ArticleTalk Python to Me: #93 Spreading Python through the sciences with Software...
You often hear that we need to teach computer science as a foundational skill. Why? Well I'm not sure many of the leaders pushing this forward have great answers other than jobs! <br/>...
View ArticleS. Lott: The "Build Script" Idea
In compiled languages, the build script or makefile is pretty important. Java has maven (and gradle and ant) for this job.Python doesn't really have much for this. Mostly because it's...
View ArticleCoding Diet: Covering dead code
Dougal Matthews has written a blog post detailing how Vulture can be used to find some dead code. For me this was an important reminder not to rely on coverage analysis to detect dead code and remove...
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PyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Adrienne Lowe and Meeple Mountain
Speaker Profile: Adrienne Lowe (@adriennefriend)Adrienne Lowe is a former personal chef from Atlanta who documents her experience learning Python & teaching others to cook at Coding With...
View ArticleCorey Oordt: The road to Docker, Django and Amazon ECS, part 2
For part 1Refactoring settingsEnvironment variable-based settings are a big thing in the 12-factor app. I have found this incredibly confusing because you have to store the configurations somewhere...
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Kushal Das: Tools I use daily
In this post, I am going to talk about the tools that I use daily on my computer. This is a personal choice, I don’t intend to spark off a vim vs Emacs debate as an outcome of this blog post.Operating...
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Python Software Foundation: "Weapons of Math Destruction" by Cathy O'Neil
In a 1947 lecture on computing machinery, Alan Turing made a prediction: "The new machines will in no way replace thought, but rather they will increase the need for it." Someday, he said, machines...
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PyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Anna Ossowski and No Starch Press
Speaker Profile: Anna Ossowski (@ossanna16)Anna is currently looking for a new people-focused role in tech. She is a former director of the Python Software Foundation, PyCon Open Spaces-Chair,...
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DataCamp: Scikit-Learn Cheat Sheet: Python Machine Learning
Most of you who are learning data science with Python will have definitely heard already about scikit-learn, the open source Python library that implements a wide variety of machine learning,...
View ArticleCorey Oordt: The road to Docker, Django and Amazon ECS, part 3
For part 1For part 2Gunicorn in DockerWith Docker, our Django project is the only thing running. This means that we don't need gunicorn running in daemon mode and logging to files. We need gunicorn...
View ArticleDjango Weblog: Django bugfix release: 1.10.5
Today we've issued the 1.10.5 bugfix release. Happy New Year!The release package and checksums are available from our downloads page, as well as from the Python Package Index. The PGP key ID used for...
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A. Jesse Jiryu Davis: Two Dramatic Performances About getaddrinfo
I just discovered this: a couple weeks ago the BSD Now podcast featured my article about making getaddrinfo concurrent in Python BSD. They were doing a roundup of stories about ancient BSD lore and...
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Vasudev Ram: Give your Python function a {web,CLI} hug!
By Vasudev RamI came across this interesting Python framework called hug recently:www.hug.restHug is interesting because it allows you to create a function in Python and then expose it via both the web...
View ArticleDusty Phillips: Looking for a new role
I haven’t given this blog much — ok, I’ll be honest: ANY — attention lately. I’m hoping that will change in the new year, with a new job that gives me both more time and more ideas for interesting...
View ArticleCarl Chenet: My Free Software activities in December 2016
My Monthly report for December 2016 gives an extended list of what were my Free Software related activities during this month.Personal projects:I released the version 0.8 of the Feed2tweet project,...
View ArticleSylvain Hellegouarch: ws4py is eager for a new maintainer
Years ago, I got really interested in the WebSocket protocol that eventually landed as RFC 6455. It was the first time I would spend so much time trying to participate elaborating a protocol....
View ArticleYoong Kang Lim: Event sourcing in Django
Django comes with "batteries included" to make CRUD (create, read, update, delete) operations easy. It's nice that the CR part (create and read) of CRUD is so easy, but have you ever paused to think...
View ArticleCorey Oordt: The road to Docker, Django and Amazon ECS, part 4
For part 1For part 2For part 3Putting together a DockerfileI couldn't wait any longer, so I wanted to see it running in Docker!Choosing a Linux distrobutionWe want the absolute smallest container we...
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PyTennessee: PyTN Profiles: Brandon Wannamaker and Emma
Speaker Profile: Brandon Wannamaker (@huntgathergrow)Brandon is a husband, hiker, computer nerd and backyard farmer. He’s currently a Quality Engineer at Emma in Nashville.Brandon will be presenting “A...
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