add new bots resources

mattmakai · mattmakai · commit e4e4d5fdec93 · 2019-02-02T11:55:27.000Z
diff --git a/content/pages/03-data/08-django-orm.markdown b/content/pages/03-data/08-django-orm.markdown
@@ -126,6 +126,11 @@ following resources should get you past the initial hurdles.
   shows a simple example with code for how to use the migrations integrated
   into Django 1.7.
 
+* [Django Anti-Patterns: Signals](https://lincolnloop.com/blog/django-anti-patterns-signals/)
+  explains why you should avoid using Django ORM's 
+  [signals](https://docs.djangoproject.com/en/dev/topics/signals/) feature
+  in your applications if you want to make them easier to maintain.
+
 * [Supporting both Django 1.7 and South](http://treyhunner.com/2014/03/migrating-to-django-1-dot-7/)
   explains the difficulty of supporting Django 1.7 and maintaining South
   migrations for Django 1.6 then goes into how it can be done.
diff --git a/content/pages/03-data/15-data-analysis.markdown b/content/pages/03-data/15-data-analysis.markdown
@@ -77,6 +77,14 @@ libraries from scratch.
   go through during the exploration, synthesis, modeling and narration
   phases.
 
+* [Forget privacy: you're terrible at targeting anyway](https://apenwarr.ca/log/20190201)
+  is a different type of article. It is a strong piece of commentary rather
+  than a tutorial on a specific data analysis topic. The author argues that
+  *collecting* data is typically easy but doing the dirty analysis work often
+  yields little in the way of definitive, actionable insight. Overall it's
+  a well-written thought piece that will make you at least stop and ask 
+  yourself, "do we *really* need to collect this user data?"
+
 * [Gender Distribution in North Korean Posters with Convolutional Neural Networks](http://digitalnk.com/blog/2017/09/30/gender-distribution-in-north-korean-posters/)
   is a fascinating post that uses convolutional neural networks as a 
   mechanism to identify gender by faces in North Korean posters. The 
diff --git a/content/pages/04-web-development/24-react.markdown b/content/pages/04-web-development/24-react.markdown
@@ -36,6 +36,15 @@ tack on React to build your client-side user interfaces.
   quickly fall out of date while this one tends to stick to the basics
   that are relevant to beginners.
 
+* This Modern Django 4-part tutorial series is well-done, has 
+  [freely available source code](https://github.com/v1k45/ponynote) 
+  and includes:
+
+    1. [Setting up Django and React](http://v1k45.com/blog/modern-django-part-1-setting-up-django-and-react/)
+    2. [Redux and React Router setup](http://v1k45.com/blog/modern-django-part-2-redux-and-react-router-setup/)
+    3. [Creating an API and integrating with React](http://v1k45.com/blog/modern-django-part-3-creating-an-api-and-integrating-with-react/)
+    4. [Adding authentication to React SPA using DRF](http://v1k45.com/blog/modern-django-part-4-adding-authentication-to-react-spa-using-drf/)
+
 * [Django REST with React (Django 2.0 and a sprinkle of testing)](https://www.valentinog.com/blog/tutorial-api-django-rest-react/)
   combines a [Django](/django.html) plus 
   [Django REST Framework (DRF)](/django-rest-framework-drf.html) backend 
diff --git a/content/pages/04-web-development/47-bots.markdown b/content/pages/04-web-development/47-bots.markdown
@@ -14,7 +14,7 @@ information, to appropriately handle the request and respond. Bots are
 often also called "chatbots", "assistants" or "agents."
 
 
-## Open source Slack bot examples
+### Open source bot examples
 * [Limbo](https://github.com/llimllib/limbo) is an awesome Slack chatbot 
   that provides a base for Python code that otherwise would require 
   boilerplate to handle the Slack API events firehose.
@@ -23,21 +23,29 @@ often also called "chatbots", "assistants" or "agents."
   framework for building Slack bots with the Real Time Messaging (RTM) API
   over [WebSockets](/websockets.html).
 
+* The 
+  [GitHub bots search results](https://github.com/search?utf8=%E2%9C%93&q=bots)
+  and the [bots GitHub topic](https://github.com/topics/bots) contain tens of
+  thousands of example bots you take analyze to see how they are built.
 
-## Python-specific Bots resources
+* [Errbot](http://errbot.io/en/latest/) can work with 
+  [multiple backends](http://errbot.io/en/latest/features.html) such
+  as Hipchat, Discord, Slack and Telegram. It's designed to be deployed
+  "as is" except for your credentials but the 
+  [Python source code](https://github.com/errbotio/errbot) 
+  can also be customized.
+
+
+### Python-specific bot resources
 * [How to Buid an SMS Slack Bot](https://www.twilio.com/blog/2016/05/build-sms-slack-bot-python.html)
   is a tutorial on using 
-  [SMS text messages](http://www.fullstackpython.com/blog/send-sms-text-messages-python.html) 
+  [SMS text messages](/blog/send-sms-text-messages-python.html) 
   to communicate with a Slack bot that can post and receive messages. The
   bot is a good base for a more complicated Slack bot that could use
   natural language processing or other more advanced parsing techniques.
   Either Python 2 or 3 can be used 
   [with the code which is also available on GitHub](https://github.com/mattmakai/slack-api-python-examples).
 
-* [How to write a Slack bot in Python](https://medium.com/@julianmartinez/how-to-write-a-slack-bot-with-python-code-examples-4ed354407b98)
-  is a solid code tutorial for building your first bot on the Slack
-  platform.
-
 * [Dropbox open sourced their security Slack bot](https://blogs.dropbox.com/tech/2017/02/meet-securitybot-open-sourcing-automated-security-at-scale/),
   which is [built in Python](https://github.com/dropbox/securitybot).
   The bot converses with a user when backend systems detect strange behavior on
@@ -48,15 +56,19 @@ often also called "chatbots", "assistants" or "agents."
   [markovify](https://github.com/jsvine/markovify) Markov Chains library to 
   generate responses that are similar to ones other Slack users have said.
 
