Plot.ly; Finally typing those letters into a post headline tastes like a strange cocktail of pride and embarrassment. Plot.ly sits at the core of some of the most influential products I’ve had the chance to work on, which remain serving a hodgepodge of Fintech and humanitarian clients well to this day. This begs the question: what the

A 'skill' that's always fascinated me is just how long some engineers can make it in their career while carrying glaringly obvious gaps in their knowledge of the systems they use every day. To my surprise, I've turned corners where I myself have been that engineer all along, and there's perhaps no better example of this then the time I've

There are plenty of reliable and open sources of data on the web. Datasets are freely released to the public domain by the likes of Kaggle, Google Cloud, and of course local & federal government. Like most things free and open, however, following the rules to obtain public data can be a bit... boring. I'm not suggesting we go and

When we first started developing in Flask, most of us took the 5 lines of code in the quick-start guide and ran with it. Compared to every other web framework, getting a "Hello world" to flash on screen without being hassled with database configurations, template preferences, or reverse proxy setups felt a lot like robbing a bank.

At some point

It isn't often you find somebody sad or miserable enough to detail the inner workings of web framework features, such as sessions or routing. This is understandably so; we use frameworks because presumably hate dealing with these things from scratch. This is especially so when it comes to Flask, which only released version 1.0 a few months ago, introducing

When it comes to SaaS products in the realm of Service desks, JIRA Service Desk is at the very least, just as powerful as the next solution (Zendesk comes to mind). This naturally begs the question: Why is JIRA Service Desk's pricing model roughly 1/10th of that of it's competitor?

The answer lies within ease of use, but more

Happy Tuesday everybody! To start this week hot, let's talk about something that everybody hates: forms. The only thing more painful than filling out a web form is creating one, much less a functional one with feedback. Listen, if you're into creating pleasant form UI experiences, you're probably into some freaky shit. Call me.

Flask's youth is an advantage in

It's been roughly a year since MongoDB launched their Stitch "back-end as a service" product, and I've been tinkering with Mongo on the cloud ever since. Alright fine, "tinkering with" may better be described as  "accidentally became dependent on it after developing new features in production environments," but I can't really complain thus-far. If you're not familiar, MongoDB Atlas is

If you're familiar with Django (or Python to any extent), you've probably accepted the concept of what Python guys refer to as "static assets" without much consideration. At some point in Django's conception, a design decision was made: any code, styles, or assets were tucked away into their own respective uninteresting corners of the framework. Thus it was known: anything

We all knew it would only be a matter of time before a blog full of Python junkies would touch on Python's fastest growing framework. Staying true to all that is Pythonic, Flask is a gift to developers who value the act of development. By minimizing level of effort and maximizing potential, Flask allows us to be as minimalist (or