Someone posted this in a slack: https://grugbrain.dev/ Its maybe a little bit long and the joke wears thin by the end but also I wish I had written it. In a clever way it talks through so much of different sorts of dysfunction in Software Development. You can also read it in translation here. Some…

I was talking with an old friend the other day about how programming has changed in our lifetimes. There’s plenty of room for old people grousing about how tool chains are too complicated, abstractions are too deep, or kids today don’t know how to do X. There are however a lot of positive changes in…

The post is going to be about setting up a build / test pipeline that runs automatically when you push new code change. I am doing all of this with gitlab. While most of the world uses github, I decided to use gitlab because you can do more without paying anything :). So I have…

Now we get to the actual servers that the browser will connect to directly. Like a lot of guides online I’ve chosen to put Django behind nginx so that nginx is serving up all the static files and Django is served by gunicorn. The trick here is though that I’m also proxying nginx behind apache…