Content for web pages consists of HTML, JavaScript, CSS. These three technologies have enabled some fantastic content, but they also present massive limitations. The introduction of WebAssembly has offered some interesting possibilities. The browser has the capability of running virtual machines executing code at near native speed. …

I find the .Net NegotiateStream class useful for internal services as it provides single sign on, authentication and basic encryption. However, as a python programmer, I couldn’t find a client library. TL;DR For the impatient the repo can be found on GitHub. The Protocol I won’t go into detail regarding the protocol, but…

The documentation for using ssl certificates with asyncio streams is distributed over a number of packages, and can be confusing at first. In this post I’ll take a simple network service with no encryption to an HTTP service with both server and client certificate security. You can find the source…

The browser knows about two timezones: the local timezone and UTC. What if you are in New York, and you want to know the time in Tokyo? If you have access to data about the weather in France, but it doesn’t come with the timezone offset? …

In my previous articles I created a static site with react and python, then addressed issues of scalability. In this article I introduce Web Workers in order to run the Python code in it’s own thread, freeing up the UI thread. …

In a previous article I looked at how to create a static site using React and Python. There were a number of issues with the implementation that I wanted to provide better solutions for. You can find the code here. …

This article shows how to create a React app that uses Python that runs as a static site. It uses React, material-ui, pyodide, Python and numpy. You can see the final app here, and a step by step guide here. The Problem I’m getting up to speed with linear algebra, but it’s…

The next major release of Graphene (version 3) introduces support for asyncio methods. In this post I’ll write a small GraphQL service using Twitter as the source of data. You can find the source code on GitHub. Prerequisites If you want to run the code you’ll need a Twitter developer account…

I have a love hate relationship with the sphinx document generator. It is a hugely powerful set of tools, but I find the learning curve frustratingly steep. What I really want to do is use markdown. The mkdocs project uses markdown as it’s document syntax, so I’m ready to go…