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?

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,

Contents of files and introduction to Vi

Let’s talk about reading and modifying files. This post is part of the "what is sudo?" series, which aims to help understand Linux and text consoles. The cat command Using the cat command, you can view the text contents of a file: cat my_file.txt You can also