Links
Things worth reading. Or not. At least, I thought I'd rather keep them when I encountered them.1316 links so far, newest first.
automatetheboringstuff.com
Al Sweigart's free online book teaching Python to complete beginners through scripts that automate files, spreadsheets, email and web tasks.
wehart.blogspot.fr
Survey of Python plugin frameworks — yapsy, Envisage, Trac's component architecture, the PyUtilib Component Architecture and others — with notes on choosing between them.
docs.openstack.org
Documentation for stevedore, a Python library that discovers and loads plugins at runtime by building on setuptools entry points rather than a bespoke extension mechanism.
janusgraph.org
Open-source distributed graph database for graphs of billions of vertices and edges, backed by Cassandra, HBase or Bigtable and queried through Apache TinkerPop.
django-storages.readthedocs.io
Documentation for django-storages, a collection of custom Django storage backends for Amazon S3, Google Cloud Storage, Azure, Dropbox and other providers.
github.com
Beginners guide to python-social-auth, gathering its core concepts — backends, pipeline, storage — and showing how they fit together inside an application.
distill.pub
Peer-reviewed journal publishing interactive, visual explanations of machine learning research, from neural network interpretability to the fundamentals of deep learning.
boltons.readthedocs.io
Documentation for boltons, a pure-Python library of utilities — caching, extra dict and list types, iteration and file helpers — that arguably belong in the standard library.
awesome-django.com
Curated directory of Django apps, packages and learning resources, grouped by category from authentication and payments to CMS, search and testing.
pythonsheets.com
Cheat sheet on asynchronous Python, tracing the path from callbacks and generators to coroutines and async/await with runnable snippets at each step.
pythonsheets.com
Collection of short Python code snippets, from language basics to databases, networking, concurrency and the standard library.
datacamp.com
Traces how Project Jupyter split off from IPython in 2014, then maps which features — kernels, magics, notebook conversion — belong to which project today.
jinja.pocoo.org
Jinja documentation page comparing Jinja's template syntax with Django templates and Mako, listing the differences that matter when porting templates between them.
chromium.googlesource.com
Documentation for hterm, a JavaScript library that renders a terminal emulator in the browser; it handles output and keyboard input but is not itself an SSH client or a shell.
yclist.com
Directory of Y Combinator-funded companies grouped by batch, each with a one-line description and its current status.
css-tricks.com
Introduction to RxJS that builds up observables and the map, merge and scan operators by animating elements in response to mouse and touch events.
medium.com
Measures how JavaScript parse and compile time dominates web app start-up on mobile, and lists what developers and browser vendors can each do to shorten it.
medium.com
Presents mmake, a Go wrapper around Make that adds first-class help output for targets and recursive remote includes without replacing Make itself.