-* [A Slack bot with Python’s 3.5 asyncio](https://medium.com/@greut/a-slack-bot-with-pythons-3-5-asyncio-ad766d8b5d8f)
+* [A Slack bot with Python's asyncio](https://medium.com/@greut/a-slack-bot-with-pythons-3-5-asyncio-ad766d8b5d8f)
   shows how to connect a bot to Slack via the web API using the Python 3
   [asyncio standard library](https://docs.python.org/3/library/asyncio.html).
 
 * [Facebook-Message-Bot](https://github.com/enginebai/Facebook-Message-Bot)
   is an open source Facebook Messenger bot written in Python.
 
 
-## Additional Bots resources
+### Additional Bots resources
+* [Bots: An introduction for developers](https://core.telegram.org/bots)
+  explains the technical details of how to create 
+  [Telegram](https://telegram.org/) bots.
+
 * [Slack bot token leakage exposing business critical information](https://labs.detectify.com/2016/04/28/slack-bot-token-leakage-exposing-business-critical-information/)
   is a detailed look at a search on GitHub for Slack tokens that are used
   mostly for bots but must be kept secret. Otherwise those tokens expose 
@@ -74,3 +86,9 @@ often also called "chatbots", "assistants" or "agents."
   functionality are what has allowed bot concepts to bloom in Asian markets.
   There's a lot of good information in this post to unpack.
 
+* [Principles of bot design](https://www.intercom.com/blog/principles-bot-design/)
+  contains some general, common-sense ideas to keep in mind when building
+  bots such as do not pretend to be a human (because it will be quickly 
+  discovered that your bot is not a human) and keep it as simple as possible
+  so people can actually use the damn thing.
+
diff --git a/content/pages/04-web-development/52-twilio.markdown b/content/pages/04-web-development/52-twilio.markdown
@@ -113,5 +113,5 @@ for fellow developers.
 #### Disclaimer
 I [currently work at Twilio](/about-author.html) on the
 [Developer Network](https://www.twilio.com/blog/2014/02/introducing-developer-evangelist-matt-makai.html)
-and run a program called [Twilio Voices](http://www.twiliovoices.com/).
+and run the [Developer Voices](http://www.twiliovoices.com/) team.
 
diff --git a/content/pages/05-deployment/12-aws-codestar.markdown b/content/pages/05-deployment/12-aws-codestar.markdown
@@ -0,0 +1,15 @@
+title: AWS CodeStar
+category: page
+slug: aws-codestar
+sortorder: 0512
+toc: False
+sidebartitle: AWS CodeStar
+meta: AWS CodeStar is a platform-as-a-service and continuous delivery pipeline for running Python applications.
+
+
+# AWS CodeStar
+[AWS CodeStar](https://aws.amazon.com/codestar/) is a 
+[platform-as-a-service](/platform-as-a-service.html) implementation 
+and continuous delivery [deployment](/deployment.html) pipeline for 
+running Python applications.
+
diff --git a/content/pages/meta/02-about-author.markdown b/content/pages/meta/02-about-author.markdown
@@ -11,14 +11,15 @@ meta: Learn more about the author of Full Stack Python, Matt Makai.
 [Full Stack Python](https://www.fullstackpython.com/) is coded and written by
 [Matt Makai](http://www.mattmakai.com/). Matt currently
 works in Washington, D.C. for the 
-[Twilio Developer Network](https://www.twilio.com/blog/2014/02/introducing-developer-evangelist-matt-makai.html).
+[Twilio Developer Network](https://www.twilio.com/blog/2014/02/introducing-developer-evangelist-matt-makai.html)
+as head of the Developer Voices program.
 
 Other projects by Matt include 
-[The Full Stack Python Guide to Deployments](http://www.deploypython.com/), 
+[The Full Stack Python Guide to Deployments](https://www.deploypython.com/), 
 [Python for Entrepreneurs](https://training.talkpython.fm/courses/explore_entrepreneurs/python-for-entrepreneurs-build-and-launch-your-online-business),
-[Coding Across America](http://www.codingacrossamerica.com/), 
-[Underwear](https://github.com/mattmakai/underwear) and
-[Choose Your Own Adventure Presentations](https://github.com/mattmakai/choose-your-own-adventure-presentations). 
+[Introduction to Ansible](https://training.talkpython.fm/courses/explore_ansible/introduction-to-ansible-with-python)
+and
+[Coding Across America](http://www.codingacrossamerica.com/).
 
 You can reach him by email at matthew.makai@gmail.com. Matt can't 
 respond to every email, but he will do his best to reply when possible.
diff --git a/theme/templates/choices/aws-codestar.html b/theme/templates/choices/aws-codestar.html
@@ -1,18 +1,18 @@
-<h3>What do you need to know for your deployment?</h3>
+<h3>What's next after you deploy your application?</h3>
 <div class="row">
  <div class="c4">
   <div class="well select-next">
-   {% include "choices/buttons/best-python-resources.html" %}
+   {% include "choices/buttons/caching.html" %}
   </div>
  </div>
  <div class="c4">
   <div class="well select-next">
-   {% include "choices/buttons/databases.html" %}
+   {% include "choices/buttons/monitoring.html" %}
   </div>
  </div>
  <div class="c4">
   <div class="well select-next">
-   {% include "choices/buttons/introduction.html" %}
+   {% include "choices/buttons/logging.html" %}
   </div>
  </div>
 </div>
