Posts tagged with "tech" (169)
Exploring flexicache
An exploration of using flexicache for caching in Python.
Pi Day
A really quick exploration of Pi in Python plus a call to action!
Building a playing card deck
Today is Valentine's Day. That makes it the perfect day to write a blog post about showing how to not just build a deck of cards, but show off cards from the heart suite.
Fastcore L
An exploration of Fastcore's enhanced list-like structure
TIL: Using inspect and timeit together
Two libraries in Python's standard library that are useful for keeping load testing code all in one module.
TIL: yield from
A variant of the yield statement that can result in more concise code.
TIL: types.SimpleNamespace is a Bunch class
Did you know that Python's types library has a bunch class implementation? How did I not see this before?!
Using locust for load testing
Quickstart guide for doing web application load testing with the Python powered locust library.
Using Mermaid JS in Jupyter notebook
Useful for adding Mermaid charts of various types to Jupyter notebooks.
File Location Fixup
Writing a Jupyter notebook to clean up my blog's article locations
Mermaid charts!
My site now has mermaid charts! Many thanks to Imtiaz Khan!
Practical Deep Learning for Coders: Lesson 1
I'm going through the fast.ai course by Jeremy Howard. This is the course notes for lesson 1.
Practical Deep Learning for Coders: Lesson 0
I'm going through the fast.ai course by Jeremy Howard. This is the course notes for lesson 0.
Rapidly creating smoke tests for Django views
A management command for quickly generating tests based off Django's URL routing mechanism.
Keynote at PyCon Lithuania 2024
My keynote and the first return to the homeland of Lithuania in over 100 years.
TIL: Forcing pip to use virtualenv
Necessary because installing things into your base python causes false positives, true negatives, and other head bangers.
Three Years at Kraken Tech
A summary of the past year as I finish my third year working for Kraken Tech, an Octopus Energy Group subsidiary.
TIL: Autoloading on Filechange using Watchdog
Using Watchdog to monitor changes to a directory so we can alter what we serve out as HTTP.
TIL: Fixing YAML
Here's how to prettify YAML across your projects.
TIL: Capture stdout & stderr with pytest
How to capture printed text using pytest, something I wish I knew sooner.
TIL: Rich.console.status for slow processes
From the command-line a trick to inform users know the system hasn't died and they should wait until it is done.
TIL: Poetry PyPI Project URLS
Adding sidebar links to PyPI projects powered by Poetry
TIL: pytest with breakpoints
Injecting breakpoints into a failing pytest run
PyPI Project URLs Cheatsheet
The PyPI project URLs spec is defined only in code. Here's my cheatsheet explaining how to configure them. I'll update this as I learn more (suggestions welcome!). Examples in several formats.
Converting from bleach to nh3
Bleach is deprecated, here's how to come close to replicating bleach.clean() with no arguments with nh3.
AWS Requests Auth
AWS signature version 4 signing process for the python requests module.
Cookiecutter Options Pattern
A technique I've used for years yet often forget. Placing it here for easy reference.
Programming languages I've learned
Starting as an adolescent I've been learning programming languages. Here's a list of the ones I've learned.
Converting Markdown Headers to Checklist
For those times when you write out a long markdown document that you want to convert to a checklist.
Configuring Sphinx Auto-Doc with projects having Django dependencies
How to make it so projects with Django as a dependency benefit from Sphinx's auto-documentation features.
Practice Python Web Projects
Python web projects taken from my personal history to practice on to improve your skills.
Live Discussion with Sebastián Ramírez (Tiangolo)
I have a friendly live discussion with Sebastián Ramírez, creator of FastAPI, Typer, SQL Model, and more.
Pip Installing Dependencies Into Conda Envs
People think Conda is challenging to use or doesn't work with pip, when in truth it is easy and just works everywhere.
Blogger to Markdown Script
Converting hundreds of posts from blogger to markdown
Sendowl Consolidation Script
Unifying our sendowl accounts into one
More Married
In honor of Valentine's Day, this script calculates how long you've been married (or other types of relationships) in relation to how long you've known each other
Speaking at Python Web Conf
My first public conference talk in three years
Autodocumenting Makefiles
Make Your Makefiles Make Your Day!
Exploring the Bunch Class
Bunch classes are very powerful, and with great power comes great responsibility
What's the Ultimate Reason for Working at Octopus Energy?
Wherin I conclude my discussion about why I work at Octopus Energy.
What's the Best Thing about Working for Octopus Energy?
An in-depth discussion about my employment at Octopus Energy.
Recap of 2020 and Resolutions for 2021
August 2020 Courses
All the live, online, interactive courses I'm teaching in the month of August 2020.
I'm Teaching A Live Online Django Crash Course
Django Slug + ID URL Design
How to combine slugs and IDs to make a a human readable unique URL design.
Two Scoops of Django 3.x Released
The book about best practices for the Django Web Framework, Two Scoops of Django, has been revised, updated, and expanded for versions 3.0, 3.1, and 3.2.
Adding Metadata to PDFs
How to use Python to combine PDFs and then add metadata to them.
