Rhett Trickett

London, United Kingdom

Founder at Able. No CS degree but catching-up by building, reading, and learning from others. Building Able as a platform to help people get into and develop their careers in software.


Lead UX / UI Designer at Keytree

Mar 2017 - Present

Founder at Able

Aug 2017 - Present

Co-founder & MD at Verity.io

Nov 2015 - Jan 2017

Project Manager & UX Designer at NATIVE VML

Jan 2009 - Sep 2011

Managing Director at Panacea Mobile

Oct 2011 - Nov 2014

Lead UX / UI Designer at Contractor

Feb 2016 - Jan 2018

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University of Cape Town

2010 - 2012

AAA School of Advertising

2005 - 2007

The New Able Editor

Cleaner reading and writing for technical blog posts.

4 Oct

4 min read

How to Order By Count of a ForeignKey field in Django

Sometimes in Django you'll want to order a QuerySet by the count of another model that has a ForeignKey relationship to the model you're que...

3 Jul

1 min read

How Mixcloud serves 15 million users a month

Mixcloud is an audio streaming platform for uploading and streaming radio shows, DJ mixes and podcasts. Since being founded in 2008 they’ve ...

30 Apr

17 min read

Top Software Engineering Blogs on Hacker News

Given the rising popularity of people and companies writing about software engineering, I was curious to find out which blogs might be the m...

21 Jun

4 min read

Lessons learned from migrating to Python 3

As the Python 2 End of Life date approaches, many developers will need to start looking at migrating their builds to Python 3. I sat down wi...

18 Apr

11 min read


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