Issue #638 (July 16, 2024)

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#638 – JULY 16, 2024

Customize VS Code Settings

In this course, Philipp helps you customize your Visual Studio Code settings to switch from a basic cluttered look to a clean presentable look. This is not just pleasant on the eyes, but also gives you a nice user interface if you want to share on a Zoom call or screen recording.
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Incident Report: Leaked GitHub Personal Access Token

A PyPI admin accidentally leaked credentials into a Docker container. It has since been fixed and the credentials revoked. This is the report by that same admin outlining what happened and how to help prevent similar mistakes in the future.
EE DURBIN

GPU Accelerate Your Data Science Workflows End-to-End

Discover how to create, accelerate, and deploy data pipelines with RAPIDS for GPU-accelerated data science workflows. Take one of our Data Science courses for free when you join the NVIDIA Developer Program →
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Free-Threaded CPython Is Ready to Experiment With!

An overview of the ongoing efforts to improve and roll out support for free-threaded CPython throughout the Python open source ecosystem. Associated Hacker News discussion.
RALF GOMMERS

PSF Announces Infrastructure Engineer

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DjangoCon US 2024 Announces Talks

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Django Security Releases Issued: 5.0.7 and 4.2.14

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Register for Kiwi PyCon, Aug 23-25

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Quiz: Split Datasets With `scikit-learn.train_test_split()`

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Articles & Tutorials

Free, Unbelievably Stupid Wi-Fi on Long-Haul Flights

Deep in a need to procrastinate on a flight between London and San Francisco, Robert discovered that changing his name on an airline’s frequent flyer account was free over the plane’s WiFi. What’s a developer to do? Work on their tickets? No, create an entire TCP/IP protocol using this loophole. The result is the PySkyWiFi package.
ROBERT HEATON

Digging Into Graph Theory in Python With David Amos

Have you wondered about graph theory and how to start exploring it in Python? What resources and Python libraries can you use to experiment and learn more? This week on the show, former co-host David Amos returns to talk about what he’s been up to and share his knowledge about graph theory in Python.
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My Programming Beliefs as of July 2024

This collection of thoughts outlines how Evan approaches coding, with the understanding that this might change in the future. His beliefs include using spikes, the difference between simple and easy, a preference for enums over booleans, and more.
EVAN HAHN

Breaking Out of Nested Loops With Generators

Have you ever had the situation where you’ve got a nested loop and need to break out of the outer one? One way of dealing with this problem is refactoring the loop to use a generator. This post shows you how.
RODRIGO GIRÃO SERRÃO

“Extracting Wisdom” From Conference Videos

There are so many conferences and so many videos, you can’t possibly watch them all. This post shows you how to extract information to summarize a talk so you can quickly decide what you want to watch.
GONÇALO VALÉRIO

Creating a Simple Pastebin Service in Python and Flask

Learn how to build a functional pastebin service using Python and Flask. This tutorial covers web development basics, file handling, and syntax highlighting.
MUHAMMAD RAZA

How a Decorator Crashed My Flask App

This blog post shows how failing to use functools.wraps can cause issues with FlaskAPI. Learn why you should always use wraps and what went wrong.
SUYOG DAHAL

Python Has Too Many Package Managers

Overview of Python’s Package management ecosystem in 2024 and associated Hacker News Discussion
LARRY DU

Creating Images in Your Terminal With Python and Rich Pixels

Rich Pixels, a package from one of the folks at Textual, allows you to create images in your terminal and display them.
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How Do You Choose Python Function Names?

This tutorial discusses the rules and conventions for choosing Python function names and why they’re important.
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Using HTMX With FastAPI

This tutorial looks at how use HTMX with FastAPI by creating a simple todo web app and deploying it on Render.
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Projects & Code

ViperIDE: MicroPython IDE for Web and Mobile

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ML System Design: 450 Case Studies to Learn From

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reladiff: High-Perf Diffing of Large Datasets Across Databases

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Yen: The Last Python Environment Manager You’ll Ever Need

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PyData Bristol Meetup

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