Rhett Trickett

London, United Kingdom

Founder at Able. Bootstrapping a platform for people to have insightful discussions about software development.


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

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When we first launched the new Able editor it only had the ability to embed media from YouTube and Gist into blog posts. However, we’ve now ...

10 Dec

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Behind the screens at The Guardian

Serving 1.4 billion page views a month with 40 to 50 developers based out of London.

1 Dec

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The New Able Editor

Cleaner reading and writing for technical blog posts.

4 Oct

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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

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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

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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

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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

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