Rhett Trickett

London, United Kingdom

Founder at Able. Building a better developer community. Usually coding with Python and JavaScript.


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

Web Scraping with Python

How to extract data from websites without using an API

12 May

11 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 grown to host over 15 million shows by the likes of Wired, Harvard Business Review, TED Ta...

30 Apr

21 min read

Python Virtual Environments with Virtualenv

A guide to managing virtual environments for your Python projects using Virtualenv.

27 Apr

5 min read

Highlights from the Stack Overflow Developer Survey 2019

The latest results for the annual Stack Overflow Developer Survey are out. This year almost 90,000 developers from around the world weighed in to form a global opinion on the most used and loved programming languages, frameworks, ...

10 Apr

2 min read

How to Sort a Python Dictionary by Keys or Values

A dictionary in Python cannot store items in an ordered manner like lists or tuples. However, there are times when you may want to sort a dictionary in some way. For example, let's say you wanted to rank a dictionary of players an...

2 Apr

under 1 min read

Frequently Asked Questions about Python terms and syntax

One of the best things about Python is its elegant and intuitive syntax. However, there were times where I would come across some terms or syntax that I wasn't readily sure about. So I've decided to write a quick-fire post of expl...

12 Mar

4 min read

How to Set and Get Environment Variables in Python

Environment variables are useful when you want to avoid hardcoding certain parts of your code. For example, you may need to pass in API credentials for an email service provider in order to send email notifications but you wouldn’...

11 Mar

under 1 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 most interesting to read. A bit of Googling led me to this list of awesome engineering blog...

21 Jun

6 min read

Able editor updates

The Able text editor now allows you to do the following when writing articles on Able.Code formattingYou can now emphasize references to variables, classes, functions and so on in your article text. Just highlight the desired word...

23 May

2 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 with Dan Palmer to discuss Thread's recent migration of their Django e-commerce we...

18 Apr

14 min read

Able - A community for technology skills

After working in web technology for around 10 years now it's been incredibly exciting to see the evolution of so many technologies and startups that have changed the way we work and interact. The one thing that feels like it's mis...

29 Jan

5 min read


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