How to Send Email Notifications Using Sendgrid and GitHub Actions

Introduction As a Python developer I want to stay up2date with trends and useful tips & tricks. Of course there are great newsletters like Pycoders, but those are already hitting my inbox. Let’s look at Planet Python in this article, an aggregation site/ service that indexes a lot of good Python blog feeds. Keeping an… Continue reading How to Send Email Notifications Using Sendgrid and GitHub Actions

How to Test Your Django App with Selenium and pytest

In this article I will show you how to test a Django app with pytest and Selenium. We will test our CodeChalleng.es platform comparing the logged out homepage vs the logged in dashboard. We will navigate the DOM matching elements and more. Overall you should learn enough Selenium and pytest to start testing a web page including a login. Sounds exciting? Let’s dive straight in!

Data Analysis of Pybites Community Branch Activity

I wanted to play around with a dataset and see what I could find out about it. I decided on analyzing the little bit of data that I could collect from Github without having to use an OAuth key, which limits it to just 300 events. If you want to follow along with my notebook check out the instructions here. This notebook was my submission for Code Challenge 47 – PyBites First Year in Data (Special).