Test smarter, not harder
Tips for winning the automated testing battle.
Announcement: Django Views - The Right Way
Announcement of my guide to writing Django Views.
Please stop trying to blacklist ‘blacklist’
Keyword-only arguments in Python
Keyword-only arguments are a feature that has been around since Python 3.0 but I've not seen them used much. This post explores the how and why.
Why I'm leaving Elm
Why I can't use Elm, and can't recommend it to others.
Double-checked locking with Django ORM
How to implement the classic double-checked locking pattern with Django ORM/PostgreSQL.
50 reasons why Christians should take climate change seriously
Pylint false positives
Some analysis on the false positive rate when using Pylint on a codebase.
6 digit OTP for Two Factor Auth (2FA) is brute-forceable in 3 days
OTP/TOTP for two factor auth (2FA/MFA) is very easy to misunderstand and implement insecurely
A Look at Python, Parameterized
How to replace 6+ design patterns with one concept in Python
Two experiences with Elm
A failed attempt, a success, and some things to watch out for.
The Elimination Fallacy
X is bad. So we should eliminate X, right?
WordPress 4.7.2 post mortem
Some lessons from the recent WordPress vulnerability
Django admin tips Twitter account
Follow @djangoadmintips for curated tips about the Django admin
The very minimum you need to know about words
A post about linguistics, and the word fallacies you need to avoid.
Avoid Django's GenericForeignKey
Why Django's GenericForeignKey is (usually) a bad idea
Dynamically generated Django admin actions
How to use ModelAdmin.get_actions with dynamically generated list of actions
A simple password-less, email-only login system
A simple password-less login system to consider for some use cases, with Django code.
We need less powerful languages
We need languages and systems that are less powerful, not more powerful, and easy ways to create and use such languages.
Interpretation of a stop sign
Non-original humorous post