Posts in the series Fridays Are For Learning

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    Fridays are for learning.1 Another batch of videos from PyCon US 2018 (see the YouTube channel for more), for the week ending May 25, 2018. Barry Warsaw, “Get Your Resources Faster With importlib.resources Watch this video at YouTube. An introduction to Python 3.7’s new importlib.resources, which incorporates some (tiny fraction) of pkg_resources into the standard library. Alex Gaynor, “Learning from Failure: Post Mortems” Watch this video at YouTube. Failures happen. … (read more)

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    Fridays are for learning.1 These are the first batch of videos from PyCon US 2018 (see the YouTube channel for more) for the week ending May 18, 2018. Larry Hastings, “Solve Your Problem With Sloppy Python” Watch this video at YouTube. I think Larry has a good point (things you build for yourself to automate personal tasks don’t need to be held to the same standard as code you write for others to consume); I like to use these opportunities to try out new tools. … (read more)

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    Fridays are for learning.1 These are some interesting links for the week ending May 11, 2018. A short list this week; I’d encourage you to keep an eye on PyVideo for recordings of talks done this weekend at PyCon US 2018. (Presumably this page will start existing at some point.) Next week I plan to start rounding up the talks I found most interesting. On structured concurrency in high-level languages, continuing our series of posts thinking about this topic. … (read more)

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    Fridays are for learning.1 These are some interesting links for the week ending May 4, 2018. Lots of prominent new releases this week! Flask 1.0!2 Rancher 2.0! Fedora 28! NetHack 3.6.1! Congrats to all. Jupyter received the ACM Software System Award, joining such highlights of computing history as NCSA Mosaic, TeX,3 make, and more. Heady company for sure, but well-deserved. Interpretable machine learning is going to become more and more important; in my opinion black-box “computer says no” models will not be tenable much longer. … (read more)

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    Fridays are for learning.1 These are some interesting links for the week ending April 27, 2018. Warehouse is finally, officially, the new PyPI. Well done to everyone who helped make this happen! On making a blog with more privacy. An overview of one of my favorite new(er) Python standard modules, pathlib. Python 3.7 implements PEP 553, a better way of inserting breakpoints in your code. Maybe we can figure out when IoT devices are compromised using machine learning? … (read more)