Leveraging Holistic Synergies

Howdy - I'm Ben Lopatin, co-founder, principal consultant, and lead Pythonista at Wellfire Interactive. I work mostly with established SaaS businesses using Django to help prioritize development backlogs, create sensible development strategies, unstick serious code issues, and implement as well.

Much of my writing can be found below, as well as slides and a few videos of talks I've given in the past.

I've also authored and/or maintain several published software packages, including Django Organizations, a library for managing multi-user account architectures in Django projects.

Elsewhere on the Internet I often go by "bennylope" complete with vintage Photoshopped bearded 7th grade portrait.

Restoring Postgres backups for Django projects

Using a copy of or a partial copy of a deployed database (e.g. production or staging, one that is somehow exposed to other people) is a…

Books I Want to See

I’ve made up the titles. While these are books I would find interesting, it’s more the case that I’ve found this to be an excellent exercise…

Making Medium posts readable

The Medium post, regardless of its content, is defined by several visual characteristics: Large, pretty stock images that add little to no…

Django Organizations

A Django app for adding multi-user group management.

elasticstack

Django helpers for working with ElasticSearch and Haystack

pygeocodio

Python wrapper for the Geocod.io geocoding and bulk geocoding API

RVA Data

Slow attempt at getting Richmond, VA's city data accessible.

Django Addendum

A Django app for creating editable microcopy anywhere in your site.

Screenshooter

An automation tool for generating cross-browser screenshots (e.g. in a CI build).

pydiscourse

A Python library for the Discourse API; maintained and packaged fork.

SmartyStreets.py

A Python wrapper for the SmartyStreets geocoding and address validation API.

Django Quagga

A maintained fork of the now deprecated Django Zebra with support for newer Django versions.