Pillow 11.0.0 released, Django and htmx Tutorial and more

PyCon US 2025 website and call for (talk) proposals are officially live, Django Girls 10th Birthday, State of Python 3.13 Performance with some more interesting news, articles, packages and projects

Nov 09, 2024

PyCon US 2025 website and call for (talk) proposals are officially live!

Pillow 11.0.0 released!

Pillow has dropped support for Python 3.8 and now officially supports Python 3.13, Support has also been added for the experimental free-threaded mode.

Django Girls 10th Birthday!

This post celebrates ten years of Django Girls, sharing how it started, their goals and ways you can get involved.

Articles

State of Python 3.13 Performance: Free-Threading

CPython 3.13 was released two weeks ago and it’s one of the most performance-focused updates. In this article, Arthur Pastel explored the free-threaded mode to see how it can boost Python application performance, measuring results using CodSpeed.

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In this tutorial, Christopher Trudeau showed how the htmx library can add dynamic features like lazy loading, search-as-you-type and infinite scroll to your Django web applications with very little JavaScript.

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Embeddings are underrated

Embeddings are essential in the Machine Learning world, they help us in building systems like search and recommendations. In this article, Kayce Basques explained what embeddings are and shared his experiment using them on Sphinx docs to find related pages.

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How I Turned IPL Stats into a Mesmerizing Bar Chart Race

You don’t need advanced coding skills to create captivating animated visualizations for data storytelling, you can do it with Low-Code tools as long as your data is well-prepared and structured. Tezan Sahu demonstrated this using an IPL dataset and the Low-Code tool, Flourish.

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Zero Downtime Django Deployments with Multistep Database Changes

To provide a positive user experience, we all aim for zero downtime in software applications, even during deployments. Blue-green deployment is a popular strategy to achieve this goal, but sometimes we face challenges, especially with database changes. In this article, Johnny Metz explained what blue-green deployment is, why database changes can be challenging in this setup and how to handle these scenarios effectively in Django.