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- * djrest2 -* A small and simple REST library for Django based on class-based views.
- Github CLI
- caniscrape - Know before you scrape. Analyze any website's anti-bot protections in seconds.
- * 🐴 GittyUp*
- Extras
- Joke
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Brian #1: djrest2 - A small and simple REST library for Django based on class-based views.
- Emma Levit
- Based on an interesting blog post -
Michael #2: Github CLI
- GitHub’s official command line tool
- Features
- Checking out a pull request locally
- You can clone any repository using OWNER/REPO syntax: gh repo clone cli/cli
- Create a pull request interactively: gh pr create
- See all at cli.github.com/manual/examples
Brian #3: caniscrape - Know before you scrape. Analyze any website's anti-bot protections in seconds.
caniscrape checks a website for common anti-bot mechanisms and reports:
- A difficulty score (0–10)
- Which protections are active (e.g., Cloudflare, Akamai, hCaptcha, etc.)
- What tools you’ll likely need (headless browsers, proxies, CAPTCHA solvers, etc.)
- Whether using a scraping API might be better
This helps you decide the right scraping approach before you waste time building a bot that keeps getting blocked.
Michael #4: 🐴 GittyUp
- Never forget to pull again: Automatically discover and update all your Git repositories with one command.
- Built initially to solve this problem
- Rebuilt and published last week as part of my upcoming Agentic AI Programming for Python course. Get notified this week at training.talkpython.fm/getnotified
- Update everything in a folder tree with
gittyup - Review changes, blockers, etc with
gittyup --explain
Extras
Brian:
- Three times faster with lazy imports - Hugo van Kemenade
- Interesting discussion on Hugo’s post - on Mastodon
- Use lazy module imports now - Graham Dumpleton
- Graham’s post uses wrapt, a “module for decorators, wrappers and monkey patching”, to simulate lazy imports
- Helpful comment from Adam Johnson on Graham’s post to actually do the import during type checking using
if TYPE_CHECKING: import ...
Michael:
- uvloop is back!
- pypi+ listened. :)
- https://www.reddit.com/r/Python/comments/1o9dey5/i_just_released_pypipluscom_20_offlineready/
- Feedback from my “Show me your ls” post.
Joke: Some form of Elvish