I'm sure you agree that it has become impossible to ignore Generative AI (GenAI), as we are constantly bombarded with mainstream news about Large Language Models (LLMs). Very likely you have tried ChatGPT, maybe even keep it open all the time as an assistant. A basic question I t … | Continue reading
You may have noticed that I have recently added a dark mode to this blog. The default color theme now follows the theme setting in your operating system by default. Nice, right? I have implemented this feature entirely in the front end, using CSS and a touch of JavaScript. Intere … | Continue reading
You may have noticed that I have recently added a dark mode to this blog. The default color theme now follows the theme setting in your operating system by default, and you can also select which mode to enable from the top navigation bar. Nice, right? I have implemented this feat … | Continue reading
ELIZA is possibly the first chatbot ever created, dating back to 1966. It was created by Joseph Weizenbaum as an early experiment in natural language processing (NLP). ELIZA is able to hold a conversation in English with a human, and is programmed through a set of pattern matchin … | Continue reading
ELIZA is possibly the first chatbot ever created, dating back to 1966. It was created by Joseph Weizenbaum as an early experiment in natural language processing (NLP). ELIZA is able to hold a conversation in English with a human, and is programmed through a set of pattern matchin … | Continue reading
I just realized that I have never written on this blog about Microdot, my very own web framework for Python. I have released Microdot 2.0 a few days ago, so I guess this is a good time to make a belated announcement, and tell you why this world needs yet another Python web framew … | Continue reading
I just realized that I have never written on this blog about Microdot, my very own web framework for Python. I have released Microdot 2.0 a few days ago, so I guess this is a good time to make a belated announcement, and tell you why this world needs yet another Python web framew … | Continue reading
Today I'm super-excited to share that I have made available a major update to the Flask Mega-Tutorial, which I'm calling the "2024 Edition". In the following sections I'll re-introduce the tutorial in case you have not seen it before, and I'll also go over the changes and improve … | Continue reading
Today I'm super-excited to share that I have made available a major update to the Flask Mega-Tutorial, which I'm calling the "2024 Edition". In the following sections I'll re-introduce the tutorial in case you have not seen it before, and I'll also go over the changes and improve … | Continue reading
This is the twenty third and last installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to tell you how to extend microblog with an application programming interface (or API) that clients can use to work with the application in a more direct way than the traditional w … | Continue reading
This is the twenty second installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to tell you how to create background jobs that run independently of the web server.You are reading the 2024… | Continue reading
This is the twenty first installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to add a private message feature, along with user notifications that appear in the navigation bar without the need to refresh the page. | Continue reading
This is the twentieth installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to add a nice popup when you hover your mouse over a user's nickname.You are reading the 2024 edition of the… | Continue reading
This is the nineteenth installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to deploy Microblog to the Docker container platform.You are reading the 2024 edition of the Flask… | Continue reading
This is the nineteenth installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to deploy Microblog to the Docker container platform. | Continue reading
This is the twentieth installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to add a nice popup when you hover your mouse over a user's nickname. | Continue reading
This is the twenty first installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to add a private message feature, along with user notifications that appear in the navigation bar without the need to refresh the page. | Continue reading
This is the twenty second installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to tell you how to create background jobs that run independently of the web server. | Continue reading
This is the twenty third and last installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to tell you how to extend microblog with an application programming interface (or API) that clients can use to work with the application in a more direct way than the traditional w … | Continue reading
This is the eighteenth installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to deploy Microblog to the Heroku cloud platform.You are reading the 2024 edition of the Flask Mega-Tutorial… | Continue reading
This is the seventeenth installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to deploy Microblog to a Linux server.You are reading the 2024 edition of the Flask Mega-Tutorial. The… | Continue reading
This is the sixteenth installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to add a full-text search capability to Microblog.You are reading the 2024 edition of the Flask Mega-Tutorial… | Continue reading
This is the eighteenth installment of the Flask Mega-Tutorial series, in which I'm going to deploy Microblog to the Heroku cloud platform. | Continue reading
When you compare Python and JavaScript async code, you may think they are very much alike, since both use the async/await pattern. In reality, there is a significant difference between the two, which… | Continue reading
Most database problems go unnoticed during development, because we tend to code our applications using small datasets. It is when the application has been on production for some time that database… | Continue reading
Today I'm starting a new series of articles about a topic that does not get a lot of coverage: how to write Python unit tests. Unlike other testing tutorials, I'm going to focus on testing techniques… | Continue reading
A couple of months ago there was an article titled Async Python is Not Faster making the rounds on social media. In it, the author Cal Paterson made the point that contrary to popular belief,… | Continue reading
Have you heard people say that async Python code is faster than "normal" (or sync) Python code? How can that be? In this article I'm going to try to explain what async is and how it differs from… | Continue reading
In this short video I comment on the benefits of using "trailing commas" when defining data structures in… | Continue reading