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Todd Birchard

Todd Birchard

New York City
Wasted youth as a Product Manager, enjoying life as a Lead Software Engineer. Happily retired from rapidly propping up doomed startups. Focused on creating meaningful work and relationships.
Deploy Isolated Applications with Google App Engine

Deploy Isolated Applications with Google App Engine

Doing everything to avoid server configuration or any mild discomfort.
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Todd Birchard todd
Oct 25, 2018 • 5 mins
Google Cloud
Working With Google Cloud Functions

Working With Google Cloud Functions

GCP scores a victory by trivializing serverless functions.
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Oct 18, 2018 • 6 mins
Google Cloud
Python Script extracting data from a JSON file

Extract Nested Data From Complex JSON

Never manually walk through complex JSON objects again by using this function.
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Oct 10, 2018 • 6 mins
Python
Compile Frontend JavaScript with Babel and Gulp

Compile Frontend JavaScript with Babel and Gulp

Using ECMAScript functions on the frontend the quick and dirty way.
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Oct 6, 2018 • 6 mins
JavaScript
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Configuring Your Flask App

Best practices on configuring Flask. Use different configs for different environments and keep sensitive values out of your source code.
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Sep 30, 2018 • 7 mins
Flask
Reading and Writing to CSVs in Python

Reading and Writing to CSVs in Python

Read information from existing CSVs or write/modify your own. Keep your script lightweight by leveraging Python's built-in I/O and CSV libraries.
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Sep 27, 2018 • 3 mins
Python
The Art of Routing in Flask

The Art of Routing in Flask

Empower your Flask application to grow dynamically with intelligent routes and well-structured views.
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Sep 16, 2018 • 11 mins
Flask
So You've Fucked up your Python Path

So You've Fucked up your Python Path

A timeless hazing ritual for new Python devs, and how to fix it.
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Sep 12, 2018 • 6 mins
Python
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Connect to your Google Cloud Compute Engine

Configuring SSH and file transfers to a Google Cloud Compute Engine via the GCloud's CLI.
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Sep 5, 2018 • 5 mins
Google Cloud
Creating a Custom Frontend for your Jira Service Desk Portal

Creating a Custom Frontend for your Jira Service Desk Portal

When SaaS doesn't cut it, beat it down and take everything its got.
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Aug 31, 2018 • 6 mins
Atlassian
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Series'

Data Analysis with Pandas 11
Build Flask Apps 11
Learning Apache Spark 6
Google Cloud Architecture 6
Mastering SQLAlchemy 4
GraphQL Tutorials 4
Welcome to SQL 4
Working with MySQL 4
Mapping Data with Mapbox 3
Web Scraping With Python 2
Python Concurrency with Asyncio 2
Getting Started with Django 2
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  • Welcome to SQL
  • Working with MySQL
  • Mapping Data with Mapbox
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  • Python Concurrency with Asyncio
  • Getting Started with Django
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