What's up in the python and tech environment? - Issue #121
Welcome to issue #121 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 Packaged, a new library to build standalone Python applications, Django, StackOverflow dev survey, Matcha CSS, Open Large Language Models, and more! 🤓
From the Python world
Another interesting project to build standalone applications in Python like PyInstaller and Nuitka. Here is the introduction blog post for this project.
Packaged - Simple Python packaging
A nice Visual Studio extension to manipulate tabular data (CSV, Excel, etc..). It also produces Pandas code to achieve what you do from the user interface.
Announcing Data Wrangler: Code-centric viewing and cleaning of tabular data in Visual Studio Code
Here are nice examples of the GeneratedField added in Django 5.0.
7 simple examples using Django GeneratedField
A tutorial on how to build a voice note application with Django and OpenAI.
Building a Voice Notes App with Django and OpenAI
In this blog post, you will learn how to design an RSS page with Django.
Yet another Streamlit concurrent to quickly create dashboards in Python.
Meet the NiceGUI: Your Soon-to-be Favorite Python UI Library
An interesting blog post on how to process images with scikit-image.
Processing Monalisa: Image Processing with Scikit-image
For those using SQLAlchemy as their preferred ORM, here is a tip to get rows affected by updates or deletes when executing these queries.
Understanding returning in SQLAlchemy with Python
An interesting article showing how to extract speech from text in Python without using an online service.
Offline Speech to Text in Python
From the Web
If you are a developer, I can’t recommend you enough to take part in the annual StackOverflow developer survey. Together we will get insights about the trends. 🙃
The creator of Flowbite, a CSS framework based on Tailwind CSS, presented a bunch of new blocks, i.e. UI components for E-commerce websites.
New UI components for E-commerce
In this article, you will discover a nice CSS library to apply styles with the default HTML semantics.
Make naked websites look great with matcha.css!
This article specifies different methods to run Large Language models locally. Many thanks to the author! 🥳
50+ Open-Source Options for Running LLMs Locally
A tutorial on material views in SQL databases.
Understanding Materialized Views
For functional programming enthusiasts, this article will teach you how F# computation expressions work.
Functional programming: Code with F# computation expressions
A nice list of icon libraries you can use in your web project.
Best Icon Libraries for a Dev in 2024
For React developers using Jest as their testing framework, you may be interested in the author's insights on how he tackled performance issues in his project test suite.
Improving our Jest execution time by 300%
Bonus
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! 🙂