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Becoming a Better Learner
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Scaling Django with Postgres Read Replicas
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Scaling Django with Postgres Read Replicas
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What Are We Doing Here?
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Dear Alma: How to Quit Drinking
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Story: David Browning
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Self-Reliant Veganism
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No More Supermarket Blues
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This Time It’s War
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Story: Hunting Ghosts
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Porting a Geographic Nearest-Neighbor Python Web Service to Go
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Ten Years of Learning Investments
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Dear Alma: Do You Have to Achieve an Act of Greatness for Your Life to Matter?
After the movie The Social Network came out, I saw a post on the internet wri...
Dear Alma: How to Quit Drinking
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Self-Reliant Veganism
“Trust thyself: every heart vibrates to that iron string.” When I first read...
No More Supermarket Blues
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Riding the Springwater Corridor
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This Time It’s War
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Coastal Bookstores
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Markdown
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Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019
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Why Is Poetry Essential to the Modern Python Stack?
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Scaling Django with Postgres Read Replicas
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PyCharm: Open the Current File in Vim, Emacs or Sublime Text
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Four Things I Learned about Software Engineering from Programming MUDs as a Teenager
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So You Want to Self-Publish a Technical Book
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The Temple of Django Database Performance Is on Sale Now
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Starting a Publishing Company: Month 1
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What is Python's Default Hash Algorithm?
A friend of mine wondered recently, What is Python’s default hash algorit...
Why Is Poetry Essential to the Modern Python Stack?
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Rewriting an API to Use FastAPI: Benchmarks and Lessons Learned
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Building Implicit Interfaces in Python with Protocol Classes
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Why Does Python Have a len() Function?
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Demonstrating Timeouts, Retries, and Circuit Breakers with an Outage Simulator
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Mixins in Python and Ruby Compared
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How Does Django's StreamingHttpResponse Work, Exactly?
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PyCharm: Open the Current File in Vim, Emacs or Sublime Text
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Video Of My DjangoCon talk “The Evolution of a RESTful Django Backend”
The video of my first ever conference talk is now available on YouTube. Check...
An Epic Review of PyCharm 3 from a Vim User's Perspective
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Porting a Geographic Nearest-Neighbor Python Web Service to Go
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One Year Later: An Epic Review of PyCharm 2.7 from a Vim User's Perspective
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Build an In-Memory Proximity Search Web Service with Python, SciPy and Heroku
In this post I’m going to look at a concrete example of building an in-memory...
Using IPython Notebook with Django
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Python: How to tell what class a decorated method is in at runtime
When profiling a Python app, it’s helpful to have a decorator that wraps func...
Instant Django Dev Environments with Tmux, Tmuxinator, and Virtualenvwrapper
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Reliability
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Demonstrating Timeouts, Retries, and Circuit Breakers with an Outage Simulator
I’ve seen quite a few outages and outage-like scenarios caused by improper ha...
Ruby
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Mixins in Python and Ruby Compared
The venerable “mixin” is a technique I learned as a Python developer. Now, af...
Safari
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Will iOS 13 Add Support for Safari Extensions?
The lack of a desktop-class web browser on iOS is one of several things missi...
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So You Want to Self-Publish a Technical Book
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Time Is a Circle: Apple Watch and the Geometry of Time
In 2013, archaeologists digging in the Valley of the Kings found one of the o...
Coding on iPadOS: Browser Dev Tools with Inspect
If you’re a web developer who uses an iPad, you will eventually need access t...
Will iOS 13 Add Support for Safari Extensions?
The lack of a desktop-class web browser on iOS is one of several things missi...
Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019
Download audio version In 2017 I asked, “Can You Wri...
What Are We Doing Here?
[T]hough it is worthwhile to attain the end merely for one man, it is fine...
Using Windows 10 and the Surface Book 2 for Web Development
I’ve been a web developer who uses a Mac for almost ten years, but lately I’m...
Demonstrating Timeouts, Retries, and Circuit Breakers with an Outage Simulator
I’ve seen quite a few outages and outage-like scenarios caused by improper ha...
Can you Write Code on a Chromebook?
This is an update to Can you Write Code on an iPad?, in which I tried writing...
Mixins in Python and Ruby Compared
The venerable “mixin” is a technique I learned as a Python developer. Now, af...
Ten Years of Learning Investments
I’m coming up on ten years as a professional software developer. On...
The Rule of Three
Many programmers feel a desire to create reusable components early in the dev...
Can You Write Code on an iPad?
