Changelog

Here are the high-level changes to Full Stack Python in reverse chronological order since its inception in December 2012. You can view commit-level changes via the source repository's commit log on GitHub.

2022

March

• I decided to go so minimal that I removed the logo to make the site load faster, and also got rid of some unncessary CSS on front page.

February

• Still on break, but updated the header and footer. Also made some website tweaks to make it faster.

2021

October

• Taking a break for a few months to recharge and work on a different coding side project that I'm excited about. Be back in a few months with some updates.

September

• Clean up continues across the site to remove link rot and replace out-of-date links with newer ones where necessary.

August

• New blog post on Application Performance Monitoring AWS Lambda Functions with Sentry.

June

• Fix broken links across the site. It's a real shame people and companies don't use 301 redirects more often rather than just breaking their URL structures.

May

• New resources on GPT-3, Jupyter Notebook and serverless pages.

April

• Published new post on How to Monitor Python Functions on AWS Lambda with Sentry.
• New SQLite resource.

March

• New webhook resource.

February

• New GPT-3 resources.

January

• Published a new blog post on Using Django & AssemblyAI for More Accurate Twilio Call Transcriptions.
• Updated Flask extension projects and example code.
• Happy New Year!

2020

December

• New Bash, tmux and Vim resources and explanations.

November

• New resources for DevOps and containers.

October

• Added new blog on Higher Accuracy Twilio Voice Transcriptions with Python and Flask.
• New NumPy resources.

September

• Tweaks across Flask code examples.

August

• New blog posts on How to Transcribe Speech Recordings into Text with Python and Using Sentry to Handle Python Exceptions in Django Projects.
• Added new GPT-3 page.
• Updated debugging page with some additional descriptions.

July

• Updated webhooks page with additional resources.
• New blog posts:
  • Tracking Daily User Data in Django with django-user-visit
  • Quickly Use Bootstrap 4 in a Django Template with a CDN
  • How to report errors in Flask web apps with Sentry

June

• Added new example code for Django modules:
  • django.contrib.admin.helpers ActionForm, and AdminForm
  • django.contrib.admin.options IS_POPUP_VAR, IncorrectLookupParameters, ModelAdmin, and csrf_protect_m
  • django.contrib.admin.sites NotRegistered and site
  • django.core cache, checks, exceptions, mail, management, serializers, signals, signing, and validators
  • django.utils.translation LANGUAGE_SESSION_KEY, activate, deactivate_all, get_language, get_language_from_request, gettext, gettext_lazy, ngettext, override, pgettext, pgettext_lazy, ugettext, ugettext_lazy, ungettex, and ungettext_lazy
• Added new example code pages for Flask modules:
  • flask.blueprints Blueprint
  • flask.ctx after_this_request, has_app_context and has_request_context
  • flask.globals current_app
  • flask.helpers send_file
  • flask.json JSONEncoder
  • flask.sessions BadSignature and SessionMixin

May

• Added new example code pages for Flask modules:
  • flask.cli FlaskGroup, ScriptInfo, and with_appcontext
  • flask.globals request and session
  • flask.helpers flask, make_response, and url_for
  • flask.sessions SessionInterface
  • flask.signals Namespace
  • flask.templating render_template
  • flask.views MethodView, View, and http_method_funcs
• New blog post on Reporting Exceptions in Python Scripts with Sentry.
• Tweaked some CSS for the site.
• Added a new page with the start of pandas example code and projects.

April

• Merge PR #233 and PR #235 for new Celery and podcast resources.
• Updated the web design page with new resources.

March

• Added another new blog post on Exporting pandas DataFrames into SQLite with SQLAlchemy.
• Added new blog post tutorial on Learning pandas by Exploring COVID-19 Data.
• New web design and web development resources.
• Added new blog post on The Best Resources for Developers to Learn Finance.

February

• New CSS, task queue and uWSGI resources.
• Added new Django code example pages:
  • django.forms DateField
  • django.forms DateTimeField
  • django.forms TypedChoiceField

January

• Added new Django code example pages:
  • django.db.models SmallIntegerField
  • django.urls.exceptions Resolver404
• Added starter pages for the remaining topics in the table of contents that were previously missing. Still working on adding more resources and descriptions to each page:
  • Datadog
  • GoCD
  • Salt
  • Sentry
• Happy New Year (and decade) to my fellow Python developers!

