Done correctly, tests are one of your application’s most valuable assets. The Django framework in particular offers your team the opportunity to create an efficient testing practice.
django 5 min read 2020-10-01 05:50:37 -0400 -0400
Do you want your team to enjoy your development workflow? Do you think building software should be fun and existentially fulfilling?
django 6 min read 2020-09-22 04:55:19 -0400 -0400
Growing, successful applications are a lovely problem to have. As a product develops, it tends to accumulate complication the way your weekend cake project accumulates layers of frosting.
django 5 min read 2020-09-14 02:12:57 -0400 -0400
While a multitude of methods exist to search for and replace words in a single file, what do you do when you’ve got a string to update across multiple unrelated files, all with different names?
terminal 2 min read 2020-08-25 04:48:39 -0600 -0600
My new favorite way to completely underuse a Makefile? Creating personalized, per-project repository workflow command aliases that you can check in.
coding 4 min read 2020-08-05 08:55:19 -0400 -0400
In 2017, I climbed Mt. Fuji, in Japan. Mt. Fuji is, some folks would say, the cakewalk of mountain climbing. Physically, the hardest portions amount to scrambling over some big boulders; most of it is no more taxing than a hike or climbing a set of stairs.
4 min read 2020-08-02 06:35:45 -0400 -0400
GitHub’s new profile page README feature is having the wonderful effect of bringing some personality to the Myspace pages of the developer Internet.
ci/cd 4 min read 2020-07-25 10:51:15 -0400 -0400
I like Django. It’s a well-considered and intuitive framework with a name I can pronounce out loud. You can use it to quickly spin up a weekend-sized project, and you can still use it to run full-blown production applications at scale.
django 6 min read 2020-07-09 04:02:47 -0500 -0500
This article isn’t going to tell you about saving your neck with a Roost stand, or your wrists with a split keyboard - I’ve already done that.
coding 3 min read 2020-06-22 06:33:28 -0400 -0400
There is a rather progressive sect of the software development world that believes that most people would be a lot happier and get a lot more work done if they just stopped building things that someone else has already built and is offering up for free use.
open-source 8 min read 2020-05-25 05:53:09 -0400 -0400
