October 2019

A lot of the systems I build require alerting of some kind (if exceptions occur, services go down etc.)  Because it can sometimes be a pain with deliverability (wrangling sendmail on different servers, dealing with getting marked as spam etc.)  I always use a service like mailgun along with a Read more…

Some developers out there seem to have this incredible ability to remember the intricacies of the languages they write in and the gotchas of every obscure package they’ve ever used.  I am most certainly not one of them.  It’s almost embarrassing how many times I’ll google a simple implementation algorithm Read more…

Working with Dates in python is actually quite simple once you get a hang of all the possible options out there.  The datetime objects are pretty robust, but I find myself only doing a handful of operations on dates in the applications I build. Below I’ll embed all the gists Read more…

I’m posting this as much for my sanity as for yours (I always forget this).  If you want to automate django commands via crontab then make sure you use the following to activate your virtual environment.   The only gotcha here is that you must tell crontab to use /bin/bash.  Read more…