2019

December

• 7 years of Full Stack Python as of December 23, 2019!
• Cleaned a bunch of dead links out thanks to PR #225.
• Merged PR #224 with information and resources on the Masonite web framework for the other web frameworks page.
• Updated the RQ page with a couple of new fresh resources.
• Added new Django code example pages:
  • django.db.models GenericIPAddressField
  • django.db.models ImageField
  • django.db.models PositiveIntegerField
  • django.db.models PositiveSmallIntegerField
  • django.db.models.related ForeignKey
  • django.forms EmailField
  • django.forms IntegerField

November

• Added new resources to RQ, Sanic and networking pages.
• Added new Django code example pages:
  • django.forms BooleanField
  • django.forms CharField
  • django.forms ChoiceField

October

• Removed a bunch of outdated content from the best Python resources page and added some nice new links to the mix.
• Published a new blog post tutorial on the String Data Type in Python 3.
• Added new Django code example pages:
  • django.db.models FileField
  • django.db.models SlugField
• Updated code examples on the following pages:
  • django.db.models TextField
• Rewrote some parts of the Python 2 or 3 page to make it more clear that 3 is now the mandatory way to get started.
• Updated best videos page with new EuroPython links.

September

• Added new Django code example pages:
  • django.apps.config AppConfig
  • django.contrib.admin.sites register
  • django.db OperationalError
  • django.db.models AutoField
  • django.db.models DateField
  • django.db.models IntegerField
  • django.http HttpResponse
  • django.http HttpResponseBadRequest
  • django.http HttpResponseForbidden
  • django.http HttpResponseNotModified
  • django.http HttpResponseRedirect
  • django.template.response TemplateResponse
  • django.template.response SimpleTemplateResponse
  • django.urls reverse_lazy

August

• Added stub page for mod_wsgi.
• Merged PR #215 to fix a typo on the serverless page. Thanks Kyle!
• Added new Flask code examples:
  • flask request
  • flask redirect
• Added new Django code examples pages:
  • django.contrib.auth get_user_model
  • django.contrib.auth.decorators login_required
  • django.contrib.auth.hashers make_password
  • django.http Http404
  • django.http.responses HttpResponsePermanentRedirect
  • django.urls.exceptions NoReverseMatch
• Updated code examples on the following pages:
  • django.contrib admin
  • django.db.models DateTimeField
  • django.utils timezone

July

• Pushed the 3000th commit to Full Stack Python, a bit over 3 years after the 2000th commit and 5ish years after the 1000th commit. Here's to the next 1,000 commits!
• New blog post with slides and a loose transcript of my latest talk on Developer-led sales for tech startups.

June

• Added a new page for Django BaseCommand code examples.
• Started new open source code examples series, beginning with url and path functions.

May

• Added new data visualization, web design and pandas resources.
• Updated the subnav with a link to deploypython.com and added a bunch of new resources across pages on the site.
• Rearrange parts of the app dependencies page to make it easier to read.
• Fix typos and broken internal links on site.

April

• Added new web frameworks, d3.js and Django REST framework resources.
• New Stripe API resources.

March

• Added new resources across the site and merged PR #206 with a new Heroku page link.
• New resources on the web analytics page.

February

• Added a ton of resources on the Kubernetes page.
• Removed many broken links thanks to pull request #205. Thanks again Sam!
• Add uWSGI page with a few initial resources.
• Updated the Neo4j and microservices pages with more resources.
• Added a bunch more bots resources.
• New data and data analysis resources added.
• Refreshed the relational databases page with new resources and removed some out-of-date ones.

January

• Merged PR #202 to fix a typo on the web frameworks page.
• Updated the source control page with more resources.
• Added new post on the Introduction to Ansible video course launch.
• Cleaned up a bunch of broken links thanks to pull request #198. Thanks again Sam!
• Added new MongoDB resources.
• Updated the Docker page with new resources, removed old ones and added new descriptions to sections.
• Happy New Year!

2018

December

• Added a ton of new resources and descriptions on the Cassandra page.
• 6 years of Full Stack Python as of December 23, 2018!
• Updated SQLAlchemy, NoSQL, MongoDB and Slack API pages with new descriptions and resources.
• Updated the serverless, operating systems and HTTPS pages with a bunch of new resources.

November

• Updated the logging, Redis and PaaS pages with a bunch of new resources.
• Updated the web design page with new resources.
• Updated the data visualization page with new resources.

October

• Added new blog post on Adding Okta Authentication to an Existing Flask Web App.
• Sent out a quick email newsletter update about new recent tutorials on the blog.
• Added a bunch of new testing page resources.
• Published new post on How to Provision Ubuntu 18.04 LTS Linux Servers on DigitalOcean.
• Published a new blog post showing How to Add User Authentication to Flask Apps with Okta.
• Merge PR #189 to help readers figure out how to get around some security warning issues that could come up in the Slack bot tutorial.
• Added even more new debugging tutorials and split pdb tutorials into their own section.

September

• A ton of new tools and links on the debugging page.
• Added a starter Django REST Framework page.
• New web app security, task queue and WebRTC resources.
• Added a bunch of new resources across the site and removed a few out of date ones as well.
• Added initial pages for WebRTC and JavaScript frameworks. More resources coming to those pages soon.

