1st December 2020
Announcing the Anvil Advent Calendar 2020
We’re building a Python web app each day until Christmas. Join us on a festive Python adventure!
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27th of November 2020
Generating PDFs with Python and Anvil
Generating PDF documents is simple in Anvil. In this new tutorial, we’ll build a simple app which generates a PDF document that can be downloaded and sent as an email attachment.
19th November 2020
Python objects speak for themselves
One reason Python is so usable is that you can find out precisely how anything works.
We’ll see how to find out how to use any module, even if it’s not documented.
Then we’ll use ast and dis to minutely examine exactly how Python executes a very small program.
12th Nov 2020
🤰 Pregnancy tracking with the power of Emoji
Guess what? Anvil is 25% pregnant! So I made us a pregnancy tracker app that uses weekly emoji to tell you how big bb is.
Also included: weekly email updates, the fastest unsubscribe in the west, and more nerding out about due dates than would fit in one post…
5th of November 2020
Deploying Machine Learning with Deepnote and Anvil
Deepnote is a new, slick data science notebook. But even a slick notebook isn’t enough for non-programmers.
We’ll show you how to deploy a machine learning model with a web UI, using Anvil and Deepnote’s Jupyter-compatible, collaboration-friendly notebook.
27th October 2020
Generating Edgar Allan Poe with GPT-2
To celebrate Halloween, read a mostly coherent and entirely machine-generated scary story in the style of Edgar Allan Poe.
And generate your own grim and haunting tale using the Anvil app!
21st October 2020
New: Build Your Own Portable Objects
You can now define Python classes that can be passed from server code to the web browser – and back!
12th October 2020
Plotting in Pygal
Pygal is an interesting Python plotting library because it produces pretty SVG plots with little effort.
Style comes to the forefront, and the SVG plots are convenient for embedding in a web app.
1st October 2020
The Source Awakens: Classifying Star Wars ships with Deep Learning
Let’s build a deep learning framework in a Jupyter notebook to classify different kinds of ships from the Star Wars universe!
Then we can hook our notebook up to Anvil to share it with the world.
21st September 2020
Python vs the Pandemic
2020 has been a difficult year for people all around the world.
We’ve seen an incredible response from the Anvil community, with a number of our users building tools and applications to help deal with the effects of the COVID-19 pandemic. We’ll take a look at some of the tools being built with Anvil to help people impacted by the virus.
15th September 2020
Example Dashboards Built with Python
Looking for inspiration on how to present your data?
Take a look at our dashboard showcase to see some of the beautiful dashboards people have built with Anvil.
9th September 2020
How I Built Clockify in 1 day
Stuart asked, what can be done in one working day with Anvil?
His answer, Clockify, a time tracking app. This walk-through documents his process from inception to time tracking application, all in 24 hours.