mblayman

mblayman, 22 hours ago to python

🐍 What makes #Python work? This article looks into Abstract Syntax Trees and how they are used. Making an AST is a critical stage for how Python translates your code into something it can run. https://www.mattlayman.com/blog/2018/decipher-python-ast/

mblayman, 1 day ago to django

🌎 A vital aspect of web applications are the URLs that users visit. From this article, you'll come to understand how #Django handles URLs when building a web app. https://www.mattlayman.com/understand-django/urls-lead-way/

mblayman, 2 days ago to django

📋 Users send data to a website with HTML forms. Come learn how #Django makes your life easier with its built-in forms tools! https://djangoriffs.com/episodes/how-to-use-forms

mblayman, 3 days ago to python

🐍 As a #Python package maintainer, I reach for two packaging tools consistently. This article explains why those tools are important to my packaging workflow. https://www.mattlayman.com/blog/2017/2-critical-python-packaging-tools/

mblayman, 4 days ago to python

🐍 Can you build mobile apps using #Python? That's the topic that we explored at Python Frederick by checking out #BeeWare. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tyh165h_PhU

mblayman, 5 days ago to random

Here's another Learn Python By Example video.

In this example problem, we'll look at some string methods in Python.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=615BfMy-8qQ

mblayman, 6 days ago to python

At #Python Frederick, Chris Malec gave a cool overview talk on Pandas. Want to see how GME looked on the market during the "Gamestonk" week? Chris showed us some interesting financial analysis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFP-W_9UtfQ

mblayman, 7 days ago to random

📚 Reading software books is one of my favorite activities.

I've pulled together some of my top books that I've read over the years. Hopefully this list of resources will help others jump right to knowledge that will help them grow.

https://www.mattlayman.com/book-recommendations/

mblayman, 8 days ago to django

🔨 Want to see how to integrate a #Hugo static site inside of a #Django app without using a reverse proxy like Nginx or a separate subdomain? Check this out! https://www.mattlayman.com/blog/2020/hugo-blog-in-django-app/

mblayman, 9 days ago to python

Want to build CLIs in #Python and find argparse hard to use?

Mike Atkinson showed us at Python Frederick how to the use the excellent Click package to make CLI tools. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uXS9hmp4lp4

mblayman, 10 days ago to python

🐍 In this talk, I compared a number of popular #Python web frameworks and discussed some of the decisions to consider when choosing a framework for your next web project. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pu_5ZjC7Tig

mblayman, 11 days ago to django

🐍 What happens when you take a non-web developer and drop them in front of the #Django tutorial at a live presentation? That's exactly what we found out at #Python Frederick. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ZSs2eZ-yFps

mblayman, 12 days ago to python

🔒 How can you assess the security of a system? One tool that you can apply is a threat model. In this Python Frederick talk, we see how to create a threat model using #Python with pytm to assess Jurassic Park as a fun example. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=1zauvAsWiDM

mblayman, 13 days ago to python

🐍 On this Building SaaS with #Python and #Django, I started a new feature to add a PDF report bundle to my homeschool app. This will be useful when a user completes their school year and needs records of all the year's activities. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=cM2sA1AP3fM

mblayman, 14 days ago to django

🐍 #TailwindCSS is an awesome way to style your web pages. In this short article, I show how to set up Tailwind for a #Django project that is deployed to #Heroku. https://www.mattlayman.com/blog/2020/tailwind-django-heroku/

mblayman, 15 days ago to python

At #Python Frederick, Chris Malec gave a cool overview talk on Pandas. Want to see how GME looked on the market during the "Gamestonk" week? Chris showed us some interesting financial analysis. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=uFP-W_9UtfQ

mblayman, 16 days ago to python

🐍 On this Building SaaS with #Python and #Django, I worked through UI and form changes to allow educators to set break days for individual students in their homeschool. We had to create records on a many to many relationship. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GQs4RpKC4-w

mblayman, 17 days ago to django

⚡ How do you make a user interface in a #Django web app? Use templates! Let's talk about what templates are and how to use them. https://djangoriffs.com/episodes/building-user-interfaces

mblayman, 18 days ago to random

💡 My personal website used to run with a static site generator that I created on my own. Even though I had a fully customized site generator, I switched to #Hugo. This article explains why I would do such a thing. https://www.mattlayman.com/blog/2018/tale-two-site-generators/

mblayman, 19 days ago to python

🐍 How can you use #Python with Software Defined Radios (#SDR)? In this presentation, Patrick shows us his neat project of applying Python to recording radio signals. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=MonR5zZL-Es

mblayman, 20 days ago to django

⚡ Without clicking all over a #Django web app, do you know how to check if it works or not? Come learn how to make tests that can automatically check if your site works. https://djangoriffs.com/episodes/automated-tests

mblayman, 21 days ago to vim

👾 This presentation covers #Vim 101 to provide an understanding of how Vim works. Want to know why we use :q to quit Vim? You'll learn that and more in this talk. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zxdQJlB65lA

mblayman, 22 days ago to django

🚀 Ready to learn #Django? Start from the beginning of Django Riffs, a podcast about Django, to begin in #Python web development! https://djangoriffs.com/episodes/get-to-know-django

mblayman, 23 days ago to random

🐍 List comprehensions are a clean way to build new lists in your Python code that are transformations from other lists. Check out how list comprehensions can improve your code with this article! https://www.mattlayman.com/blog/2017/pythonic-code-the-list-comprehension/

mblayman, 24 days ago to python

🐍 On this Building SaaS with #Python and #Django stream, I changed a critical API to the scheduling portion of my homeschool app, and we worked through all the fallout of that change. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=R2KW0apkRYA