I love a well documented programming library. It invites you right in to join the party. Accessible documentation really helps to live up to the term "library" - a place of public discovery where you can (sometimes literally) choose your own adventur...
Allowing users to upload files is a key feature of many web applications, and every developer should know how to make it happen. This beginner-friendly tutorial will explain the process as it might appear in a React App with a Python/Flask backend. Y...
Fetching data from the client side of your web application is a crucial part of creating dynamic, modern web pages. That doesn't mean it's the only option developers have for sending HTTP requests via their apps. This post will explain how and why to...
For developers, APIs are a crucial tool for connecting our projects with the wider world, but we have to be smart about how we use them. APIs that are free to use often come with limits on the number of calls that can be made within a certain period,...
It's not easy to get a web app to look the way you want it to. Sometimes it can feel like HTML and CSS are teaming up against you. The good news is that there's help in the form of frontend frameworks like Bootstrap. Bootstrap is designed to make web...
Decorators are a powerful and versatile feature in Python, but they can seem daunting and opaque to newer users. In this post, I'll explain how they work and give a few examples of when you might employ them. Before I discuss decorators, it's importa...
Here in the Debugging Detective series, I will occasionally share interesting and illuminating debugging experiences from my programming journey. I'll start by sharing my code and describing the unexpected behavior that resulted. This will likely be ...
Whenever I start working with a new API, it makes me think of the periodic table of elements. Most people my age remember being asked to memorize the information contained in the table at some point in their secondary education. In the decade-plus th...
A note before we begin: One of my favorite things about programming is debugging. I recognize that this statement may not resonate with everyone in the larger software engineering community, especially anyone who is currently working on a particularl...
