Matt Layman

Learn about Python, Django, and web development with me. youtube.com/c/MattLayman

Matt Laymanmblayman
2026-01-20

🐍 is a powerful tool for testing your projects. In this pytest 201 presentation, I covered some of the more advanced features beyond the core assertion ability of the library (e.g., fixtures, parameterization). youtube.com/watch?v=fv259R38gqc

Matt Laymanmblayman
2026-01-19

👾 This presentation covers 101 to provide an understanding of how Vim works. Want to know why we use :q to quit Vim? You'll learn that and more in this talk. youtube.com/watch?v=zxdQJlB65lA

Matt Laymanmblayman
2026-01-18

🎮 Why program a game with ? With this introductory video, I showed how Godot fits into the game engine landscape and compared it to other open source options. youtube.com/watch?v=4o63V0AdrHk

Matt Laymanmblayman
2026-01-17

📖 How do you think about teams within your company? What tools do you use to ensure that teams are grouped appropriately? Team Topologies presents some ideas, and I react to those ideas in this review. mattlayman.com/blog/2021/team-

Matt Laymanmblayman
2026-01-16

🧰 web apps are built with a set of smaller components confusingly named "applications." You can get a deeper understanding of how applications fit into a Django project with this article. mattlayman.com/understand-djan

Matt Laymanmblayman
2026-01-15

🐍 Sometimes the best way to support a customer on a project is to see their problem first hand from their account. This article shows how to do that responsibly with django-hijack. mattlayman.com/blog/2020/hijac

Matt Laymanmblayman
2026-01-14

🌎 A vital aspect of web applications are the URLs that users visit. From this article, you'll come to understand how handles URLs when building a web app. mattlayman.com/understand-djan

Matt Laymanmblayman
2026-01-13

🐍 What makes work? This article looks into Abstract Syntax Trees and how they are used. Making an AST is a critical stage for how Python translates your code into something it can run. mattlayman.com/blog/2018/decip

Matt Laymanmblayman
2026-01-12

🎮 Why program a game with ? With this introductory video, I showed how Godot fits into the game engine landscape and compared it to other open source options. youtube.com/watch?v=4o63V0AdrHk

Matt Laymanmblayman
2026-01-11

On this Learn Python By Example video, you'll get a look at list operations in .

Check it out!

youtube.com/watch?v=jhZCkdSM85E

Matt Laymanmblayman
2026-01-10

🔥 We usually want to keep our code safe so we don't lose our work. In this introductory talk, I explain how and why to use and to store code safely. youtube.com/watch?v=v98_7iHlYWM

Matt Laymanmblayman
2026-01-09

Want to learn some Python by example?

With this Pacman-inspired exercise, we learn a bit about using boolean values.

youtube.com/watch?v=EX-Li0Ve-iY

Matt Laymanmblayman
2026-01-08

🐍 How can you use with Software Defined Radios ()? In this presentation, Patrick shows us his neat project of applying Python to recording radio signals. youtube.com/watch?v=MonR5zZL-Es

Matt Laymanmblayman
2026-01-07

🤔 Writing software that people want is hard. I created a software as a service () that people didn't want. Here's what I learned from my failure. mattlayman.com/blog/2019/faile

Matt Laymanmblayman
2026-01-06

🐍 Sometimes the best way to support a customer on a project is to see their problem first hand from their account. This article shows how to do that responsibly with django-hijack. mattlayman.com/blog/2020/hijac

Matt Laymanmblayman
2026-01-05

📢 How do you make your app do work from the command line? With a Django command! In this Understand Django article, we examine Django commands to see what they are and how to write your own. mattlayman.com/understand-djan

Matt Laymanmblayman
2026-01-04

@bojanlandekic Thanks! I'm glad it works well for you. It is not Django powered. The site uses Hugo for now. github.com/mblayman/mattlayman

Matt Laymanmblayman
2026-01-04

🐍 In this final article of the Pythonic code series, we look at the power available to the ecosystem by using packages from the Python Package Index (a.k.a. PyPI). mattlayman.com/blog/2017/pytho

Matt Laymanmblayman
2026-01-03

📢 How do you make your app do work from the command line? With a Django command! In this Understand Django article, we examine Django commands to see what they are and how to write your own. mattlayman.com/understand-djan

Matt Laymanmblayman
2026-01-02

On this Learn Python By Example video, you'll get a look at list operations in .

Check it out!

youtube.com/watch?v=jhZCkdSM85E

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