Hey, hey! 👋 I'm Matt. I'm a Python web developer with 15+ years of experience building on the web. If you'd like to learn more about: 💻 Python 🐍 Django 🌎 web dev ✏️ writing good software Follow me! I share tips and articles on these topics. 😁

🎮 Why program a game with #Godot? With this introductory video, I showed how Godot fits into the game engine landscape and compared it to other open source options.

🐍 #pytest is a powerful tool for testing your #Python projects. In this pytest 201 presentation, I covered some of the more advanced features beyond the core assertion ability of the library (e.g., fixtures, parameterization).

👾 This presentation covers #Vim 101 to provide an understanding of how Vim works. Want to know why we use :q to quit Vim? You'll learn that and more in this talk.

🐍 On this Building SaaS with #Python and #Django, we continued the work to make school breaks work for individual students. There was a lot of design and test philosophy discussion along the way.

I had a blast playing with Ollama today. It was a super easy method of getting started with LLMs. And look at that logo! So cute!

@hortonhearsafoo We're locked into the zeitgeist of programming circa 2025. Which means... React... heaven help us.

@epicserve I want something simpler since "normies" don't tend to use password managers and the like. With the app, I'm setting the session to 1 year before it expires. Basically, I'm trying to eliminate thinking about login as much as possible.

💡 I built a #Django web app with a small team for a local non-profit. This article describes my experience going from complete concept to a live site serving my local community.

⚡ In a #Django web app, you can create the user interface for your website using Django's template system. Learn all about templates with this article to grow your understanding of Django.

I'll be streaming tonight to work on simplifying the sign up feature of my homeschooling app. I'll start in roughly 5-10 minutes at 9pm ET.

We had a presentation on using Lua and LOVE to make video games at Frederick Open Source this week. The recording is now available on YouTube.

On this Building SaaS session, I added account history tracking with django-simple-history, made the user model soft deletable, and added email configuration with django-anymail for SendGrid. Check it out!

🐍 In this final article of the Pythonic code series, we look at the power available to the #Python ecosystem by using packages from the Python Package Index (a.k.a. PyPI).

🖥️ I got some questions about how to do code reviews with someone looking to start code reviews on a team. These were my thoughts on the subject.

On this Building SaaS, we tackled a Python exercise and a bug. The Python exercise covered some Blackjack rules and comparison operators. For my Django project, we fixed a bug related to boundary conditions on dates.

At Python Frederick, we learned about cryptography and how to use a variety of crypto elements in Python. Check out the presentation on YouTube to learn about cryptography too!

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@bcardarella I don't have a direct answer, but I've heard good things about this utility: Simon does a ton of exploratory stuff with AI and comes up with creative ways to deal with chat interfaces.