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Retrofitting async I/O to Django will be a complex process—but is underway.

(Via Andrew Godwin on Twitter)
- andrewgodwin/deps Django Enhancement Proposals. Contribute to andrewgodwin/deps development by creating an account on GitHub.
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 3 months ago.
- async
- Django
- future
- Python
Blurhash is an algorithm that lets you transform image data into a small text representation of a blurred version of the image that might be used as a placeholder while the image downloads, for example.

(Via halcy:icosahedron: (@halcy@icosahedron.website))
- halcy/blurhash-python Implementation of the blurhash algorithm in pure python - halcy/blurhash-python
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 6 months ago.
Cog is a nifty code-generator utility done with python scripts hidden in comments in the source files, so the generated code is OK to check in to source-code control. Useful for repetitive compiled-in data, or for filling in gaps in the syntax of the host language.
- Ned Batchelder: Cog Cog is a file generation tool. It lets you use pieces of Python code as generators in your source files to generate whatever text you need.
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 8 months ago.
- code generation
- Python
Simon Willison demonstrates how to use SQLite and datasettes to do autocomplete in very little JavaScript.
- Fast Autocomplete Search for Your Website Code
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 10 months ago.
- 24 Ways
- Datasette
- JavaScript
- Python
Retrospective on the history of the PyPy project to date.
- The First 15 Years of PyPy — a Personal Retrospective PyPy has turned 15 years old this year, so I decided that that's a good reason to dig into and talk about the history of the project so far.
Noted by Damian Cugley 5 years, 10 months ago.
- PyPy
- Python