Setting up GitHub Actions for a modern Django project — Few things are as detrimental to productivity as slow feedback loops—slow tests trickle down to slow product rollouts, slow deployments, slow developer speed; and ultimately a sour developer experience for the team. Setting up CI is pretty time consuming—it’s usually a trial-and-error shit-show where you spend most of your time…

Avoiding common pitfalls when dealing with timezones — Running into timezone trouble in your Python project? Here’s a quick primer on how timezones work and how to convert between them (mostly because I usually forget how to do this myself). We’ll be using the popular pytz package, so make sure it’s installed. 🙃 Naive and aware datetimes A naive datetime doesn’t have a…

Understand the concepts behind crypto with zero code — The best way to learn how blockchains work is to play with them. This often requires tons of coding, but I’m hoping to spare you from all that and explain this stuff using Google Sheets—you don’t need to be a programmer to understand how Blockchains work after all. 👉 I’ve…

The missing guide for setting up a great local development workflow for your Python projects. — This is an opinionated way of developing with Python locally. You’ve probably discovered that it’s a pain in the ass to manage different projects with dependencies targeting different Python versions on your local machine. To complicate things, there are multiple ways of installing Python too: Preinstallation by the OS 😔