I've been using Ansible for deployment automation for a little while now and it's working really well for me. It doesn't take long for a Django website behind a load balancer to take a while to complicate which is where it's really helpful. To deploy you'll often need to pull…
I recently deployed a static website to AWS using S3, CloudFront, Route 53 and the AWS Certificate manager. There we a few 'gotchas' in there so I thought I'd outline by process here for others: Certificate Manager Firstly, I created a free AWS SSL Certificate. It's pretty straight forward, just…
I just saw this tweet which I actually found a little discouraging. As of March 2017, only 12% of PyPI downloads were initiated by Python3. As an avid user of Python3 this anti-Python3 attitude continues to baffle me. Hell, even Flask now recommends using Python3. It's been quite a while…
As will be apparent from my previous post I've been playing around with AWS's Lambda service. I'm loving these 'serverless' offerings - they make simple sites just so cheap and easy to host and you don't have to be worried about an entire back-end system just because of one annoying…
I'm currently rebuilding my Dad's website with the intent of adding an order form so he can sell his wine (it's not live yet though). I've taken the opportunity to try and get my head around VueJS which is currently holding up very well and I now have fantasies of…
I've been in a lot of discussions lately about 'stacks'. Agencies, for good reason, want to limit the stacks they use and for good reason. It means that projects are more predictable to work on and one can develop templates etc to move things in the right direction. I thought…
I've been using Atom.io for quite a while now - it's definitely my text editor of choice these days. I was just setting up a new computer and installing all my favourite packages. I thought I might post it here for those interested. So in no particular order and…
I've been playing around with Django for years. Back when I was a PHP developer that was learning Python it was great. It works the way you expect an MVC framework to work so if you're coming from another language with similar frameworks it's great. For the past year though…
I feel like this latest Centrelink debacle is symptomatic of a few things. The first and most significant is a callous government desperately trying to claw back the budget in any way it can and the aggressive pursuit of disempowered people is a favourite of conservative governments the world over.…
With the passing of Comandante Fidel I thought it might be an appropriate time to publish a blog post I wrote about the time I spent in Cuba earlier in the year for mine and Ariane's Long Way Home blog. It's a long and rambling one, sorry. It's a culmination…