(my) Hacker News #7

Here's a list of the latest resources that grabbed my attention.

3D

• PyVista: 3D plotting and mesh analysis through a streamlined interface for the Visualization Toolkit (VTK)

ACID

• deltabase: a lightweight, comprehensive solution for managing delta tables built on polars and deltalake

Anomaly detection

• Time-Series Anomaly Detection: A Decade Review

CLI

• TerminalTextEffects: a terminal visual effects engine, application, and Python library

Career development

• Categories of leadership on technical teams
• Staff Engineer vs Engineering Manager

Clustering

• How to properly cluster with HDBSCAN for 1D dataset

Computer Vision

• Deepface: a Lightweight Face Recognition and Facial Attribute Analysis Library for Python

Data Storytelling

• Map of GitHub
• Recreating Florence Nightingale's work with ggplot

Dates and times

• Pendulum as a drop-in replacement for datetime
• Whenever: modern datetime library for Python

Dependencies management

• Python dependency management is a dumpster fire

Game development

• pyxel: a retro game engine for Python

Github

• gitdiagram: visualize codebase as an interactive diagram

Large Language Models (LLM)

• Can LLMs write better code if you keep asking them to "write better code"?
• My colleague Julius
• MyST: Community-driven tools for technical communication

Natural Language Processing (NLP)

• BERTrend: neural Topic Modeling for Emerging Trends Detection
• Turftopic: robust and fast topic models with sentence-transformers
• topicwizard: powerful topic model visualization in Python

Nearest Neighbors

• Vicinity: lightweight Nearest Neighbors with Flexible Backends

OS and Pathlib

• Python's pathlib module extensive overview

Probability & Statistics

• Why Statistical Significance Is Pointless

Project Management

• The work is never just "the work"
• Why rocks, pebbles, sand is a productivity trap

Ridgeline plots

• ridgeplot: beautiful ridgeline plots in Python

SQL

• Outerbase Studio: A lightweight Database GUI in your browser

Scikit-learn

• skore: The scikit-learn Modeling Companion

Services

• Amazon Q Developer: 25 tips to supercharge your development

Technical writing

• Diataxis: A systematic approach to technical documentation authoring
• Docs-as-code topologies
• Rules for Writing Software Tutorials
• Technical writing is not a dead-end job, it's a landing pad
• Vale: a command-line tool that brings code-like linting to prose

Web App Framework

• Rio: WebApps in pure Python