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Reinout van Rees: What to use at my new job: mac or linux?

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2018/03/27/mac-or-linux.html


First things first: "new job"? Yes, I'm switching jobs. I'll give more details
once my new job actually has a website. They're quite a new company :-)
Question: "new job" means "new laptop". And I'm
Reinout van Rees: First Rotterdam (NL) Python meetup: my summaries

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2018/04/10/rotterdam-meetup.html



Welcome to the first Python Rotterdam meetup - Thijs Damsma
He searched for python meetups in Rotterdam, but didn't find any. So he
clicked on the "do you want to start one?" button.
Today's meetup
Reinout van Rees: File checksums in Python: the hard way - Shane Kerr

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2018/04/25/file-checksums.html


(Summary of a talk at the Amsterdam python meetup)
Shane is data hoarder. He hates losing data. He has lots of data. He could
move it to the cloud, but he doesn't trust that: cloud companies go away
Reinout van Rees: RESTful APIs and Django - Emad Mokhtar

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2018/04/25/restful-apis.html


(Summary of a talk at the Amsterdam python meetup)
Ehmad Mokhtar used Django a lot. And he loves
web APIs: you can have many intergrations. You build one back-end and it can be
used by many other ser
Reinout van Rees: The origins of Python: the ABC language - Rolf Zwart

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2018/04/25/origin-of-python-abc.html


(Summary of a talk at the Amsterdam python meetup)
How to compare python to ABC? ABC is the unsuccessful language that was the
inspiration for python. Guido van Rossum was originally the main impleme
Caktus Consulting Group: PyCon 2018 Recap

Link: https://www.caktusgroup.com/blog/2018/05/21/pycon-2018-recap/

Making connections
Before the conference, our team listed “making connections” as one of the main reasons to attend PyCon. We certainly did that, welcoming visitors to the booth and catching up with f
Real Python: Introduction to Python 3

Link: https://realpython.com/python-introduction/

Python is a high-level, interpreted scripting language developed in the late 1980s by Guido van Rossum at the National Research Institute for Mathematics and Computer Science in the Netherlands. The
Dataquest: Generating Climate Temperature Spirals in Python

Link: https://www.dataquest.io/blog/climate-temperature-spirals-python/

Ed Hawkins, a climate scientist, tweeted the following animated visualization in 2017 and captivated the world:
This visualization shows the deviations from the average temperature between 1850 and 19
Tryton News: Translation Release for series 4.8

Link: http://www.tryton.org/posts/translation-release-for-series-48.html

Due to a mistake in the process of generating the translations,
the initial release of series 4.8 contained some unstranslated strings. We
decided to make new set of releases with the correct translat
Python Software Foundation: 2018 Python Software Foundation Board Election: What is it and how can I learn more?

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/PythonSoftwareFoundationNews/~3/_4iPgLKMStg/2018-python-software-foundation-board.html

Every year the Python Software Foundation announces an open call for nominations for the PSF Board. Following the 2017 PSF members vote, only a subset of the entire board’s seats are open. This year t
Peter Bengtsson: Writing a custom Datadog reporter using the Python API

Link: https://www.peterbe.com/plog/writing-a-custom-datadog-reporter-using-the-python-api

Datadog is an awesome sofware-as-a-service where you can aggregate and visualize statsd metrics sent from an application. For visualizing timings you create a time series graph. It can look something
Talk Python to Me: #162 Python in Building and Architecture

Link: https://talkpython.fm/episodes/show/162/python-in-building-and-architecture

You often hear about architecture in software. This could be things like microservices, 3-tier apps, or even the dreaded client-server mainframe app. But this episode, we're turning this on its head:
Mike Driscoll: Filling PDF Forms with Python

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/05/22/filling-pdf-forms-with-python/

Fillable forms have been a part of Adobe’s PDF format for years. One of the most famous examples of fillable forms in the United States are documents from the Internal Revenue Service. There are lots
tryexceptpass: General Data Protection Regulation

Link: http://tryexceptpass.org/article/gdpr/

Ying Li’s PyCon2018 keynote discussed the importance of writing secure software, and the responsibility that we, as developers, have in keeping users safe. While watching, it occurred to me that I hav
Stack Abuse: Implementing LDA in Python with Scikit-Learn

Link: http://stackabuse.com/implementing-lda-in-python-with-scikit-learn/

In our previous article Implementing PCA in Python with Scikit-Learn, we studied how we can reduce dimensionality of the feature set using PCA. In this article we will study another very important dim
Reinout van Rees: I'm in Heidelberg for the djangocon 2018 (plus other info)

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2018/05/22/in-heidelberg.html


Yes, I'm in Heidelberg (Germany) for the annual European djangocon. That's not a particularly shocking discovery,
as I've been to quite a number :-) There are however some reasons for me to
write thi
Python Sweetness: Mitogen for Ansible status, 23 May

Link: http://pythonsweetness.tumblr.com/post/174160844657

This is the third update on the status of developing Mitogen for
Ansible.
Too long, didn’t read

A beta is coming soon! Aside from async tasks, the master branch
is looking great. Since last update th
Reinout van Rees: Djangocon: writing code.... evolve it instead - Emma Gordon

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2018/05/23/01-keynote.html


(One of my summaries of a talk at the
2018 european djangocon.)
Emma is member of the Cambridge programmers' study group. One of the topic there at one time was machine
learning. Cool. But she starte
Reinout van Rees: Djangocon: it's not a bug, it's a bias - Anna-Livia Gomart

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2018/05/23/03-not-bug-but-bias.html


(One of my summaries of a talk at the
2018 european djangocon.)
If you have a bad experience with a program, is it a bug of can there be a
bias in the software? Apple's Siri, at first, had answers fo
Reinout van Rees: Djangocon: can packaging improve django deployments? - Markus Zapke-Gründemann

Link: http://reinout.vanrees.org/weblog/2018/05/23/05-packaging.html


(One of my summaries of a talk at the
2018 european djangocon.)
Markus started created websites at the end of the 1990s. He calls himself an
open source software developers. Open source is how he lea