Todd Birchard

Ahh, Plotly. Typing that name into a post headline triggers an emotional cocktail of both pride and embarrassment. Plotly has been at the core of some of the most influential products I’ve personally worked on over...

Aside from walking through painful "hello world" tutorials or setting project configurations, there isn't anything more fundamental about web frameworks than creating views. We've already tackled the...

It's been roughly a decade since I first became romantically involved with Python. This particular romantic comedy somehow missed the "love at first sight" trope entirely - I found the process of learning...

Serve dynamic web pages in Flask by mastering Jinja: Flask’s built-in HTML templating engine.If the name Dreamweaver means anything to you, you’re probably old enough to remember how shitty web development was in...

Last time we met, we joyfully shared a little tirade about missing out on functionality provided to us by libraries such as SQLAlchemy, and the advantages of interacting with databases where ORMs are involved. I stand...

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It was two years ago that a couple of Python-enthusiasts created a makeshift wiki where they could share mildly interesting Python tutorials, news, and pictures of Lynxes. This mess of a "knowledge base" was...

One of my earliest frustrations with Python development had nothing to do with Python itself, but rather the needlessly esoteric act of deploying a Python app. Code bootcamps and tutorials do a fine job of teaching...

In terms of technical ingenuity, Google BigQuery is probably the most impressive data warehouse on the market. BigQuery differs from other data warehouses in that the underlying architecture is shared by everybody on...

It's a tale as old as time: your company has multiple instances of the same dataset which should match, but for whatever reason, don't. An obvious example that comes to mind might be discrepancies between environments:...

It's a tale as old as time: your company has multiple instances of the same dataset which should match, but for whatever reason, don't. An obvious example that comes to mind might be discrepancies between environments:...

It feels as thought static site generators are experiencing a meteoric rise in popularity amongst developers. In reality, we're only at the very beginning of a paradigm that will continue to take off for years to come....

It feels as thought static site generators are experiencing a meteoric rise in popularity amongst developers. In reality, we're only at the very beginning of a paradigm that will continue to take off for years to come....

It feels as thought static site generators are experiencing a meteoric rise in popularity amongst developers. In reality, we're only at the very beginning of a paradigm that will continue to take off for years to come....

If you’ve been anywhere near the internet lately, you’ve surely noticed the epidemic overtaking the developer community known as Gatsby fever. I wish I could say I’m not the type of person who contributes to...

If you’ve been anywhere near the internet lately, you’ve surely noticed the epidemic overtaking the developer community known as Gatsby fever. I wish I could say I’m not the type of person who contributes to...

Cloud providers have made a killing from neatly-packaged managed services for years. Whether it be databases or message brokers, developers like ourselves don't seem to have a problem paying a bit extra to have things...