Smoke test your Django admin site

This post advocates for testing Django admin changelist views, which are often overlooked despite being prone to errors due to Django's "magic-string"-heavy admin DSL. The author provides a parametric test using pytest to ensure that every admin view can render its empty state, catching potential issues early.

https://jmduke.com/posts/post/django-admin-changelist-test/

basic-memory

Basic Memory is a knowledge management system that allows you to build a persistent semantic graph from conversations with AI assistants. All knowledge is stored in standard Markdown files on your computer, giving you full control and ownership of your data.

https://github.com/basicmachines-co/basic-memory

Agent-S

An open agentic framework that uses computers like a human.

https://github.com/simular-ai/Agent-S

Tracking cocoa (and other commodity prices) with Pandas and Seaborn

Cocoa, coffee, and other commodities have gotten expensive -- but by how much? In this video, we explore the World Bank's "pink sheet" that tracks commodity prices, and then plot these changes using Seaborn.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85mo5wM5tQk

stable-virtual-camera

A 1.3B generalist diffusion model for Novel View Synthesis (NVS), generating 3D consistent novel views of a scene, given any number of input views and target cameras.

https://github.com/Stability-AI/stable-virtual-camera

Open-Source Handwritten Signature Detection Model

The Hugging Face post discusses a signature detection model built using the YOLOv8 object detection framework. The model accurately detects signatures in various documents, demonstrating its effectiveness in document verification, fraud detection, and automation processes.

https://huggingface.co/blog/samuellimabraz/signature-detection-model

OWL

Optimized Workforce Learning for General Multi-Agent Assistance in Real-World Task Automation.

https://github.com/camel-ai/owl

token-explorer

A simple tool that let's you explore different possible paths that an LLM might sample.

https://github.com/willkurt/token-explorer

microsoft / PIKE-RAG

PIKE-RAG: sPecIalized KnowledgE and Rationale Augmented Generation

https://github.com/microsoft/PIKE-RAG

Docs

A collaborative note taking, wiki and documentation platform that scales. Built with Django and React. Opensource alternative to Notion or Outline.

https://github.com/suitenumerique/docs

Why Python developers just use Postgres with Dawn Wages

This episode of Talking Postgres features Dawn Wages, chair of the Python Software Foundation, discussing why Python and Django developers favor PostgreSQL. They explore her "Just Use Postgres" philosophy, the Djangonaut Space mentoring program, and Python's strengths.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=leir3xJ4Klo

Pydantic Evals

Pydantic Evals
Brand new package from David Montague and the Pydantic AI team which directly ...

https://simonwillison.net/2025/Apr/1/pydantic-evals/#atom-tag