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24 April 2025

TSBT38: Tech Talk

Edinburgh!

Edinburgh outline shot by Velda

Edinburgh is home to the beloved Fringe Festival and Castle Rock. Castle Rock is a volcanic plug in the middle of Edinburgh, where the Edinburgh Castle sits. Its high elevation and natural defences have made it a strategically important location for centuries, serving as a royal residence and a military stronghold. For Game of Thrones fans, Castle Rock resembles Casterly Rock, the ancestral stronghold of House Lannister.

Castle Rock shot by Velda

Are you curious about Python Dunder methods and how they enable custom class behaviour by overriding built-in operators and functions? This article is for you. It offers realistic examples of how Dunder methods enhance code readability, usability, and performance.

8 Must-Know Distributed System Design Patterns

You can upgrade integer sizes, specifically by changing the default signed 32-bit integer to a signed 64-bit integer in a Django model with a Postgres database, to prevent reaching the maximum value of the sequence and ID fields. This article explains how to achieve this.

When deploying web apps, you use a web server like Nginx with WSGI(Web Server Gateway Interface) for synchronous apps or ASGI(Asynchronous Server Gateway Interface) for asynchronous ones. These interfaces bridge the server and your app, enabling request handling and response delivery. WSGI vs ASGI for Python Web Development

We live in a capitalistic world that demands our work as a sacrifice. That is why we often look for ways to make money work for us even when we sleep. This blog post shows how to use coding skills to make passive income.

Database indexing is a database optimisation technique for faster data retrieval. Database Indexing in Django.

How to Use DeepSeek R1 for Free in Visual Studio Code with Cline or Roo Code

Top picks for the best features and tutorials for Pythonistas.

Kafka 101: A Beginner’s Guide to Understanding Kafka


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Example in a sentence:

Given my druthers, I would spend this rainy afternoon curled up with a good book and a cup of tea instead of tackling household chores.

I am making my grand departure into the unknown.

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