smartcut

Cut video files with minimal recoding.

https://github.com/skeskinen/smartcut

Using GPT-4o for web scraping

The article discusses using GPT-4 with OpenAI's structured outputs feature to create an AI-assisted web scraper, exploring its capabilities in parsing complex tables and generating XPaths. While the author found GPT-4 effective at extracting data from various HTML tables, they also noted challenges with merged rows, high API costs, and the need for further refinements to improve accuracy...

https://blancas.io/blog/ai-web-scraper/

Integrating Stripe Into A One-Product Django Python Shop

In the first part of this series, we created a Django online shop with htmx. In this second part, we'll handle orders using Stripe.

https://blog.appsignal.com/2024/09/04/integrating-stripe-into-a-one-product-django-python-shop.html

My Favorite Error Handling Technique

This video presents a surprising “Let it burn” approach to error handling, demonstrating how allowing code to fail fast can result in simpler, clearer, and more robust software. Discover the benefits of this method and its impact on improving overall code quality.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YA0Wq1rcs6U

Pure Python: Build a full stack ChatGPT-like UI. Reflex, Neon Postgres. Deploy with Docker to a VM

This video tutorial demonstrates how to build a full-stack ChatGPT-like UI using Reflex, a Python framework for web development, integrating it with Neon Postgres database and OpenAI. It covers the entire process from setting up the development environment to deploying the application using Docker, GitHub Actions, and Ansible on a virtual machine.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NuNaI__4xiU

kazam

Linux Screen Recorder, Broadcaster, Capture and OCR with AI in mind.

https://github.com/henrywoo/kazam

cookiecutter-uv

A modern cookiecutter template for Python projects that use uv for dependency management.

https://github.com/fpgmaas/cookiecutter-uv

Shades of testing HTTP requests in Python

The post discusses various approaches to testing HTTP requests in Python applications, focusing on mocking external API calls during unit and integration testing.

https://rednafi.com/python/testing_http_requests/

nlp-zero-to-hero

A comprehensive resource for learning Natural Language Processing (NLP) from the basics to advanced topics. It contains Jupyter notebooks covering various NLP concepts, techniques, and implementations, making it a valuable guide for beginners and intermediate learners in the field of NLP.

https://github.com/JUSTSUJAY/nlp-zero-to-hero

PyPI Proxying for Docker Builds

I wanted to improve our CI system by caching PyPI data locally. I saw that there’s a project to do this, but I didn’t see any good examples actually using it.

https://www.robopenguins.com/pypi-proxy/

Multiversion Python Thoughts

A braindump on how to make multi version in Python work.

https://lucumr.pocoo.org/2024/9/9/multiversion-python/

NestedText

Human readable and writable data interchange format.

https://github.com/KenKundert/nestedtext

What’s New In Python 3.13

This article explains the new features in Python 3.13, compared to 3.12. Python 3.13 will be released on October 1, 2024.

https://docs.python.org/3.13/whatsnew/3.13.html

Dante

A zero-setup, easy to use document store for Python.

https://github.com/senko/dante

Revival Hijack – PyPI hijack technique exploited in the wild, puts 22K packages at risk

The article discusses a PyPI supply chain attack technique called "Revival Hijack," where attackers can hijack removed packages by re-registering them. JFrog's research team found that this technique could potentially affect 22,000 existing PyPI packages, leading to hundreds of thousands of malicious downloads, and they took proactive measures to protect the PyPI community by safely rese...

https://jfrog.com/blog/revival-hijack-pypi-hijack-technique-exploited-22k-packages-at-risk/

peepDB

open-source CLI tool and python library to quickly view MySQL, PostgreSQL, MariaDB database tables.

https://github.com/evangelosmeklis/peepdb