Engineering notes and measured findings: Python, data pipelines, public APIs, and coding agents.https://caseym.me/https://caseym.me/blog/claude-code-never-read-the-docs/https://caseym.me/blog/claude-code-never-read-the-docs/A coding agent given real integration tasks in a clean container never opened the documentation, a breaking release cost six extra turns even when every run passed, and one helpful import error was worth the same again.Thu, 10 Sep 2026 00:00:00 GMThttps://caseym.me/blog/connect-a-postgresql-rds-database-to-heroku/https://caseym.me/blog/connect-a-postgresql-rds-database-to-heroku/This tutorial will show you how to create and connect a postgres database hosted with Amazon Web Service’s RDS to a Heroku application.Thu, 14 Dec 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://caseym.me/blog/implement-short-url-tags-in-flask-using-hashids/https://caseym.me/blog/implement-short-url-tags-in-flask-using-hashids/One issue you need to watch for in your SaaS application is using auto-incrementing IDs in your application’s URLs.Sun, 12 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://caseym.me/blog/save-api-results-to-postgresql-for-free-with-aws-lambda/https://caseym.me/blog/save-api-results-to-postgresql-for-free-with-aws-lambda/How to use AWS Lambda to save the results of an API response to a PostgreSQL database on a recurring schedule, at no cost.Mon, 10 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://caseym.me/blog/switching-to-pycharm/https://caseym.me/blog/switching-to-pycharm/Over the past few weeks I’ve been transitioning from my beloved Sublime Text and terminal combo to Pycharm Professional(https://www.jetbrains.com/pycharm/).Sat, 15 Jul 2017 00:00:00 GMThttps://caseym.me/blog/why-i-like-flask/https://caseym.me/blog/why-i-like-flask/I’m a huge fan of the python micro framework Flask. Here are the reasons why.Wed, 08 Mar 2017 00:00:00 GMT