I’ve got the opportunity to do some work on a Ruby on Rails web app coming up soon. I’m documenting my journey here of getting up to speed with Ruby coming from Python on MacOS. This post is going to… Continue Reading →
Sometimes the need arises to share code across different python projects. This can be achieved by extracting that code into a separate project and making it into a python package. This can be uploaded to the PyPi python package repository,… Continue Reading →
The AndyPi (Meme) Coin! Full guide to creating your own cryptocurrency token on the Solana blockchain This guide is based on the excellent video by Network Chuck (https://youtu.be/L4ASwqLZVV0?t=397). I’ve documented actually minting a real token with real money, and clarified… Continue Reading →
For each python app I build, the server deployment always seems to be the most difficult part! As well as Python we need some kind of python server (uWSGI) and a web server AND getting the SSL certs…. I guess… Continue Reading →
1. Automate the boring stuff… A client needed to send short email every day with pre-prepared content to a list of people in google contacts who have a specific label. At the moment, they are doing this by creating and… Continue Reading →
Git Cheat Sheet – Intermediate This article gives a handful of intermediate level git commands and how to use them, following on from my basic git cheat sheet. They help with the following scenarios: 1. Git config better default settings… Continue Reading →
I set myself a challenge this year to try out a new programming language, and this is a write up of how I got on with ‘go’, outlining the installation process, basic coding and then packaging the program for end… Continue Reading →
During the past few months I’ve started to track my biking and running on Strava, partly because I’m training for some events, and partly just for fun – coding fun – now I have some interesting data to visualize! strava.andypi.co.uk… Continue Reading →
Here’s a list of interesting blogs or useful posts from the design, business or leadership side of software engineering. The cover a range of topics but I’m specifically excluded detailed coding tutorials. I’ve most found these from Y Combinator’s Hacker… Continue Reading →
For my latest web app I’m using Django allauth, a plugin which allows you to easily add loads of different providers (Google, Microsoft, Apple – and more than 100 others at current count) to authenticate users. It saves a lot… Continue Reading →
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