You know you’re a Python dev when “serialization” sounds less like data engineering and more like a Netflix original. Today, let’s talk about three majestic beasts of the Python ecosystem that all do vaguely similar things, have wildly different personalities, and probably wouldn’t survive two hours on a group project together: Marshmallow, Attrs, and Django … Read more
Let’s talk about the sales funnel. Or as I like to call it: the slippery slide of seduction that takes your customers from “Who the heck are you?” to “Take my money!” — with a few detours through existential doubt, discount codes, and a healthy amount of stalking (the legal marketing kind, not the restraining-order kind). You … Read more
So, you’ve decided to host multiple websites on GoDaddy’s Web Hosting Plus Expand plan, and each site insists on a different PHP version. It’s like hosting a dinner party where one guest demands vegan sushi, another craves a well-done steak, and someone else just wants a bowl of cereal. Fear not! With a pinch of … Read more
Okay, so yes — there was a post on April 1st claiming to be the monthly review, but if you read it and thought, “Really? That’s it?” — you weren’t wrong. That was our annual April Fools’ special. This? This right here is the real March review. Scout’s honor. Medium Blog Highlights March was no slouch. Over on Medium: … Read more
Ah, spaCy. The name alone sounds like a chill resort for code, where data gets pampered with syntactic massages and token facials. But spaCy is not a spa. It’s an industrial-strength Natural Language Processing (NLP) library in Python. And it means business. Fast, efficient, and clearly doing squats on the weekends, spaCy is the muscle-bound … Read more
Gather round, lovers of pixels and prompt engineering, because today we embark on a journey to answer the question no one has ever dared ask out loud: What if we engineered a prompt to generate the perfect prompt… for generating art? Yes. We’re making a prompt prompt. This isn’t just prompt-ception. This is the IKEA … Read more
Let’s get this out of the way right now: everything you’re about to read is true… in the same way that unicorns are just shy horses with glitter. Welcome to the April Fools Edition of our monthly blog — where we tell you March was magical, metrics soared, and people couldn’t stop clicking, when in reality… well, … Read more
Ever felt like your web applications were trudging through molasses? Enter Sanic, the Python web framework that’s here to put some pep in your app’s step. It’s like giving your project a double shot of espresso — fast, efficient, and ready to tackle the day. What Is Sanic? Sanic is a Python 3.8+ web server and framework designed … Read more
Let’s talk about Starlette, the web framework that sounds like a sparkly intergalactic pop star but is, in fact, a blisteringly fast ASGI toolkit for building web services in Python. It’s lightweight. It’s opinionated-but-chill. And it doesn’t bring a truckload of dependencies to your backyard barbecue. What Is It? Starlette is a high-performance ASGI (Asynchronous … Read more
So you’ve got a dozen images — half of them .jpg, the other half .webp because the internet is chaotic like that—and you need to upscale them by 10X. Not 2X. Not 4X. Ten. You want to take a humble 500×500px image and turn it into a majestic 5000×5000px beast. Here’s the twist: you’re on a Mac, and you … Read more