What's up in the python and tech environment? - Issue #82

Sep 04, 2023

Welcome to issue #82 of “What’s up in the Python and tech environment?”.

This newsletter is mainly intended for developers and those passionate about computers.

This week we will discuss data science, debugging in Python, CSS, SQL, vector databases, and much more! 🤓

From the Python world

In this article, you will discover Geoplotlib, a library for visualizing geographical data.

In this article, the author explores many flake8 plugins he discovered through the use of Ruff.

An excellent article about different profiling techniques in Python.

An interesting article on how to debug crashes and deadlocks in Python.

Here is a tip to improve the performance of your Pandas or Dask workflows.

For the data engineering enthusiasts, here is a summary of commonly used data formats in the field.

David Beazly, a well-known pythonista opens a course he gives in his private programming sessions. You can train your skills with it. 😉

For the brave, here is a deep dive explaining how computers work by writing a Nintendo microprocessor emulator in Python!

An excellent project to use Django commands with a Text-based User Interface (TUI).

Following my article on vector databases last week, this article lists two open-source alternatives to Pinecone.

In this series of articles, you will explore how to implement common design patterns in PHP.

The following article presents a cheat sheet or tutorial to learn SQL.

Have you heard about the Site Reliability Engineer before? Do you know what it means? If not, the following article will give you some clues.

The author here raises some concerns about the Tailwind approach. He also gives some alternatives regarding the new CSS features. What do you think?

Here is an interesting article to help you write clean code for your team/company.

I recently discovered the Squish software to automate Graphical User Interface testing.

Codecov, a leading software for code coverage monitoring, announced a VS Code integration.

To start the week well I am sharing with you the following picture.

This is all for this week. I hope you enjoy it and if that is the case, don’t hesitate to share it on your social media.

Take care of yourself and see you soon! 🙂