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shot-scraper 1.12

Release: shot-scraper 1.12 I've added WebP support to my shot-scraper screenshot automation tool. You can now take a WebP screenshot of a web page like this: shot-scraper https://simonwillison.net -o screenshot.webp…

Specify skip= parameters to pdb.Pdb from command line or .pdbrc

Problem pdb.Pdb accepts a skip parameter containing glob-style module-name patterns: pdb.Pdb(skip=["django.*", "some_package.generated.*"]) However, this existing functionality cannot be configured when invoking pdb…

Your Model Isn't Done Until Someone Else Can Call It

Building a FastAPI endpoint for churn prediction, and everything that broke between "it runs" and "it's live" The post Your Model Isn't Done Until Someone Else Can Call It appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Primer on Jinja Templating

With Jinja, you can build rich templates that power the front end of your web applications. But you can use Jinja without a web framework running in the background. Anytime you want to create text files with…

Python Practice Problems: Parsing CSV Files

In this tutorial, you'll prepare for future interviews by working through a set of Python practice problems that involve CSV files. You'll work through the problems yourself and then compare your results with solutions…

Your AI Adoption Lift Is a Selection Effect

A practitioner's guide to estimating what an opt-in AI feature actually did, when nobody randomized it. The post Your AI Adoption Lift Is a Selection Effect appeared first on Towards Data Science.

Quiz: Traditional Face Detection With Python

Test your understanding of face detection with Python. Review Haar-like features, integral images, AdaBoost, and cascading classifiers.

Securo

Open-source personal finance manager. Self-hosted, privacy-first.

Neocarta

Library built for generating semantic layer graphs for query routing, query generation and data discovery.

Tech-OA-Interview-Questions

Daily updated list of Tech Company OAs and Interview Problems. Save your time from finding them all over the internet.

You Think This Is Good OOP… It’s Not

Six common OOP practices can make code harder to maintain, including overusing inheritance, building unnecessary class hierarchies, breaking the Liskov Substitution Principle, and abstracting too early. The video…

microduck_rl

RL training environments for Microduck (mjlab)

linecast

Weather, tides, the sun, the moon, and maps, in your terminal. The Old Farmer's Almanac meets Minitel.

Making a Python interpreter in 1024 bytes

AutoSaddler

Automatic Harness Optimization with Durable Updates from Agent Execution Traces.

Building AI Agents in Pure Python - Beginner Course

Build a fully functioning AI agent from scratch in pure Python, without frameworks, third-party tools, or vibe coding. The course focuses on the core mechanics behind agents so you understand how they work under the…

Tracing np.add, all the way down

The author traces a simple np.add(a, b) call through NumPy’s internals, from Python argument handling and dtype dispatch to iteration strategy and the final SIMD-optimized C loop. Along the way, the post explores ufunc…

Working to Make Python Lazy

index-tts / index-tts

An Industrial-Level Controllable and Efficient Zero-Shot Text-To-Speech System

K-Dense-AI / scientific-agent-skills

Turn any AI agent into an AI Scientist. The #1 Agent Skills library for science, used by 190,000+ scientists worldwide. 165 ready-to-use validated skills plus 100+ scientific databases covering biology, chemistry,…