Recent Writing

Recently I have been writing content on other places around the Web. Here's a quick summary of what I've been up to.

The majority of my work has been on Full Stack Python, which I update every day with new sections, resources and explanations for all layers of the Python web stack.

There are three blog posts on Twilio's blog as well as one on O'Reilly Radar:

• Introducing Developer Evangelist Matt Makai is my introductory blog post. I write about D.C.'s current mistake-avoidance culture and the perils of not stretching yourself professionally because you're too afraid to fail at anything.
• Ansible Text Message Notifications with Twilio SMS is a detailed walkthrough for the Twilio notifications module in core Ansible as of the 1.6 release that came out in May.
• How To Set Up GitHub Activity SMS Alerts is a short guide for adding SMS notifications to GitHub pull requests with Twilio and Zapier. It's a handy trick I use on Full Stack Python to ensure I respond to new requests in a timely fashion.
• Driving demand for full stack developers is my most recent post and first time on the O'Reilly Programming Blog. I enjoyed thinking about the full stack trend and writing about it. I may reconsider my positions taken in that post at some point. For now though I do believe the proliferation of mature open source projects, APIs and infrastructure-as-code as major trends that allow talented developers to produce entire professional applications themselves with scope that would've been impossible as little as 5 years ago.

There are several other posts in the works. However, much of my focus lately has been on producing content for technical talks. In particular, I'm looking forward to my Full Stack Python talk at EuroPython in Berlin on July 22nd.