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Introduction to the fastapi python framework
I have been working on a new python-based API recently, and on a colleague’s suggestion we decided to use fastapi as our framework. Fastapi is a python-based framework which encourages documentation...
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ENOUGH with the burndown charts!
Burndown chart [Source:: wikipedia] I heard about a team being asked to provide burndown charts in their demos to stakeholders. My first reaction was: why!? In this blog post, I’m going to try to...
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Making Jenkins and Github ACTUALLY integrate with each other
Introduction You may need to build jenkins jobs when branches/PRs are made from within the repository – say, to run tests. You may also want to report on the test status when finished. And you may...
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Making Jenkins Behave 2: Electric Boogaloo
Jenkins being all formal That’s right, as promised, I’m going to torture myself with Jenkins some more, this time with multi-branch pipelines! If you missed it, I recently wrote a blog post in which I...
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You may have noticed the site looks different. Due to “technical difficulties” I’ve had to move the wordpress install to a new box, quite hastily. Please let me know if anything is broken; I’m still...
View Article13 ways the Internet is broken
#9 will shock you. The web has been changing the past few years, not necessarily always for the better. There has been an emergence of anti-patterns, which are patterns that stand to try to make a...
View ArticleDocumenting a Django API with OpenAPI and Dataclasses
Django makes it easy to quickly spin up APIs and provides a great admin interface and command line management tools. It certainly speeds up the development of any CRUD system. However, as your project...
View ArticlePython argparse cheat sheet
I have a confession to make: I never remember how to use argparse. Maybe it’s because I don’t use it often enough to have how it works memorized, but I certainly use it often enough that I’m annoyed...
View ArticleHow I solved github’s actions capture the flag challenge
Introduction First of all, I’m aware it’s April 1st, I was thinking of some joke post but then I remembered that I have an actual serious post I’d like to write, so this is not any kind of joke. The...
View ArticleHow to get the best job offer for senior+ software engineer roles
Originally published on dev.to Navigating “senior+” job interviews I recently did a round of job interviews. I’m on the top end of the Senior Software Engineer band, and I was looking for other “top of...
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