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Mouse Vs Python
Personal blog · blog.pythonlibrary.org · on HN as driscollisprogrammingwriting
Mouse Vs Python is a personal blog at blog.pythonlibrary.org about programming and writing. Since 2010, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 433 times, most often “Connecting to Dropbox with Python”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-07-14, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (13) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
Mike Driscoll's Python blog, linked mostly as a source: PyDev of the Week interviews, PDF-filling and SVG posts, and Python popularity summaries. Also promoted for the author's Python books and courses.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 13 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
Where You Can Learn All About Python Programming
Most-linked posts?
- Connecting to Dropbox with Python2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2013-07-17
- Python 101: An Intro to logging2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2012-08-03
- Python 101 Online Course Is FREE for 48 Hours2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2017-03-20
What Hacker News says?
https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/04/12/adding-svg-fil... ?
Comment linking /2018/04/12/adding-svg-files-in-reportlab/
on “Apache ECharts”Submitted Python 101: An Intro to logging as a story · 68 points
HN discussionSince you mention both Python and webdev, check out https://github.com/alexmojaki/futurecoder (100% free and interactive Python course for beginners) From an interview ( https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2021/12/13/pydev-of-the-w... ) with Alex Hall: > A challenge I'm struggling with is making the site look good...I'm struggling to find people to help me build futurecoder further
Comment linking /2021/12/13/pydev-of-the-week-alex-hall/
on “Ask HN: Who wants to collaborate?”Submitted Python Concurrency: An Example of a Queue as a story · 65 points
HN discussionNon-canvas fingerprinting summary: http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/10... I found the data points coarse (x = 5 years) but useful to see similar trends of popularity between C, Javascript, and Python. Note: these metrics are defined by global search engine popularity.
Comment linking /wp-content/uploads/2018/10/econo_chart_py.png
on “Python is becoming the world’s most popular programming language”Submitted PyCon USA 2012 Livestreams Talks as a story · 43 points
HN discussionNon-paywalled summary http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/10/09/python-worlds-m...
Comment linking /2018/10/09/python-worlds-most-popular-language-in-2018/
on “Python is becoming the world’s most popular programming language”Submitted A Simple SqlAlchemy 0.7 / 0.8 Tutorial as a story · 34 points
HN discussion> I don't think you'd use Pycopy to write a desktop or cloud application Believe it or not, but that's one of the messages the Pycopy project tries to convey: Software can be simple. And understandable. And you really can write a useful (at least to yourself) application which can run both on your desktop, on your router with 2MB memory, on a microcontroller board, or in a cloud. Some more info about this "human-sca…
Comment linking /2020/02/10/pydev-of-the-week-paul-sokolovsky/
on “Pycopy – a minimalist and memory-efficient Python implementation”Submitted Python 101: Introspection as a story · 31 points
HN discussionI'm an indie author and my "All books bundle" is $10 (normal price $28) - https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/all-books/FestiveOffer (Topics include Linux CLI tools, regular expressions, Vim and Python) I've also collected deals from other indie creators, publishers, etc on my blog ( https://learnbyexample.github.io/programming-deals-2022/ ). Some highlights: * Python books by Michael Driscoll - https://www.blog.py…
Comment linking /2022/11/22/python-black-friday-cyber-monday-sales-2022/
on “Ask HN: Any good black Friday deals?”Submitted PyCon 2011: Advanced Python 1 Tutorial as a story · 28 points
HN discussionI'm a self-published author and these are my offers till end of this month: 1) "Practice Python Projects" ( https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/py_projects/blackfriday ) ebook is free (normal price $10) 2) "Learn by example Python bundle" ( https://learnbyexample.gumroad.com/l/python-bundle/blackfrid... ) is $2 (normal price $12) - three ebooks titled "Python re(gex)?", "100 Page Python Intro" and "Practice Python…
Comment linking /2021/11/24/python-black-friday-cyber-monday-sales-2021/
on “Ask HN: Black Friday/Cybermonday deals for hackers?”Submitted Top Articles of 2010 as a story · 24 points
HN discussionso, add small diy pov display under the modified mouse[0] and use voice to text to generate 'mouse movement'[1][2][3] instead of physically moving the mouse. [0] flexled display: https://hackaday.io/project/164585-flexled [1] how to create and use audio qr code : https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WLy7_mP0BSM [2] : https://thepythoncode.com/article/using-speech-recognition-t... [3] : https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/…
Comment linking /2012/05/18/creating-qr-codes-with-python/
on “A Mouse Becomes a Camera”Submitted PyCon 2012 Videos Are Up as a story · 17 points
HN discussionThis article http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2018/05/22/filling-pdf-for... mentions pdfforms https://pypi.org/project/pdfforms/ which uses pdftk to fill forms.
Comment linking /2018/05/22/filling-pdf-forms-with-python/
on “Ask HN: Tools for Writing to PDFs?”Submitted PyCon 2011: 5 Talks I Want to See as a story · 16 points
HN discussionnot really 'small', but some of the Python related blogs I follow are: - http://pycon.blogspot.in/ - http://lucumr.pocoo.org/ - http://inventwithpython.com/blog/ - http://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/ - http://www.ianbicking.org/blog/ - http://www.binarytides.com/ - http://www.peterbe.com/ - http://viksalgorithms.blogspot.com/ - http://rz.scale-it.pl - http://packetforger.wordpress.com/ - http://blog.pythonisito.com/
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on “Ask HN: Which (small, indep) programming blogs do you follow?”Submitted PyCon 2011: Threadless, Disqus and OpenStack Plenaries as a story · 15 points
HN discussionYes, saves the import and looks cleaner IMHO https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2021/09/11/python-3-10-si...
Comment linking /2021/09/11/python-3-10-simplifies-unions-in-type-annotations/
on “Why type hinting sucks (/r/Python)”Submitted Python 201: How to sort a dictionary by value as a story · 10 points
HN discussionI was thinking more of getting replies to the question from HN users, based on their personal experience, since I know a lot of us here use Python. I've been doing something like what you say, earlier, for a while, but with the PyDev of the Week series of posts as the source [1]. Mike Driscoll usually asks the same question (as I did here) to each interviewee, and I've picked up a few good Python libraries from that…
Comment linking /category/pydevoftheweek/
on “What are your favorite Python libraries? 3-5 max”Submitted WxPython: Showing 2 Filetypes in wx.FileDialog as a story · 10 points
HN discussionAuthor also has Python 201 at 50% off. https://www.blog.pythonlibrary.org/2017/03/20/python-101-onl...
Comment linking /2017/03/20/python-101-online-course-is-free-for-48-hours/
on “Python 101: Free Interactive course to learn Python 3”Submitted Python 101 Book Published Today as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python 201: List Comprehensions as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python: Parsing XML with minidom as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted An Intro to rst2pdf – Restructured Text to PDFs with Python as a story · 8 points
HN discussionSubmitted Python Voted Best Programming Language 3 Years Running as a story · 8 points
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