Our New Django Book Has Launched!
We wrote a beginner-friendly tutorial book for Django!
Feed Generator
Writing a Python script to generate my blog feed
Meeting Python Devs in Cancun
Python programming builds bridges across the world!
My Markdown Code Snippet Tester
Ensuring that code in my articles actually works.
Authenticating via JWT using Django, Axios, and Vue
Getting DRF, JWT, Axios, and Vue to play nice
Writing A New Blog Engine
Where I describe why and how I wrote a new blog engine
Implemementing Manual Schema with Django REST Framework
Implementing a manual schema in Django REST Framework
When to Use MongoDB with Django
Short answer is you don't use MongoDB with Django. Read on for the specifics.
Code, Code, Code
I'm often asked by new programmers how they can forge a path into using their skills professionally. Or how they can get better at writing software. In this article I share the secret master-level method to improvement.
Pretty Formatting JSON in the Django Admin
How To Create Installable, Reusable Django Packages
Titlecasing Markdown Headers with Python
Why Doesn't Python Have Switch/Case?
Markup Language Faceoff: Lists
Two Scoops of Django 1.8 is Out!
Phasing Out Django Packages APIv1 & APIv2
Python Decorator Cheatsheet
I can never remember the syntax for writing decorators. I always have to look it up. Worse, I always have to remember where to look to find references. Hence the reason for this article. I'll never lose this reference: It's on my laptop and the internet.
Building Conda Packages for Multiple Operating Systems
I did an Au Batido in 2014, now what?
setup.py tricks
Adding Django form instance attributes
Sometimes in the `clean()`, `clean_FOO` or `save()` methods of a Django form, you need to have additional form instance attributes available. A sample case for this is having `user_id` available. This is a simple example of how to do it in Class-Based Views.
Hola, Argentina!
Want to work for Eventbrite?
cached-property: Don't copy/paste code
Two Scoops of Goblins
Docstrings and Various Python Objects
Announcing Two Scoops of Django 1.6!
awesome-slugify: Human-readable URL slugs from any string (part 2)
awesome-slugify: Human-readable URL slugs from any string
Cookiecutter: Project Templates Made Easy
Cookiecutter makes creating and maintaining project templates easy and intuitive.
Made Up Statistics
Core Concepts of Django ModelForms
The concepts behind Django's model forms can be boiled down to six items.
Overloading Django Form Fields
How to overload Django form fields in an extensible way.
The Easy Form Views Pattern Controversy
Two Scoops of Django 1.5 Beta Released
Two Scoops of Django FAQ
Our Django Book Has Launched
Case Study: URL Design for petcheatsheets.com
Los Angeles Open Source Sprint on Nov 4th!
Curiosity has landed!
Attaching custom exceptions to functions and classes
Django Update View Without Slug in the URL
July 15th, 2012 LA Open Source Recap
PyCon Philippines 2012 Day 2
A wonderful end to a wonderful event.
PyCon Philippines 2012 Day 1
The first day of the first PyCon Philippines!
Announcing PyCon Philippines!
Django Class Based View: email form with CAPTCHA
Simple Django email form using CBV
May 12th, 2012 LA Open Source Recap
10 reasons to go to DjangoCon Europe
CSS Hacking to make my code samples legible
Choosing an API framework for Django
Django Requirements for a project
Los Angeles Open Source Sprint on May 12th!
Join us at DjangoCon Europe!
Choosing a new python based blog engine
Calendar About Nothing
Launching our API at PyCon 2012
The sorry state of Python OAuth providers
You should Heroku
I use this
My PyCon 2012 Schedule
django-uni-form end of life
Silicon Beach Hackercast
An attempt made long ago to create a podcast
The Story of Live-Noting
Loving the bunch class
Getting piston forms to play nicely with JSON
My little unit test trick
Leaving NASA
Pycon 2010 report II
Learn something new every year
Code I'll reuse
I don't like Integrated Development Environments
Finger method of judging graphic design
Jinja2 in zope
Looking for work?
How to globally ignore .pyc files
Useful python code for blogspot users like me
Recap of 2008
Compiling Python on Mac OS X 10.5 can be a pain
I've not quite done LAMP, or have I?
Nixed Technorati link off this blog
Funkload to be revisited!
Quick Firefox 3 review
Umlizer lives!
Must use ubigraph
How not to build a view
Inheritence is fun!
I love graphing
Feedparser does not work with Google App Engine
Sick but Ubuntu
Zed Shaw, YAML, Python Community
So what did I do on the website?
Need better charting for Python
Django at Pycon
Pycon Wrapup
Numpy Tutorial overview
2 days until Pycon and Chicago
Pycon 2008!
Work things
Funkload + Matplotlib = charts!
Funkload Charting woes
SVN Versionator is dead
More on SVN Versionator
SVN versionator!
Reason #4293 why I'm happy to be out of ColdFusion
Python is the programming language of 2007!
The hard truth about Python
Playing with Trac, SVN, Apache, and LDAP
Capturing shell output in Python
Need to get into the habit of using Python sets
What is a real language?
Thoughts back in the day when