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The No Title® Tech Blog: Optimize Images v1.3 – Dynamic by default

Link: https://no-title.victordomingos.com/articles/2018/optimize-images_v1_3_dynamic_by_default

In this new release, Optimize Images will, by default, try to determine dynamically the best quality setting for each JPEG image.
Peter Bengtsson: Fancy linkifying of text with Bleach and domain checks (with Python)

Link: https://www.peterbe.com/plog/linkifying-text-with-bleach-and-domain-checks

Bleach is awesome. Thank you for it @willkg! It's a Python library for sanitizing text as well as "linkifying" text for HTML use. For example, consider this:
>>> import bleach
>>> bleach.linkify("Here
Trey Hunner: Asterisks in Python: what they are and how to use them

Link: http://treyhunner.com/2018/10/asterisks-in-python-what-they-are-and-how-to-use-them/

There are a lot of places you’ll see * and ** used in Python.
These two operators can be a bit mysterious at times, both for brand new programmers and for folks moving from many other programming lang
Codementor: The One reason you should learn Python

Link: https://www.codementor.io/dyako/the-one-reason-you-should-learn-python-o83lmn2mi

When you speak with researchers, data scientists, and practitioners who are involved in any capacity with data, you are bound to here one word multiple times in a conversation: Python.
It is...
NumFOCUS: What Happened at the NumFOCUS Summit 2018?

Link: https://numfocus.org/blog/what-happened-at-the-numfocus-summit-2018

The post What Happened at the NumFOCUS Summit 2018? appeared first on NumFOCUS.
Jeff Knupp: Write Better Python Functions

Link: https://jeffknupp.com/blog/2018/10/11/write-better-python-functions//

In Python, like most modern programming languages, the function is a primary method of abstraction and encapsulation. You've probably written hundreds of functions in your time as a developer. But not
Matt Layman: Build Native Mobile Apps with Python (BeeWare)

Link: https://www.mattlayman.com/blog/2018/build-mobile-python-apps-beeware/

You can build mobile applications with Python? Absolutely. At Python Frederick’s October 2018 presentation, Bob Marchese showed us how to use BeeWare, a suite of tools for building mobile apps (among
Made With Mu: Allez Mu!

Link: https://madewith.mu/mu/users/2018/10/12/allez-mu.html

Check out Girls can Code!, programming
workshops for girls based in France. Guess what? They use Mu!

I was contacted by Antoine Pietri, one of the
organisers of the event, who tells me,

I went to Ni
Matthew Rocklin: So you want to contribute to open source

Link: https://matthewrocklin.com/blog//work/2018/10/12/so-you-want-to-contribute-to-open-source

Welcome new open source contributor!
I appreciated receiving the e-mail where you said you were excited about
getting into open source and were particularly interested in working on a
project that I m
Davy Wybiral: LoRa IoT Network Programming

Link: http://davywybiral.blogspot.com/2018/10/lora-iot-network-programming.html

Hey everyone, so I just got some LoRa modules from REYAX to experiment with long range network applications and these things are so cool! So far I've made a long range security alarm, a button to wate
Dusty Phillips: Should languages be designed with editor support in mind?

Link: https://dusty.phillips.codes/2018/10/12/should-languages-be-designed-with-editor-support-in-mind/

One of many things I love about Python is how whitespace is an integral part of the language. Python was the first popular programming language designed with the idea that “code is read much more ofte
NumFOCUS: NumFOCUS Announces NVIDIA as Gold Sponsor

Link: https://numfocus.org/blog/numfocus-announces-nvidia-as-gold-sponsor

The post NumFOCUS Announces NVIDIA as Gold Sponsor appeared first on NumFOCUS.
Django Weblog: Support framework of a strong relationship. 30% off PyCharm and 100% to Django

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2018/oct/12/djangopycharm-promotion-2018/

Support framework of a strong relationship. 30% off PyCharm and 100% to Django
In summer 2017, JetBrains PyCharm partnered with the Django Software Foundation for the second year in a row to generate
Talk Python to Me: #181 30 amazing Python projects

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/181/30-amazing-python-projects

Listeners often tell me one of the really valuable aspects of this podcast is the packages and libraries that they learn about and start using in their projects from guests and myself. On this episode
Peter Bengtsson: Switching from AWS S3 (boto3) to Google Cloud Storage (google-cloud-storage) in Python

Link: https://www.peterbe.com/plog/aws-s3-boto3-to-google-cloud-storage

I'm in the midst of rewriting a big app that currently uses AWS S3 and will soon be switched over to Google Cloud Storage. This blog post is a rough attempt to log various activities in both Python li
Sandipan Dey: Solving Some Image Processing and Computer Vision Problems with Python libraries

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In this article, a few image processing / computer vision problems and their solutions  with python libraries (scikit-image, cv2) will be discussed. Removing Gaussian Noise from images by computing me
Python Celery - Weekly Celery Tutorials and How-tos: Monitoring a Dockerized Celery Cluster with Flower

Link: https://www.distributedpython.com/2018/10/13/flower-docker/


A flower, sometimes known as bloom or blossom, is the reproductive structure found in flowering plants. Celery is a marshland plant in the family in the family Apicaeae that has been cultivated as a
Vasudev Ram: A Python email signature puzzle

Link: http://jugad2.blogspot.com/2018/10/a-python-email-signature-puzzle.html

By Vasudev RamHi, readers,I sometimes use slightly cryptic Python code snippets in my email signature.Can you figure out what output this Python program produces, and how it works, without running the