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Makefile is awesome!

Recently having used a Makefile, I implemented one at work. Lower barrier to entry for new and junior developers equals happiness.

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It took me a Python/Django journey for β€˜decorators’ to make sense.

A short story of how decorators as a programming concept made sense to me.

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Rest.

I was able to spot early signs of burnout, and requested a day off.

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Learning Django: Day 4 and 5.

Progress with Django over the last two days: Hook up SMTP email via Sendgrid, as well as use HTML emails with a fallback on plain-text. πŸŽ‰ In dev env, serve media files through Django. Add extra fields to the User model. User profile pages, complete with a profile picture. 😲 Using and getting comfy with… Continue reading Learning Django: Day 4 and 5.

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Learning Django: Day 3.

Today’s progress with Django. πŸŽ‰ Sign up auth flow; customize with name, email fields. Code refactors, bugfix. Very, very gentle introduction to class based views. Make things look nicer. πŸ’… In dev env, serve static files through Django. Slower than expected today, as I couldn’t hook up the SMTP email delivery. πŸ˜” That means, tomorrow:… Continue reading Learning Django: Day 3.

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