The merit in all things consists in the difficulty. – Aramis This is ...
My Ideal Software Development Environment
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Refactoring Search from Django App to Microservice
One of my favorite technical book series is The Architecture of Open Source A...
Video Of My DjangoCon talk “The Evolution of a RESTful Django Backend”
The video of my first ever conference talk is now available on YouTube. Check...
An Epic Review of PyCharm 3 from a Vim User's Perspective
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Porting a Geographic Nearest-Neighbor Python Web Service to Go
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One Year Later: An Epic Review of PyCharm 2.7 from a Vim User's Perspective
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Reading List for an Apprentice Web Developer
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Wrap Comments and Text to Column Width in IntelliJ Editors
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Build an In-Memory Proximity Search Web Service with Python, SciPy and Heroku
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Revisiting Umberto Eco's Future of the Book
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Set an ImageField path in Django manually
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Go: How to Get the Directory of the Current File
In Python I often use the __file__ constant to get the directory of the curre...
Run Django Unit Tests in a Sublime Text 2 Build System
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Python: How to tell what class a decorated method is in at runtime
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Make Sublime Text 2 More like Vim: Wrap Code, Go To Last Edit, Jump Back, and More
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Sharp Edges: Protecting Ourselves from Digital Publishing
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iA Writer and Notational Velocity
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How to Fix Slow Scrolling in Vim and MacVim on macOS
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Instant Django Dev Environments with Tmux, Tmuxinator, and Virtualenvwrapper
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Sound Problems with Ubuntu
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No NIC on a Windows 7 VMWare image
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Deploying Fat Free CRM to Heroku
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How to Extract Craigslist Locations with Nokogiri
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CiviCRM Views 2 integration with a remote CiviCRM database
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Linux: Remove all empty files from a directory
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Problems and Solutions to Problems: Views 2, CiviCRM, and Drupal 6
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Vim for Thunderbird: Muttator extension External Editor extension
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Even Better GNU Screen
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Time
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Time Is a Circle: Apple Watch and the Geometry of Time
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Unix
2
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Coding on iPadOS: Browser Dev Tools with Inspect
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Synchronizing the iOS Clipboard with a Remote Server Using Command-Line Tools
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Windows
1
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Using Windows 10 and the Surface Book 2 for Web Development
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Writing
1
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So You Want to Self-Publish a Technical Book
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asyncio
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databases
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High Availability, Replication, and Failover Explained with Stuffed Animals
My 2-year-old daughter’s favorite stuffed animal, “Meow-Meow,” is a critical ...
distributed systems
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High Availability, Replication, and Failover Explained with Stuffed Animals
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iOS
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Recording Pro Audio and Video at Home with iPads and iPhones
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iPad Play Dates in the Time of Coronavirus
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Handoff from Vim over SSH to Working Copy on iPad
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Copying to the iOS Clipboard Over SSH with Control Codes
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Synchronizing the iOS Clipboard with a Remote Server Using Command-Line Tools
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Coding on an iPad Pro in 2019
Download audio version In 2017 I asked, “Can You Wri...
Can you Write Code on a Chromebook?
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Can You Write Code on an iPad?
The merit in all things consists in the difficulty. – Aramis This is ...
My Ideal Software Development Environment
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iPad
3
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Recording Pro Audio and Video at Home with iPads and iPhones
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iPad Play Dates in the Time of Coronavirus
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iPhone
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Recording Pro Audio and Video at Home with iPads and iPhones
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pip
1
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Why Is Poetry Essential to the Modern Python Stack?
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security
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What is Python's Default Hash Algorithm?
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technology
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What is Python's Default Hash Algorithm?
A friend of mine wondered recently, What is Python’s default hash algorit...
Building Implicit Interfaces in Python with Protocol Classes
Python 3.8 shipped one of the coolest features I’ve seen in a recent Python v...
Why Does Python Have a len() Function?
New Python users are often surprised to learn that you call a global function...
Recording Pro Audio and Video at Home with iPads and iPhones
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iPad Play Dates in the Time of Coronavirus
Oregon schools closed over two months ago to prevent the spread of COVID-19. ...
Handoff from Vim over SSH to Working Copy on iPad
Have you ever been working in Vim over SSH on an iPad and wanted to open up t...
Copying to the iOS Clipboard Over SSH with Control Codes
Let’s delve again into copying text to the iOS clipboard from a remote comput...
Synchronizing the iOS Clipboard with a Remote Server Using Command-Line Tools
When developing on a remote computer over SSH from iOS, one problem has vexed...