Thursday, 19th April 2018
I submitted a PWA to 3 app stores. Here’s what I learned (via) Useful real-world experience shipping a progressive web app to the iOS, Android and Windows app stores. # 9:06 pm
How to rewrite your SQL queries in Pandas, and more (via) I still haven’t fully internalized the idioms needed to manipulate DataFrames in pandas. This tutorial helps a great deal—it shows the Pandas equivalents for a host of common SQL queries. # 6:34 pm
Intro to Threads and Processes in Python (via) I really like the diagrams in this article which compares the performance of Python threads and processes for different types of task via the excellent concurrent.futures library. # 6:32 pm
How to Use Static Type Checking in Python 3.6 (via) Useful introduction to optional static typing in Python 3.6, including how to use mypy, PyCharm and the Atom mypy plugin. # 6:30 pm
The best of Python: a collection of my favorite articles from 2017 and 2018 (so far). Gergely Szerovay has brought together an outstandingly interesting selection of Python articles from the last couple of years of activity of the Python community on Medium. A whole load of gems in here that I hadn’t seen before. # 6:28 pm
Creating Simple Interactive Forms Using Python + Markdown Using ScriptedForms + Jupyter (via) ScriptedForms is a fascinating Jupyter hack that lets you construct dynamic documents defined using markdown that provide form fields and evaluate Python code instantly as you interact with them. # 4:05 pm
What’s New in MySQL 8.0. MySQL 8 has lots of exciting improvements: Window functions, SRS aware spatial types for GIS, utf8mb4 by default, a ton of JSON improvements and atomic DDL. I no longer feel at a significant disadvantage when I have to use MySQL in place of PostgreSQL. # 4:03 pm