Smiling Dev
Thoughts, tutorials, and insights on web development, design, and technology.
Don’t try to bring disjointed technologies and a half made developer experience into your next business. Use reliable tools and well designed products
UV fixes a lot of common headaches for Python developers. It helps you ditch old habits like requirements.txt (which was never really meant to be a standard) and the hassle of activating virtual environments. With UV, your projects become cleaner, more reliable, and a lot more fun to work with.
As a one-person team managing backend services for a few businesses, finding a reliable and efficient Backend as a Service (BaaS) is crucial. For the past three years, AWS Amplify has been that service for me.
I just wanna put this out as a PSA that you should be writing and making products that work well AND they solve a end user frustration. Seems stupid to say this until your realize how easy it is for a project at work to carry on 6 month ( or even years!!! ) without getting substantial and valid criticism and feedback.
For anyone that has been either living under a programming rock or honestly has stuff to do outside of python development, you may not have heard about Pydantic.
I have a few things I’ve seen across companies and projects that I’ve seen working with Python that are annoying, hard to maintain, and are antiquated. Lets jump right in