Todd Birchard

119 Posts

New York City

Engineer with an ongoing identity crisis. Breaks everything before learning best practices. Completely normal and emotionally stable.

Python

Scrape Structured Data with Python and Extruct

Supercharge your scraper to extract quality page metadata by parsing JSON-LD data via Python's extruct library.

Golang

Deploy a Golang Web Application Behind Nginx

Deploy a self-hosted Go web application using Nginx as a reverse proxy.

Golang

Create Your First Golang App

Set up Golang on your local environment and create your first "Hello world" app.

Django

Creating Interactive Views in Django

Create interactive user experiences by writing Django views to handle dynamic content, submitting forms, and interacting with data.

DevOps

Deploy Flask Applications with uWSGI and Nginx

Host Python apps on your own server. Set up uWSGI to serve your app concurrently while handling incoming traffic with Nginx.

NoSQL

Using Redis In-Memory Storage for your Python Applications

Leverage in-memory data storage to make your Python apps snappy. Cover managing a Python Redis client to learning the subtleties of Redis data structures.

Python

Package Python Projects the Proper Way with Poetry

Revolutionize your development workflow with an elegant CLI to handle dependencies, environments, configuration, and packaging.

Python

SSH & SCP in Python with Paramiko

Automate remote server tasks by using the Paramiko & SCP Python libraries. Use Python to SSH into hosts, execute tasks, transfer files, etc.