Matt Layman
I am a Senior Staff Software Engineer at Included Health.
I like to teach others about writing good software while streaming on YouTube and am committed to helping my local community grow its tech skills by volunteering as a meetup organizer for Python Frederick.
Articles
- Enhancing Chatbot State Management with LangGraph
- Layman's Guide to Python Built-in Functions
- Fun With Scrapy Link Validation on CI
- Python, Markdown, and Tailwind: Best Buds!
- Announcing luatest: A Lua test runner inspired by pytest
- Locking Down Your Users' Secrets: Django Sessions 101
- Sync or Async? Unpacking the Mysteries of Django Signals
- Time Travel with django-simple-history
- Learn Django or Ruby on Rails?
- Distributed System IDs
- Brute Force Development
- Huge Software Systems
- Finding Your Audience for Technical Docs
- Authz dilemmas
- Announcing django-denied
- Lua Log #9: HTTP Parser
- Lua Log #8: HTTP Parsing
- Lua Log #7: Routing Requests
- Lua Log #6: LASGI - ASGI in Lua
- Lua Log #5: Callbacks to Coroutines
- Lua Log #4: Build a (Terrible) Package
- Lua Log #3: Logging Without Logging
- Lua Log #2: Yak Shaving the Ecosystem
- Lua Log #1: Event Loop Adventures
- Most Abstract Function First Is Better
- Goals for 2022
- Team Topologies: a review
- How To Use Htmx In Django
- Are Django and Flask Similar?
- Which Django Version Should I Use?
- How To Set Up Tailwind CSS In Django On Heroku
- Make A Hugo Static Blog Inside A Django App
- Hijack To Help Customers
- From Concept To Live In Two Weeks With Django
- Django Testing Toolbox
- Vim 101: Basics of the Vim Text Editor
- Django Riffs, a podcast for learning Django
- Serverless Python And Why You Should Try It Out
- A Failed SaaS Postmortem
- Python Tears Through Mass Spectrometry Data
- Godot You Want To Make A Videogame
- Publish to DEV automatically with GitHub Actions
- Python alternative to Docker
- Python Testing 201 with pytest
- Quick and dirty mock service with Starlette
- On Patreon
- Using Git and GitHub to safely store your code
- Supercharging Vim: Blazing fast search and global replace
- Strategy for developer weight loss
- Teaching a kid to code with Pygame Zero
- Completing Account Deactivation on Building SaaS
- Supercharging Vim: Navigate files instantly
- Python Testing 101 with pytest
- Ansible Cranked to 11
- Building SaaS in January
- The Sleepy Developer: How Sleep Affects Your Code
- Local web development vs Vagrant vs Docker: What’s right for you?
- Django Tutorial Adventure Part 2
- Deciphering Python: How to use Abstract Syntax Trees (AST) to understand code
- Building SaaS with Python on Twitch
- Build Native Mobile Apps with Python (BeeWare)
- Consistent Python code with Black
- A tale of two site generators
- New Job: Doctor on Demand
- Full Health Developer Launch
- RFNM - Request For New Maintainer
- Developer Health Survey
- Doing code review
- Data science in Python
- Supercharging Vim: Instant testing
- Supercharging Vim: Using plugins
- Scraping the web with Scrapy
- Web frameworks shootout
- A NES for Christmas
- Pipfile and pipenv
- HTTPS made simple with Netlify
- No nitpicking in code reviews
- Using Pipfile for fun and profit
- Feature flags and waffles
- Pythonic code: leveraging packages
- Aphantasia
- Pythonic code: using the standard library
- Pythonic code: built-in functions
- Pythonic code: the property decorator
- Pythonic code: the with statement
- Pythonic code: the list comprehension
- Semantic UI in Ember
- The Pragmatic Programmer revisited
- 12-factor Django apps
- Open Graph, X cards, and plugins... Oh My!
- Cure for Imposter Syndrome
- PostgreSQL text search in Django
- Rollbar monitoring of Celery in a Django app
- A currentUser service for Ember with JWT
- The necessity of software abstraction
- 2 Critical Python packaging tools
- Sideload JSON API resources in Django
- Monitor Ember app errors with Rollbar
- handroll, sitemaps, and robots.txt
- Using Segment with Ember.js
- Using Brunch for JavaScript work
- Reading through the Python standard library
- Ship your requirements.txt
- We're all ambidextrous
- dotfiles: Hone your software tools
- Highlighting new file formats with Pygments
- Extending handroll for fun
- Oh, my shell? Oh My Zsh
- Inject JavaScript with PhantomJS to inspect websites
- Connect Python objects to blinker signals
- Toying with Statsd and Graphite
- A complete guide to i18n in Python
- A "simple" D3.js area chart
- Laziness is motivating
- handroll 1.1 released
- handroll: a simple website generator
- tappity tap TAP tappy
- Advanced Rails
- Patterns of Enterprise Application Architecture
- Test your packaging
- MarkWiki 1.3 released
- Ruby on Rails Tutorial
- Dreaming in code
- MarkWiki 1.2 released... now actually somewhat useful
- Java: a bad choice for FOSS
- ØMQ: A dynamic book with surprises
- Office Zen
- When you're feeling all TAPped out
- A Layman's walk through Code
- Should you cp from copywriters?
- It's fun -> ok!
- New website and server
- Java, Eclipse, and Maven altogether
- Pretty Perl and maintainability
- JavaScript has “Good Parts”!? Yes, it does.
- Perl Testing: A Developer’s Notebook
- Into the rabbit hole
- Code cleanup with Pylint
- Test Driven Development woes
- print 'Hello World!'