Rhett Trickett

Copenhagen, Denmark

Hobbyist developer. Building Able - a place for people to discuss building things with technology.


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

Introducing Series for Able

One thing we’ve often seen on Able is that people tend to write a series of posts around a single theme, like Retrocomputing, building a cap...

24 Sep

1 min read

Creating a web application in your home with a Raspberry Pi, Express and PostgreSQL

This post is a detailed guide for anyone who is interested in setting up a simple web application with an HTTP API on a Raspberry Pi that ru...

27 Aug

25 min read

Getting started with PostgreSQL on Linux

This post contains some introductory guidance and commands to get you started and productive with PostgreSQL in a few minutes. I’ve written ...

30 Jul

6 min read

Setting up a Raspberry Pi over Wi-Fi

How to set up and connect to a new Raspberry Pi wirelessly

28 Jul

3 min read

Improved data portability and markdown editor

TL;DR visit the able.md shortcut domain to try our updated markdown editor. Able is an independent developer community for people to read a...

26 Jun

7 min read

You can now embed Repl.it, CodeSandbox, StackBlitz, Glitch and CodePen into posts

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

1 min read

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

19 min read

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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