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

October

• Starting to get back into updating this site again! Note that I'll probably spend most of my side project time on Plushcap but I'm removing old resources and adding new good ones on here to keep the site maintained.

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• Clean up continues across the site to remove link rot and replace out-of-date links with newer ones where necessary.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.
• Added a ton of new SQLite resources.
• Cleaned up broken and redirected links on all pages including blog posts.
• Added 5 years of Full Stack Python retrospective blog post.
• Merged PR#147 to fix an issue installing MySQL server package.