August

• Merged PR #184 to remove link rot issues. Thanks again Sam!
• New RQ and code metrics resources.
• Updated the Celery page with a ton of new great resources and broke them into new subsections for general resources, frameworks and deployments.
• Tons of new code metrics, Lektor, Pyramid and Sanic resources.
• Added new Git and Jinja resources.
• Merged PR #182 that updated the Ubuntu SSH Keys post with the -o flag that mitigates an encryption vulnerability.
• Fixed issue #181 that identified a broken link on the Twilio page.
• New Markdown resources.

July

• Added a bunch of new PyCharm resources.
• Merged PR #177 that adds a new Docker Swarm tutorial.
• Merged PR #176 to update the Django page by removing some old links and adding newer ones.
• New section on source control page and resources for mono vs multi repo debate.
• Added a new section and additional Vim links.
• Added even more Emacs resources and a new section for Elisp resources, the programming language used to customize the editor.

June

• Added new Emacs resources and descriptions.
• Merged PR #175 to fix changed URLs on data analysis page where the authors did not use 301 redirects to the new pages. Thank you mbanerjeepalmer!
• Major updates on development environments and text editors and IDEs pages.
• New resources on the operating systems and development environments pages.
• New blog post on how to Configure Python 3, Flask and Gunicorn on Ubuntu 18.04 LTS.
• New d3.js resources.
• Merged PR #173 for new Git page section. Modified wording a bit from original pull request. Thanks Sam!
• Add even more descriptions and resources to the Python companies page.
• Fix issue #172 where Atom and RSS feeds did not have /blog/ in the URLs so they were pointing to incorrect (broken) article locations.
• Further work on companies using Python page.

May

• Merged PR #169 that cuts down on redirects to the new PyPI site. Thank you Sam!
• Merged PR #168, which contained links to a great blog post on Flask by TestDriven.io.
• New blog post on How to (Appropriately) Explain Your Product to Software Developers that is based on a talk I gave in Silicon Valley.
• Added a bunch of great podcast episodes to that page.
• Merged PR #166 and PR #167 to update the URL scanning script as well as remove all 404 links. Thanks Sam!
• New blog post on How to Add Maps to Django Web App Projects with Mapbox.
• Updated with a slew of new serverless, static site generators, Bokeh and community resources.
• Major update to Python 2 or 3 page with better explanations that match community opinions in 2018 (originally page was written in 2016 and descriptions were not heavily modified enough since then), along with a slew of new migration resources.
• Added newsletter on PyCon US 2018.
• New podcast resources.
• Merge pull request #164 with a new task queues resource.

April

• New blog post on adding Rollbar for Monitoring Python 3.6 Functions on AWS Lambda.
• New TurboGears web framework page via pull request #162. Thank you Alessandro!
• A slew of new resources and descriptions for the Jupyter Notebook page.
• Reworking web development page with new descriptions and resources.
• Major updates to Flask resources, example code and descriptions.
• More broken or expired link clean up.

March

• Fixed up a slew of link rot across the site.
• New resources on the Pelican static site generator page.
• Added starter pages for localhost tunnels, virtual environments (virtualenvs), and environment variables.
• Revamped the table of contents / all topics to match vision for the site.
• New resources and explanations added to the Markdown page.
• New blog post on Developing Flask Apps in Docker Containers on macOS.
• Merged pull request #156 to remove a duplicated Vim page resource. Thanks Xurxo!
• New blog post on ReportLab and Future Community Project Launches that also went out as an email newsletter for March.
• Added new learning programming practice problem sets.
• Merged PR #154 with a new RQ resource. Thanks again Michael!

February

• Merged PR #153 that removed some out-of-date links and added some new ones to the Flask page.
• Added a slew of new practice problems and teaching resources on the Learning Programming page.
• New WebSockets resources.
• New starter page on CSS frameworks and Foundation CSS.
• New blog post on adding Rollbar monitoring to Django applications.
• Added new enterprise Python resources.

January

• Incorporated new data from Stack Overflow and updated programming language rankings as evidence of reasons for why to use Python.
• Merged PR#151 that fixed an issue with the Slack bot and URLs in conversations.
• Merged PR#148 that added a health check script. Fixed all URLs raised as issues with link rot, expired domains and redirects. Thanks Samuel!
• Add Ansible, Matplotlib, PowerShell, tmux, Screen, Pymux, PyCharm and terminal multiplexers starter pages with a few links, to be fleshed out later.
• New Redis and Ubuntu resources.
• Happy New Year! This is the 6th year of Full Stack Python, coming after a wonderful first five years.

2017

December

• Passed 1,000,000 characters written on Full Stack Python according to wc on my Markdown content files. It's a super arbitrary but fun little milestone.
• Removed a couple of Best Python Resources and added new resources to the Morepath page.