Defining User Access Levels in Flask

Access levels can be a tricky thing—having users, moderators, and administrators. How can you handle allowing access only to certain things to certain people?

How to install NodeJS on Mac, Linux, and Windows

Quick instructions on how to install NodeJS on Mac, Linux, and Windows. For headache-free NodeJS installation.

Interacting with REST APIs with Python

Interacting with REST APIs normally involves a lot of reading documentation. In this post we'll go through how to use Python requests to communicate with an existing REST API.

Password encryption with Flask and Python

Why encrypt? It's normal when you start making software to not worry about many things: performance, security, or even the products you make. However, if you have a product that people are starting to use, you owe it to them to make their data safe. Encryption is used to change

Connecting to Linux servers

I’ve mentioned before how if you are deploying your application to a server, it will most likely be Linux. It is therefore important that you are able to connect to your Linux server and understand how that connection works. This post is part of the "Understanding the console" series,