GitHub is a wonderful place to keep your code. It is also a great place to keep a wide variety of other things, too. You can store datasets, books, photos and just about anything you want in GitHub. Even the entire Constitution of India is on GitHub. One of the…

This week we’re back with another list of super cool Python libraries that make development a little simpler, more efficient, and even exciting. In this installment, we’ll examine some third-party modules that are so useful you may wonder why they don’t ship with Python by default. Whether it’s abstracting system…

Reviewing someone else’s code can feel like you’re calling their precious baby ugly. But that code might be bad, and that baby might actually be hideous. When you look at another developer’s code, you want to provide honesty and actionable feedback. Pull no punches when it comes to code reviews…

Taking your keys with you — Building applications on your local machine is all fine and dandy until it comes time to investigate an instance in production. Burying your head in the sand isn’t an option, and fumbling through random SSH flags can suck up way too much time. If you need to troubleshoot or just…

In my journey as an engineer I’ve come across a number of applications that make up the fundamental toolkit of a solid developer. Whether the recommendations came from a company onboarding or a fellow colleague, there were always some of the same programs that kept popping up. In this article…

Software should be simpler. Developers shouldn’t have to deal with bloated dependency-laden frameworks containing thousands upon thousands of modules and libraries. We shouldn’t spend more time getting the code that runs the code working. We shouldn’t get bogged down in mind-numbing configuration wrangling. We need to go back to basics. …

Classics that work just as well today as they did decades ago — Package managers and third-party plugins can be amazing wonders of productivity. They save time and provide easy ways to extend the functionality of applications and operating systems. But what happens when those tools aren’t available? When you must rely solely on whatever ships with your OS? When your network connection…

Smoke out annoying container problems with minimal insanity — Sometimes Docker containers can be a black box. Whether you built the underlying image or you’re using a public one, a flapping container is frustrating. Figuring out what is going on can be difficult due to the way containers are executed and how they handle logging. In this article, we’ll…

Tap into a world of data for your next app idea — Whether you’re tinkering with a toy app or creating the next big SaaS product, using public APIs is a common building block. You might need financial information, sports stats or even just the weather. …