I'm back on Open Source Way with another Python column co-authored by Jeff! This month is all about pytest plugins. Check it out over on Opensource.com! 

Jeff and I are back again over on Opensource.com with this May's Python column! In this article, you'll learn to write your own command-line apps with the Click, Docopt, and Fire libraries.

When confronted with a section of code that's messy and hard to understand in what is now your yard, so to speak, it's easy to want to cast blame and curse those that came before you and left you this mess without so much as a letter explaining how they got here.

This winter I fought with a squirrel over rights to a bird feeder and turned that into a metaphor for coding. Read about it over on The Pastry Box. 

My colleague Jeff Triplett and I wrote about some libraries that can make your life easier when you're handling dates and times in Python. Hop over to OpenSource.com to see it! 

In February I mentioned daily journaling in an essay I wrote about job stress for the Pastry Box. A couple of you asked me to write more about how I journal, so this post is for you. 

March's Python column is up at OpenSource.com! 

My monthly Python column with Jeff Triplett is over at OpenSource.com!

I'm writing six essays this year for a blog called The Pastry Box Project. My first essay, Cultivating Self-Worth, was published today. I hope you enjoy! 

I made this mushroom queso flameado for some friends and we licked the pan clean.

My friend Jeff Triplett and I wrote an article on making the Django Admin more secure for opensource.com, so head over there to check it out! 

👉 10 tips for making the Django Admin more secure

I've taken up bird-watching in the new year and here are five birds I've figured out like my backyard. 

Every day is a new adventure in a new job. I came into my job at REVSYS with not much production Python experience and my colleagues have been kind enough to share some time-saving and frustration-reducing libraries with me as I've been learning. This Friday, I'm sharing five libraries (technically, four libraries and a repo) that I've learned about in the last three months and fallen pretty much in love with. Enjoy!

In the spirit of starting 2018 off with a more confident step, however, I kept the focus on the results of the year, which were often beautiful, inspiring, funny, and joyful. Here's to a new year and a new 365 days of memories. 

This week I added a Python linter and an automatic editor configurator (configurer?) to SublimeText and I'm a lot happier.

Because I have worked remotely full-time for the past three years and it suits me pretty well, people ask me a lot about how working remotely works in practice. How did you get your boss on board? Do you really wear pajamas all day? What about loneliness? Read on.

Talks from PyCon US 2017 that will help jog your memory on useful stuff you've forgotten. 

The DjangoCon US 2017 Call for Proposals is now open! This seems like a great time to talk about submitting proposals to conferences.