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Codementor: Hunting Intermittent Tests

Link: https://www.codementor.io/davedash/hunting-intermittent-tests-mi7bseox7

There’s a sad time in testing land when you have a test suite that you can’t rely on. Instead of running a suite and merging if it passes, you have to glance over the failed tests and say “Oh that one
Davy Wybiral: DIY Game Controller (soldering project)

Link: http://davywybiral.blogspot.com/2018/08/diy-game-controller-soldering-project.html

I got a new Hakko soldering iron so it's time to melt some metal!This video shows how to make a working game controller out of only a perf board, some tactile buttons, and an Arduino Pro Micro. The co
Weekly Python StackOverflow Report: (cxxxix) stackoverflow python report

Link: http://python-weekly.blogspot.com/2018/08/cxxxix-stackoverflow-python-report.html

These are the ten most rated questions at Stack Overflow last week.Between brackets: [question score / answers count]Build date: 2018-08-18 11:06:51 GMTProblems with using a rough greyscale algorithm?
Evennia: Inline building in upcoming Evennia 0.8

Link: http://evennia.blogspot.com/2018/08/inline-building-in-upcoming-evennia-08.html

Evennia, the Python MUD-server game development kit, is slowly creeping closer to its 0.8 release.In our development branch I've just pushed the first version of the new OLC (OnLine Creator) system. T
Bhishan Bhandari: Web Scraping with NodeJS

Link: http://feedproxy.google.com/~r/TheTaraNights/~3/DGr78uieOQ0/

Web Scraping has been of an interest to a lot of businesses and individuals with the immense potential of the quantitative data available online. The data collected can entice the growth of an organiz
Karim Elghamrawy: Python Lambdas Explained (With Examples)

Link: https://www.afternerd.com/blog/python-lambdas/

In this article, I will teach you exactly what a python lambda is. As a matter of fact if you know what functions are and how to define functions in Python then you already know what a lambda is. A Py
Kushal Das: Aadhaar, the mass surveillance system

Link: https://kushaldas.in/posts/aadhaar-the-mass-surveillance-system.html


If you are following me on Twitter, you have already seen a lot of (re)tweets
related to Aadhaar. For the people first time hearing this term, it is a 12
digit unique identification number provided b
Evennia: Evennia in pictures

Link: http://evennia.blogspot.com/2016/05/evennia-in-pictures.html

This article describes the MU* development system Evennia using pictures!  This article was originally written for Optional Realities. Since it is no longer available to read on OR, I'm reposting it i
PyBites: PyBites Twitter Digest - Issue 27, 2018

Link: https://pybit.es/twitter_digest_201827.html

One more day for PSF Fellowship Nominations! Get them in ASAP!
Do you know someone who has served the Python community thru extraordinary efforts? Nominate them to be a PSF Fello… https://t.co/cNzFpaa
Mike Driscoll: PyDev of the Week: Jessica Ingrassellino

Link: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/08/20/pydev-of-the-week-jessica-ingrassellino/

This week we welcome Jessica Ingrassellino (@jess_ingrass) as our PyDev of the Week. Jessica is the founder of teachcode.org, where you can schedule teaching classes with Jessica. She is also the auth
Dusty Phillips: Computer Vision in Three Lines of Code plus a bunch more lines

Link: https://dusty.phillips.codes/2018/08/15/computer-vision-in-three-lines-of-code-plus-a-bunch-more-lines/

My wife and I both have a tendency to leave the garage door open. You’re in and out, grabbing garden tools or supplies, and at the end of the day you enter the house through the back door and forget t
Matthew Rocklin: Cloud Lock-in and Open Standards

Link: https://matthewrocklin.com/blog//work/2018/08/19/cloud-lockin-and-open-standards

This post is from conversations with Peter Wang,
Yuvi Panda, and several others. Yuvi expresses
his own views on this topic on his
blog.
Summary
When moving to the cloud we should be mindful to avoid
Real Python: Sets in Python

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

Perhaps you recall learning about sets and set theory at some point in your mathematical education. Maybe you even remember Venn diagrams:

If this doesn’t ring a bell, don’t worry! This tutorial sho
Vasudev Ram: Nice Vim trick for Python code

Link: http://jugad2.blogspot.com/2018/08/nice-vim-trick-for-python-code.html

By Vasudev RamHere's a Vim editing trick which can be useful for indenting Python code (in some situations):Let's say I have this program, p1bad.py:$ type p1bad.pydef foo(args):print "in foo"def bar()
PyCon.DE & PyData Karlsruhe: PyLadies X Micropython @ PyConDE

Link: http://de.pycon.org/blog/pyladies-x-micropython-pyconde/

As part of PyCon DE 18 PyLadies and MicroPython will be running a
beginner friendly full day hands-on workshop on MicroPython and the
Internet of Things. We welcome anyone with existing programming kn