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I’ve been interested in Ansible for a long time now, and thanks to my coworker’s expertise, I’ve been able to get my feet wet. My main barrier has been finding a way to run playbooks. For my first attempt at learning Ansible, I tried running it locally using `ansible_connection=local`. But I found that running it…
Read More Testing Ansibile Playbooks with VagrantI’ve come across tips on how to keep Docker images small and Dockerfiles with strange lines that seem to exist only to optimize image size. Well, it turns out they’re all wrong. They may have an effect with flat Docker images, but everything else (i.e. 99% of what people do), cleanup steps are just extra…
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Tips n’ tricks I’ve picked up over the years for managing technical debt, specifically for large Django projects.
Read More Managing Technical Debt in Django ProjectsAt PyCon 2014, I learned about a package called “needle” from Julien Phalip’s talk, Advanced techniques for Web functional testing. When I tried using it with a Django project, I immediately ran into problems. The answer turned out to be “ignore the documentation”.
Read More How to Ignore the Needle DocsSo tonight I decided I’ve been putting it off far enough, and started my first Sphinx documentation project. Read The Docs’s Getting Started guide wasn’t bad, but it really bothered me that there wasn’t a good way to autobuild the docs.
Read More Autobuilding Sphinx Docs With inotifyI’m usually very hesitant to use PostGIS because it makes testing more difficult. Instead of an in-memory sqlite database, you have to spin up and down a database instead. I decided to do it anyways, and then I forgot I had Travis CI on this project and every commit emailed me a reminder of my…
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Here are some winter tips from a Texan who was in Chicago that one time: Don’t layer. If it’s below 40 degrees F (4 degrees C), forget layers. Just wear a T-shirt and your good winter coat. That is seriously all you need. Don’t have a coat warm enough? Well, then you should probably layer.…
Read More Winter TipsBurgers near me roughly in order of best to worst. Factors include price, convenience to me, and quality of the bun, patty, and flavors. Steakhouse burgers The distinguishing factor for steakhouse burger is the looser grind. Steakhouse patties are never pressed. Second Bar + Kitchen $$$ Patty – A, Bun – A, Atmosphere – Restaurant…
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