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Luke Plant: Everything is an X

Link: https://lukeplant.me.uk/blog/posts/everything-is-an-x-pattern/

“Everything is an X” is a very high level pattern that you see applied in the
design of lots of systems, including programming languages and user interfaces.
It has a lot of advantages, and some disad
Stack Abuse: How to Deploy a Django Application to Heroku with Git CLI

Link: https://stackabuse.com/how-to-deploy-a-django-application-to-heroku-with-git-cli/

Introduction
Heroku is a cloud platform that provides hosting services. It supports several programming languages including PHP, Node.js, and Python. It is Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS) which allows yo
Janusworx: A Good First Day

Link: https://janusworx.com/blog/a-good-first-day/

Was a really good day to ease back into Python today.
I got my VS Code up and running.
I got a personal Gitea instance up, to host my code, from where I will syndicate it to Github and Gitlab.
And fin
Janusworx: Poem Feed

Link: https://janusworx.com/blog/poem-feed/

This is a tiny little niche thing, I built all for my ownsome.
It all started, when I got hooked on reading the daily poem, on the Poetry Foundation page.
Learning Python as I am, I wondered if ther
Real Python: PyPy: Faster Python With Minimal Effort

Link: https://realpython.com/pypy-faster-python/

Python is one of the most popular programming languages among developers, but it has certain limitations. For example, depending on the application, it can be up to 100 times as slow as some lower-lev
Reuven Lerner: Reminder: My “Intro to SQL” course is this Sunday!

Link: https://lerner.co.il/2020/11/11/reminder-my-intro-to-sql-course-is-this-sunday/

This is just a reminder that on Sunday, I’ll be teaching a live, 4-hour introductory course on databases and SQL. If you haven’t ever worked with databases before, then this will give you the push tha
Python Engineering at Microsoft: Introducing the Jupyter Extension for VS Code

Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/introducing-the-jupyter-extension-for-vs-code/

We’re excited to announce that we’re releasing the new Jupyter extension for Visual Studio Code today! The Jupyter extension is the latest step in our journey to bring the power of Jupyter Notebook in
Janusworx: Starting Work on Git-the-Branch

Link: https://janusworx.com/blog/starting-work-on-git-the-branch/

The Itch
Aiming to write a tool using this which will show all the git branches in the current directory and the last commit date on those branches (and only the local branches :))
What I did today
I
Rene Dudfield: Finger painting with multi-touch in python using pygame 2

Link: http://renesd.blogspot.com/2020/11/finger-painting-with-multi-touch-in.html

pygame 2 has support for Multi-Touch. You know, where it can track multiple fingers. I've made an app and tutorial to show off the new Multi-Touch features.Finger Painting with Multi-Touch Full articl
Matt Layman: WhiteNoise Shenanigans - Building SaaS #79

Link: https://www.mattlayman.com/building-saas/whitenoise-shenanigans/

In this episode, I worked on a method of adding static content to a site that didn’t involve the staticfiles directory, a separate domain, or a reverse proxy like Nginx. We had to get clever with Hero
Django Weblog: Nominations for 2020 Malcolm Tredinnick Memorial Prize

Link: https://www.djangoproject.com/weblog/2020/nov/12/nominations-2020-malcolm-tredinnick-memorial-prize/

Hello Everyone!
It is that time of year again when we recognize someone from our community in memory of our friend Malcolm.
Malcolm was an early core contributor to Django and had both a huge influenc
Python Morsels: Positional vs Keyword Arguments

Link: https://www.pythonmorsels.com/topics/positional-vs-keyword-arguments/




Related article:

Functions
Passing a function as an argument
Asterisks in Python

Transcript:
Let's talk about the two types of arguments you can use when calling a function:
positional arguments
Python Engineering at Microsoft: Python in Visual Studio Code – November 2020 Release

Link: https://devblogs.microsoft.com/python/python-in-visual-studio-code-november-2020-release/

We are pleased to announce that the November 2020 release of the Python Extension for Visual Studio Code is now available. You can download the Python extension from the Marketplace, or install it dir
Stack Abuse: How to Plot Inline and With Qt - Matplotlib with IPython/Jupyter Notebooks

Link: https://stackabuse.com/how-to-plot-inline-and-with-qt-matplotlib-with-ipython-and-jupyter-notebooks/

Introduction
There are a number of different data visualization libraries for Python. Out of all of the libraries, however, Matplotlib is easily the most popular and widely used one. With Matplotlib y
Learn PyQt: Using QProcess to run external programs — Run background programs without impacting your UI

Link: https://www.learnpyqt.com/tutorials/qprocess-external-programs/

So far we've looked at how to run work in separate threads, allowing you to do complex tasks without interrupting your UI. This works great when using Python libraries to accomplish tasks, but sometim
Quansight Labs Blog: Manylinux1 is obsolete, manylinux2010 is almost EOL, what is next?

Link: https://labs.quansight.org/blog/2020/11/manylinux1-is-obsolete-manylinux2010-is-almost-eol-what-is-next/

The basic installation format for users who install packages via pip is
the wheel format. Wheel names are composed of four parts: a
package-name-and-version tag (which can be further broken down), a P
Brett Cannon: Unravelling `is` and `is not`

Link: https://snarky.ca/unravelling-is-and-is-not/

As part of this blog series on Python's syntactic sugar, I said in the post on unary arithmetic operators that it might be the most boring post in this series. I think I was wrong. 😄The operators is a
Rene Dudfield: Midi musical intrument controllers and synthesizers with python and pygame

Link: http://renesd.blogspot.com/2020/11/midi-musical-intrument-controllers-and.html

Musical Instrument Digital Interface (Midi), is for letting digital musical instruments talk to each other in 'real time'. It came from the early 80s, and is still used today. The main idea is that ra