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Interesting Software Engineering & Business Blogs

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 →

How to style Django allauth pages

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 →

Setting up a Mikrotik mAP lite as a wifi client to ethernet bridge (and how to reset it)

To setup the mAP lite as a wifi client and provide network access to a device connected to the ethernet port, I followed these steps

Concise Guide to Debugging Anything (Cheat Sheet)

I created my own concise quick reference guide / cheat sheet for debugging anything. The free PDF guide has ten steps, and each step has a simple Python example to illustrate it, and there’s a space to write notes about the system or bug you are currently working on. It’s based on David Agan’s ‘Debugging: The 9 Indispensable Rules for Finding Even the Most Elusive Software and Hardware Problems’.

14 Key Components for a Full Stack Production Deployment Python Web App

An outline of 14 key components that are needed for a full stack production deployment of a commercial user-facing Python web app, with some recommended options.

Deployment using Ansible and Pyenv (Django web app with Ansible & docker deployment – Part 3)

As part of this series on creating and deploying a full stack web app, I’m using the Django web framework. Django has pre-designed parts for you compared to Flask which I’ve used previously. That saves some development time, although it… Continue Reading →

Debugging four common SSH key issues (aka learning from my Rookie Errors)

Debugging four common SSH key issues when authenticating with a Github private repo on a remote host: Not all VPS are created equal (especially AWS – Root user login disabled), Github access via SSH uses a different address format, Github repos must have unique SSH keys, AND only the key for the repo you are accessing should be loaded, SSH key forwarding gets disabled if the remote host identification changes.

Setting Up Django Cheat Sheet (Django web app with Ansible & docker deployment – Part 2)

A cheat sheet / reference for the minimum basic Django project.

Sorting photos with ChatGPT and python

All of my digital photos are in a very badly organised set of folders, some of which have names of the event. My most recent photos all come from my phone automatically uploaded to my laptop via OneDrive, in one… Continue Reading →

Top terminal tips for zsh on Mac

I’m doing some development on the mac platform and often using terminal for running commands and especially checking the code I’m writing into version control with git. 1. Search history At the command line you can already use the up… Continue Reading →

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