Software A collection of 16 articles #brain dump #identity Distributed System IDs Somtimes it feels like everything is harder with a distributed system. This article looks at identifiers and how even your IDs might need some special design consideration for a distributed … #brain dump #development Brute Force Development Some tasks are laborious. With this article, I describe my attitude that I will apply on occasion to handle these tasks. I make a lot of Django content for the community. Please support me on Patreon! #brain dump #systems Huge Software Systems How can you work with a huge software system? Wrangling a large software systems carries significant challenges. This article looks at some of the areas to consider. #brain dump #documentation Finding Your Audience for Technical Docs Picking the right audience for technical documentation requires you to think through what you want to communicate. This brain dump includes how I think about audiences. #brain dump #authz Authz dilemmas Why is authorization so hard? It’s hard from the start and doesn’t get easier as a software system grows. Want to chat about Python, Django, or building on the web? Join the Building SaaS Discord and say “Hello!” #Hugo #static site generators #handroll A tale of two site generators I switched my website from a custom made tool, handroll, to a very popular static site generator, Hugo. Why would someone switch from something tailor-made to a different tool? I explore … #Netlify #HTTPS #web apps HTTPS made simple with Netlify Serving webpages securely with HTTPS offers numerous benefits. This post explores those benefits and shows how to set up HTTPS in no time using Netlify. #CSS #Semantic UI #Ember Semantic UI in Ember Semantic UI is a popular styling framework for websites. I integrated Semantic UI in my Ember app and had an interesting experience with the process. I explain a bit of what I learned from … #Open Graph #Facebook #Twitter Open Graph, Twitter cards, and plugins... Oh My! Social media is a huge part of how people share news with each other on the internet. This post looks into how to make your content appear richer on sites like Facebook and Twitter. #Design The necessity of software abstraction Software abstraction is vital to managing a large application. My aim is this post is to combat the belief that a developer must understand all the details of the abstractions that they work … #JavaScript #Brunch Using Brunch for JavaScript work Brunch is an excellent tool for producing JavaScript. It requires little learning to become productive and feels right. This post will introduce you to Brunch and equip you to get started. #tools #dotfiles dotfiles: Hone your software tools Carpenters, painters, illustrators, and many other craftspeople collect tools over the years as their experience and skills grow. These tools help produce better work. Similarly, developers … #shell #Oh My Zsh #Zsh Oh, my shell? Oh My Zsh If you spend a lot of time on a Linux or Mac terminal, you may be familiar with bash, the shell program that your terminal uses by default. In this post, we will look at Zsh, an alternative … #JavaScript #PhantomJS Inject JavaScript with PhantomJS to inspect websites What if you could interact with the JavaScript of another website by adding your code to the page? PhantomJS, a “headless” web browser, has the ability to do exactly that. In … #TAP #testing When you're feeling all TAPped out An explanation of the Test Anything Protocol (TAP) #Perl Into the rabbit hole Want to learn some interesting stuff? Read the Perl documentation. Page 1 of 1
