Assorted Links: 2018-08
My link backlog has grown by so much that I'm considering doing this stuff twice per month or once per week. Opinions? Tell me on chaos.social or via email.
Andrew Godwin: You Have Control. Learning From Aviation
I usually only do writeups for conference talks I attend in person – it's what helps me focus on the speaker and the talk. But I found myself with these notes after watching the recording of Andrew's talk from PyCon Israel 2018, so with his permission I'm releasing the notes, in the hopes that it makes this important talk more accessible.
Books: 2018-07
In July, I was on vacation in Scotland, which was brilliant. It also left me a lot of time to read and explore local book stores. Lots of good science fiction this month! I also culled my reading list by restricting it to one book per author (and then expanded it again, due to said visits to Scottish book stores). Oh, and due to this brilliant book award for alternate history.
EuroPython 2018: Trust me, I'm a Data Scientist - ethics for builders of data-based applications
Sarah Diot-Girard is an an engineer working on Machine Learning and is focused on finding solutions to engineering problems using Data Science.
EuroPython 2018: Processing Geodata using Python and Open Source Modules
Martin Christen is a professor of Geoinformatics and Computer Graphics at the Institute of Geomatics at the University of Applied Sciences Northwestern Switzerland (FHNW).
What is geo data? There are some standards, but the most important thing is that it has associations with gographical data (on earth for now). There are popular GIS, for example ArcGIS (ESRI) and QGIS, both of which can be used via Python. But today we'll talk about how to manipulate, analyze, and present geodata using Python.
EuroPython 2018: How to Ignore Most Startup Advice and Build a Decent Software Business
Ines Montani is the co-founder of Explosion AI, a digital studio specialising in tools for AI technology. Ines speaks from experience from spaCy and prodigy, tools for NLP and data annotation.
EuroPython 2018: More Than You Ever Wanted To Know About Python Functions
Mark Smith has been a Python developer & trainer for 18 years and is now trying out Developer Relations to see how that feels.
Functions are normally taught early on, because curricula want to go through with the basics fast, so the details get lost at first, and sometimes you never catch up with them.
EuroPython 2018: Debugging Your Code with Data Visualization
James Saryerwinnie is a Software Development Engineer at Amazon Web Services.
EuroPython 2018: Standardize Testing in Python
Speaker: Bernat Gabor likes to focus on data ingestion pipelines (transformation and quality control).
Let's talk about tox, a testing tools used even by py.test itself.
EuroPython 2018: Cython to speed up your Python code
Stefan Behnel is a core developer of Cython and lxml.
The Python data ecosystem consists out of NumPy to integrate data, and Cython to integrate code.
EuroPython 2018: PyPI: Past, Present and Future
Nicole Harris is the lead designer and HTML/CSS developer on the Warehouse project - the new codebase powering the Python Package Index (PyPI).
EuroPython 2018: Quantum Computing: How it isn't what those Pop Articles Say
Nick Radcliffe is running Stochastic Solutions, and is an organiser of PyData Edinburgh, and was taught Quantum Field Theory by Higgs.
If you've heard anything about Quantum Computing, then you've probably heard that if Quantum Computing is possible, then SSL and encryption is in trouble. This is not sure, not proven, but this is how it goes:
EuroPython 2018: Trio: A pythonic way to do async programming
Emmanuel Leblond is a python web developer from France.
Writing async code in 2000 was terrible. Then we invented futures. Now we've got asyncio, and everything's good, right?
EuroPython 2018: Let’s Build a Python Profiler in 25 LOC
Noam Elfanbaum is the author of pycubator.com and a data engineering lead at Bluevine.
EuroPython 2018: Postgres at any scale
Craig Kerstiens runs the database as a service at Citrus, curates Postgres Weekly, and previously ran several products at Heroku.
This talk had lots of helpful large queries I didn't even come close to typing down.
EuroPython 2018: Asyncio Today and Tomorrow
Yury Selivanov is a Core CPython developer, author of uvloop, asyncpg, asyncio and multiple PEPs (including async/await: 362, 492, 525, 530, 550, 567).
EuroPython 2018: Die Threads
David Beazley is the author of Python Essential Reference, 4th Edition and Python Cookbook, 3rd Edition.
Assorted Links: 2018-07
Assorted Links is now a staple in my blog – let's see what kinds of funny, weird, educational, cool stuff I came across last month. (Well, ok, to be honest: During the current month in my backlog.)
The current month's experiment: I'll put the number of requests my ublock plugin blocked on the page linked behind every url.
Street Orientation Charts
Books: 2018-06
After the (announced) break in May, I was in heaven being back to books and reading in June. I missed this. Of course, not having read for a month and yet getting recommendations for books took a toll on the length of my reading list.