This is the third installment of the series breaking down my talk from DjangoConUS 2022. The first entry covered background information about the project and the second was about using Django Rest Framework.
First, some important context: if you are a devops engineer, or have a lot of experience with …
If you've ended up here from somewhere outside of this blog, and are looking for an exhaustive comparison of these two libraries, I regret to inform you, this isn't that. If you're here for the next installment of the series breaking down my talk from DjangoConUS 2022, welcome back!
This …
In this post, I'd like to provide the context for the project I'm currently writing about on this blog. I'm also using this as an opportunity to start a series of blog posts breaking down my recent talk from DjangoConUS 2022 about what I learned related to Django while building …
So far in my main project (more on that to come), the only users of the admin have been myself and my cofounder, so I've made us both superusers. Recently, I had a request to allow an instructor to view and update data from their own courses. This would require …
And now for something completely different...
You may have noticed my favicon is a mug of coffee. I'm a huge coffee fan, and the last few years I've gone further down the rabbit hole with third wave/specialty coffee.
I recently bought a new coffee grinder to upgrade from my …
Edit: A lot of the information in this post is still great, but Apple have recently recommended moving from altool (referenced in the linked scripts below) to notarytool, so I have added an update to this post here.
For the past few years, Apple's Gatekeeper has made it difficult to …
My current set of tools for deploying my application to production includes Packer and Terraform. I didn't write all of the code for the deployments, but I've been over most of it now.
When trying to upgrade my server from Ubuntu 20.01 to 22.01, I ran into some …
This is a short post to tell you to create more bash aliases.
I have had one for my devops setup for a while because I have to set several environment variables to get just about anything done. More recently, though, I set up a few more for my main …
There are a few code formatting tools I like to use in just about any Python (and Django) project: black, isort, and flake8. These all serve slightly different purposes, and there are alternatives to each. A full discussion/comparison of code formatting tools in Python is beyond the scope of …
In the time since I've posted on this blog, I've erased the environment I used to set up and run Jekyll. Since I've never been a Ruby programmer and most of the code I write now is in Python, I thought I'd look into a blogging engine in Python. I …