Python Hub Weekly Digest for 2026-01-11
This week in Python, a study challenged the hype around async Python, suggesting that synchronous Django often outperforms async alternatives for most database-driven web apps. The author of "Avoiding Duplicate Objects in Django Querysets" recommended using an Exists subquery to prevent duplicate objects. Patrick Müller discussed the benefits of Python's static protocols in software design. Interesting projects included tablediff, a CLI tool for data diffing, and LLMRouter, an open-source library for LLM routing. Have a great week and happy coding!
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What async really means for your python web app?
The author challenges the hype around async Python, demonstrating through benchmarks that for most database-driven web apps, synchronous Django with connection pooling often outperforms or matches async alternatives. The study concludes that unless a service is highly distributed or the primary bottleneck, the overhead of async can actually degrade performance, making sync the more effic...
tablediff
CLI tool for data diffing between two tables.
LLMRouter
An Open-Source Library for LLM Routing.
Avoiding Duplicate Objects in Django Querysets
The author explains that filtering across relationships in Django often causes duplicate objects due to SQL JOINs, and while .distinct() is a common fix, it can be inefficient or restrictive. He recommends using an Exists subquery as the best solution because it is more performant, works across all databases, and avoids the ordering limitations associated with PostgreSQL's distinct(*fields).
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Python Hub Weekly Digest for 2026-01-04
Static Protocols in Python: Behaviour Over Inheritance
Patrick Müller explores how Python's static protocols enable "static duck typing," allowing developers to define interfaces based on behavior (structural typing) rather than inheritance (nominal typing). He argues that this approach promotes loose coupling and greater flexibility in software design, particularly in complex fields like machine learning where diverse libraries and coding s...
Auto updating knowledge graph from meeting notes
Build a meeting knowledge graph from Google Drive using LLM extraction and graph database, with automatic continuous updates.
shareAI-lab / learn-claude-code
How can we build a true AI agent? Like Claude Code.
A different way to think about Python API Clients
The author argues that while building Python API servers has become mature and declarative through frameworks like FastAPI, API client integration remains a slow, "last mile" problem reliant on low-level boilerplate. To solve this, he introduces a new framework for his project, Clientele, which uses decorators and type hints to create a high-level, declarative developer experience for cl...
"Enabling" C threads in a Python / Wasm environment
The author details the significant hurdles of implementing high-performance C++ multithreading within a Pyodide (Python on WebAssembly) environment, specifically for real-time applications where Python's GIL and FFI overhead are too slow. His solution involves a custom-patched Pyodide built with -pthread and a specialized C++ thread pool that avoids deadlocks by using low-level Wasm buil...
Clock Synchronization Is a Nightmare
The author explains that physical clock synchronization is a "nightmare" because hardware oscillators inevitably drift due to temperature and aging, leading to critical failures in distributed systems like database inconsistencies and impossible debug traces. He argues that while algorithms like NTP and Cristian's attempt to bridge the gap, truly robust systems often must rely on logical...
⚙️ Projects
calgebra
Set algebra for calendars. Compose lazily and query efficiently.
Continuous-Claude-v2
Context management for Claude Code. Hooks maintain state via ledgers and handoffs. MCP execution without context pollution. Agent orchestration with isolated context windows.
Tenso
High-performance zero-copy tensor serialization for Fastest Transmission.
randomized-svd
randomized-svd is a lightweight, high-performance Python library for computing the Randomized Singular Value Decomposition (rSVD).
MiroThinker
A series of open-source search agent designed to advance tool-augmented reasoning and information-seeking capabilities.
TrustGraph
The Context Graph Factory for AI. Build, manage, and deploy AI-optimized Context Graphs.
SAM-Audio
SAM-Audio is a foundation model for isolating any sound in audio using text, visual, or temporal prompts. It can separate specific sounds from complex audio mixtures based on natural language descriptions, visual cues from video, or time spans.
Project by Ruslan Keba. Since 2012. Powered by Python. Made in 🇺🇦Ukraine.